It's faster than a credit card or cash and it works so fast that Chicago-area McDonald's (nyse: MCD - news - people ) burger joints now let customers use their Speedpass to pay for food.
"Huge focus in a system like this goes into its graphics performance" Dell goes through dual graphics-card setup, saying it's faster than any gaming PC or gaming console.
It's faster, and I don't have to stay too long.
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It's faster than using your thumbs or even writing in the shorthand "graffiti" language used on some Palm devices: Users have gotten around 60 to 70 words per minute with the program.
There's no getting around it: it's a faster, more accurate way to type, even compared with innovations such as Swype, which lets you "type" by swiping your finger from letter to letter.
It's still moving forward by about 20 metres a year, but it's also melting faster than ever.
During our hands-on, we quickly noticed the SX280 HS' significant speed boost -- it's 50 percent faster than its predecessor when it comes to focusing and shutter lag, and it definitely shows.
The world average for glacier melt is 1.2 meters per year, but in Greenland it's much faster.
It's a faster and prettier way to use an outdated version of Android.
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It's graying faster than any other country and women are having fewer babies.
Neither boxes are speed daemons and both lag at times (deleting Season passes, grid guide), but it's far faster than theDirecTiVo HD we used for years.
But for students these days, it's often faster and neater to take notes on a laptop or similar device, making the speed of cursive far less important.
If he's running faster than ever it's a positive story for how good someone can be without taking substances.
That's why it's so important to have faster and better diagnostics and drug delivery.
So the program isn't so much about giving fast track status to those who are deemed "safe" as much it's about providing a faster service to those willing to pay for it, no different from a preferred customer at a restaurant or a hotel.
The Turbo delivers superhuman power to anyone who rides it: it's you only faster.
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Preliminary testing has shown that it's easier and faster to use than a standard controller.
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It's easier and faster than using software to design a digital printing model from scratch.
"The fundamental question being posed this holiday season is if it's cheaper, faster and more convenient to shop online, " says Andersen's Robert Mann.
To make the text larger than 10-point font requires zooming in on the document and dragging it around with the iRex's stylus, a naggingly slow process given E-Ink's refresh rate of about one second. iRex claims it redraws its screen faster than Kindle, but in Forbes.com's tests it locked up sporadically and often took far longer to refresh than Amazon's less flashy display.
In 1996, the American economy was two-thirds as large again as Japan's and it has grown faster ever since.
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Forest ranger Arthur Perryman, who paddled along in a solo boat and tested some rapids before the rest followed, said it's important to go faster or slower than the current to control the canoe.
"Currently, Facebook's tagging suggestion feature does not work for mobile devices as well as it does on desktops, so it's possible that Face.com could make it faster for mobile users to tag from their mobile uploads with less friction, " he writes.
Whether it's a family using faster connections to stay in touch through video calling, a student downloading large files on the go, a sports fan catching every second of the game, or a commuter maximizing travel time, LTE is making Canadians' lives better.
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Mr Meyer believes that France's growth has been faster than Germany's because it has done more to reform its labour market.
It is estimated that more than 60% of Europe's largest cities consume water faster than it can be replenished.
Other times, it's better to break up a block and get it done faster.
The U410, meanwhile, is roughly the same size as the U845, but it comes standard with a 1GB NVIDIA GeForce 610 GPU. Also, the U410's hard drive spins at 7, 200RPM by default, though it's not coupled with an SSD for faster boot times.
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