Word: overloaders
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...often the news just keeps us artificially awake, overstimulated. Information overload produces attention deficit disorder. Heraclitus said you cannot step into the same river twice - each instant, it becomes a different river. For some time, we have been living in the rapids. Just as Edmund Wilson's libido demanded a lifelong drill of undiscriminating erections (a sexual enactment of J. P. Morgan 's dictum: markets go up, markets go down), so the news demands an exhausting procession of moral arousals and judgments - outrage and sympathy, Diana and John, Bill and Monica. We are all Oprah...
There is also something comforting about the one-ring, intimate setting of the BAC, where even the worse seats are still within 50 ft. of the action. Without driving the audience into sensory overload, the BAC manages to charm through its time-tested approach to circus performance, and it will be interesting to see how the trendier big tops will fare once their novelty disappears. The fact that there is no effort to either glorify or mollify the circus’s tackiness makes the BAC a perfectly dignified little show...
...certain about his future, Hadfield does plan to go to university. But first he wants to spend a year working abroad, perhaps on a computer literacy project in India or at the U.S.-based Internet authority icann. Oh, the options! Sometimes, Hadfield says, the choices give him "brain overload." If finding a new path is too much, there's always the old. At this rate, he could squeeze in a dozen more start-ups before he hits retirement...
...students do not miss, such as outsiders' Napster downloads from student computers. If students actively decide to share their files and leave the firewall, the move will not accomplish much. With the price of bandwidth dropping rapidly, HASCS should increase network bandwidth so that there are fewer incidences of overload. Outages will only become more common if network capacity does not grow with increasing demand...
...doesn't have the potential in its current form to overload the system," he said. "It hasn't impacted the performance of the mail system...