Word: error
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ALMOST THERE. SOME DEBUGGING NEEDED SYSTEM ERROR. 59 TO 0 REBOOT BEFORE GOING TO NEXT CENTURY...
...embossed symbols of the Morse code produced what he later described as "a light, musical, rhythmical sound, resembling human talk heard indistinctly." If it was possible, he reasoned, to "hear" dots and dashes, might not the human voice be reproduced in a similar manner? After much trial and error, Edison gathered a small group of witnesses and recited "Mary Had a Little Lamb" into a strange-looking contraption. The spectators were amazed to hear the machine play back Edison's high-pitched voice. The phonograph was born...
Print journalists who appear frequently on TV have a phrase they use after they say something silly or make a factual error. "It's just TV," they shrug, and you can understand the attitude. The conventions of the TV talk show, circa 1999, inflate the trivial and trivialize the important. Watching Hardball's Chris Matthews bark at his guests about tax plans and sex scandals, you wonder why his guests don't cover themselves with dentist's smocks to fend off the flying spittle. Kinsley recalls that as co-host of Crossfire, the CNN shoutfest, he once disagreed with...
...according to Professor of English and American Literature Daniel G. Donoghue, England might have missed the millennium. The king's scribes, he said, kept faulty records, and may have thought the date was 1049 or 1069, when it was actually 999. The error was not discovered until it was already 1000, he said lightheartedly...
...problem, however, is that Pap tests are not always accurate. The results can be skewed due to human error in spreading the samples on slides and in reading the results. Since each of the hundreds of thousands of cells needs to be examined, abnormal cells are often missed. It is estimated that 20 to 40 percent of lesions are missed...