The trucking company probably also doesn't want to have to deal with the extra mess of you trying to give chase and get shot for the trouble, or trying to shoot them, and accidentally hitting something, or someone unrelated.
Losing the cargo to robbery is bad, but is preferable to losing a driver. Insurance will cover theft, anyway.
Same that they would if a large boulder the size of a small boulder fell off some place and damaged the trailer.
You also have the benefit that, since it's a single memory pool, it can be used for other things, and allocated dynamically.
Where in a conventional machine, VRAM is exclusively for the GPU to use, and RAM is generally for the system. The capacities are usually fixed (I think it's possible to offload GPU memory into system memory for some uses, but that's about it, and your performance usually falls off).
Downside is that because it's a shared memory pool, everything uses it, so you lose some of the actual capacity for things like your OS.
Weigh bridge that's actually a trapdoor. You go inside to check the weight, and your lorry's gone, never to be seen again.
It's also a weird place for anti-spam, to have it be client side. That should be done on the server, rather than the various clients handling it.
Programming seems like a uniquely awful use case for this.
Saying "function open bracket close bracket open brace carriage return tab print open bracket quote hello quote close bracket semicolon carriage return space space space space print open bracket quote world quote close bracket semicolon carriage return close brace carriage return" seems much more cumbersome than just pressing the buttons and typing it manually.
Interesting. I had no idea genetic damage was linked to Alzheimer's disease. Thought it was chance/inherent genetics, a bit like cancer is.
At least in this case, yes. They'd just not get them, since they'd want something they can already easily process, and the source for the quote is a bookseller, who isn't likely to sell something like that to begin with.
An old book that might disintegrate and damage the scanner and hold things up would be undesirable, compared to either a new one, or a reprint of an old one.
It's worth pointing out that this is standard practice when digitising books in most places, if they're not irreplaceable. Mass-produced books would fall under that category.
Turning the page and photographing what's there is really only done for some books, which you can't afford to destroy.
Part of the report is also a contingency for when they need to find alternative income.
They're hardly abandoning all Firefox development and dumping it into this.
Being a satellite link, it's also susceptible to weather (though that said, my old DSL line wasn't any different). You probably won't want your network connection rendered unusable because of a storm, or large cloud/smoke cover.
There's a horror in having to haggle for the price of your healthcare whilst in the hospital.
That's the standard practice for speeches, where you just power through any mistakes you make while speaking and keep going.
Stopping, or going back to correct the mistake would interrupt the speech more than the mistake did.