Beyond the commercial and public utility of stuff in space, militaries and intelligence agencies rely heavily on stuff in space for reconnaissance, mapping, and intelligence, keeping track of forces in the field, planning missions and logistics, eavesdropping on communications, and watching for missile launches and nuclear detonations.
Controversial content might get people to share more, whereas utility content, stuff that's helpful, will have a different impact.
I've worked for Human Rights Watch in Chad covering massacre sites, or, you know, in Liberia, and there is a utility to stuff.
The tough thing about designing computer utility software (the stuff that optimizes, corrects errors, does file recovery, etc). is that the people who buy it expect high performance from their PC otherwise, they wouldn't be buying the software.
There are two types of water investments: water utilities, which provide the stuff, and water industrials, which service the utilities with engineering, construction, pumps, pipes and filters.
"They need to do more painful things that require more planning, more sensitive political stuff like utility price reforms – electricity and gasoline – and public-sector reforms, wages and bonuses.
GE, the world's largest energy-equipment supplier, is convinced that there's money to be made from technologies such as clean coal (see article).The more companies such as GE invest in green technology, the greater the chances that their customers, such as electricity utilities, will buy the stuff and thus cut their emissions.
Like all good fashion houses, extra effort went into the detailing, which produced innovative new features such as utility pockets and other cool stuff like "fingertip lighting for use on night side of the Earth".
"They're betting that the government is going to push this stuff and that utilities will either want it or be forced to buy it through regulation".
We don't usually write about software here, and definitely nothing as dry as backup utilities, but screw it, this stuff is good and it deserves to be mentioned.
