Monday, February 29, 2016

'Fifty Shades of Grey' triumphed at annual Razzies show

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Awkward adaptation of author James, erotic novel nabbed five prizes at Golden Raspberry Awards. Including tying it up with superhero flop Fantastic Four.

The Fifty Shades of Grey also won for worst screenplay, worst actor for Jamie Dornan and worst actress for Dakota Johnson.

The Fantastic Four was also lambasted as worst remake rip-off or sequel.

Superhero flop was rated nine percent on the Tomatoes movie ranking website. It is described as dull and downbeat, and a woefully misguided, humorless adaption of the comic.

36th annual Razzies, hosted at the Palace Theater downtown Los Angeles,  Worst supporting actress was won by Kaley Cuoco for Alvin and Chipmunks, The Road Chip. Eddie Redmayne an Oscar nominee for best actor for the Danish Girl worst supporting actor for bizarre turn in Jupiter Ascending.

In 1980 the Razzies were created as an antidote to Hollywood's star studded, back slapping annual awards season.


But one of Razzie categories are chosen by the 800 or so members of Golden Raspberry Award Foundation, who earn voting rights by paying a $40 membership fee.

Nominees are very rarely attend the Razzies. Sandra Bullock turned up and accept to worst actress in 2010 for All About Steve, Day before winning best actress Oscar for The Blind Side.

Saturday, February 27, 2016

Who can still make us dream? In this dark world,

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King Martin had a dream. His Vision of empowered African Americans resonated across the world where millions believed in his message of equality and brotherhood.

The struggle for the emancipation of black Americans was not easy. Many people died. But eight years ago, Americans elected their first African American president.

President Obama spoke of hope and change, Also had a vision of an America at peace with the rest of the world.

Presidential election campaigns change. As Barack Obama second term as president draws to an end, talk of dreams.

America’s would be presidents don’t dream. They spout ugly words and dark, morbid visions of an America overrun by immigrants, terrorists and Muslims.

Billionaire Trump is of course 'hate-monger in-chief'  his anger and loathing for those outside his circle appears to know no bounds. He is not alone.

 Europe the political landscape is just as grim. The one woman, German Chancellor who did harbour a dream of a Europe willing to receive and people fleeing war and persecution.

German leader’s male colleagues have a different agenda. They are clamping down hard on refugees, reinforcing border controls. And they are joining Donald Trump in disseminating a message of fear.

 EU officials have warned governments not to take 'unilateral actions'.  Austria and the Balkan states made clear that they will go their own way.

Austria last week announced a daily cap on the numbers of people allowed to apply for asylum or travel. As a result  migrants have been stranded in Greece  the main entry point into Europe.

Europe’s reaction to the refugee crisis is chaotic  inhumane and shocking. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees  has warned, for instance.

Having secured a deal  this week with his EU colleagues on renegotiating the terms of Britain’s EU membership. British Prime Minister  hopes of winning the June 23 referendum for his 'stay in Europe' campaign were shattered. The quirky but very popular Mayor of London.

Russia’s President Putin has his cabal of admirers but does not inspire hope among anyone else.

Turkish President may have caught the world’s imagination a decade ago but is now discredited as just another authoritarian leader who has lost touch with reality.

Brings us nicely to Canada. Trudeau certainly stands tall as a man of principle. While his counterparts in other countries deafen us with their rabid rants.  European and US politicians paint the world in black. Canadian leader is proof of the power of dreams.

Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Two Nasty Surprises (Samsung Galaxy S7 )

Do you know what's great about the Samsung Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge? Almost everything. Samsung took Galaxy style S6 S5 with the essence of the Galaxy. But 24 hours after the start they have two ugly (and potentially deal breaking) was found.

Nasty surprise  1

One of the most touted features of the new Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge is the return of microSD expandable memory. Its omission from the Galaxy S6 was derided by many, and Samsung has been praised by law this time for listening to customers and making a turnover.

What's more, that Galaxy S7 comes with Android Marshmallow which is the ideal companion to the microSD card. The reason is that the Marshmallow can treat expandable storage, as well as the internal memory. For example, if your 32 GB Galaxy S7 200 GB of microSD card adds the Marshmallow will report you now 232GB space to install applications, storing photos and videos-whatever you want to.

But here comes the unpleasant surprise: Samsung has not implemented it.

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In an interview for the Samsung reps at the Mobile World Congress the acclaimed Android blog Phandroid learned the company simply decided to cut out this feature Android Marshmallow, Samsung says that their decision came down to the disorientation of the consumers do not want people pulling out while the microSD card that is used for osvojitelné storage and potentially make a mess of things.

As Phandroid notes that this is a valid concern, but you have to trust your users. If not, they will never sell someone a car, kitchen knife, painkillers, in-line skates. The end result is a Galaxy S7 and S7 edges of the owners, who installed a lot of applications and games may have problems with the 32 GB version, especially given a lot of bloatware Samsung custom install on their phones. Galaxy S6 has 56 preinstalled applications and it is a similar number this year. All of which means that users can be forced to buy more expensive Galaxy S7 or S7 edge with more native storage for resolving this problem.

