Word: pentium
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...valid ecological and ethical objections to modifying other organisms, this case also points out some of the unacceptable technological flaws with biotechnology. Technologies whose side effects cannot be completely controlled fail to meet all of the purposes for which they were created, and therefore are insufficient. When a Pentium chip, for example, makes a mistake every million calculations, it's immediately recalled because its effects are unpredictable...
...apply the cyber truth serum to our two would-be presidents, I routed their voices directly into a high-end Pentium-equipped computer that was running the Truster 2.4 program. It instantly analyzed the voices and gave out a series of graph readings that clearly delineated the levels of stress, manipulation, excitement and plain old lying...
Gore, meanwhile, was pumping up his adrenaline meter and nearly overloaded the Pentium chips (his own as well as the computer's). "Here are some promises I will make to you now. I'll balance the budget every year. I will pay down the debt every year. I will give middle-class Americans tax cuts, meaningful ones. And I will invest in education, health care, protecting the environment and retirement security." The Truster recovered its poise and spat out a series of responses: "The Subject was stressed," "The Subject was excited" and, alarmingly, "The Subject was not confident...
...need any of this stuff. While most consumer PCs will come with Windows Me preinstalled, there's little reason to upgrade an older PC. The browser and media player have been available as free downloads since July. And if your computer has anything less than a Pentium-150 with 32 MB of memory, the bloated Windows Me (which can gobble as much as 2 GB of disk space) won't work...
...Moore's law is that chipmakers double every 18 months or so the number of transistors that can be crammed onto a silicon wafer the size of a fingernail. They do this by etching microscopic grooves onto crystalline silicon with beams of ultraviolet radiation. A typical wire in a Pentium chip is now 1/500 the width of a human hair; the insulating layer is only 25 atoms thick...