Theoretical life vs commercial life. There are plenty of A340-500/600s that have no remaining commercial value beyond parts, with less than 6-7 years of service.

And as for the /. summary, it is a carbon skin on Al-Li frame for the fuselage, not a carbon fuselage.

Oh, your browser has the .mil CAs removed?

Yes, I ended a sentence with "is". Twice!

What do you think a corporation is? If we just switched the term corporation to business would your suggestion start to fall apart? When an author/artist dies, so does their copyright?

Let's pretend I make a movie. The day before release, the individual assigned for the copyright is shot. Can my competitors now charge admission to replay my movie?

The real problem is just duration, not the entity holding the piece of paper. You could argue the need for a moral copyright beyond a commercial copyright, but I think you end up on the same slippery slope.

12 Years from first commercial publication.

Yup. Your current position sounds like a trap. You need to either diversify income sources or add skills or something, assuming you aren't ready for retirement. If you are 45-50, it seems like those are the danger years.

If I was in your shoes I would get a realtor's license.

Our attitude with interns is that it is our marketing opportunity to get them after graduation. Intern status gives time and a half overtime, but no benefits and 30-35% pay cut relative to a entry level full-time employee. The full time employees have exempt status and only get straight-time overtime.

BUT, there are cases where interns should not be paid. We have taken people on as a favor to friends, so their value is MUCH lower, and their pay needs to be as well. You can't pay someone less than minimum wage though, so where is the balance?

The internal video can handle (3) 4k displays. Sure, someone might want six... but Apple is providing pretty high-end graphics at least relative to my needs and everything short of a NOC that for some reason must have all displays driven from a single tube.

Sadly, the only thing I can pick on is how you integrate accessories with it. Do you go with a round RAID array that is 12" diameter, 3" high, and has 16 or (32) 2.5" drive bays around a central core just so you can have the little bugger actually look like a Cray? Do you create a speaking digital assistant with a little blower-man on the top? Can you put it on its side, pair it with a second unit, and use it as a base for your monitor like those advertisement trucks? The possibilities really are endless!

Some applications might be a stretch for the new Pro, and some might not look so cool with conventional accessories. There are other options they might have been able to add on to ease the transition, but at least the message is clear: you have Thunderbolt, USB3, and dual copper Ethernet. That is it, have at it, or don't.

But their only moral standing is their support of the monarchy. Without that, all they have is guns. It works either way, but the latter gives cause for their power to be challenged.

It is more in the military's interests to promote the king than the king himself. The military wants to marginalized democratic (read money) influence in national politics. The king isn't that long for this earth...

It gives you an avenue for side loading data among other things.

Do you not think that Microsoft is in nearly the same position as Oracle?! C# might have a number of short-term benefits, but you will end up in the same spot sooner than later.

The building is effectively a pre-cast bridge standing on end, presumably with post-tensioning strands locking all the blocks together and to the foundation. Three months from breaking ground to occupancy would be a bit hard for me to believe, but three months to topping out I can almost believe. You wouldn't be able to tension the first vertical strands until about 35 days into construction, best-case, but I imagine they would be stacked to about 20% height by then-- that would seem to be your highest risk period.

More power to them if they pull it off. The logistics would be amazing to see.

No, it is a function of the battery chemistry. You have LiCoO2, LiMn2O4, LiFePO4, and others, each with different charge voltages. A good read: http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/types_of_lithium_ion

...everything except that Zip Drive I saved it on.

You can get i2c digital temperature sensors which lets you put a whole mess on a single bus. But... if you can put 64 of them on an 8' pole and run it around on a Roomba, you can create a 3D temperature map. You can even get all crazy and have 3D grid of sensors on the Roomba and review the impact of air disruption as you move around!