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2 unusual facts about lag


DSB Class ME

The first unit, 1501 arrived in 1981 with many years of delay.

Khepri

The 'Khepri' are featured prominently as a race in China Miéville's Bas-Lag novels.


Antilag system

Today's WRC cars also use anti-lag systems which feed air directly to the exhaust system.

Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction

There is a two-year lag between Don LaFontaine's and Campbell Lane's stint as narrator for the show, during which time it was believed that it had been cancelled, only for it to be brought back for another season in the summer of 2002.

Canal 300

Included on its current schedule are Dallas, Bewitched, Bonanza, Star Trek, The Brittas Empire, Married... with Children, Diagnosis: Murder, The Twilight Zone and Strong Medicine, as well as TVC's produced series like Secrets de Família, Oh! Europa, Jet Lag, Majoria Absoluta, L'un per l'altre, Plats Bruts and Quico.

Cyclical industrial dynamics

Based on his observations of the explicit cyclical movement in the shipbuilding industry, Nobel Prize-winning economist Jan Tinbergen believes the so-called ‘durable goods cycle’ is a result of the lag of the upstream industries such as shipbuilding in response to the cycles in end users markets such as that in freight rates.

Display lag

Rhythm-based games, such as Guitar Hero, also require exact timing; display lag will create a noticeable offset between the music and the on-screen prompts.

Festival Singers of Canada

Founded in 1954 by Elmer Iseler as the Festival Singers of Toronto, the choir was heard first heard on CBC radio in a 1955 Good Friday broadcast of Bach's Christ lag in Todesbanden.

Grey Lag

Grey Lag (whose name came from a type of wild European goose) stood 16 and a half hands tall when he was sold as a yearling to Hall of Fame trainer, Max Hirsch.

High-motion

The effects of high motion can be reduced or negated by converter lag when NTSC video is converted to PAL, or vice versa (a particular problem for coverage of international sporting events such as the Olympic Games or the FIFA World Cup, for example); however, more recent motion adaptive converters can minimize this.

Kuninkaanportti

Och här låg konungen Gustav den sista stenen år ("And here laid King Gustav the last stone in the year", the year is left unwritten, because Gustav III never arrived to lay the last stone)

Pawo Tsuglag Threngwa

Pawo Tsuglag Threngwa (dpa' bo gtsug lag phreng ba; 1504–1566), the second Pawo Rinpoche, was a Tibetan historian of the Karma Kagyu.

Seasonal lag

Mars, on the other hand, has negligible seasonal lag of no more than a few days.

ShowEQ

SOE has used a number of encryption techniques to defeat ShowEQ, but because of the enormous bandwidth and latency demands placed on their servers, there is a point of diminishing returns with respect to strong encryption of the EverQuest protocol.

Tiigrihüpe

Due to an economic and technologic lag effected on Estonia by the Soviet occupation, CP/M based 8-bit computer systems were not yet a rare sight in Estonian schools in the middle of the 1990s.

Time-Lag Records

Time-Lag Records also acts as a distributor for other independent labels who release music in a similar genre, including Chocolate Monk, Digitalis, and Eclipse Records.

Venturi Transport Protocol

The protocol is employed by various wireless broadband internet service providers such as Verizon Wireless and Unwired (Unwired calls the Venturi Client application that provides transparent VTP connectivity the Unwired Optimizer) in order to speed up their network and to overcome latency issues.

Windows 8.1

It was also found that changes to screen resolution handling on 8.1 resulted in mouse input lag in certain video games that do not use the DirectInput API's—particularly first-person shooter games, including Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Hitman: Absolution, and Metro 2033.


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