Word: overloaders
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...news is that the new year has brought--and will continue to bring--significant changes in the ethernet infrastructure at Harvard that will undoubtedly provide the kiosks with some substantively attractive characteristics to go along with their shiny new look. Many of the delays that were caused by an overload of the data storage system were eliminated when the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences Computing Services (HFASCS) replaced that system over the winter break. A plan to increase storage capacity on the everyday "fas" set of systems is currently being implemented...
...hackers pretended to be sending messages from the sites they intended to attack. When many computers simultaneously responded to sites like eBay, the overload of information shut down the real, unsuspecting sites...
...past few months, I've begun to come around. Perhaps it's the sensory overload that has resulted from continual exposure to Internet advertising of one sort or another--dot-org this and dot-net that plastered to the insides of the T, on handouts around campus or occupying three-quarters of Superbowl commercial time last month. Or maybe it's because I've been listening to the megalomaniacal plotting of various friends who anticipate what life will be like as the next Bill Gates. According to a feature in The Crimson last week, plenty of students are leaving school...
...produce enough dopamine because of external factors? "Would this problem afflict our children if we were still out on the frontier battling elephants?" asks TIME science writer Christine Gorman. "Probably not." Many attribute the symptoms of ADHD - short attention span, fidgetiness, lack of motivation - to modernity's sensory overload: Perhaps the brain is merely compensating for the five hours of electronic media the average child absorbs each day. And we thought this information revolution was making us smarter...
...wail and a blur, and anguish tugs on every line of Cage's face. Many key scenes are cramped into the driver's seat and bloody siren lights stain the medics' faces. This gristly and sometimes hallucinatory style is not for every viewer's consumption. Sensory overload coupled with the constant despair theme can make the film itself seem too purgatorial to bear. But there's also plenty of gallows-humor tossed back and forth between the medics. The movie bristles with the kind of humor that makes the audience wonder how they could even laugh at something so horrific...