After the Microsoft gaming platform launched in November 2005, some gamers started to notice that their consoles' brick-like power supplies were getting hot so hot that the machines became inoperable.
However, advanced machines may be inoperable or fail frequently when placed into the austere medical environment of a developing country.
However, these same machines may be inoperable or fail frequently when placed into the austere medical environment of a developing country.
A seemingly inoperable washing machine falls into the traditional category of overcomplicated design, which has burdened us for years with things that are unnecessarily difficult to use.
But the overcomplicated design of the new cabs is just as damaging in its own way as that of an inoperable washing machine.
As New Yorkers went to the polls Tuesday to vote, there were widespread reports of lengthy lines and inoperable scanning machines at polling places across the city.
The primary election, in September, which also used the new system, was marred by so many late openings at polling sites, inoperable voting machines and poorly trained election workers that Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg called the board's performance a "royal screw-up".
That may include smashing mixing equipment with sledgehammers, blowing up delivery missiles, driving tanks over empty shells or filling them with concrete, and running machines without lubricant so they seize up and become inoperable.
Mr. Crawford was arrested Tuesday as he tried to connect a remote activation device to an X-ray machine that undercover agents had provided to him after rendering it inoperable, the authorities said.
They are routine corporate crimes that bedevil every area of design, and explain why we end up with other disasters, like inoperable cellphones, illegible instruction manuals, neurotically overstyled espresso machines and landfill sites bloated with indestructible, non-biodegradable rubbish.
