Word: slowness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...sophomore album, The Headless Songstress, Tika and her band - the aptly named Dissidents - file slow-burning postcards from the Jakartan edge. Recorded in a mix of English and Indonesian, these are songs of cynicism ("My midlife crisis was at its peak that Friday night"), urban ennui ("My dad's religious, my mum's a bore/ Can we talk about something else?") and modern manners ("Harry loves Betty .../ But daddy wants Betty to marry Eddy/ But Eddy loves Larry"). Classic jazz scoring - for piano, acoustic bass and drums - steeps the work in an atmosphere of late nights and darkened rooms...
...were off to a slow start,” Stone said. “We didn’t play poorly in the first period, we just couldn’t get to the net and couldn’t get the shots off our stick...
...concern in the Administration that they could close off all chances for diplomacy. "The problem with congressional measures is you can't turn them on and off as you like," says the senior Administration official. "We've been having ongoing discussions with the Hill," to tailor the bills and slow them up, the official says...
...sessions, he relies on Mozy, which for $5 a month moseys along at a pace that will probably require two or three months to back up his entire hard drive. Vitale says the long upload time isn't problematic since Mozy works in the background and does not noticeably slow down his computer. Mozy's low price also helps make up for its lack of speed. (The same amount of data space on SugarSync, for example, would cost Vitale $25 a month...
...Despite cons such as poor customer service and slow initial upload, online backup still protects your data better than something in your home because it's in a secure, off-site environment, safe from theft, fire, flood and other mishaps," Nagel said...