But now, with a Mercedes engine and another technical deal with Williams, they are entertaining loftier thoughts.
Some of their recommendations are technical, dealing with the specific causes of the credit crunch: the Basel Committee announced in April, for example, that it plans to levy higher capital charges on complex structured products and on credit assets held in banks' trading books.But other areas of regulatory debate are much more doctrinal.
A highly technical deal on a major security threat is, in this last punishing stretch, profoundly political.
Gregory Smith, vice president of technical deal solution management at T-Systems, has played a leading role in creating the company's core offering: a virtualized environment in which companies can describe applications, infrastructure, databases and then have them created, cloud-computing style, in a matter of hours.
It was technical; dealing with video analysis and artificial intelligence stuff.
"That was a technical deal with the uploading to the YouTube platform," said Kelvin Bass, a spokesman for Texas state Sen. Royce West (D-Dallas), whom he accompanied to the meeting.
"Over 85% of our economic resources are spent dealing with attacks – dealing with technical attacks, dealing with political attacks, dealing with legal attacks, not doing journalism," he said.
Western oil companies, shut out of Iraq's oil fields for decades under the government of Saddam Hussein, were willing to do the low-profit, technical service deals to get a foot in the door with the new government that was put in place after the American-led invasion in 2003.
This technical note deals with a priori estimation of efficiency of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) designs.
This technical note deals with the design of robust digital controllers using pole placement with sensitivity shaping by means of the use of digital notch (band-stop) filters.
