Word: glitch
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...biggest iceberg came in 1994, when Intel released millions of flawed Pentium chips. The problem was small, an internal routing glitch that caused a mathematical error. Intel took solace from the fact that this occurred so infrequently that most users could leave their PCs on for years without running into a problem. Intel's hyper-rational, Grove-trained engineers told concerned callers not to worry unless they were planning to sweat some advanced astrophysics problems that weekend. The callers hung up and dialed CNN. And the New York Times. And the Wall Street Journal. Grove, who was on a Christmas...
...glitch in the Undergraduate Council computer program temporarily prevented transfer students and some other undergraduates from voting in the council's elections this week...
...accounts, he's raring to go. The physically fit, 48-year-old Baturin has already performed a few "aerobatic maneuvers" on a supersonic SU-30 fighter and has undergone survival training in case the capsule bringing him home misses its mark. Any worries about a technical glitch prolonging his stay? Not for Baturin. Compared with his Earth job ? thinking up ways to reform Russia's overmanned, underpaid military ? keeping the oxygen candles burning should be child's play...
...turned out to be just another technical glitch. The Russian Space Agency reported that the generators had overheated, but that the two cosmonauts and one astronaut had managed to cool them down again. After this latest mishap the crew settled down for a good night's sleep...
...Cook was proved right. On the morning of Sol 8, Sojourner awoke, received its instructions and, after one more brief glitch, backed off Yogi, approached again and began eagerly sniffing out the rock's chemistry. Back at J.P.L., the exuberant Pathfinder team was predicting that Sojourner might live for weeks--and even months. Indeed, the little rover just could...