Companies could prepare only by buying vast Numbers of extra servers that would be idle most of the time, a big waste of money.

企业只能靠购买大量的多余的服务器来做准备，而这些服务器在大多数时候都会闲着，这是一笔巨大的浪费。

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By preloading components you can take advantage of the time the browser is idle and request components (like images, styles and scripts) you'll need in the future.

通过预压组件，您可以利用的浏览器处于空闲状态的时间，并请求组件(如图像、样式和脚本)，您将在未来需要。

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If the days go too smoothly and there is too much time for idle chatter (or you are surrounded by people with too much time for idle chatter) - leave.

如果日子过的太顺利，你有太多的闲聊的时间(或者你周围的一群热有太多的闲聊时间)——离开。

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Most of the Cisco equipment you buy sits idle quite a bit of the time: by virtualizing it, you can improve performance and lower your equipment costs at the same time.

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At the same time they disdain the idle rich produced by old wealth, such as the European aristocracy and the drifting trust-fund kids descended from the East Coast tycoons of the early 20th century.

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For example, Southwest Airlines cut the amount of idle time for its planes at the gate by about 50%, which produced a huge fuel savings and dramatically increased plane utilization (one of the highest cost drivers in the airline industry), without negatively impacting service quality.

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