Carl Honore praises slowness

Tweeps are now complaining that the Internet is slow.

The line, operated by SNCF, suffers from slowness and overcrowding.

And good slow is, you know, taking the time to eat a meal with your family, with the TV switched off.

Race conditions, mutual exclusion, synchronization, and parallel slowdown Subtasks in a parallel program are often called threads.

This system has been criticized over the last few decades for the slow pace of decision making.

He summoned an investigation into the lack of progress following a government council meeting with high ranking ministers.

I guess what the Slow Movement the purpose of the Slow Movement, or its main goal, really, is to tackle that taboo, and to say that yes, sometimes slow is not the answer, that there is such a thing as bad slow.

But the new idea, the sort of revolutionary idea, of the Slow Movement, is that there is such a thing as good slow, too.

One single thing that everybody was going to because it didn't have the traditional slower path of infections that you might expect.

The sluggishness of domestic demand during that period may also have reflected private agents uncertainty about their future income .

BC In the first 15 seconds after we deploy the parachute, we'll decelerate from 900 miles an hour to a relatively slow 250 miles an hour.

Albeit this technique has shown to be quite effective, given its heaviness and slowness, it is rarely used in end user antivirus solutions.

It's saying to the rest of world, and to the people in that town, that we believe that in the 21st century, slowness has a role to play.

Projects implemented with support from the Union have had their effect watered down all too often by slow decision making and complicated administrative processes.

Twitter is also the place where Tunisian politicians share their frustrations with the disorganization of their own parties or the slow processes of the current government.

I mean, you heard that I got a speeding ticket while I was researching my book on the benefits of slowness, and that's true, but that's not all of it.

On 28 June Pi i Margall renewed the composition of his government, but due to the slow pace of the constitutional debates in the Cortes, events came crashing down on the government at a stunning pace.

You know, I got stuck on the M25, which is a ring road around London, recently, and spent three and a half hours there. And I can tell you, that's really bad slow.

When can clarification of the public debt be expected, as even in the citizens eyes it is suspected that the slowness comes from the fact that one of letters ABCD may belong to his excellency!

Rather than unusual sluggishness , this development should probably be seen as a decrease in the risk premium of uncollateralised lending in particular , which had built up during 2001 .

But that slowness, that caution, the fact that President Clinton initially said that American troops would only be deployed for a year, turned out to be a strength, and it helped us to put our priorities right.

What I'd like to start off with is an observation, which is that if I've learned anything over the last year, it's that the supreme irony of publishing a book about slowness is that you have to go around promoting it really fast.

According to Waisman, public transport, which is expensive and of poor quality, leads to a process of social exclusion, which has knock on effects on the development of the cities, leaving them less attractive for investments due to the progressive reduction of mobility.

And I knew that when my book on slowness came out, it would be welcomed by the New Age brigade, but it's also been taken up, with great gusto, by the corporate world you know, business press, but also big companies and leadership organizations.

And what should have been the most relaxing, the most intimate, the most tender moment of the day, when a dad sits down to read to his son, became instead this kind of gladiatorial battle of wills, a clash between my speed and his slowness.

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Similarly, sculptors Machado de Castro (who created three sculptors), Carlo Amatucci (some), João José de Aguiar, and his assistant Gregório Viegas (executed ten statues), Joaquim José de Barros Laborão and Manuel Joaquim Laborão (completed six statues), while Faustino José Rodrigues and his son, Francisco Assis Rodrigues, were contracted to complete three sculptures.