Having great engineers that just recently graduated from college doesn't really mean squat with manufacturing.
You need to have engineers with experience more than anything. A guy working for Ford of GM for 20+ years probably can help bring the tesla car to market much quicker and easily than someone fresh out of university
Especially with manufacturing, a lot of the basics on machine tool handling and fixture design isn't taught anymore in Mechanical Engineering classes--- a much greater emphasis is put on theoretical stuff.
The best universities that actually deal with the stuff you need to run CNCs and other machines is actually taught in the midwest -- Univ Michigan, Perdue, Iowa, etc.
If it is really such a cost issue, why not make the co-pilot do cabin attendance, and get rid of one attendant per flight.
Or better yet, train a cabin crew member on the basics of landing take off and flying.
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Most research in the USA is funded by public money, various DOE, DARPA, NIH, etc grants. In addition, any useful outcome of the research, as in patents or other intellectual property is essentially given to the researcher. As a result, it seems like not only a responsibility, but good policy for the researcher to be able to explain what he is doing to the layman.
It is much easier to get funding dollars for something that the average person and politicians can understand vs. what they can't.
The US isn't forcing the foreign competition to do anything. All its saying is if they want to continue to sell to Iran, the cannot sell to the US Gov't. That is all. They can, however, continue to even do business in the USA. Iran and North Korea are still the two biggest threats-- one is controlled by a crazed manic depressive dictator, and the other by a group of theocrats hell bent on creating a nuclear weapon.
Additionally, I am not saying that it was right for the US to go into Iraq in the first place. But to continue to destabilize the region, is probably not in the best interest Iraq.
I would have to disagree with you regarding Israel. Israel is only acting in self determination after numerous incursions by Hamas, a group funded by Iran.
I would like to see a way of bidding prior to going on the cab itself. IE have like an iphone app that allows me to give a destination and have various cabbies bid based on that.
this would take the traffic uncertainty out of the eq, and if the cabbie gets me to my destination faster-- great!
Most credit cards will refund the money to you if you call them and tell them it was a scam.
They even extend warranties and give other buyer protections. Just contact the credit card company and ask them for the refund.
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1994121,00.asp
Here is an article on it. Although its from 2006, there has been more work done on it. There are more articles on it in the literature.
If you search for 'self healing' microprocessors you can find a number of articles on it.
Actually with processors using a 90 and 45 nanometer transistor size, there is a very high likely hood that a number of transistors will fail over the lifetime of the chip due to diffusion alone.
Though modern processors have taken care of this by routing data through parts of the chip that are still active. Though this has an interesting affect of slowing the processor down as it gets older.
What bother's me the most is that the entire ruling was doled out by the European Commission rather than an impartial Judge. From the wikipedia page, the european commission has executive and legislative powers-- however a civil suit like this one should be dealt with by the judiciary instead.
This is why I don't believe the ruling is fair to Microsoft-- its like having the judge, jury and executioner all embodied by one body.
Yes, but look at all the other factors: the stock has been flat/declining in value since 2004 (use a moving average of 14 days to try and hammer some of that daily volatility out) -- they have not disclosed any real long term vision on how to actually start winning consumers back-- again they're loosing their main search service out to competitors, The best long term thing they could do is merge with Microsoft. At least then, they will have a cash cow to fund other ventures and try to integrate some of their business platforms with larger corporations.
I am probably a minority here, but as a yahoo shareholder, I for one support the merger. From a stock holder's perspective -- this is the only way. The stock, prior to the merger announcement was trading at a paltry 20 dollars a share, and had a jump of 50% to 30 a share after the merger was announced. Yahoo's loosing its traditional bread and butter: being a search engine. And with that onslaught all the other yahoo online properties are slowly loosing market share...
This action of preventing the resale of a product is illegal--- once I buy a device, I am free to resell it. For example an auto maker cannot force me not to resell a car.
Doesn't allow all the scientist into its group for funding. I really don't see anything with wrong with that, they just pick the people they feel are the best for the job and provide funding... Prior to gates coming in with the money, there was no real funding of drugs. Also, I recently read somewhere that drugs were going to manufactured so they could be affordable or free... ie priced like generics.
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Boy were those bad.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-i_games_from_The_Legend_of_Zelda_series
Can some explain how this is different from CDMA?
Having great engineers that just recently graduated from college doesn't really mean squat with manufacturing. You need to have engineers with experience more than anything. A guy working for Ford of GM for 20+ years probably can help bring the tesla car to market much quicker and easily than someone fresh out of university Especially with manufacturing, a lot of the basics on machine tool handling and fixture design isn't taught anymore in Mechanical Engineering classes--- a much greater emphasis is put on theoretical stuff. The best universities that actually deal with the stuff you need to run CNCs and other machines is actually taught in the midwest -- Univ Michigan, Perdue, Iowa, etc.
