The computers chosen (as well as other props) are either carefully picked by the art director and props to fit the character and scene, or are simply just whatever they happen to have on hand and used because it was cheeper than buying something just for the project.
"Cheaper" or product placement are the #1 reasons for recognizable tech appearing in TV and movies. Very rarely does the writer or director really care about how it fits with the character.
This is why characters use iPhones far more than any other cell phone, despite the fact that the iPhone has a much smaller market percentage than non-Apple phones. The reality is that around 80% of people use non-Apple phones, which means that for any 5 random phones seen on TV, only one should be an iPhone, yet we all know that it isn't the case. It's also the reason that everybody on TV is now using Microsoft Surface on their tablets.
So how does that explain Microsoft ending support for XP x64 at the same time as for the 32-bit version?
One of the reasons I haven't upgraded to Windows 7 on my primary desktop is because I run XP x64, so one of the features of WIndows 7 that has really caught on with the masses isn't really a big deal for me.
For example, the Intel SSDs we use are rated to withstand 100% of the drive's capacity in writes every 24 hours for many years on end. A consumer drive couldn't do that for more than a few weeks, perhaps a month or two.
Every drive tested here has handled over 1000x capacity of writes, which is around 3 years at your benchmark of 100% capacity per day. Every one of those drives is a consumer drive. Some are showing signs of eventually failing, but none has lost one byte of data.
In real-world usage, that means consumer SSDs are easily good for 10 years before write endurance becomes a problem.
Here in Australia, 92 is the standard fuel and 97 is the premium. I can't imagine putting 87 in my car...
Australia displays the "Research Octane Number" on the pumps, while the US diplays the "Anti-Knock Index", which is:
((Research Octane Number) + (Motor Octane Number)) / 2
Since MON is often 8-10 points lower for the same fuel, this results in 4-5 points lower on the pump display in the US.
So, then either, you don't go back to your house more frequently than once every few weeks, or you can't physically carry one or two books at a time? Either situations is sad, and I'm sorry for you.
I regularly read 3-4 books if I'm on vacation for a week, especially if I am not the driver of the vehicle that gets me to my destination. It's a pain to pack that many in my luggage, and to be limited to just those books. What if a book turns out to be really bad and I move on to the next one? It doesn't happen often, but about 1% of books I start I quit because they just suck.
With an eReader, I can have 20-30 books to choose from (yeah, they can store thousands, but I agree that having that many isn't much better than having a couple dozen) instead of being limited to what I brought with me.
And, yeah, I'm starting to really have space issues. I've only got about 1000 books, but the vast majority are hardcover (about 85%) and take up a lot of space. I'm looking forward to taking my non-collectible books someplace I can trade them in for ones I haven't read. Even at 5:1, I could easily get 100 new books that way.
Ultimately, I think we'll see eBooks settle down to the same price as "real" books, before shipping.
eBooks have settled down to that price, and often much cheaper, but it's still far too high.
First, with effectively zero cost for reproduction, every bit of the price should end up in the hands of people who did real work on the book (mostly the authors, with some for editors and middleman sales). If that happens, then a $4.00 price should be more than enough, as even best-selling authors don't get more than about $2/book sold. And yet, we still have many eBooks selling for $12. Sure, that's a deal compared to a new hardcover at $18-20, but...
...you can get a used copy of the book for $5 including shipping, which is just fine if all you want to do is read the book. If you're a collector, then you can expect to pay premium prices for mint condition hardcover copies.
A cheap electric car that performs well will sell like crazy.
Define "cheap". I bought my Nissan LEAF because, compared to every other new hybrid or ICE-only vehicle I looked at, it was the cheapest option.
No more expensive than an a gasoline-powered car of similar ability.
In the case of the LEAF, a good comp would be the Nissan Versa Note, which is $8000 cheaper (MSRP). At 35mpg for the Versa and with the silly assumption that the cost for charging the LEAF is $0, you still end up with 70,000 miles in the Versa before you hit the price of the LEAF.
And, neither one of these cars is useful to me, as I need room for more than two adults (yes, I know that both technically have 5 seats, but most of the people I haul aren't friendly enough to sit with their hands in their neighbor's lap) and their cargo. Once you can get a fully-electric vehicle of the same size as a Camry, Accord, or Sentra, then people might be more interested. Unfortunately, by that time, there will be hybrids or fully-gasoline versions of those same sized cars that will still be a better overall deal.
