In recent years both the continent's leading technology conferences, LeWeb in Paris and Digital, Life, Design in Munich, have become networking fests every bit as animated as their American equivalents.
The day I got my personal computer, my life as a design engineer was forever changed.
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"They have already had two extensions - it is well past its design life, " he said.
The average age of a transformer is 42 years, despite a design life of only 40.
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Hard drives, which themselves are being replaced by even more robust solid state drives, have a design life of five years.
This was based on an actual recent day in the life of Twitter design researcher Mark Trammell, who worked on the video.
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Around half of fixed platforms in the UK sector of the North Sea have exceeded their original design life, which was often 25 years.
Dorset County Council said a 6.5-mile stretch of the A338 Bournemouth Spur Road "has reached the end of its design life" and needs "significant" repairs.
Ohio subs began joining the fleet in 1981, so if Navy planners had stuck with their original 30-year design life, the first ship in the class would be retiring this year.
They have long since outlived their design life and for at least 18 years none of them has been tested in an operationally realistic way (that is, with an underground nuclear detonation).
"We are very pleased that the boxes have been found, and have lasted almost two years down at 12, 800 feet, which is well beyond the design life that they were established for, " John Bolton, from flight data recorder manufacturer Honeywell, told CNN at the Paris Air Show.
If the Fashion Bill is enacted into law, designers would be well-advised to continue pursuing the foregoing copyright and trademark registrations, but would have to reconsider pursuing design patents based on cost considerations and whether the useful life of each relevant design is expected to last more than the three years of copyright protection provided by the Fashion Bill.
Maintaining the important Indian pedigree of the collection, the rough diamonds were cut and polished by master craftsmen in Indian cutting and polishing factories, while the design was brought to life by Indian jewelry manufacturer Uni-Design Jewellery Private Ltd. of Mumbai.
Meanwhile, the mainstay of our deterrent, the submarine-based W-76, built thirty years ago as I mentioned, is twice beyond its design-life.
Allow them to design their life and job function to accommodate.
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Ultrabooks are defined by Intel as being notebooks that are very thin, have long battery life, sport elegant design, boot up quickly, and feature advanced security.
It seemed like a good idea -- after all the Genesis had a huge library of titles just sitting around countless livingrooms -- but poor battery life and a somewhat bulky design helped to do it in.
The Oscar for Best Production Design will go to Life of Pi or Les Miserables.
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The time in Rome, he said, changed his life and informed his view of design and architecture.
In addition to keeping things neat, the design helps preserve the life of the charger, by reducing the stress on the charger cord.
It boasts a sturdy, visually pleasing design and decent battery life.
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Tax rebates are one way governments might be able to break the cycle that leaves us with too many jobs having too poor design for work-life balance.
It does have a tasteful, understated design and decent battery life -- we'll say that much -- but in our testing we've been pretty underwhelmed by the jumpy trackpad.
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Samsung's Galaxy Note II continues to expand the smartphone category created by the Galaxy Note with improved battery life, a thinner and narrower design and enhancements to the S Pen.
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Watson, says author and industrial designer Gordon Bruce, got the idea from Eliot Noyes--an unsung genius who, before he died in 1977, revolutionized the role design played in corporate life.
Carmelo Scuderi, an engineer that worked on various defense projects for Raytheon and others during his life, came up with the design, which modifies a concept other inventors have been tinkering with since 1914.
The three innovative speakers provide room-filling high-fidelity audio in a stunning, sleek design that delivers unprecedented battery life.
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Theoretically, mechanical coolers could have given Herschel more life, but engineers considered such a design to be too risky.
Just don't expect longer battery life in exchange for a less svelte design.
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