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Comment Re:iFirst (Score 1) 177

I think at the moment, the order goes Exxon, Microsoft, PetroChina, then Apple.

That probably means that there is not much more upside for Apple shares. For the most part, they are selling expensive consumer toys that people can live without. Look at the products associated with the other companies on the list. If the consumer should ever lose discretionary spending power which company's products do you think they'd stop buying first?

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86% of Windows 7 PCs Maxing Out Memory 613

CWmike writes "Citing data from Devil Mountain Software's community-based Exo.performance.network (XPnet), Craig Barth, the company's chief technology officer, said that new metrics reveal an unsettling trend. On average, 86% of Windows 7 machines in the XPnet pool are regularly consuming 90%-95% of their available RAM, resulting in slow-downs as the systems were forced to increasingly turn to disk-based virtual memory to handle tasks. The 86% mark for Windows 7 is more than twice the average number of Windows XP machines that run at the memory 'saturation' point, and this comes despite more RAM being available on most Windows 7 machines. 'This is alarming,' Barth said of Windows 7 machines' resource consumption. 'For the OS to be pushing the hardware limits this quickly is amazing. Windows 7 is not the lean, mean version of Vista that you may think it is.'"

Comment Re:pick a standard (Score 1) 404

I recently finished this site: http://www.oneofakindpasta.com/

I don't really consider myself a UI person nor a big fan of CSS, but at work I am forced to review code written by junior web developers so I've seen many good and bad examples of CSS. I looked at the source of the site and I have to say that it uses CSS very elegantly. What really impressed me was the fact that it rendered almost perfectly on my Blackberry. I'm so tired of seeing regular sites crap out while rendering on the Blackberry and WAP-specific sites only using the left third of the display. Hmmm ... maybe CSS isn't so bad after all.

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