...inconsistencies in his mathematics calculations. Found after he added a Pentium System to his computer group. Upon Further inspections and calculations, he contacted Intel with his results. Intel denied that there was a problem with their chips. When it became clear that their chips were flawed, and the accusations were true. Intel changed its policy, admitting that their chips were indeed defective. Intel agreed to replace the defective chips for free, but only if the uses could demonstrate that they needed and unflawed chip. In the fall of 1994, IBM decided to halt all shipments on their Pentium based computers. After they discovered the Flaw during their testing. Intel finally agreed to replace the flawed microprocessors for anyone who asked for a replacement. Because Intel new about the Flawed chips before it surface in the press. They had already corrected the problem on another version. Intel continued to sell the Flawed chips, and had planned to continue its bad practices until the bad chips were exhausted. In doing this Intel had to write off 475 million dollars to solve the problem, when they could have corrected it from the beginning. Intel has learned from their mistake and now feel that flawed chips should be replaced before and upon request, no matter how insignificant the problem seems to be. If the same flaw was to happen in a new CPU today, I think especially if the company decided to cover it up like Intel did. It would cost the...
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...CASE STUDY: Chipping Away at Intel General Environment 1. Social Important as a semiconductor business, provided as the biggest chip maker in the industry. Intel’s mindset is toward better customer relations and away from perspective of being the only real competition in the marketplace. 2. Technological Concerned with chip making for PCs but then went beyond it into the production of information and communication appliances as well as providing services related to the Internet. Barrett created a new wireless unit that combined new acquisitions such as DSP Communications Inc. ( a chipset supplier for digital communications) with Intel’s memory operations. 3. Economic Affected by Septemeber 11, 2001 and needed to withdraw investments in new markets (production of network servers and routers and e-commerce service for small businesses) due to direct result of the downturn in economic condition. Intel’s shares also suffered. At $26, were down to 60 pecent compared to their highest over the previous years and get worse after the downturn and fell further to $20 by October. 4. Ecological Not being mentioned in the case. 5. Political Operates on a global basis and so be attuned to different governmental and country requirements in its distribution and sales. The manufacturing plant in Hamburg, Germany suggests an important political dependency that must be monitored. Task Environment...
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...Future Statement For this report I am to write of a technology that I could see evolving in the near future and so the technology I could possibly see becoming widespread is micro chip implantation , able to store, transmit, and capture data in real time with other chips or servers like using your identification or even a debit card to even a hand held gps unit and compacting it all into a chip the size of a eraser and implanting it into a humans limb now this by its self is amazing but then the limitations grow exponentially. The first impact this could have would be with Society. Now Society as a whole might clash with this concept at first due to some fundamental human traits such as invasion of privacy, This chip if left unchecked could function the same as a gps unit and give someone the ability to track individuals making such things as missing person’s would be much easier to find. The second impact would be Economy. This could change everything we know about current banking practices by allowing your banking information to implanted on this micro chip and injected in to yourself so that instead of swiping a card your data is automatically registered and updated with your actual bank to route funds and make payments and deposits. The third and final impact I could foresee is Politics. Now imagine a world where your personal and life data is stored on your body and can be accessed there would surely be very little information that could not be accessed either by...
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...after the fact was a huge let down for customers. Customers expect that if a company finds a problem with their products that they inform them about it and provide a fix to the problem. Intel finally announces in December of 1994, that there would be a total recall, replacement, and destruction of all of the flawed processors. Something that should have happened months before. Finally, they have done right. Intel commits to purchase of all chips produced through the end of the year in January 1995. Intel sets aside 420 million dollars to cover costs of replacing all flawed processors upon request in mid-December 1994. If a flaw of this nature happened again today, with the economy as it is and they acted as they did back in 1994. Intel would more than likely be looking for a way to run. Today, Intel has competition that could very well take Intel customers. The only thing Intel may have to hold them up is a government bail. The only reason that would happen is because Intel produces a major amount of government computers have a chip made by...
