Once you understand those basic costs of outages, you next need to determine the acceptable total yearly cost of downtime a a "i."e. how much business or productivity can you afford to lose each year?

一旦您理解了这些问题的基本成本，下一步您需要确定的是每年可接受的故障成本——即每年您可能损失多少业务或生产量？

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E-readers do have a cost advantage.

电子书阅读器在价格上有优势。

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Even though hand-written mails takes more time and cost a little, they’re still more personal than E-mails.

虽然手写信更费时,还要交一点点邮费,它们比电子邮件还是私人亲和了许多啊.

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Buyers of e-books get a good deal: Traditional hardcover books often cost around twenty-five dollars.

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E-textbooks can cost half the price of a new print textbook.

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Abandonment emails provide a cost effective solution to a huge e-commerce problem.

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Higher imports are a manifestation that another country has the ability to produce goods we desire at a competitive advantage, i.e. a lower cost.

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Why would a potential dulling of empathy necessarily be a cost, i.e. something valuable which is lost?

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