No, the real reason the whole car buying experience is horrific is that there is no competition, by law. Car dealerships have indefinite, irrevocable monopolies in the regions they cover due to historical events that occurred 90 years ago.
The only "law" that concerns this is contract law.
The manufacturer has a contract with each dealership not to grant another dealership within X miles the right to sell that brand of car. But X is highly variable, as I can find at least 3 dealerships for each of the major brands within a 25-mile drive, which isn't very far at all to go if you can save even 1% on the price of a new car.
Scion, Toyota's badge aimed at young urban crowd, also has no haggle pricing.
There is no such thing as "no haggle pricing"...everything is negotiable.
You can get better than the listed price just by asking in places like Sears, Best Buy, restaurants, etc. You can do this even in places like WalMart, if you can go high enough up the managerial chain. I know, because I have done this personally.
Any car dealer that claims to be "no haggle" is lying, as there were many people who negotiated better than the marked price on Saturn vehicles.
Honestly, if you want enterprise drives buy enterprise drives. These folks don't (too cheap on the initial cost so they'd rather pay on the backend?), so they get higher failure rates than "normal" folks do for their drives.
It might make good economical sense to buy "consumer" drives, if the price difference is enough.
Since they are using RAID to keep uptime and backups to prevent data loss, and don't need ultra-fast storage, the comparison would be between consumer and the "cheap" enterprise drives. Although you can now get drives the like WD Red for about a 5% premium over the WD Green, those are really slow drives. The WD Black vs. the WD RE line sees more like a 35% price difference with the same 5-year warranty.
That means you could buy 4 consumer drives for the price of 3 "Enterprise" drives, and not significantly change TCO (unless you really spend a lot more time doing RMA on the consumer drives).
lcd displays last a long time on a watch battery. the fact that they didn't use one indicates samsung didn't really think this whole wrist-watch thing out.
An eInk display on a watch would work really well if you didn't care about displaying seconds. I think the general use case for a watch that could be tied to a phone would allow eInk to do a pretty good job, and need charging no more often than once a week, even for a hard-core user. For a more casual user, it might be a monthly charge cycle.
That model began to crumble around the late 1980s and the new norm is job hopping (where your NEW insurance company could weasel out of pre-existing conditions)
Although insurance companies are very greedy, and will obviously try to do many things to make more money, your statement is generally incorrect as far as group health insurance is concerned.
There have never been any checks for pre-existing conditions any time I have switched jobs.
So... you think that 6mbit MPEG-4, which is what the cable company here is using (so they can fit 3 HD streams in a single QAM channel) is equivalent picture quality to 18mbit MPEG-2?
No, but H.264 at 6Mbps is pretty close to 10Mbps MPEG-2, which isn't an uncommon bit rate for the primary sub-channel on many US OTA broadcasts. I don't know whether your cable provider uses H.263 or H.264, but H.264 is significantly better at the same bitrate, especially using a real-time encoder.
It does depend a lot on the encoder, though. I don't find DirecTVs HD to be too objectionable at around those same bitrates (H.264). It's definitely not Blu-Ray quality, but it's not too bad. I actually find CBS football to be the worst for MPEG artifacts, even on OTA. Whenever they do the transition from a replay back to live, that "zoom/spin" looks terrible.
hmm...i seemed to have missed where it says Raytheon (or any other security-interested contractor) is expecting to hire trained, degreed IT security consultants for "$12/hour".
oh...yeah...because it doesn't and they don't.
No, but they might be starting at $15-18/hour for a fresh out of college, no real world experience, no clearance (but clearance-eligible) sort of person. And, you agree to stay at that rate for 3-5 years to pay back the company for getting you a clearance. In addition, those first jobs are almost always insanely boring and tedious, where all you do is run canned scans and create reports.
I know somebody exactly like this (although not with Raytheon, but another large defense contractor), and he bolted just as soon as he could without having to forfeit anything for the clearance cost. He went from that $15-18/hour range that I quoted to almost double that, and his old company didn't come close to matching when he gave them a chance.
You CAN buy 10 Mbps dedicated. It costs about $500 / month.
Sorry you don't have FiOS available to you, since you can get 35-50Mbps (depending on location) dedicated from Verizon for $100/month (business service...residential is cheaper).
