2/04/2014

About Youtube video shares on Facebook and the dystopian theory

Nope. Two negatives do not equal a positive and you have witnessed that with the nerve-crushing experience of playing a video clip on your Facebook Timeline. First of all, it seems to be a battle of giants going on right now, between YouTube and Facebook, either one denying the other part's respond on their respective server. On the other hand, Windows, as the main operating system in the world, has gone from "hmmm" to "yuk", from XP, through Vista and 7, to Windows 8. Bottom line being that, two years from now, Windows OS will be just like a dust-buster that you would find in the closet at some point and you will have no idea what to make out of it.

As far as concerns the lag on your youtube shared videos on facebook, there's a simple resolve: refresh the page, or press F5 in the browser.

11/09/2013

Mark Zuckerberg, you did it again!

<To be fair, the “Who can look up your Timeline by name?” feature was likely misunderstood by lots of people. At first glance, you might assume it means that strangers can’t find your profile. But that’s incorrect. There have been lots of ways to navigate to your profile, like clicking your name on a photo you’re tagged in, finding your name in a friend’s friend list, or combing through Likes on a mutual friend’s News Feed post.> (http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/10/facebook-search-privacy/). 

Well, duh!

Still, for the first time in its whole entire existence, Facebook took a firm step towards the privacy of its clients. It is a subtle maneuver that required a lot of coding and a lot of brilliant minds. Brace yourselves: the "Friends Requests", "Messages" and "Notifications" icons were moved, in a revolutionary procedure, from the the top left of the screen to the top right of the screen. And you do realize that the fact that Facebook bleached your profile would lead your stalker into a dilemma, right? And they'll never, ever be able to navigate to your profile using photo tags or the propagate search code that I was trying to explain in a previous post?

If you do want to maintain your privacy and your friends' privacy, stop tagging the photos, good people. I do know that is very, very hard for some folks to recognize themselves in pictures, but give them a chance, it's a matter of time. And, once again, I urge you to change the default language from English (US) to English (whatever). If the brilliant people at Facebook realized that the only measure to counter-act invasion of privacy was to switch the buttons from left to right, it means that we might have some IQ tests to perform on them, or they don't care, for that matter. And they don't.


7/12/2013

After Earth [2013]

After Eszopiclone, Ramelteon, Triazolam, Zaleplon and Zolpidem, it was M. Night Shyamalan’s turn to come up with a revolutionary prescription-free drug that will make you fall asleep in a matter of seconds. It's called "After Earth", it has no secondary effects, it does not contradict with the prolonged use of alcohol, recreational drugs or porn. It's available at a cinema nearby and, trust me, the desired effect kicks in 5 minutes after the commercials.

Get your favorite blankets at hand (come on, you do have one) and listen to my soothing voice: "One thousand years after cataclysmic events forced humanity’s escape from Earth, Nova Prime has become mankind’s new home. General Cypher Raige (Will Smith) returns from an extended tour of duty to his estranged family, ready to be a father to his 13-year-old son, Kitai (played by Jaden Smith). When an asteroid storm damages Cypher and Kitai’s craft, they crash-land on a now unfamiliar and dangerous Earth. As his father lies dying in the cockpit, Kitai must trek across the hostile terrain to recover their rescue beacon. His whole life, Kitai has wanted nothing more than to be a soldier like his father. Today, he gets his chance."

...what? What happened? I've must have fallen asleep...

Let alone the fact that naming a character "Cypher Raige" is more than transparent to the plot, the "After Earth" pill is effective by its pure, untainted boring essence. There is a plot here, but it's so overplayed that once you understand what's going on you could go to sleep with no remorse. You could remap the scenario, on your own, tomorrow, when you'll wake up or you'll sober. The whole 100 minutes of this movie amount to a pinnacle of boredom, with copycat CGI's and idiotic replies. Neither father or son (Will Smith and Jaden Smith) shows no emotion albeit the main fiber in the plot is the son that needs to prove himself up to his father's expectations.

Somehow I suspect that along the lines of "After Earth", Will Smith was trying to push forward his son's career as an actor. Never gonna happen. Not with this plot, not with this screenp... Good night, kids!