If it is really such a cost issue, why not make the co-pilot do cabin attendance, and get rid of one attendant per flight. Or better yet, train a cabin crew member on the basics of landing take off and flying. ro
One thing: What is the residual value of the car when you sell it at the end of 10 years. Will the hybrid factor add 1.5k to the price?
go on ebay/craigslist and just buy some comcast boxes. http://cgi.ebay.com/MOTOROLA-COMCAST-DCH70-Cablebox-SHIPS-TODAY-LOOK-/350370650862?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5193b7daee
Most research in the USA is funded by public money, various DOE, DARPA, NIH, etc grants. In addition, any useful outcome of the research, as in patents or other intellectual property is essentially given to the researcher. As a result, it seems like not only a responsibility, but good policy for the researcher to be able to explain what he is doing to the layman.
It is much easier to get funding dollars for something that the average person and politicians can understand vs. what they can't.
The US isn't forcing the foreign competition to do anything. All its saying is if they want to continue to sell to Iran, the cannot sell to the US Gov't. That is all. They can, however, continue to even do business in the USA. Iran and North Korea are still the two biggest threats-- one is controlled by a crazed manic depressive dictator, and the other by a group of theocrats hell bent on creating a nuclear weapon.
Additionally, I am not saying that it was right for the US to go into Iraq in the first place. But to continue to destabilize the region, is probably not in the best interest Iraq.
I would have to disagree with you regarding Israel. Israel is only acting in self determination after numerous incursions by Hamas, a group funded by Iran.
China does not threaten to bomb israel or destabilize iraq.
The funniest thing is, in my CS classes apx 30% were from India and 30% from rest of Asia. The remainder were mostly white Americans.
These ratios were pretty much consistent throughout pretty much the entire engineering school.
I would like to see a way of bidding prior to going on the cab itself. IE have like an iphone app that allows me to give a destination and have various cabbies bid based on that.
this would take the traffic uncertainty out of the eq, and if the cabbie gets me to my destination faster-- great!
Actually, with the current conditions of the market, the best case would have been to sell to microsoft . This makes any sale easier.
Did any one notice that the workers were getting 90K -- thats the median income.
I guess its more of a work ethic type of thing, I have friends who are bankers and they are willing to put in 80-100hrs a week.
Most credit cards will refund the money to you if you call them and tell them it was a scam.
They even extend warranties and give other buyer protections. Just contact the credit card company and ask them for the refund.
Maybe its because office suite is simple, easy to use and works very well with graphics embedded within documents.
http://www.amazon.com/Who-Fourier-Mathematical-Transnational-College/dp/0964350408/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1230058191&sr=8-1 This is an amazing intro to calculus and fourier transforms. All with nice comic strip goodness
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1994121,00.asp
Here is an article on it. Although its from 2006, there has been more work done on it. There are more articles on it in the literature.
If you search for 'self healing' microprocessors you can find a number of articles on it.
Actually with processors using a 90 and 45 nanometer transistor size, there is a very high likely hood that a number of transistors will fail over the lifetime of the chip due to diffusion alone. Though modern processors have taken care of this by routing data through parts of the chip that are still active. Though this has an interesting affect of slowing the processor down as it gets older.
Though I would also like to mention the EU has a public debt of 7.2 trillion Euros which is 11 trillion dollars. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_European_Union#Budget
This is why I don't believe the ruling is fair to Microsoft-- its like having the judge, jury and executioner all embodied by one body.
Yes, but look at all the other factors: the stock has been flat/declining in value since 2004 (use a moving average of 14 days to try and hammer some of that daily volatility out) -- they have not disclosed any real long term vision on how to actually start winning consumers back-- again they're loosing their main search service out to competitors, The best long term thing they could do is merge with Microsoft. At least then, they will have a cash cow to fund other ventures and try to integrate some of their business platforms with larger corporations.
I am probably a minority here, but as a yahoo shareholder, I for one support the merger. From a stock holder's perspective -- this is the only way. The stock, prior to the merger announcement was trading at a paltry 20 dollars a share, and had a jump of 50% to 30 a share after the merger was announced. Yahoo's loosing its traditional bread and butter: being a search engine. And with that onslaught all the other yahoo online properties are slowly loosing market share...
Where is my mass produced cheap efficient flying car!?!
This action of preventing the resale of a product is illegal--- once I buy a device, I am free to resell it. For example an auto maker cannot force me not to resell a car.
Doesn't allow all the scientist into its group for funding. I really don't see anything with wrong with that, they just pick the people they feel are the best for the job and provide funding... Prior to gates coming in with the money, there was no real funding of drugs. Also, I recently read somewhere that drugs were going to manufactured so they could be affordable or free... ie priced like generics.