Word: syncing
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...slow buildup of fuzzy drums and airy guitar. The refrain is simple—“We’ll walk hand in hand”—but the way Ira draws out each syllable creates a melodic intensity that rises and falls in waves, in sync with the guitars and driven by the pulsing bass. Though the song gradually builds, it never explodes. Restraint seems in many ways totally at odds with this band—given their endless supply of cover songs, not to mention records—but here it works, preserving an internal...
...muscular middle-class. Its leaders were in power until a little over five years back, when the party lost the elections then by a thin margin. But those days seem long gone. The humbled BJP is now faced with serious questions over its leadership, seen to be out of sync with a fast-changing India as well as unable to control dissent within its ranks. Since the electoral defeat,there has been a string of high-profile resignations and infighting between party members has dominated headlines in recent weeks...
...turns out that despite all their strengths, computers and cell phones are lousy timekeepers. Most computers carry an on-board clock powered by a separate battery. As the battery drains over time, the computer's timekeeping becomes less accurate. To sidestep this problem, most computers use the Internet to sync with an external server. (Both Microsoft and Apple operate external time servers synced to the atomic clocks carrying the official U.S. time.) But if a computer doesn't have an active Internet connection, or if time-synching is somehow turned off, a computer's clock can run askew. In addition...
Mobile devices are beset by timekeeping problems of their own. Most phones receive the time from cell-phone towers. But there's no guarantee the time servers sync up between different providers. Smart devices receive time information in a number of different ways. For a BlackBerry, the time is synched with the data network when activated, but it receives a second time feed when it's connected to a computer - so if the computer's time is off, the BlackBerry's clock gets distorted...
With so many different servers and so much room for error, there's little chance all your devices will sync up. According to a study conducted at James Madison University, more than 25% of Web servers are off by 10 seconds or more. So while the atomic clocks keep ticking away with scientific precision, it's a good bet that not all of your devices will agree with them...