Nasty Surprise  2

SamMobile learned Samsung currently has no plans to sell either the Galaxy or Galaxy edge the S7 S7 with more than 32 GB of storage in the United States.

Yes, at a time when there are 64 GB and 128 GB phone models not only commonplace, but expects the phone manufacturers (including from Samsung the largest competitor to Apple), Samsung decided to 32 GB is enough for all of the users in the us. And, of course, would be if the Samsung Android is fully implemented support for the extension of the capacity of the marshmallow.

Solution

Of course, the obvious solution in the course of the performance of Samsung. The company may issue a software update to bring full support for external storage, Android is the marshmallow Galaxy and Galaxy Edge the S7 the S7 can start selling models with more than 32 GB of built-in storage in the us.

In fact, this should be a no brainer. Solid State storage cost of peanuts and tiered pricing higher capacity phones is a great way to phone manufacturers to increase profit margins. So now Samsung is not just hurting customers, it's hurting your bottom line – and it doesn't make any sense at all.

Sunday, February 21, 2016

"Deadpool 'Box Office: Film 'X-Men' Movie Ever $ 55M Weekend And $ 235m 10-Day cume

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Deadpool topped the weekend the Treasury for the second weekend in a row, earning a hefty $ 55 million through the frame. It is perfectly reasonable to 58% decline from the gonzo 132,200,000 $ Friday-Sunday opening weekend last weekend. It is the biggest second weekend # 2 for the R-rated film, for $ 64 m second weekend American Sniper (a decline of only 27%) last year. It is still 13. the biggest R-rated weekend record. It is 21. the biggest second weekend of all time, and 23. the largest non-opening weekend in the record, for $ 88 m and $ trees third weekends (in that order) Star Wars: The Force wakes up and Avatar.

With $ 235,390,000 in just ten days, the film is already the sixth largest R-rated grosser of all time, just ahead of the $ 234 m gross (in 1984) from Beverly Hills Cop. "next up is the Party in Bangkok ($ 254 m), The Hangover ($ 277 m), The Matrix Reloaded ($ 281 m), and (if it picks up and can keep screens the following month) the American Sniper ($ 350 m) and the passion of the Christ ($ 377 m). If you want to play the "adjusted-for-inflation game" it is currently 68. the biggest R-rated hit, which openly makes sense, because so many of the biggest R-rated movies comes from the time when Hollywood regularly made R-rated breaks.

For a comparison of Walt Disney the Avengers fell 50% on its second weekend, Warner Bros./Time Warner Inc. The Dark Knight dropped 52%, Disney's Avengers: Age of Ultron dropped 59%, and Warner is the Dark Knight rose fell 62%. By the way, if it gets past the weekend 56.260.000, when final figures are released tomorrow $ (not a guarantee), it goes Day Valentine's day $ 56.26 m opening weekend and be the sixth biggest February weekend at all. Oh, and the movie probably topped $ 400 metres around the world this weekend (I'll update when foreign characters roll), which means that it is between the somewhat rare R-rated films to hit that milestone. It was all on a budget of $ 58 m and in 2D, on the side.

To date, Deadpool is 17. the largest superhero film (Yes, I counted The Matrix Reloaded) and 17th-largest comic book movie of all time in America. And it has topped $ 210 million domestic gross 300 to become the biggest R-rated comic book movie ever. On top of the Warner Bros./Time Warner Inc. releases $ 456 m worldwide in total should be sometime this week. I am aware of inflation, but we can have that conversation after the film gets closer to the end of its run.

The stupid videos Live response Saturday Night (and Kayne West type rant reduces the requirements for fan powered by hosting the show) didn't hurt the cause, keeping the film in the spotlight and highlight their viral/social media-friendly marketing. And it's also the biggest X-Men movie ever. Yeah, just ten days of domestic games, the film surpassed the total of $ 234.2 million from X-Men: the last stand, as well as $ 233.9 m 3D inflatable X-Men: Days of Future Past. So yeah, from eight of the X-Men movies in 16 years, with the ninth and tenth day this year, somehow cheap and R-rated comedic spin-off becomes the biggest of the bunch. It's just ... weird.

I think I'm sure Minions out-earned on the Despicable Me movies, but those little yellow guys were a big part of the first two films. It would be if one of those Sony Spider-Man spin-off projects (Venom, aunt May, etc.), Which would have threatened that ended up to be a bigger hit than other traditional homemade Spider-Man movies. The same applies in the case, Paramount/Viacom Inc. 's planned Bumblebee-centric Transformers spin-off somehow out-grosses to $ 409 m domestic gross of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

Yeah, you can see how weird it is. It's not bad, just really unusual, and frankly, those things that will encourage more perhaps unnecessary by-products from other popular series. But again, it's not Deadpool error.