The standard model for residential is that you load a page, using the bandwidth for one second, then your neighbor uses it for a second or two, etc.
The only difference between FiOS residential and business is that residential TOS forbids servers and they can terminate you for it...they won't unless you are a complete jackass. Otherwise, you get the same dedicated bandwidth.
If this is the case, why can ford do it? I can download sync updates and install them with flash myself. I don't need to go to the dealership and my iPhone does work over bluetooth with sync. (iOS 7 iPhone 5)
Granted, I have a 2014 model year car too.
I have a 2011 model and my Android works fine with Sync. I don't play media much using Bluetooth because I plugged in a thumb drive with all my music, but I have tested it and it works great.
The only part that doesn't work is the display of text messages, and that's not a problem with Sync, but with my phone's version of Bluetooth...all the features on my wife's phone work fine in my car.
Actually, it appears that rules were different for just about everybody involved in this.
Furloughed workers, non-furloughed workers, and government contractors all should have at least the same set of rules in each category, but based on the people I've talked to, not only are the rules completely different for each category (which does make some sense), but some workers who seem to be in the same category have some distinction which is unknown to the workers themselves, but somebody seems to know, as different rules have been given.
It seems to have to do with exactly which "pot" of money various things come out of, but that is usually something that individual workers don't regularly know, and even their managers didn't know until this happened.
Better still, learn about the Intel Phi and let the Intel compiler do the parallelization, all without having to learn a different architecture and API.
That mix pretty much matches what we use where I work.
We have a 1200-core HPC cluster, used mostly for biomedical applications (gene sequencing, simulations, etc.), so it's not huge by any means, but it isn't tiny either. Our latest toys are 32-core boxes with 1.5TB of RAM.
This is not true, as employees can choose to use paid vacation during the furlough. This is allowed because the funds for that vacation time have already been allocated. They cannot use sick leave or "comp time" (if available). In the same way, most other benefits (health insurance, flexible spending funds, etc.) are still available to workers on furlough. The exception to this is that you can't start using a benefit that you are not previously using if it requires that you be working at the time (like workers comp, disability, etc.). If you are already on such a benefit, then it continues during the furlough.
Not a a vacation, in a strict sense, no. But if they get back pay, for days they weren't working, it retroactively becomes a vacation.
There is likely a painful exception to this. People who chose to use paid vacation on their timesheet will get paid regardless of any action to grant back pay. But, if a such a bill is passed, it is likely (based on policy decisions from previous times where an unexpected extra holiday is added) that those that put "leave without pay" on their timesheet will have it converted to some special code where they get paid because of the bill, while those that chose "vacation" have to stick with that and use up vacation time to get paid.
Those that worked during the shutdown will get paid. Once the funds are authorized the back pay will start.
You are horribly mis-reading the link you posted.
Workers who are "essential" and work during the shutdown get paid as normal, as there are funds authorized to pay them. The link you posted said that there is a proposed bill to authorize paying back-pay to federal workers who aren't essential and are not working right now.
I understand that people need money, but I am completely against this bill, as it basically means that federal workers get a paid vacation while congress fights. We want federal workers to be afraid of losing money so they will lobby their representatives to get this fixed. Also, all the contractors (like me) who get furloughed because of this will not be included in such a bill, and in addition to affecting me personally, such a bill also would just be a PR stunt, as the vast majority of funds are paid to contractors, not federal workers. So, such a bill wouldn't cost the government much money, but it would possibly make people less likely to vote the idiots (from both parties) out of office next year.
If a website needs a security update for a zero-day exploit, or gets hacked or vandalized during the furlough, the IT guys are not allowed to do anything about it because they are on furlough.
If where I work is any indication, IT seems to be keeping the highest percentage of personnel as "essential".
Although local end-user support is cut to the bone (since most users are gone), the networking and server teams are mostly intact, as the outward-facing servers are used by many people who aren't subject to the shutdown.
Slashdot Mirror
The computers chosen (as well as other props) are either carefully picked by the art director and props to fit the character and scene, or are simply just whatever they happen to have on hand and used because it was cheeper than buying something just for the project.
"Cheaper" or product placement are the #1 reasons for recognizable tech appearing in TV and movies. Very rarely does the writer or director really care about how it fits with the character.
