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This one plant makes 4 billion per year.

https://www.manufacturing.net/...

My original info may not have been correct, but that's a shitload of straws and only one plant.

You learn nothing about Apple by reading their "statements". The real information comes from the rumors. It is an open secret that Apple is the real power behind Faraday Future, which is developing self-driving electric cars.

One thing we have learned from reading Apple's "statements" is that they have a LOT of cash - which makes the recent kerfluffle about Faraday Future halting construction due to lack of funds puzzling if Apple is backing them.

http://www.manufacturing.net/n...

Apple may have an agreement with FF, or may be in investor but I think it's a stretch that they are the majority funder

Jim Hedlund, a safety consultant and former National Highway Traffic Safety Administration official, recently examined 300 cellphone studies for the Governors Highway Safety Association. He couldn't recall a single study that showed drivers talking on a headset or hands-free phone were at any less risk of an accident than drivers with one hand on the wheel and a phone in the other.

It does add:

What's missing is hard evidence that accidents are increasing because of cellphone use. One reason is that U.S. privacy laws have made it difficult for researchers to study whether cell phones were in use in accidents in the U.S. The two large studies that have been done — in Canada and Australia — found drivers were four times more likely to have a crash if talking on a cellphone. It didn't matter whether the cellphone was hands-free or hand-held.

So this is just another bit of evidence that the two are really no different, and there appears to be no suggestion to the contrary, that hands-free using cell phone drivers are as safe as ones not using a cell phone.

Speaking from personal experience, I do think hands-free cell phone use is distracting in a way that a person sitting next to you isn't. I'm wondering if the connection is out, wondering if they can hear me, fiddling with the phone, making sure the phone isn't falling on the floor, trying to understand what they're saying. Hands free texting, you're making sure if it translated you correctly. And the person on the phone or the phone itself can't say 'HOLYFUCKGOD!!! LOOK OUT!!!" alerting me to a child I'm about to mow down like a passenger in the car with me can.

"Well, they're out of patent protection, aren't they?"

That's an interesting question. Rifles of the same basic design are/were manufactured all over the Soviet Bloc and even in Egypt and China. There were so many manufacturers, I sort of assumed the design was an open standard. I did some searching however, and apparently that's not the case:

http://www.manufacturing.net/news/2009/10/russia-to-defend-ak-47-assault-rifle-copyright

Arsenal Inc. of Nevada claims to be the "exclusive licensed US manufacturer".

http://www.manufacturing.net/blogs/2012/07/google-made-in-the-usa

http://www.google.org/

http://www.google.com/landing/givesback/2011/

but the point requires an adult mind to bring adult judgement to a real world situation which is not black and white- something you're just not cut for apparently. Comcast and Verizon and ATT have REPEATEDLY shown themselves to be rapacious ,exploitative and dishonest. If Google wants to protect NN by laying down fiber and bypassing that group of assholes then I say bully for them and more power to them. You have to be a bigger cynic than I am to just make blanket statements based on one or two selected data points. Sometimes in a war both sides do very bad things, but that doesn't make both sides morally equivalent. Sometimes when you fight a war you have to give a go at engaging Communist China, or save big money the way your competitors are doing , or do something else unsavory That's life in war time. But the real question is not answered by those bad actions unless like ATT and Comcast and Verizon they become so persistent and pervasive that they have, in fact, turned evil. The real question we're trying to get at is "what's in their heads? Where are they trying to get to by doing this?" That is effectively the state in a hidden Markov model and we can only approximate and build more or less good models to try to get at it . My HMM tells me that Google is acting in accordance with their value system in seeking to lay down fiber and establish NN once and for all.

Sorry, but you can't separate me from my well honed capacity to form accurate judgments about the world and people in it by flinging some sophomoric "et tu" feces at me like an angry little monkey.

No doubt you will feel cheated if Australia doesn't receive all the benefits of Chinese attention that the United States has received.

FBI cracks down on China's elusive army of amateur spies

The FBI estimates that more than 3,000 "front companies" have been established by Chinese nationals in the US specifically to purloin military and economic secrets illegally.