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...Unit 5 Analysis 1: Pentium Flaw In the summer of 1994, Intel discovered the Pentium Flaw. Once discovered they decided that their chips did not need to be recalled because the chance of the average user finding out about the error was 1 in 9 billion. Thomas Nicely, a professor at Lynchburg College in Virginia, made the error public. He had sent an e-mail to several colleagues. Nicely was using a few computers to compute mathematical problems. He wanted to prove they had enough power to do so. I feel Intel did not handle the problem professionally at all. While Intel knew that there was a flaw in the chip, they continued to send out a defective product. Regardless of who might discover the error, they should have recalled the chip to have them replaced. By deciding to send out the flawed processor, this probably helped the company as well. Before this mistake, not many people were aware of Intel. After months of research, Intel finally decided to recall the chip. Thomas Nicely had then run over a quadrillion calculations on a revised chip and was unsuccessful of reproducing the error. I am unsure of the outcome if a similar flaw like this were to happen today. With the help of social media and the internet, word of any flaw or error today would spread like wildfire. The old rule of thumb is 1 tells 10, well now it's more akin to 1 tells 10,000. I believe that if a homogeneous situation were to occur it would be handled expeditiously and promptly. I’m sure Intel has new policies...
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...people to see if they were also having the same problem. After a couple days Thomas wasn’t the only person who realized there was a problem. People around the world who had access to the Internet found this out. The diversion result from Pentium was off by sixty-one parts per million. Intel then was forced to tell people about this hiccup but said that it was of little importance and that it wouldn’t affect most people in a big way. Even though this was most likely true it made everyone feel like they messed up and nobody wants something that doesn’t work how it’s supposed to even if it’s off a little. Intel then felt the need to tell customers that if their Pentium chip was flawed in any way they would replace it with Pentium chips that were flawless. Not a lot of people even bothered to replace their chips at all. In, 1995 Intel had to pay $475 million because of the flawed processors. My opinion on the “Pentium Flaw” is that it is a complete outrage. Everyone always wants the best of the best and if it has a flaw people tend to keep away from it. If the new IPhone came out the same day as the new Galaxy S3 and there were rumors of the IPhone having some type of bug in it, people might lean more towards the Galaxy S3. The problem is they had somebody who knew about the problem and then proceeded to still sell the product. That is simply unfair and completely unprofessional for a huge company like Intel. If there was another incident like the Pentium flaw that happened...
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...discovered the vortices that are produced off the wings, and observed the alulae, or "thumbs" of the wings. He was concerned with the center of gravity, stability, and manoeuvrability. Leonardo sketched several types of flying machines: helical wing, beating wings, parachute, and bat's wings. Through real life trial and error Da Vinci learned the difficulty of realizing his great dream of flying in a machine powered by human propulsion, and turned his talents toward the problem of gliding flight. In the glider drawing below, the flyer's position is studied at the point where he is balanced through movements of the lower part of the body. The wings, modelled upon bats and birds of large wingspans, are fixed on the inboard portion and mobile at the external portion. This part of the wing in fact can be moved by the flyer by a control cable connected to handles. Leonardo arrived at this solution by studying the wing structure of birds and observing that the inboard part of their wings move more slowly than the outboard, and that therefore serve to thus sustain themselves and produce forward thrust. "The great bird will take flight above the ridge...filling the universe with awe, filling all writings with its fame..." - Leonardo Da Vinci Early Da Vinci gliders had a articulated wing with a system of belts passing between the thighs and around the body of the flyer. He later reduced the structure to a simple form with wings directly attached to the human body. Leonardo's...
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...Have you ever flown a drone? Well, I have. I love drones so much that the amazing experience that I'd like to share with you is building my racing drone. I want to share this with you because of the challenges I faced and the things I learned. The first reason for why building a drone is a valuable experience is the challenges I faced. When my dad and I first started building our racing drone we had absolutely no idea on how to build it but, after a few hours of watching youtube videos, we had the slightest idea on how to build a racing drone. The main challenge was when we accidentally fried our only circuit board. We fried the board by leaving the soldering pen on the board for too long. This mistake set us back a couple of days, and we had...