This is why characters use iPhones far more than any other cell phone, despite the fact that the iPhone has a much smaller market percentage than non-Apple phones. The reality is that around 80% of people use non-Apple phones, which means that for any 5 random phones seen on TV, only one should be an iPhone, yet we all know that it isn't the case. It's also the reason that everybody on TV is now using Microsoft Surface on their tablets.
One problem with supporting XP, is the old 32 bit thing. Some of the security features available on 64 bit systems just don't work so well on 32 bit processors, or with 32 bit operating systems. http://www.howtogeek.com/165535/why-the-64-bit-version-of-windows-is-more-secure/
So how does that explain Microsoft ending support for XP x64 at the same time as for the 32-bit version?
One of the reasons I haven't upgraded to Windows 7 on my primary desktop is because I run XP x64, so one of the features of WIndows 7 that has really caught on with the masses isn't really a big deal for me.
For example, the Intel SSDs we use are rated to withstand 100% of the drive's capacity in writes every 24 hours for many years on end. A consumer drive couldn't do that for more than a few weeks, perhaps a month or two.
Every drive tested here has handled over 1000x capacity of writes, which is around 3 years at your benchmark of 100% capacity per day. Every one of those drives is a consumer drive. Some are showing signs of eventually failing, but none has lost one byte of data.
In real-world usage, that means consumer SSDs are easily good for 10 years before write endurance becomes a problem.
Here in Australia, 92 is the standard fuel and 97 is the premium. I can't imagine putting 87 in my car...
Australia displays the "Research Octane Number" on the pumps, while the US diplays the "Anti-Knock Index", which is:
((Research Octane Number) + (Motor Octane Number)) / 2
Since MON is often 8-10 points lower for the same fuel, this results in 4-5 points lower on the pump display in the US.
The image I get in my head is a miniature C-3P0 inside the connector talking very quickly.
Don't you mean "C-3P0 talking slightly slower than he normally does"?
After all, even USB 3.1 is only 10Gbps.
So, then either, you don't go back to your house more frequently than once every few weeks, or you can't physically carry one or two books at a time? Either situations is sad, and I'm sorry for you.
I regularly read 3-4 books if I'm on vacation for a week, especially if I am not the driver of the vehicle that gets me to my destination. It's a pain to pack that many in my luggage, and to be limited to just those books. What if a book turns out to be really bad and I move on to the next one? It doesn't happen often, but about 1% of books I start I quit because they just suck.
With an eReader, I can have 20-30 books to choose from (yeah, they can store thousands, but I agree that having that many isn't much better than having a couple dozen) instead of being limited to what I brought with me.
And, yeah, I'm starting to really have space issues. I've only got about 1000 books, but the vast majority are hardcover (about 85%) and take up a lot of space. I'm looking forward to taking my non-collectible books someplace I can trade them in for ones I haven't read. Even at 5:1, I could easily get 100 new books that way.
Ultimately, I think we'll see eBooks settle down to the same price as "real" books, before shipping.
eBooks have settled down to that price, and often much cheaper, but it's still far too high.
First, with effectively zero cost for reproduction, every bit of the price should end up in the hands of people who did real work on the book (mostly the authors, with some for editors and middleman sales). If that happens, then a $4.00 price should be more than enough, as even best-selling authors don't get more than about $2/book sold. And yet, we still have many eBooks selling for $12. Sure, that's a deal compared to a new hardcover at $18-20, but...
...you can get a used copy of the book for $5 including shipping, which is just fine if all you want to do is read the book. If you're a collector, then you can expect to pay premium prices for mint condition hardcover copies.
A cheap electric car that performs well will sell like crazy.
Define "cheap". I bought my Nissan LEAF because, compared to every other new hybrid or ICE-only vehicle I looked at, it was the cheapest option.
No more expensive than an a gasoline-powered car of similar ability.
In the case of the LEAF, a good comp would be the Nissan Versa Note, which is $8000 cheaper (MSRP). At 35mpg for the Versa and with the silly assumption that the cost for charging the LEAF is $0, you still end up with 70,000 miles in the Versa before you hit the price of the LEAF.
And, neither one of these cars is useful to me, as I need room for more than two adults (yes, I know that both technically have 5 seats, but most of the people I haul aren't friendly enough to sit with their hands in their neighbor's lap) and their cargo. Once you can get a fully-electric vehicle of the same size as a Camry, Accord, or Sentra, then people might be more interested. Unfortunately, by that time, there will be hybrids or fully-gasoline versions of those same sized cars that will still be a better overall deal.
