Archive for February, 2010
The Shill: Nintendo DS2 Already In The Hands Of Pokemon Company?
Last Updated on Friday, 19 February 2010 03:06 Written by Wrathie Thursday, 18 February 2010 05:45
Well, we’ve heard the rumors for a long time now, that the DS successor is currently being developed. It’s old news, for sure. Yet, in this case, could the “DS2” be actually be shown and announced this year? It’s seeming more and more likely.
Daily Digest February 18, 2010
Last Updated on Thursday, 18 February 2010 05:30 Written by Bot Thursday, 18 February 2010 05:30
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- • Apple says no to Adobe’s e-book DRM, prefers its own FairPlay
Apple will use its own content protection technology to prevent e-book pirating, instead of Adobe’s more wide-spread technology. As a result, you won’t be able to transfer iPad books on other e-readers or use an iPad to read e-books purchased from other digital stores.
E-books sold via the iPad’s iBook store will be wrapped with FairPlay, […]
- • Apple doubles 3G app download limit to 20MB ahead of the iPad launch
When Steve Jobs unveiled the App Store as an exclusive one-stop shop for third-party iPhone applications on March 6, 2008, he “forgot” to tell us about a 10MB per-app 3G download limit. We later learned we can download an app of any size over WiFi only. The limitation was initially met with criticism by the […]
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Civilization V Announced
Last Updated on Thursday, 18 February 2010 04:05 Written by Wrathie Thursday, 18 February 2010 02:30
Feelin the urge to conquer? Well, then this will definitely feed the warmonger in you: Take-Two announced Sid Meier’s Civilization V today, and that series developer Firaxis will be back to develop it. It is expected that the game will be released some time this fall.
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Man Climbs Building With Vaccum Gloves!
Last Updated on Saturday, 6 March 2010 05:22 Written by Naota Thursday, 18 February 2010 12:00
Yes this kind of thing has been done a few times before using other kinds of things… but still. It is always entertaining right? This is kinda filmed in a way that reminds me of the show Top Gear… which is a great show btw…Enjoy!
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You can’t win em all, Win7
Last Updated on Sunday, 21 February 2010 07:28 Written by servbot_kill Thursday, 18 February 2010 10:31
Seems like you can’t win all the time with Windows. According to data gathered under Devil Mountain’s Exo.performance.network, a community-based network, 86% of PCs running Windows 7 regularly exceeded 90-95% of their available RAM. This pretty much just leaves the OS chugging on virtual memory.
Caveat though:
“Barth acknowledged that XPnet’s data couldn’t determine whether the memory usage was by the operating system itself, or an increased number of applications, but said that Devil Mountain would start working on finding which is the dominant factor in increased memory use.”
Seems to me though that they could compare an identical application load under Vista and XP and see the memory usage in those to determine if it’s the OS or the applications; maybe it’s just a crapload of bloatware going on behind the scenes in Win7.
Has anyone noticed a lot of pagefile usage in Windows 7? Maybe a lot of slowdown? Did you buy an SSD to largely fix the problem?
See the original article here.
UPDATE: A rebuttal of the previous article from Ars Technica is out; see it here.
UPDATE!!!: This keeps getting weirder; the guy who was listed as the CTO for Devil Mountain Software apparently DOESN’T EXIST. Adding the rebuttal from Ars Technica to the article, there’s serious doubt in the truthfulness of the above claims. My cold-addled brain can’t make heads or tails of this, I’ll be back after a good nap and cough syrup, but this is some whacked out stuff.
Tags: damned lies, Fail, memory, performance, Windows 7 | Posted under News | 2 Comments