Without Jobs's ambition, constant prodding and the talents that he rapidly developed – high design standards, the ability to make deals and, soon, great marketing skills – Wozniak might well have spent a quiet life designing hardware at HP. Woz could design computers, but Jobs could exploit markets.
The EDC hopes that Osborne's £312m investment will help persuade housebuilders to speed up development and allow it to insist on high design standards, which will produce a new town to rank alongside successful predecessors such as Milton Keynes and Letchworth.
It promotes mixed use, mixed housing types, pedestrian-oriented streets, and high design standards.
The assessment results show that the global quality of the rock engineering works in rocks can be rated as very good and that the rock excavation and stabilization measures can basically meet the high design standards and requirements of the permanent shiplock.
Mr. Townsend listed a range of other obstacles, including a lack of local contractor capacity, poor materials, limited skilled labour and bad weather, coupled with high design standards for seismic resistance.
but because drivers of all ages break speed limits on motorways (higher design standards, less police presence).
The transmission network, the part of the grid that moves power across state lines and has been implicated before in outages like the blackout of 2003, appears not to have been seriously tested by the storm because of its higher design standards.
It adds sprinkler requirements for smaller buildings, raises standards for smoke detectors, strengthens safety regulations for high-rise residential buildings and provides for rebates on permit fees if buildings meet higher environmental design standards and undertake more environmentally friendly practices.
Their high design and ethical standards have attracted high-profile product collaborations with designers such as Vivienne Westwood, Jean Paul Gaultier, Alexandre Herchcovitch and Jason Wu.
Outsourcing, he said, would also make it difficult to ensure high design and craftsmanship standards.
