When social media is just media
This is an interesting social media experiment. It only serves to remind us that virtual communities (while still valuable and relevant in limited ways) are nothing more than that: virtual. Virtual means unverifiable, risky, fake. In other words: not real.
Social media is virtual. You create something from nothing, a “something” that is by d [...]
The Cyprus conundrum
So Cyprus is in trouble. Now everyone is scrambling to the rescue once again, triggering bitter deja-vu’s of Greece or Ireland or even Portugal. How did it come to this again? After all, what is Cyprus but a small fiscal paradise who experienced a mild financial crisis in 2008?
The answer lies in both those items.
Having a mild financial cris [...]
Killing Innovation
I am not a fan of Samsung.
As I wrote before, I am appalled by their attitude towards the devices they push on the mobile market. Spam the market with tens if not hundreds of models and then forget about them in terms of support and updates.
The connection between a device and the software that operates it is a very sensitive one, which can m [...]
Always-online: how to punish the buye...
The rather recent fashion of forcing people to always be online in order to play a game that’s essentially single-player is not only baffling but it is slowly turning into a nightmare for people that actually pay for games.
Some companies (like Blizzard or EA) claim that forcing people to be online at all times is necessary to fight pir [...]
Blackberry Z10: Revival?
I’m a self admitted Blackberry fan, although I have less than a year usage of a Blackberry Bold 9790. I like Blackberry for the way they managed to keep a physical keyboard cool and accessible, the inherent security of their system (which got their phones banned in some countries who love spying on their citizens) and the sheer function [...]
Argo and reality
The fact that a large portion of the movie Argo is fiction comes to no surprise. After all, Ben Affleck didn’t set out to make a documentary. However, Argo deals with recent events and recent historical events tend to be well documented as well as disputed on various aspects.
Therefore, a movie like Argo tends to show one side of the [...]
To Web Sites 2012
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Contagion – 2011
Sonderbergh’s disaster movie Contagion succeeds at both being a drama and at not conceding realism points in order to create artificial drama. This makes perfect sense as I could never understand why there would be a need to sacrifice realistic procedures and terminology in disaster movies. After all, the drama in such situations stems exactl [...]
Remote access connection manager erro...
Renaming or deleting the following folder seems to work for some users:
C:WindowsSystem32LogFilesWMIRtBackup
REF: Event log error 4201 – ERROR_WMI_INSTANCE_NOT_FOUND
1) Used msconfig to switch to safe mode boot2) Booted to safe mode3) ran cmd.exe as an administrator4) typed “cd C:WindowsSystem32LogFilesWMI”5) typed “re [...]
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