At tuus, in the Sofa Hotel, the decor is hip men's club--dark wood, rounded leather banquettes (but with a leafy outdoor terrace for the warmer weather)--the patrons are local celebrities, businesspeople and ladies who lunch, and the menu modern Mediterranean, meaning everything from local squid with chard to delicately formed pumpkin ravioli.
Yet it is the love story that gives meaning to everything else.
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And because the whole system can store so much information, back-up copies of everything in it can be made internally in more than one brick, meaning that such a failure destroys no data.
Like everything in central Rome, it is a palimpsest, layers of writing and meaning on top of, or at least next to, others.
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Another variant of this is the straightjacket of path dependency, meaning that companies write up their strategy in such a way that everything fits into it that they were doing anyway.
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Another tidbit is the inclusion of a memory system that will "maintain a record its current state when it is undocked from a particular type of appliance, " meaning that when you return and re-dock your handheld, everything should resume without any hassle.
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The pay and benefits of military personnel stationed at these bases are exempted from sequestration, but just about everything else would be cut drastically during the last seven months of the fiscal year, meaning civilian defense workers would be furloughed, maintenance would be deferred, and dozens of other activities impacting local economies would be decremented.
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Almost everything stays at eye level or below, and there are conveyors in only one spot, meaning less machinery that might need attention (and less noise).
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