Word: overloads
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...overload really hit me while at the airport. Once past the souvenir shops and food court, one might reasonably hope to wait for a plane in peace. Yet in most airports, the buzz and whir continues right to the gates, with CNN's Airport Network the prime culprit. Sure, they feed our news addiction and send along the stream of stock prices (the symbols themselves some quixotic mix of advertising and investment), but they don't stop there: One "news" piece, more likely a subtle advertisement for a product or resort, is followed by the CNN logo and theme music...
...years. Lippa's version was the first to be staged, in a workshop production at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Connecticut in the summer of 1997. (LaChiusa's had its first reading a few months later.) The two creative teams profess unconcern at the possibility of Party overload. "They're going to be two completely different shows," says Wolfe. "That's the fascinating phenomenon of art: you can paint a picture of a bird, and I can paint a picture of a bird, and they can be two completely different birds." Still, Wolfe's bigger-budget production...
...movements directly contrasted with the calm harmony of the music, a Shubert composition for the piano and cello. Meanwhile, extremely large photographs of the dancers' movements are projected onto a large screen through which dancers enter and exit. The net result was a definite sense of silence. Visual sensory overload (the fluid movement and frequently-changing photography) combined with soothing, lullaby-esque Shubert music to underline the absence of words...
...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...