When Jamie Talbot's in-laws were in town recently and the family had trouble getting a taxi to take them to dinner, the software engineer pulled out his phone and summoned a town car.
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Imagine in the future, your phone not only receiving a firmware update for its software, but also its circuits, because an electrical engineer figured out a more efficient way let a component perform its task!
That means a talented early-30s engineer can easily out-earn a laggard several years his senior -- sacrilege under seniority pay plans.
The young man, a combat engineer who ferrets out and detonates land mines and roadside bombs, originally thought his duty would last nine months, but his tour has been extended to more than a year, his mother, Debra, said.
In a very uncomfortable way, Sandy points out the dangers of our devotion to economic efficiency: when you engineer your economy to cut out waste, you design with lowest costs in mind, and redundancy is eliminated.
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How did the EPA with its tiny budget out-engineer the world's carmakers?
The venture was so successful that he dropped out from engineer school and moved to Luxembourg to be 100% dedicated to the startup.
For those for whom that solution does not work, an engineer will be sent out to see if they need to change their cabling or aerial.
Thuan Phan, who spends about half the year as a sales engineer, points out that the advantage in space and cost goes to small earphones that block noise by sealing off the ear canal.
Drawing on my background in data analysis, I set out to reverse engineer my profile.
"I'm not sure that the government can re-engineer itself from the inside out, " he said.
The group was A-Bing different cables, and unbeknownst to them, the engineer running the test swapped out a set of cables for coat hangers with soldered-on speaker connections.
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The phone in question was a prototype of the iPhone 4G, which had not yet been released, and the guy was a software engineer at Apple who was out celebrating his twenty-seventh birthday.
It could also help the social networking giant to get people to use Facebook messaging more often, instead of sending messages through text and email, as pointed out by software engineer Aaron Cois on Twitter.
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Fyodorov played a long welcoming note on his horn to signal that the section was ready for the train to enter, and respectfully held his lantern out toward the engineer, his unknown friend, the only person who was aware of him at that moment, and who would be pleased that all was as it should be.
She spent her days in the lab, trying to figure out how to genetically engineer plants.
One of the properties was a valuable office building out of which the Engineer ran his business.
And UC Davis researchers figured out a way to engineer blue-green algae to make fuel from sunlight.
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As for his problems at home, Assad imprisons any Syrian engineer with the temerity to point out that by exporting cotton Syria is effectively exporting water.
He said the company was also trying to find out why when an engineer returned on 18 December to install a new line in the flat, the post office connection was not restored.
In the world of agriculture, as with popular medicine, the theory is to treat the symptom (in this case insect invasions) and to hope that by the time fix becomes ineffective we have something else figured out to spray, engineer or swallow to re-bandaid the problem.
Green, who trained as a nuclear engineer at UC-Berkeley, started out doing fractal math to model ecological risk across huge biological systems such as the rainforest.
Given that even a not very good dictator is a bad thing, should America and France, which took the lead in squeezing Syria's army out of Lebanon, now engineer the downfall of the regime itself?
As an engineer, I regularly travel to sort out post-harvest problems and I am convinced that there is little benefit to be gained from merely increasing farm production without making considerable improvements to post-harvest systems and facilities.
There are big risks: Unlike real estate, technology can walk out the door in a software engineer's head.
Apple this week put out a call for a test engineer for iPhone hardware, Neil Hughes at Apple Insider writes.
Singleton (1916-99), the brilliant electrical engineer and cofounder of Teledyne, who reached out to Benioff after using some of his Apple code to create a chess game.
Barra's appointment in February raised eyebrows around GM, in part because she wasn't a vehicle engineer and in part because she was plucked out of human resources.
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