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el 28-Jul-2010 | Paul Graham has a perceptive post on what he terms "the acceleration of addiction," describing how technological progress, by giving us more of what we want, will naturally tend to amplify compulsive behavior: Technological progress means making things do more of what we want. When the thing we want is something we want to want, we consider technological progress good. If some new technique makes solar cells x% more efficient, that seems strictly better. When progress concentrates something we don't want to want?when it transforms opium into heroin?it seems bad. But it's the same process at work. No one doubts...
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 | Kotaku`s The Gamers Guide |  Blogger | XBOX 360 Gamers Weblog
Gossip, news and leaks for obsessive gamers Kotaku As if you don't waste enough of your time in a gamer's haze, here's Kotaku: a gamer's guide that goes beyond the press release. Gossip, cheats, criticism, design, nostalgia, pred |
| T-Mobile says G-Slate is 200% faster than iPad 2, 300% faster than XOOM |  A new page on T-Mobile USA’s website makes some fairly bold claims about the carrier’s premier Honeycomb tablet, the LG G-Slate. In comparing the sleek device to its steepest competition at AT&T and Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile says the G-Slate is “more than two times faster than the Apple iPad 2 on AT&T and Verizon, and three times faster than the Motorola XOOM on Verizon [..] Read complete article | | Published 22-Jul-2011 by Zach Epstein in
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| More, please, and faster | | Paul Graham has a perceptive post on what he terms "the acceleration of addiction," describing how technological progress, by giving us more of what we want, will naturally tend to amplify compulsive behavior: Technological progress means making things do more of what we want. When the thing we want is something we want to want, we consider technological progress good. If some new technique makes [..] Read complete article | | Published 28-Jul-2010 by Rough Ty in General
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| Nerdblog | Blogger | Provides news about hardware, software, notebooks, laptops, PCs, Mac, PDAs
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| Singulus says Blu-ray take-up faster than DVD
(Reuters) | | <p><a href=”http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080609/tc_nm/singulus_dc”><img src=”http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080609/2008_06_09t025339_450×319_us_singulus.jpg?x=130&y=92&q=85&sig=mLOy6xXSnUoA7auETV9Ycw–” align=”left” height=”92″ width=”130″ alt=”Tra [..] Read complete article | | Published 08-Jun-2008 by Nerdblog in General
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| PSP Go processor more than 40% faster than original | |
The PSP Go isn't just smaller than the original PSP series -- it's more powerful. In fact, it features a processor that's more than 40% faster than the original. The original PSP (1000-3000) series include a processor capable of reaching 333MHz s [..] Read complete article | | Published 02-Jul-2009 by Andrew Yoon in mhzprocessorpsp-gopspgo
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| iTunes 8.1 is better, faster, stronger and now available |  It?s time to get to upgrading, folks, because the new version of iTunes promises to be faster and includes a new set of features. The Genius feature now supports movies and TV shows beyond just music, CDs can be imported at a much higher quality and the overall experience is much faster. That means when [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 12-Mar-2009 by Marc Flores in AppleGeneralOur Favorite SoftwareAACiPhoneiPoditunesmp3music
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| iTunes 8.1 is better, faster, stronger and now available | | It?s time to get to upgrading, folks, because the new version of iTunes promises to be faster and includes a new set of features. The Genius feature now supports movies and TV shows beyond just music, CDs can be imported at a much higher quality and the overall experience is much faster. That means when [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 12-Mar-2009 by Marc Flores in AppleGeneralOur Favorite SoftwareAACiPhoneiPoditunesmp3music
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| Kotaku`s The Gamers Guide | Blogger | XBOX 360 Gamers Weblog
Gossip, news and leaks for obsessive gamers Kotaku As if you don't waste enough of your time in a gamer's haze, here's Kotaku: a gamer's guide that goes beyond the press release. Gossip, cheats, criticism, design, nostalgia, pred |
| Wii Games Hit The Bargain Bin Faster Than PS3, 360 Ones [Wii] |  The researchers at Electronic Entertainment Design and...Research have been looking at console game sales patterns. Looking at how long it takes a game to enter "price protection", which is a term used for when a publisher - having noticed a game isn't selling very well - lowers the [..] Read complete article | | Published 21-Nov-2008 by Luke Plunkett in Wii News Nintendo Retail
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