No, the real reason the whole car buying experience is horrific is that there is no competition, by law. Car dealerships have indefinite, irrevocable monopolies in the regions they cover due to historical events that occurred 90 years ago.
The only "law" that concerns this is contract law.
The manufacturer has a contract with each dealership not to grant another dealership within X miles the right to sell that brand of car. But X is highly variable, as I can find at least 3 dealerships for each of the major brands within a 25-mile drive, which isn't very far at all to go if you can save even 1% on the price of a new car.
Scion, Toyota's badge aimed at young urban crowd, also has no haggle pricing.
There is no such thing as "no haggle pricing"...everything is negotiable.
You can get better than the listed price just by asking in places like Sears, Best Buy, restaurants, etc. You can do this even in places like WalMart, if you can go high enough up the managerial chain. I know, because I have done this personally.
Any car dealer that claims to be "no haggle" is lying, as there were many people who negotiated better than the marked price on Saturn vehicles.
Honestly, if you want enterprise drives buy enterprise drives. These folks don't (too cheap on the initial cost so they'd rather pay on the backend?), so they get higher failure rates than "normal" folks do for their drives.
It might make good economical sense to buy "consumer" drives, if the price difference is enough.
Since they are using RAID to keep uptime and backups to prevent data loss, and don't need ultra-fast storage, the comparison would be between consumer and the "cheap" enterprise drives. Although you can now get drives the like WD Red for about a 5% premium over the WD Green, those are really slow drives. The WD Black vs. the WD RE line sees more like a 35% price difference with the same 5-year warranty.
That means you could buy 4 consumer drives for the price of 3 "Enterprise" drives, and not significantly change TCO (unless you really spend a lot more time doing RMA on the consumer drives).
The dark underbelly of hard drives is you get a single replacement, the replacement has a 90 day on it and that's it.
Every Western Digital replacement drive I have received has had the longer of either the remaining original warranty or one year.
These are all drive in their "Black" line, so that might make a difference.
lcd displays last a long time on a watch battery. the fact that they didn't use one indicates samsung didn't really think this whole wrist-watch thing out.
An eInk display on a watch would work really well if you didn't care about displaying seconds. I think the general use case for a watch that could be tied to a phone would allow eInk to do a pretty good job, and need charging no more often than once a week, even for a hard-core user. For a more casual user, it might be a monthly charge cycle.
That model began to crumble around the late 1980s and the new norm is job hopping (where your NEW insurance company could weasel out of pre-existing conditions)
Although insurance companies are very greedy, and will obviously try to do many things to make more money, your statement is generally incorrect as far as group health insurance is concerned.
There have never been any checks for pre-existing conditions any time I have switched jobs.
So... you think that 6mbit MPEG-4, which is what the cable company here is using (so they can fit 3 HD streams in a single QAM channel) is equivalent picture quality to 18mbit MPEG-2?
No, but H.264 at 6Mbps is pretty close to 10Mbps MPEG-2, which isn't an uncommon bit rate for the primary sub-channel on many US OTA broadcasts. I don't know whether your cable provider uses H.263 or H.264, but H.264 is significantly better at the same bitrate, especially using a real-time encoder.
It does depend a lot on the encoder, though. I don't find DirecTVs HD to be too objectionable at around those same bitrates (H.264). It's definitely not Blu-Ray quality, but it's not too bad. I actually find CBS football to be the worst for MPEG artifacts, even on OTA. Whenever they do the transition from a replay back to live, that "zoom/spin" looks terrible.
hmm...i seemed to have missed where it says Raytheon (or any other security-interested contractor) is expecting to hire trained, degreed IT security consultants for "$12/hour".
oh...yeah...because it doesn't and they don't.
No, but they might be starting at $15-18/hour for a fresh out of college, no real world experience, no clearance (but clearance-eligible) sort of person. And, you agree to stay at that rate for 3-5 years to pay back the company for getting you a clearance. In addition, those first jobs are almost always insanely boring and tedious, where all you do is run canned scans and create reports.
I know somebody exactly like this (although not with Raytheon, but another large defense contractor), and he bolted just as soon as he could without having to forfeit anything for the clearance cost. He went from that $15-18/hour range that I quoted to almost double that, and his old company didn't come close to matching when he gave them a chance.
