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Word of the flaw in Intel's Pentium chip, the powerful new brain in 4 million personal computers sold this year, began circulating before Thanksgiving. But the manufacturing problem was nothing compared with the flaw in Intel's understanding of how to keep good customer relations. Having kept the defect secret for months, Intel blithely dismissed the criticism at first, maintaining that the imperfection in the Pentium would affect only highly complex calculations. Most folks, said Intel, would encounter an inaccurate answer just once in 27,000 years; therefore, the errant chips would be replaced only if computer owners could...
...involving numbers with many digits. For example, if 4,195,835 is divided by 3,145,727 and then multiplied by 3,145,727, the result should be the original number: 4,195,835. It doesn't even take a computer to figure that out. But machines with the flawed Pentium come up with a different answer: 4,195,579. Although most users might never encounter such a mistake, businesses running thousands of computations a day could possibly run into trouble. The flaw, some experts contend, might affect the accuracy of corporate balance sheets or the calculations that banks make...
...controversy over a defect in Intel Corp.'s popular Pentium microchip heated up as scientists and engineers accused the company of being too casual in its response to the problem. According to a Nov. 7 article in the Electrical Engineering Times, the flaw in the chip can cause computers to reach incorrect answers in complex division problems approximately once in every 37 billion calculations. Intel discovered the defect last summer, and has since corrected it, but it is offering free replacement chips only to customers with provably esoteric needs. "The chip is fine," said a company spokesman. "Statistically, the average...
...other major flaw in this film is that here, unlike everywhere else in the world, the issue of sexual harassment is black and white. There is little to no room for misinterpretation. Not only are John's intentions not inappropriate, but neither were his actions. These charges are quite obviously misdirected. Throughout the film, the audience knows who is right and who is wrong. Mamet's message seems to be that sexual harassment charges are pursued unfairly by repressed feminists. No one, not even Mr. Mamet, can believe this. So why base a movie on this premise...
...such flaw, Reiss said, occurs when a probe is launched into the center of the star. As soon as the probe reaches the star, the star blinks...