Let Me Count The Ways China Is Stealing Our Secrets

China: Suspected Acquisition of U.S. Nuclear Weapon Secrets

This CRS Report discusses China’s suspected acquisition of U.S. nuclear weapon secrets, including that on the W88, the newest U.S. nuclear warhead.

China's Secret War

Of course, why worry?

China warns Australia against military pact with US
Aussies fear threat of war with China

A report out today of another Foxconn worker committing suicide, following on one earlier in the week: http://www.manufacturing.net/article.aspx?id=256282
Maybe this one actually was swiped instead of just lost like the first. Another 'overzealous' Foxconn investigation perhaps?

Really? Please show those numbers BACKED UP by real accountants and real numbers (not something pulled out of the air on Faux News).

I'm not sure what is wrong with your Google finger but this information is nothing new and has been a topic of discusion around the entire ordeal since well before the bailouts.

Perhaps the problem is that you are not watching Fox news because you shouldn't be that clueless over something that fucking well known. My guess is your probably not paying attention at all and only like bashing Fox news because you are an idiot who thinks it's fashionable when others do it. That's fine and all but your being pointed out.

Just a bit ago, It was argued by the federal gov. that GM and Chrysler unions had to lower their average pay from 36 to 34 which is the same pay as Toyota, Honda, etc had (IIRC, the average length of time by the employees was disregarded; GM and Chrysler had on average a much higher cumulative time).

Yep, I was right, you are not paying attention at all. Total costs of employmment is not average wages. You are arguing the shirt is green instead of red when your not even looking at the same shirt. By the way, how long ago is a bit? Is it a pinch ago, is it 01 ago, a teaspoon ago, Oh well, it's a mystery I guess.

As to the 78/hour figure, I believe that includes such things as retirement and medical health pay for retirees. OTH, other nations such as Germany and France have socialized medicine where a tax is placed on the good, but it does not count against the employee.

No, it didn't include already retired people. That's a separate fund and part of another accounting snafu. But it does cover wages, insurance, retirement contributions and so on for the current employees. So yes, while it is more then an average wage (which I never said differently), it is not counting people who no longer work with GM. And yes, Toyota or any other car company can be put in the exact same situation if their unions get the kind of control they had over GM.

The problem is you can't build towers out in the middle of nowhere. You need a place close to transmission lines,with easy to access for heavy equipment (not just the 300-400 ton cranes, but the trucks hauling in the tower sections and blades are all tens of thousands of pounds too), and a place you can still access regardless of the weather (snow, heavy rain, etc..). What this generally means is wind sites are built along highways or freeways that high voltage lines parallel. Unfortunately, that means towers are generally placed near the outskirts of cities and since tower failure is nothing new and not limited to any one tower manufacturer that means accidents are going to be fairly common.

able to hear them coming.... Like, in California and Maryland:

Hybrids vs. pedestrians
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/uptospeed/2008/08/hybrids-vs-pede.html

Are Hybrid Cars A Danger To Pedestrians?
http://www.manufacturing.net/article.aspx?id=157148

These planes could be so quiet that foreign nations or even domestic animal rights groups might call for noise-makers to be added. Maybe those whistles for rural area dears might be affixed, but stronger so they don't fall off and kill people and animals and destroy property on the ground...

Solaia Loses, Rockwell Wins...What Does It Mean?

http://www.livejournal.com/~waltboyes/2032.html

GE Fanuc Automation agrees to Solaia patent license

http://www.manufacturing.net/ctl/article/CA510015

Rockwell sues Schneider, Solaia, law firm over patent lawsuits

http://www.manufacturing.net/ctl/article/CA269801

The shameful Solaia affair

http://www.manufacturing.net/ctl/article/CA336749

US Patent Office

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PT O2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r =1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ptxt&s1=5,038,318.WKU.&OS=PN /5,038,318&RS=PN/5,038,318

Solaia Loses, Rockwell Wins...What Does It Mean?

