Commuters, kids, business travelers and anyone on the move: How would
you like to carry a lite-weight version of your computer on your wrist?
While Cloud Computing is definitely the wave of the future, with
hundreds of millions of PCs shipping each year, a good amount of today’s
computing happens locally. And to that end, StormFly has found the
answer to moving complete operating systems between devices, quickly,
easily and securely.
Just when you thought you couldn’t get enough of zombies combing the
post-apocalyptic landscape, in walks another herd titling the genre
either backwards or forward, dependent on your point of view. So much
so, that your next popcorn outing might just include walking dead
sweethearts, just in time for Valentine’s Day.
’30 Rock’ Reinvented Situation Comedy, While Biting The Hand That Feeds [Videos]
Posted in: Today's ChiliTina Fey’s 30 Rock was a surreal sitcom that turned the genre on
its head. High and low-brow comedy are treated as equals where
punch-drunk punchlines often sail over the heads of even the most
die-hard Feysians! To reinvent the 30-minute format, Fey also stole a
page out of David Letterman’s playbook – that is, disparaging jabs at
its own TV network.
George Orwell’s ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ written in 1949 appears to have
entered the world’s zeitgeist almost 30 years later than the author’s
prognostication. The satirical novel set in the fictional country of
Oceania describes a dystopian society tyrannized by omnipresent
government surveillance. Today, the TV Show ‘Person of Interest’
introduces a similar theme by replacing Orwell’s ‘Big Brother’ with ‘The
Machine.‘ Is a world of paranoia within our midst?
In the days of Downton Abbey, class distinctions were fairly
straightforward. There were the folks that owned the Abbey, the folks
that aspired to own the Abbey and then those that slaved over hot ovens,
spit and shined boots, delivered room service and scrubbed toilets.
Today those distinctions have blurred significantly where demographics
and psychographics tend to label you by your preferences.