You CAN buy 10 Mbps dedicated. It costs about $500 / month.
Sorry you don't have FiOS available to you, since you can get 35-50Mbps (depending on location) dedicated from Verizon for $100/month (business service...residential is cheaper).
The standard model for residential is that you load a page, using the bandwidth for one second, then your neighbor uses it for a second or two, etc.
The only difference between FiOS residential and business is that residential TOS forbids servers and they can terminate you for it...they won't unless you are a complete jackass. Otherwise, you get the same dedicated bandwidth.
Would you really be happier if no ISPs ever oversold their services and they sold you exactly how much you would get?
Yes, because then every provider would be like Verizon FiOS and Google fiber, where you can run at full bandwidth 24/7 and they just don't care.
If this is the case, why can ford do it? I can download sync updates and install them with flash myself. I don't need to go to the dealership and my iPhone does work over bluetooth with sync. (iOS 7 iPhone 5)
Granted, I have a 2014 model year car too.
I have a 2011 model and my Android works fine with Sync. I don't play media much using Bluetooth because I plugged in a thumb drive with all my music, but I have tested it and it works great.
The only part that doesn't work is the display of text messages, and that's not a problem with Sync, but with my phone's version of Bluetooth...all the features on my wife's phone work fine in my car.
Actually, it appears that rules were different for just about everybody involved in this.
Furloughed workers, non-furloughed workers, and government contractors all should have at least the same set of rules in each category, but based on the people I've talked to, not only are the rules completely different for each category (which does make some sense), but some workers who seem to be in the same category have some distinction which is unknown to the workers themselves, but somebody seems to know, as different rules have been given.
It seems to have to do with exactly which "pot" of money various things come out of, but that is usually something that individual workers don't regularly know, and even their managers didn't know until this happened.
Better still, learn about the Intel Phi and let the Intel compiler do the parallelization, all without having to learn a different architecture and API.
That mix pretty much matches what we use where I work.
We have a 1200-core HPC cluster, used mostly for biomedical applications (gene sequencing, simulations, etc.), so it's not huge by any means, but it isn't tiny either. Our latest toys are 32-core boxes with 1.5TB of RAM.
It's currently mandatory unpaid leave.
This is not true, as employees can choose to use paid vacation during the furlough. This is allowed because the funds for that vacation time have already been allocated. They cannot use sick leave or "comp time" (if available). In the same way, most other benefits (health insurance, flexible spending funds, etc.) are still available to workers on furlough. The exception to this is that you can't start using a benefit that you are not previously using if it requires that you be working at the time (like workers comp, disability, etc.). If you are already on such a benefit, then it continues during the furlough.
Not a a vacation, in a strict sense, no. But if they get back pay, for days they weren't working, it retroactively becomes a vacation.
There is likely a painful exception to this. People who chose to use paid vacation on their timesheet will get paid regardless of any action to grant back pay. But, if a such a bill is passed, it is likely (based on policy decisions from previous times where an unexpected extra holiday is added) that those that put "leave without pay" on their timesheet will have it converted to some special code where they get paid because of the bill, while those that chose "vacation" have to stick with that and use up vacation time to get paid.
Those that worked during the shutdown will get paid. Once the funds are authorized the back pay will start.
You are horribly mis-reading the link you posted.
Workers who are "essential" and work during the shutdown get paid as normal, as there are funds authorized to pay them. The link you posted said that there is a proposed bill to authorize paying back-pay to federal workers who aren't essential and are not working right now.
I understand that people need money, but I am completely against this bill, as it basically means that federal workers get a paid vacation while congress fights. We want federal workers to be afraid of losing money so they will lobby their representatives to get this fixed. Also, all the contractors (like me) who get furloughed because of this will not be included in such a bill, and in addition to affecting me personally, such a bill also would just be a PR stunt, as the vast majority of funds are paid to contractors, not federal workers. So, such a bill wouldn't cost the government much money, but it would possibly make people less likely to vote the idiots (from both parties) out of office next year.
If a website needs a security update for a zero-day exploit, or gets hacked or vandalized during the furlough, the IT guys are not allowed to do anything about it because they are on furlough.
If where I work is any indication, IT seems to be keeping the highest percentage of personnel as "essential".
Although local end-user support is cut to the bone (since most users are gone), the networking and server teams are mostly intact, as the outward-facing servers are used by many people who aren't subject to the shutdown.