Those currently in the inventory are either at or approaching the end of their design life.
"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.
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.
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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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.
He had been able to design his own life and he built around it the ideal version of the university interesting people, great books, global travel and a devil-take-the-hindmost attitude.
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.
The Oscar for Best Production Design will go to Life of Pi or Les Miserables.
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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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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.
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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The three innovative speakers provide room-filling high-fidelity audio in a stunning, sleek design that delivers unprecedented battery life.
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More importantly, the chipset could be miserly enough to let Apple keep its thin design while mustering reasonable battery life.
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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Called BMW Guggenheim Lab, the partnership is a six-year-long program designed to help architects, engineers, artists and scientists design new models for urban life worldwide.
Dr Simon Ofield-Kerr, Vice Chancellor, said Sir Terence had "single-handedly changed this country's understanding of design and has changed modern life through his products, shops and restaurants".
As office buildings from Singapore to Shanghai to Sao Paulo to London become sleekworthy billboards of Design progress, leaders understand that better Design not only helps make life better, but it is an influence that attracts commerce, attracts talent, and attracts value.
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.
As our low mimetic cultural objects saturate global consciousness, can we also reckon a high-zone balancing act that executes Design theory on the concourses of daily life?
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