He stole SPECIFICATIONS, not designs. Designs on their own are pretty worthless (as you can 3d scan and replicate any physical part). You Can't 3d scan the knowledge used for designing that part.
Engineering is not mechanical design. It is properly identifying the REQUIREMENTS, and developing a SPECIFICATION which can then be used to ENGINEER a DESIGN. By Stealing the Specifications, it gives a new OEM a major leg up in the engineering process as they can skip the time consuming phase of understanding the customer (See process mentioned prior).
People need to separate the end product (widgit) from the underlying knowledge to design said widgit
The intro scene would NEVER be allowed on TV today. A young girl (let's say 5 years old) walks home from school alone. She is then approached by a strange man who wants to take her somewhere..
In our society this is the exact OPPOSITE Behavior we would our daughters or sons to follow.
The 60's and 70's were very different than today. People should watch this with thier kids and explain why the behaviors exhibited don't apply today.
I agree that energy in is in excess of energy out. That is true in many processes.
The answer to this is nuclear power to power the ethanol (or hydrogen) production facilities. Nuclear is the closest thing we have to free energy. We would no longer rely on coal or gas powered energy plants. We could reduce our dependence on foreign energy.
We have not built 1 nuclear power plant since the 70s. China is building 5 as read this. Iran is building 3 (I think). why are we so backwards? Current Nuclear Designs are orders of magnitude safer than prior generation plants.
The anti-nuclear movement is responsible for this mess, not the government.
We do get great deals on Cars, Trucks, Cell Phones, Microsoft Products, etc...
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Ford runs Solaris, IRIX, HP-UX, as well as NT/W2K. They use Netscape, APACHE and IIS.
Ford has the largest internal intranet out of an company in the world. Because the external websites are run/maintained by an external org does not mean that there is not diversity of systems on the inside of the firewall.
Any hours worked in core day (8 hours) paid at straight scale
Any hours on call (beyond the 8), you get 1/2 time, since you are not really working
If at any time, you are called, and have to do work, you are paid a minimum of 2 hours and straight time from there till you are done.
The process of using an open flame to comubst the gaseous outputs of biological entities.
Process
1) Obtain Flame
2) Position flame approx.1 meters from gas oriface
3) de-pressurize gas through aformentioned oriface
4) The flame will now react with the gaseous output
5) If needed, call hospital burn unit
Amen to the text adventure...
I remeber the weeks I would spend on the
Adventure (brand and name) game on my TI99/4A
I then got hooked on the Infocom games on my C=64.
I miss the games that make the user visualize in his/her mind what is going on. Make the user map out the adventure, take notes, etc...
I would pay money for a challenging game like that. It would be something I could do with friends/my wife etc...
This 3D overendowed gaming world we live in now leaves nothing to the imagination!
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He stole SPECIFICATIONS, not designs. Designs on their own are pretty worthless (as you can 3d scan and replicate any physical part). You Can't 3d scan the knowledge used for designing that part.
Engineering is not mechanical design. It is properly identifying the REQUIREMENTS, and developing a SPECIFICATION which can then be used to ENGINEER a DESIGN. By Stealing the Specifications, it gives a new OEM a major leg up in the engineering process as they can skip the time consuming phase of understanding the customer (See process mentioned prior).
People need to separate the end product (widgit) from the underlying knowledge to design said widgit
Not true. for Ford, the fist infotainment component not meeting Auto Specs was Sync. And only 2 chips were not auto grade.
I am an Automotive engineer. I work on infotainment components. This story is 100% wrong. 128Mhz, what BS
May the jew bashing commence...
Give me a break, how is this a science/technology article??
I don't know where you get your data.. I work for Ford, and we assume this to be a sure thing.
Wine is GPL and Legit, right? Why don't they just install WINE as a standard item in their load?
I am about as anti-PC as the next guy, but....
The intro scene would NEVER be allowed on TV today. A young girl (let's say 5 years old) walks home from school alone. She is then approached by a strange man who wants to take her somewhere..
In our society this is the exact OPPOSITE Behavior we would our daughters or sons to follow.
The 60's and 70's were very different than today. People should watch this with thier kids and explain why the behaviors exhibited don't apply today.
Dave
I agree that energy in is in excess of energy out. That is true in many processes.
The answer to this is nuclear power to power the ethanol (or hydrogen) production facilities. Nuclear is the closest thing we have to free energy. We would no longer rely on coal or gas powered energy plants. We could reduce our dependence on foreign energy.
We have not built 1 nuclear power plant since the 70s. China is building 5 as read this. Iran is building 3 (I think). why are we so backwards? Current Nuclear Designs are orders of magnitude safer than prior generation plants.
The anti-nuclear movement is responsible for this mess, not the government.
Dave
Both of those shows jumped the shark in their 2nd seasons. This is a mercy killing.
Ford leases all PCs from Dell (3 yr Leases)
So, when the lease is up, the PC goes back.
The same applies with Unix Workstations (HP, SGI, SUN) (3 Yr Lease)
Mainframes, Supercomputers (Crays, etc...) (Variable Leases)
So, there are no presents to the employees.
But....
We do get great deals on Cars, Trucks, Cell Phones, Microsoft Products, etc...
Ford runs Solaris, IRIX, HP-UX, as well as NT/W2K. They use Netscape, APACHE and IIS. Ford has the largest internal intranet out of an company in the world. Because the external websites are run/maintained by an external org does not mean that there is not diversity of systems on the inside of the firewall.
Any hours worked in core day (8 hours) paid at straight scale Any hours on call (beyond the 8), you get 1/2 time, since you are not really working If at any time, you are called, and have to do work, you are paid a minimum of 2 hours and straight time from there till you are done.
The process of using an open flame to comubst the gaseous outputs of biological entities. Process 1) Obtain Flame 2) Position flame approx .1 meters from gas oriface
3) de-pressurize gas through aformentioned oriface
4) The flame will now react with the gaseous output
5) If needed, call hospital burn unit
Amen to the text adventure... I remeber the weeks I would spend on the Adventure (brand and name) game on my TI99/4A I then got hooked on the Infocom games on my C=64. I miss the games that make the user visualize in his/her mind what is going on. Make the user map out the adventure, take notes, etc... I would pay money for a challenging game like that. It would be something I could do with friends/my wife etc... This 3D overendowed gaming world we live in now leaves nothing to the imagination!