Finally, engineers seem more willing to pick up new languages than in the past.
"Consumers do not want to eat genetically engineered fish, and stores are starting to pick up on it," said Eric Hoffman, food and technology policy campaigner for Friends of the Earth, one of the 30 organizations that sent letters to retailers asking them to promise not to carry the salmon.
Uber's app is essentially a map with add-ons, so that it would want to pick up engineers — currently the hottest Silicon Valley commodity1 — isn't surprising.
Nortel Networks' nt acquisition of Toronto-based Architel Systems Corporation asyc for $395 million today is a bargain buy, allowing the vendor to pick up engineers and technology to exploit the $30 billion telecom software market.
During preparation for the 1965 Gemini flights, NASA sent two engineers to a watch store to pick up a few potential timepieces to be worn by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon.
But a final train, with just a conductor and an engineer aboard, was dispatched from Jersey City to pick up a dozen or so PATH workers still there.
A veteran Borland hand recalls how the guys from Redmond sent a company limo, with a Microsoft sign in the window, to pick up departing engineers.
Engineers monitoring the bridge would just need to pick up these radio waves to find out what was going on.
The ship stopped in New London, Connecticut, to pick up a replacement assistant engineer, leaving on July 3 , 1871
In the winter of 2008, Leah Busque, a software engineer in Boston, got tired of trudging through the snow to pick up dog food.
