BAD HARDWARE WEEK

Ten worst engineering mistakes.

1. St. Francis Dam, 1928
Self-taught engineer William Mulholland built this LA dam on a defective foundation and ignored the geology of the surrounding canyon. He also dismissed cracks that formed as soon as the reservoir behind it was filled. Five days later, it ruptured, killing 450 people and destroying entire towns (along with Mulholland’s career).

However, seems that engineering mistake No1 is endangered with forthcoming Intel's Itanium burst. That may lay off 16 000 Intel's people and counting their families members, to destroy entire towns.

However, a good counter example of good engineering is AMD's Opteron. Not in my opinion only.
Really, I mean so. Ouch.

All told, Itanium accounts for .4 per cent of all processor sales.

It's hard to imagine how the likes of SGI, Bull and Unisys can justify their $10bn backing of the Itanium Solutions Alliance given these figures.
IBM shipped 114 boxes, Groupe Bull shipped 81 and Unisys shipped an impressive 22 boxes, breaking the tough baker's dozen mark.
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