by Ben Schott, NY Times
Stress and frustration caused by slow computers. A study by Intel Canada found that 55 percent of Canadian high school students and more than 60 percent of post-secondary students had been frustrated by slow-running computers, Jameson Berkow reported in The National Post: Intel dubbed the problem “hourglass syndrome,” in honour of the spinning icon many computers display when processing a large amount of data. The survey attributed the apparent rise in cases of hourglass syndrome to the rise in student dependency on computers for success in school.
http://schott.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/02/hourglass-syndrome/
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