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