Word: lags
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...York Times published an Editor’s Note admitting that a photograph it ran the month before had in fact been posed by its photographer, Edward Keating. Despite a more than 30-day lag between the publication of the photo and its correction, the issue is apparently closed at last...
...from the black market may be Provigil’s great advantage. Many people who take Provigil now do so not to treat narcolepsy (the only condition for which the drug has been approved) but for other, “off-label” conditions such as simple jet-lag. Doctors, not dealers, are currently the biggest source of this drug...
Frank sponsored a bill to legalize medicinal marijuana in the nine states that have individually approved its use and refers to the negative pot associations as a “cultural lag [that] the public has gotten past...
When it comes to e-mail, MSN's biggest flaws used to be speed and spam. In the new version, e-mail downloads much more quickly from the company's Hotmail server, although there is still a slight lag. When I tested MSN 8, I was pleasantly surprised that less than a third of the spam I received landed in my In box; the rest was automatically funneled to the junk mailbox. MSN 8 also provides automated virus checking and full-text search for messages in your In box. AOL 8's mail, on the other hand, is mostly playing...
...talked about what we did over the weekend. One cool feature is a button labeled DETAIL/MOTION that let us opt for a clearer picture that got refreshed less frequently or a more fluid one that got a lot more blurry. We both opted for detail but noticed a time lag between our movements and their appearance onscreen. We liked the picture-in-picture feature that let each of us see what we looked like in a small image in the corner of our own screen...