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..._______________________________________________ ---- Lean WINGS ---- Project / Case Study _______________________________________________ |Course: |Decision Making under Uncertainty | |Professor: |Jean-Philippe P. Richard | |Date: |April 13, 2011 | |Prepared by: |Timothy Carson | | |Annie Malpartida | | |Neville Sicard-Gregory | Table of Contents I. References & Related Documents 3 1. Executive Summary 3 1.1. Project Overview 3 1.2. Problem Statement 3 1.3. Project Justification 3 2. Project Definition 4 2.1. Project Objective 4 2.2. Project Success Criteria 4 3. Project Analysis 4 3.1. General Assumptions 4 3.3.7. AS-IS situation 9 3.3.8. 1st Idea 9 3.3.9. 2nd Idea 9 3.3.10. 3rd Idea 9 3.3.11. 4th Idea 9 3.3.12. Combination of Ideas # and # 9 3.3.13. Combination of Ideas # and # 9 3.3.14. OR team TO-BE proposal 9 3.4. Comparative chart 9 4. Recommendations 10 References & Related Documents |Document |Location ...
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...Stella McCartney -Stella McCartney was born on the 13th of September 1971 in London, England. -Stella is a English fashion designer, who is the daughter of Paul McCartney a former Beatles member, and her mother is Linda McCartney who is a American photographer and animal rights advisest. -As a young girl Stella traveled the world with her parents along with her siblings, half sister heather, older sister Mary and younger brother James. -While at school Stella was a victim of bullying, as well as being a bully herself. -Stella became interested in designing clothes at a young age, at age 13 Stella designed her own jacket. -3 years later Stella was working with Christian Lacroxi on his first fashion design collection. -Stella studied her foundation at a college of design and communication, and then moved on to fashion design at a college of art and design. -Her later work was modeled by friends and super models for free at the graduation runway show, the collection was shown into a song by her famous father and made front page news, the whole collection was sold to a London boutique. -in 1998 Stella designed her sisters marys wedding dress for her wedding to Alister Donald a tv producer.[pic] -As a lifelong vegetarian Stella does not use any leather or fur in her designs, she supports PETA. Some of her work designs have text that elaborates on her “no animal policy” for example on of her Adidas jackets says on the sleeves “suitable for sporty vegetarians...
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...fire. The Tame Bird and the Free Bird by: Rabindranath Tagore THE tame bird was in a cage, the free bird was in the forest. They met when the time came, it was a decree of fate. The free bird cries, 'O my love, let us fly to the wood.' The cage bird whispers, 'Come hither, let us both live in the cage.' Says the free bird, 'Among bars, where is there room to spread one's wings?' 'Alas,' cries the caged bird, 'I should not know where to sit perched in the sky.' The free bird cries, 'My darling, sing the songs of the woodlands.' The cage bird sings, 'Sit by my side, I'll teach you the speech of the learned.' The forest bird cries, 'No, ah no! songs can never be taught.' The cage bird says, 'Alas for me, I know not the songs of the woodlands.' There love is intense with longing, but they never can fly wing to wing. Through the bars of the cage they look, and vain is their wish to know each other. They flutter their wings in yearning, and sing, 'Come closer, my love!' The free bird cries, 'It cannot be, I fear the closed doors of the cage.' The cage bird whispers, 'Alas, my wings are powerless and...
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...FLIGHT VEHICLE DESIGN PROJECT 2 Professor: Dr. Steven Lu Written By: Joey Haripersaud Design Specifications for a Particular Jet Transport Payload: 304 Passengers Crew: Two pilots and three cabin attendants Range: 4200 nm following by ¾ hour loiter Altitude: 35,000 ft Cruise speed: M = 0.84 at 35,000 ft Climb: Direct climb to 35,000 ft at maximum take-off weight WTO Take-off and landing: FAR 25 fieldlength 9,800 ft at an altitude of 5,300 ft and 98°F day. Landing performance at WL = 0.8WTO Engines: Four turbofans Certification base: FAR 25 Specification Project 1 WTO= 357,100 WF used= 106,722 WOE TENT=188,008 WE TENT=185,197 WE= 185,240 Procedure Step 1: The Temperature ratio (φ) has to be found so that σ can be determined. The pressure ratio (δ) is found using the atmospheric table with an altitude of 1500 ft. T= 98 °F Stofl: 5300 ft Temperature Ratio (φ): (T + 459.7)/518.7 = 1.0752 Pressure ratio (σ)= δ/φ = .822/1.075=0.765 Step 2: From observing Table 3.1 a range of values for CLmaxTO for the take-off flaps are found to be 1.6 to 2.8. In this case the values 1.6, 2.0, 2.4, 2.8 are going to be used. Using equation 3.8: STOFL: [37.5 (W/S)TO] / [σ * (T/W)TO] which is simplified and rearranged to (T/W)TO= [ 0.014997 (W/S)TO] / CLMAXTO Step 3: This table was composed with the information given in step 2. T/W TABLE | | CLmaxTO | | At 5300 ft and 98 °F | At Sea Level | W/S | 1.6 | 2 | 2.4 | 2.8 | 1.6 | 2...
