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Network performance is determined by measuring ping times. One computer sends a ping out to another computer and sees how long it takes the other computer to respond. If the network is highly congested, then it's like trying to get from Cambridge to Boston during rush hour--it will take longer and result in a higher ping time...
...much hold on the American imagination, and "nouveau riche" is no longer an insult (especially among the nouveau not-so-riche). Nobody wants to be like the Europeans anymore, especially since we got so much richer than them. Nobody likes a rich kid. And the dot-com gold rush, however short-lived, only reinforced the idea that America is supposed to be the land of opportunity...
Actor nominees announced. Tom Hanks (zzzzzzzzzzz), Geoffrey Rush, Russell Crowe (Who will he take to the Oscars? Meg Ryan? Courtney Love? Leelee Sobieski? Nicole Kidman? Tom Cruise?), Javier Bardem, Ed Harris (directed himself in "Pollock," as if he learned acting from Barbra Streisand...
...court also justified the injunction by anticipating that users would rush to download songs before trial if the service were to remain open...
...slightest whiff of Reaganomics to it but came to nothing. When Sarbanes got through insulting Greenspan in other people's words, Greenspan curtly quoted his own stuff, the "cautionary note" kicker about government piggishness from his previous testimony. But certainly, if those surpluses were to disappear in a gold rush of discretionary spending, Greenspan admitted, his tax-cut arithmetic would be "mispositioned, if I may put it that...