And if you want to play the inflation card, it's now between $ 209 million "net" total X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and $ 244 m pure total number of X-Men: Days of Future Past. And $ 253 m modified a total of X-Men, to $ 310 m total impact X 2: X-Men United and $ 311 m modified a total of X-Men: The Last Stand should be overcome, Mr Wilson at a time when the movie is finished.

From the point of view of all the movies based on Marvel Comics, it sits at # 12 among the X-Men: The Last Stand, and Captain America: The Winter Soldier (259 m $, but again with this 3D blow). If it stops in the course of the next few weeks (and it should run the table next weekend as well), it could end up being bigger than any Marvel movie (MCU or otherwise) among The Avengers Avengers: Age of Ultron, Iron Man 3, and the original Sam Raimi Spider-Man trilogy. And depending on how high rises, Spider-Man 3 ($ 336 yards in 2007) and Spider-Man 2 ($ 373 m in 2002), may be in danger.

To be honest, it's the kind of performance that sets a terrible precedent for the rest of the year, the would-be biggies, in particular the other seven comic book superhero movies, the fact that it is so big, so fast, though, that something from the movie B-level/charakter. Me thinks that Fox will be healing in the Big Balloon Adventure Deadpool as the biggest of the big events for a few years. And it opens up to a barrage of questions and options for Fox wannabe comics properties, but it is at the end of this week.

College students are a tender on ' friends '

College Students say it is not love, but the friendship that you are using dating application for.

In a survey of 100 college students, 73% ranked Tinder as your favorite dating app, followed by Bumble (13%) and OkCupid (10%). One student even stated Facebook as her favorite dating site.

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The survey, conducted by level jobs College startup WayUp (formerly Campus Job), asked the students of college about their dating habits.

Students say that they do not use Tinder – or other meetings applications – to this day. The majority (58%) said that they have never even gone to a date using popular applications.

53% say they use meetings applications to find friends, 27% said that they are seeking a significant other, and the smallest percentage, 20%, said they were looking for a connection.

It is not that the popularity of Amadou on University campuses has declined. The students of the College were among Tinder most active users when the service was launched in 2012. Amadou, who is owned by the Group Match now public (MTCH), says 50% of its members are in the college age group - 18-24.

Sydney Mastrandrea, a sophomore at the University of Miami, said that the fact that students say use the application to find friends is probably not the whole truth.

"I think people use [Tinder] random adapters rather than [find] friends-but they say it is for" friends ", so they are not judged,

By Jason Helfstein, an Internet analyst Oppenheimer & What., it does not matter why the students are using the application, there is the "value" in the Tinder-and Match Group.

Dating industry analyst Mark Brooks agrees.

"It helps people connect with the concept of internet dating," he said, as people begin to look more serious relations "will generally drift towards other services."

Those services, offer paid subscriptions. Tinder, on the other hand, only recently rolled out its Tinder Plus premium services in an attempt to start monetizing your application.

Those who pay for services may not be college students, though.

While the Tinder doesn,t describe the demographic information about its subscribers, online dating analyst said that it,s likely not a hit with the younger set. "There is no money for anyone under 22."

Saturday, February 20, 2016

Volvo Plans To Be First Automaker To Go Fully 'Keyless'

Volvo simply reported a move that ought to come as welcome news to the individuals who periodically lose their auto keys.

That is on the grounds that it needs to be the main automaker to shun physical keys and/or a remote key coxcomb out and out, maybe as right on time as 2017. In their place the organization would offer new-vehicle proprietors access to their automobiles by means of a cell phone application and Bluetooth remote innovation; they'd additionally have the capacity to open the storage compartment and begin the auto remotely also.

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Utilizing an application to open one's auto is not precisely another thought, but rather different automakers utilize it as an auxiliary, and not essential boulevard for access. For technophobes and others wedded to the present state of affairs, Volvo says it will keep on offering a physical key coxcomb to clients who demand it.

Besides, automaker imagines the innovation will help venturesome proprietors empower ride sharing to benefit as much as possible from their rides. They'll have the capacity to impart computerized keys to relatives, colleagues, and other assigned outsiders through their cellular telephones.

"Our creative computerized key innovation can possibly totally change how a Volvo can be gotten to and shared. Rather than sitting unmoving in a parking area the whole day, autos could be utilized all the more frequently and proficiently by whoever the proprietor wishes," says Henrik Green, Volvo Cars' VP item methodology and vehicle line administration.

Volvo is leading a test case program this spring with a ride-sharing armada at the Gothenburg airplane terminal in Sweden, and the innovation will be formally divulged one week from now at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The automaker says a predetermined number of monetarily accessible autos will be outfitted with computerized keys in 2017.

Unfortunately the technology could be of considerably less value to those who habitually misplace their smartphones.

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