Spend minutes now to save hours later. - During happy hour last Friday I spent some time listening to one of my colleagues confess her utter distaste for the Windows 7 Start menu.
In blind people all this brain power would go to waste, but somehow an unsighted person's brain rewires itself to connect auditory regions of the brain to the visual cortex.
Float glass is sold by the square metre, and at the final stage computers translate customer requirements into patterns of cuts designed to minimise waste.
The attacks use the electronic equivalent of ringing the site's doorbell and running away: the targeted site's server wastes its resources answering the call.
In it, we see ample proof that people are willing to cut off their nose to spite their face, often expending scarce resources to punish those who have affronted them.
When we prevent physical waste, increase energy efficiency or improve resource productivity, we save money, improve profitability and enhance competitiveness.