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p align=”justify”a href=”http://www.dragonflame.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/contagion_poster.jpg”img style=”background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px 6px 2px 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px” title=”contagion_poster” border=”0″ alt=”contagion_poster” align=”left” src=”http://www.dragonflame.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/contagion_poster_thumb.jpg” width=”166″ height=”244″ //aDisaster movies are genre apart, possibly meant to keep within the public psyche an awareness about humanity’s best and worst. However, each movie that has dealt with a disaster has suffered from a flaw. Whether too much focus on mindless action sequences or trying to delve deeply into an inaccurate technobabble, disaster movies manage to fall flat./p pAt least until emContagion/em enters the scene. /p p align=”justify”It is obvious that movies today put a much greater focus on research, enough to breathe at least a hint of plausibility into the plot. The cruel reality of emHotel Rwanda/em, the cold facts of emBlood Diamond/em, the darkness of emDer Untergang/em and many others are proof that a good mix of fact and fiction can work wonders./p continue reading…
p align=”justify”I said it before: I hate when some tech blogger does a comparative test of several devices and dryly concludes: “they’re all good, it all depends on what you need”. Give me a break! I need a conclusion. /p p align=”justify”In the vas majority of cases, you can always draw a conclusion and a top reviewer isn’t afraid to underline it. Razer mice kick arse. Logitech keyboards rule. Alienware rocks. Plain and simple./p p align=”justify”But every now and then something pops up that justifies not drawing a conclusion. Take this a title=”mobile OS showdown” href=”http://www.reghardware.com/2011/11/04/smartphone_operating_system_shoot_out/” target=”_blank”comparative test of smartphone systems/a (Blackberry vs Apple vs Google vs Microsoft). I find it very annoying and disturbing that top mobile companies are unable to score across the board of consumer needs. /p continue reading…
According to a BBC report, the US envoy to the UN stormed out of a UN Security Council meeting, apparently in outrage (shock or awe). Photos of a tearful Susan Rice merged soon after, leading to an worldwide outcry.
Still sobbing, the US envoy to the UN managed to convey the reason for her tears: the Russian and Chinese envoys managed to veto a resolution condemning Syria. “Those bastards are killing people on the streets” she muttered, raising her fist to the sky.
Meanwhile, a puzzled drunk Russian and a tiny yellow thing were staring in disbelief. “We thought she would like our veto” declared the Russian “we really don’t understand, I thought the US was protecting the sovereign right of any nation to kill people on the street”.
Meanwhile, president Obama insisted on clarifying Susan’s outburst. “I am deeply sorry for the confusion. As an American, I must say I am surprised to see anyone else use the power of veto in the UN Security Council. We really thought we were the only ones! Nobody else ever uses *that*!”
Oare de cate ori nu ati auzit “observatia” asta? “De ce nu te uiti pe unde mergi” este in mod evident raspunsul reflex la o coliziune in traficul pietonal. Desigur, este si dovada de cretinism.
Sa luam scenariul urmator: te lovesti de cineva pe strada. Daca arunci un “de ce nu te uiti pe unde mergi?”, ce dovedeste asta? Cu un dram de logica, dovedeste ca tu ai observat pe cineva distrat venind spre tine si ai decis sa te lovesti de el. La urma urmei, tu te uiti pe unde mergi, nu? Ai vazut ca “agresorul” nu a procedat la fel, nu? Dar totusi ai decis sa nu iei initiativa de a evita coliziunea. Sau poate nici tu nu te uitai de fapt pe unde mergi, dar ai revenit in trafic cu o secunda inaintea celuilalt, ceea ce iti ofera autoritatea necesara de a educa pe altii? La urma urmei ce am fi noi, oamenii, atunci cand nu-i putem modela pe cei din jur dupa confortul propriu.
Uneori e stresant cand oamenii nu actioneaza cum crezi tu ca ar trebui sa actioneze, dar din pacate fiecare gandeste cum poate.
Every time changes to the copyright monopoly are considered, the profits of major entertainment industry companies are at the center of the discussion. Even the people who fiercely defend the right to share information freely are going to extreme lengths to argue that this will not hurt the revenues of the copyright industry. But why are these profits even relevant? Why should we care about the profits of these companies? Full text here
Times have changed in the browser world since my last browser test. Microsoft finally has given us a real browser (Internet Explorer 9), the social browsers (Flock) have faded and Mozilla Firefox has taken up the Google Chrome model of pushing out new versions every time their CEO is breathing. So it’s time to put the browsers to the test, again!
The Firefox 9, alpha, vs Firefox 6 stable and Google Chrome 15 (dev channel):
Yesterday, the German Pirate Party (Piratenpartei) gathered over 8% of the Berlin State Election cast ballots, pushing the 5% required margin and cornering more prominent parties, such as the anti-European radicals and the nationalists.
The first pirate party was founded in January 2006 in Sweden (the famous Piratpartiet), in the wake of the Pirate Bay series of trials. Following in the footsteps of the Piratbyran (the Priacy Bureau), the then-small party advocated liberalization and reform of European copyright & intellectual property laws, stronger measures against private monopolies, better protection of privacy laws in the information era and overall better legislation with respect to the current information society.
The Pirate parties have come a long way since then:
Ever since the HTML5 standard has been released in its “beta” stage, its adoption rate has sky rocketed. It’s no wonder, given that the blend between HTML, CSS and AJAX has become tighter and more reliable. Now, this blend has been mixed with native support for audio/video and has been pushed through towards the web.
However, mixed systems (like WordPress), suffer from some severe issues with respect to HTML5. It’s not enough for a theme to boast itself as using HTML5, since a lot of the output is done by the core of WordPress from within its main include files, those too need to be migrated to HTML5. Unfortunately for us WordPress users, this hasn’t happened yet in version 3.2.1. But if you use a HTML5-compliant theme, you’re good to go, right? WRONG! continue reading…
