In a nation where space exploration has long been linked to the collective self-esteem, the Discovery's engineering glitches have provoked a wave of self-doubt.
While people originally began collecting inadvertent digital malfunctions for their entertaining qualities, a whole new generation of creators is founding an entirely new field via replicating and engineering glitches for results that are half intentional and half up to "the ghost in the machine". .
An enthusiastic, hungry generation has become comfortable with what are called, in sound engineering, "artifacts": the glitches and dropouts and streaks that represent missing data and the trips that data has made.
They instructors offer one interpretation on their Web site: Noise is undesirable in engineering, but artists find glitch to be beautiful and revealing inner workings of the system.
In a review for Xenocide of an album by a band called Autopsy, he wrote disapprovingly about "glitches in the engineering that you will notice if you listen through headphones," but he celebrated the band's "guttural growlings, repulsive throughout".
Engineering the units for continuous, glitch-free operation is proving to be unexpectedly complex, however, and Plug Power now expects to introduce commercial fuel-cell systems in the first half of 2002.
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The 36-year-old Bay Area-bred producer and performer has spent 14 years engineering his deadly blend of heavy dubstep, breakbeat, glitch, and hip-hop and now thip-hop anddy who sounow quithereke him.
EDWARD LICHTSCHEIN The Favorite Uncle Edward Lichtschein had master's degrees in physics and engineering, designed software for eSpeed, and prided himself on solving challenging computer glitches that stumped others.
Mechanical engineering: You need highly skilled folks to repair hardware malfunctions or troubleshoot software glitches to ensure smooth customer experiences.
