So hastings put together another team of engineers , who developed a way to navigate unreliable home networks , allowing bitrates to shift midstream to maintain the best picture quality with the least amount of buffering .
Perhaps , they say , there will be a shift from focusing on reducing inventories and costs , the just-in-time model , pioneered in japan , to one that places greater emphasis on buffering risk - a just-in-case mentality .
This is another place where buffered I / o turned out to be essential : writing each individual value to a file as soon as it is available slows the algorithm down about twofold . Thus , by simply adding input and output buffering , we gained a tenfold speed-up !
These comprised damage to the supply of foods and medicines that people had taken from the forest , the loss of habitats for fish , and less buffering against storms .