With the temperature well below freezing, her voice was strained, but to find fault with the moment and The Hat seems peevish.
Such network responsiveness is crucial in applications involving voice or video, where packets that get delayed unduly can cause pictures to freeze or voices to stutter.
What would have taken him ten minutes out on the street took an hour at least, his feet unsteady in a slurry of mud and trash, stiff dead reeds knifing at him, dogs barking, the drift of people's voices freezing him in place.
For the second group, the software allowed 10 simultaneous active windows, and less image freezing and voice lag.
Ignoring the times the picture froze or his voice cut out, I thought he looked and sounded exactly as he had in person.
You might know the video phone by its defining features: poor sound, several seconds' delay between an anchor's question and a correspondent's answer, and a picture that often freezes while the voice talks on.
Recent box office hits such as Gravity starring Bullock, Hunger Games starring Lawrence, and the animated feature Frozen, featuring the voice of Kristen Bell, masked the "remarkable stability" of women's marginalisation over decades, she said.
"I'm freezing cold, exhausted," he said, his voice shaking.
He recalled how he and Groff audition for many of the same projects, including the animated film Frozen, in which Groff voiced the part of Kristoff.
And so, over the years, as her game face froze in place, her voice cured into a weapon of emotional chill and strategic indifference.
