As an EE, I've had a couple jobs where I worked on weapons. In fact, I've worked on the Conventional Trident Modification program referenced by TFA. It can be a bit of a struggle to deal with the fact that you're building a weapon. There's one rational that got tossed around quite a bit:

The weapons will be built by someone. Would you really want the weapon design to fall only to engineers that couldn't get other jobs? Given that I worked on the guidance parts, I could be glad that I was involved in making sure the weapon only went where it was intended to go.

Granted, that first part is a bit of a strawman, but it's based in the reality that not all engineers will ever stop working on weapons.

In the past, I've also worked on a torpedo project. That was a bit easier since torpedos are rarely used against anything other than a naval vessel, especially the MK48. Missiles are definitely more taxing on moral. Also, the fact that you're working on a weapon was always present for me and affected every single design decision. I wish I could say the same seemed true for the management. I'm not sure how many times I said things like "We're building a damn missile here, how about we double check that?"

Does anyone really rely on what's in the square brackets or tooltip window? In most browsers (The three I use anyway) hovering over a link displays the URL in the status bar.

However, a Braille book has Braille page numbers in the same spot on every page, so it is actually easier to navigate. There are regulations in place for publishers that make sure text books are available in Braille.

When moving to e-books, there is no guarantee a printed book exists in any form. University are claiming this is okay, citing that printed Braille books are not necessary due to the text-to-speech feature of the Kindle. If it were not for the lack of text-to-speech for navigation, this would be true.

In the video, a user takes a picture of the sign at Santa Monica Pier and gets a search result. Seems like it would be practical and quicker to have location based information available. Right now I can open up Google maps, hit "My Location", Tap on the building for Santa Monica Pier, and I get it's address. They should just add an option there to do a search. No camera needed, which also means it will work at night.

I believe the GP meant they=MS, not they=Sophos

Triangulation also reduces the time-to-first-fix by reducing the search space the GPS chip has to run correlations in, and by usually by sending up-to-date ephemeral data, which takes 15 minutes to download from the satellites.

TeleNav makes an App for the G1. I've been using it for about 4 months now since it came out. It's free to download and try for 30 days. Then it's a subscription service, costing $10 per month. I've been quite happy with it and consider it well worth the $10.

Does the competition actually require you to send in your plan as a .doc file? You should be able to send it in as a pdf or postscript.

It just always really irks me that people ask for finished documents in an editor's format. If people would just stop having this dumb expection, then it wouldn't matter if my tool of choice was Word, Ooo, Pages, Correl, html, or LaTex. They're all able to send out postscript files, and usually able to generate pdf these days.

The only time .doc files should be getting sent around is within a single team or corporation, where you have a reasonable expection that your coworkers have the same program available that you do.

Quite true, but I personally have no idea how this technology scales. I wouldn't automatically assume that the antenna size needs to grow with power throughput. If I were to assume anything, I would assume antenna size is a function of the frequency being used. Perhaps that frequency is a function of power throughput though.

Yes, that's also true. However, I personally think that anything that would make plug-in electrics more convenient would help the adoption rate, and thus is worth investigating. I don't think many people really welcome the idea of having to wind up the cable from the car when it's pouring rain and/or they're running late for work.

Well then, screw mobile device. How about using this to recharge electric vehicles? A 12-inch coil is no big deal in an automobile. I could see this being useful in something like the Volt or Circuit. You could install the larger coil at home and recharge your car without having to hook up a cable. It would be great for people without the luxury of a garage, and could mitigate the risks of a high power cable laying around outside all day.

Even better, business could install the large coils and have special parking spaces that recharge the employees' or customers' cars during the day.

There's no reason all those EEs you mention can't be the same person, unless you're hiring someone with less than a few years experience, or has worked only in a large company all his career. There are many small (1 or 2 people) design firms that have the expertise to see a design from concept to production.

Find a local design consultant, someone relatively senior in experience. Let that person worry about finding a PCB house for prototypes and small-scale production. If the product is successfull, and the small-scale run sells, then hire someone on full-time to manage the large-scale production.

Just to nit-pick here. Since you're assuming normal shocks would also need to be replaced every 10 years, the $600 to $900 figure is the incremental cost they need to stay under. If a set of these is $500 more than the cost of regular shocks, it's a win.