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...would share some of the knowledge I have gained on modelling aircraft in 3D. I’ve decided to do this tutorial with the free Blender software (2.45) so that anybody can have a go at it at without having to outlay lots of cash. The purpose of this tutorial is not to teach you how to use Blender (although I will give plenty of tips) but to show you how I go about modelling aircraft. The techniques I show should readily transfer to any 3D software that you use. For this tutorial we will use the Nieuport 11 as an example as a lot of the shapes are relatively easy compared to WWII aircraft or modern jets although the techniques shown are equally applicable to those types. We will cover how to model a wheel, cowling, fuselage, tail plane, fin, top wing and engine crankcase. I will also show how to uvmap those items so you can texture your aircraft. I will also give some tips on how to model the rest of the aircraft if you wish to finish it off. This is the first time I have ever used Blender so there may be better ways of doing things. Getting Started Step 1 Download Blender 2.45 & install. Optional Download Python 2.5 for your operating system & install. Note: Python allows full functionality of the software but you should still be able to do this tutorial without Python. Step 2 Download these 3 PDF files which teach you the basics of the interface, keyboard shortcuts and have some tutorials that are well worth going through before you start modelling aircraft. The Blender manual is...
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...Kate Chopin's The Awakening is a literary work full of symbolism. Birds, clothes, houses and other narrative elements are powerful symbols which add meaning to the novel and to the characters. I will analyze the most relevant symbols presented in Chopin's literary work. BIRDS The images related to birds are the major symbolic images in the narrative from the very beginning of the novel: "A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: `Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi! That's all right!'" (pp3) In The Awakening, caged birds serve as reminders of Edna's entrapment. She is caged in the roles as wife and mother; she is never expected to think for herself. Moreover, the caged birds symbolize the entrapment of the Victorian women in general. Like the parrot, the women's movements are limited by the rules of society. In this first chapter, the parrot speaks in "a language which nobody understood" (pp3). The parrot is not able to communicate its feelings just like Edna whose feelings are difficult to understand, incomprehensible to the members of Creole society. In contrast to caged birds, Chopin uses wild birds and the idea of flight as symbols of freedom. This symbol is shown in a vision of a bird experienced by Edna while Mademoiselle Reisz is playing the piano. "When she heard it there came before her imagination the figure of a man standing beside a desolate rock...
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...teach the student the avoidance and proper recovery from spins. Elements • Uncoordinated stalls • Aerodynamics of a spin • Recovery procedure Schedule Discussion 0:30 Equipment Model airplane Instructor Actions Discuss what is a spin (an aggravated stall that results in autorotation). Autorotation results from unequal angles of attack on the wings. The key is aggravated (i.e. uncoordinated). Draw or show the corkscrew/helical flight path of a spin. The difference between a spin and a steep spiral: spin—airspeed low, wings stalled; spiral—airspeed increasing, not stalled. Discuss the aerodynamics of a spin. Draw a wing in straight-and-level flight and in slow flight. Use actual angles of attack. Typical light aircraft wings stall at 18-22º. How can you enter a spin? Wing exceeds critical angle of attack with yaw acting on aircraft (uncoordinated). That is, a stall when in a slipping or skidding turn. Danger of base to final turn—cross controlled stall leading to spin. The high wing has the greatest lift due to the greater airspeed, and overall less drag and lower angle of attack. The low wing has the least lift (due to lower airspeed) and greatest parasitic drag due to its higher angle of attack. Center of gravity affects the spin characteristics. An aft CG makes spin recovery more difficult. The worst case is the aircraft may enter into a flat spin if CG is too far back, making recovery impossible. Center of gravity affects the spin characteristics...
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