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Lady Gaga's 'Big Eyes' Spark Health Warning {Lemondrop}

Aug 21st 2010 8:00AM And I thought that was all a digital effect. I'm too bleeding edge :).

Motorola wants a 2GHz Android by year's end, so do we {Engadget}

Jun 13th 2010 4:45PM @Openwave That's an over-simplification. To achieve that you also need to go down in voltage. Also, the cause and effect is the other way around: You increase the density and lower the voltage to achieve smaller chip size, lower power consumption, and possibility for a higher clock frequency. Also, newer CPUs tend to get more functionality like wider data and address, internal memory, floating point, vector math, 3D, base-band modem etc, to minimize the amount of chips, which increases gate count and power consumption.

Motorola wants a 2GHz Android by year's end, so do we {Engadget}

Jun 11th 2010 3:41PM As people have no clue what level of performance is needed for a good user experience, the higher figure is all that can be understood. The same went on with PCs for a long time, but now it's more of a GHz times number of cores times number of CPUs times GB RAM game times 3D GPU (and its amount of RAM).

I read info about 3D support in Dell's laptops, and the only thing mentioned as differentiator between models was the amount of RAM, which has very little to do with performance.

Let's admit it, we are all ignorant about technology, and simply have no clue, so if someone says "We go for 2 GHz" we know that will be better than 1 GHz right? That's all we need to know. That it affects battery life, that it increases price, etc are secondary criteria.

Right?

Poor people spend 9% of income on lottery tickets; here's why {WalletPop}

Jun 1st 2010 8:00AM Reasons you don't mention:

The distance from what you have and what you could potentially get is much higher if you are poor, so it's more worth taking the risk of not getting anything at all. A rich person could care less.

If you live a low income life, you probably think this is the only way to ever become wealthy.

_All_ people want to become wealthy (as in free to buy anything, and rise in power and respect). Not saying that wealth will necessarily make you happier (although it will), but it's a very important driver that we for social reasons tend to ignore and ridicule. Money is pure energy, so everyone's wants it.

Enjoy reading on the go {Asylum.co.uk}

Apr 28th 2010 5:29AM It shows how outdated paper book technology is. All the books in the shelf fit nicely in my light-weight Bookeen e-book reader, at the same time, so no need for book wheels.

Android 1.5 gets official SDK for native development {Engadget}

Jun 26th 2009 7:01AM "specialized, optimized virtual machine"

But how is it optimized, considering bytecode is interpreted by Dalvik and not compiled? Just marketing speak?

Can't get an iPhone? Fabricate your own {Engadget Mobile}

Aug 11th 2007 5:15PM "As opposed to, say, flying to the States and picking one up"

What about order one via the Internet and have it shipped...

Enthusiasts bring 3rd party apps to the Helio Ocean, too {Engadget Mobile}

Aug 4th 2007 5:19AM That means they had to add a KVM, or did it have that already?

Hong Kong retailers label activated iPhone as "80 percent" unlocked {Engadget Mobile}

Jul 16th 2007 3:01PM Hong Kong Dollar maybe ($0.12)? That doesn't sound right either though.

OTA music files squeezed down 10x, thanks to Beatnik {Engadget Mobile}

Jun 8th 2007 5:48AM It's interesting that neither Engadget nor any of the other commenters mention that the music will sound crappy. Already MP3 is bad enough, and compressing 10 times more clearly doesn't improve audio quality.