http://www.livejournal.com/~waltboyes/2032.html

GE Fanuc Automation agrees to Solaia patent license

http://www.manufacturing.net/ctl/article/CA510015

Rockwell sues Schneider, Solaia, law firm over patent lawsuits

http://www.manufacturing.net/ctl/article/CA269801

The shameful Solaia affair

http://www.manufacturing.net/ctl/article/CA336749

US Patent Office

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PT O2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r =1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ptxt&s1=5,038,318.WKU.&OS=PN /5,038,318&RS=PN/5,038,318

Solaia Loses, Rockwell Wins...What Does It Mean?

http://www.livejournal.com/~waltboyes/2032.html

GE Fanuc Automation agrees to Solaia patent license

http://www.manufacturing.net/ctl/article/CA510015

Rockwell sues Schneider, Solaia, law firm over patent lawsuits

http://www.manufacturing.net/ctl/article/CA269801

The shameful Solaia affair

http://www.manufacturing.net/ctl/article/CA336749

US Patent Office

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PT O2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r =1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ptxt&s1=5,038,318.WKU.&OS=PN /5,038,318&RS=PN/5,038,318

Anyone who infringes a patent is liable, even if he bought an infringing item or method from a vendor. The vendor is liable for contributory infringement. In practice, the inventor usually prefers to sue the vendor rather than pursue a huge number of customers whose liability will be quite small.

For an example of the patent holder pursuing the end user, look up the Solaia case.

Scientists have been researching artificial muscles for decades now. The need for linear actuators with fast response times, almost friction-free force-less movements and power varying as a function of their lengths, is great.

The best they could come up with for powerful movements is this pneumatic device, which is a braided sleeve with a rubber balloon inside: when the balloone expands, it pulls the fibers in the braided sleeve apart, and therefore the overall length of the device shrinks and the device fattens. When the pressure is let off, the device becomes long and thin.

One of the big changes is what Jose Mejia has done to Lucent's supply chain. The company's Customer Delivery Organization concept has helped the company connect the back-end of manufacturing and supply to the front-end sales force. This has helped the win contracts and control costs.

I'm sure Lucent faces a tough battle given that wireline connections aren't growing, wireless is becoming a commodity, and optical still faces a glut of installed dark fiber. Still, I suspect that they will be able to reap their share of contracts and profit from whatever telecom equipment sales there are.

My car has a 12.5 gallon tank and gets about 28 mpg highway, so it has a range of 350 miles. Granted, they aren't there yet. As fo rthe batteries, I just meant that as they get lighter, they will be more expensive. As in a 52kg battery will cost more than a 10kg battery that holds the same charge.

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The same situation occurs when one company "buys" another, or merges with it. You might think that the assets of the purchased company would include the software and software-on-hardware they purchased.

No.

Typically, there are onerous "relicensing" fees, or in other words, you have to buy again what you already thought you owned.

"Some software companies seem to view merger and acquisition activities as a way to generate additional revenue by demanding a license transfer fee or refusing to allow the transfer of licenses," A merger ahead? Here's what to do

Well, in that case I'd be surprised that they allow Li-Ion batteries around, given that they have a tendency to spontaneously explode.

Design News had an article about this type of car in January. You can find it here.

Prosthetics have been around forever, but they're just simple Mechanical Engineering

They're not as simple as you make them out to be. If they were, you'd see perfect replicas of all limbs by now. Check out this Design News article dated a couple of months ago.

Artificial limbs are still being perfected, either in the area of materials or design. Up to now, artificial joints had to be replaced every few years due to wear. A new plastic has been recently developped to increase the lifespan of these devices.

bart

Using current internet demographics may not be the best way to pick the representatives.

Exactly. So what if today's us citizens can afford to use the 'net much more that the current non-us majority. Think fast: in nine or ten years, more chinese will be online than us citizens are alive. Computer power might be 64 times more affordable in 2010, but *bandwidth* will be 20,000 times more affordable (gilder's law). Take metcalf's law, add a billion users, a twist of currency instability, churn vigorously, and you may well have interdependent extranational communities that self-regulate in partnership with (or even independently of) the nation/state.

Maybe DNS shouldn't represent militant national borders at all: maybe it would be more useful if aligned along linguistic borders with iDNS. What helps us communicate more, fracturing legal jurisdictions, or plain old human language?