Not knowing in this specific case, but subs in dry dock usually have their hatches stuffed with cables and pipes. The ship is not self-sustaining, so everything needed (like power and water) comes in through the hatches. They can't be shut easily.

Also, there is usually crew on board, particularly in the reactor spaces. They don't just leave the reactor "unwatched", even it if is shut down.

Closing the hatches and letting it burn itself out would be a lot like just giving up, too.

Really?? You think a company should be "forced" to sell something at a price determined by the government or the consumer? Really?

Which parts are off the shelf? The cases are Apple-specific. In fact, in the case of the aluminum 'Books, Apple owns the process and the machinery. Samsung makes the CPU, but they are just the foundry - Apple designs the circuitry.

Ya know, maybe they don't "invent" things. Whatever. One can say for sure that most of the industry tends to copy Apple's, er, um, 'not inventions'. What did smartphones look like before the iPhone? What did tablets look like before the iPad? Aren't all of the ultra books attempted copies of the Macbook Air? For sure, Intel uses the Air as the target .

The point is, whatever you want to call it, Apple does seem to lead the industry (at least recently) and they probably do get a bit tired of seeing everyone make stuff that looks and feels like theirs.

You really believe that claptrap? It is an interesting observation of our times that someone would believe a state-owned outlet of a totalitarian government before they would believe the US media.

Greenpeace "assumed" that there was a rule of thumb power-used/cost-of-facility metric. Which they probably made up, but they came up with 1MW/$15 million. (Full report PDF here ) Now, not only is that number kinda smelly in and of itself, but they also include the entire $1 billion Apple is spending, which seems to include the cost of their big solar array and fuel cell farm. There could be all kinds of overhead costs in there that don't compare to other facilities, like putting in roads, plans for expansion, surveying, etc.

Apple's servers aren't any more efficient than anyone else's. It's just Greenpeace making stuff up.

Actually, Android and iOS are in a virtual tie with Android at 47% and iOS at 43%. But, Android has been falling while iOS has been climbing.

Price fixing should be illegal, and it may be true that the publishers did collude to do so. The question is whether or not Apple participated in the price fixing.

I, too, have no love lost for the publishers, I was merely trying to state the facts. Given those facts, it seems odd to be suing Apple.

Before Apple started with the agency model, the "average" price for eBooks at Amazon was, indeed, lower than those prices today. Amazon was selling the books at a loss in order to sell more Kindles. This infuriated the book publishers, out of concern that Amazon was devaluating the book in general with prices that low. The book publishers had no control whatsoever over the retail price. Combined with Amazon's weight, the publishers had no choice but to just "suck it up".

Apple, on the other hand, needed to do something to break Amazon's lock on the eBook market, and to get the publishers to offer their material on the Apple store. So, they offered the publishers what they wanted, which is the agency model.

How this turns into collusion is beyond me, as Apple is not establishing the price of these books, nor did they convince the publishers to all agree on a price or any such thing. The DOJ's angle appears to be the "most favored nation" clause, which has the effect of making Apple's price the best price for a given title, but that seems pretty weak to me, as that does nothing to get the various publishers to sell their books at the same price as all of the other publishers. Even if it did, doing so is not collusion.

No, that is the well-vetted range in normal driving. You can find that data everywhere. Secondly, the Volt is all about what happens when you exceed the battery's range. That's why there's an on-board generator. Even if you only got 80% of your commute on all-electric it would rock.