It is not unusual walk through the huge markets of Bangkok and Chiang Mai and be face to face with the named Ronald McHitler, a popular hybrid of the Nazi leader and the McDonalds clown, printing thousands of shirts and other decorative objects.
The Nazi paraphernalia emerges between the army of souvenirs offered to the public interested in some stalls. Not only that: there are also boutiques, where they buy their twenties more "modern", which sell garments inspired by the symbols of the Third Reich.
Foreigners (especially Europeans and Americans) can not hide the horror or surprise that produces such a discovery. The Western press also puts his hands to his head from time to time.
A year ago the Internet circulated photos of a youth parade in which, against a backdrop of swastikas on the street, everyone was dressed in "stormtrooper" or the black uniform of the SS. Snapshots were seen around the world and left the astonished cyberspace.
The latest scandal was caused by a few weeks ago a series of photos with that Ronald McHitler protagonist.
The question is why. It is often said that the horrors of German National Socialism are relative, and that Hitler left a psychological scar in Asia comparable to that haunting Europe from end to end.
It has also been told it is not exclusively Asian phenomenon: in Europe the image of Hitler before anywhere else in the world, has been used on shirts and jackets for the sole purpose of causing consternation among the respectable citizens. The strongest evidence is the punk movement.
In addition, those seeking to explain the issue say that the West invented pop culture and fashion Nazi is just an expression of the same Asian-another joke in a world whose cultural hub is the irony.
In Europe, every summer, sold thousands of shirts with the hammer and sickle on a red background, or the smiling face of Joseph Stalin. Mao Tse Tung is also a joy pop between Western youth unconscious.
Stalin and Mao, unlike Hitler, are synonymous with absolute evil, and therefore taboo in many countries outside Europe.
On the other hand, inclined anthropological observers emphasize the antiquity of the Swastika, a religious symbol spread in Asia for millennia.
But this is an explanation that relativism only adds to an issue that already is relative. Thai youth (and other countries like Japan, where Nazism is also "chic") unknown to Hitler, or not think about it rather than aesthetic relic of the past.
In Europe it is hard to forget Hitler, but not because people remember the horrors of war, but because the theme is always a "best seller", and certainly nothing about what has been written over in history.
It is clear that the goals of fashion Nazi in Thailand are purely ornamental and are devoid of ideological content. The swastika, for many people, is a symbol of style as any.
Finally, the press tends to ignore a fact to be shocked: Although sold in Thai markets in broad daylight, it is easy to see people wearing shirts of the Fuhrer. It is simply a marginal fashion. So much so that it would be difficult to call it "fashion."
The Spotify team has decided to make his Facebook page a timeline of music history. Spotify takes over the moments of its evolution, starting with the experiences of music theorists of the Catholic church in 1000 until today, to Frank Sinatra and gangsta rap.
The list is exhaustive and you can walk forward through the ages. Although the twentieth century precedents are interesting, it really is since 1900 that the line becomes more animated. Spotify promises that it is only the beginning and will continue to improve their online time in the coming weeks.
Unfortunately, the service is still not available in Canada, then it remains impossible to listen to most music available. The company also promises that their service will soon be available.
Happened was this: Evelyn Fasool, 83 years old and former CEO of fur manufacturing company in Manhattan, was on her way to an Apple store in Long Island entry into a glass. If you think she went there to buy an iPhone or iPad grandchild (or Lenin), her Apparently it is in a more modern woman than you think, and all she went to change the iPhone was possessed. when she wanted to enter the store, she collided head-glass wall that has not seen, smashed her face and broke her nose.
According to the lawyer "Apple wants to show a cool and attract lovers of technology, but on the other hand, society should understand this design affects certain people." The old woman is suing Apple for negligence in the amount of $ 75,000 dollars on medical costs and an extra million for emotional distress, claiming that Apple uses the glass doors are difficult to distinguish, without paying any warning signs. The old woman's lawyer states unequivocally that he knows Slkshish have vision good for her age, and Apple is a company designed primarily for young people and students (who are attracted to this design), but Apple wants to understand that even the elderly are the customers for everything.
Apple reassures the users complained that the new iPad's battery continues to charge even after it's loaded - it seems the problem is actually a planned feature which is incorporated Device; Apple's vice president: "This is a great feature that has always been in iOS"
The noise around the mishaps of the device the new iPad refuses to relax. After complaints that is too warm, delicate, fragile, heavy, eliminates data packages and more, now began to various sites on the network to report problems with his battery charge.
According to the reports relied on the testimonies of users, the new iPad continues to charge the battery even after the annihilation shows that the battery is charged Melua.
Just before the malfunction has become a mini-scandal, the company Apple was quick to respond and stated that the defect is not a defect or malfunction at all but an advanced feature designed to keep the iPad's battery while connected to a charger for extended periods. They argue that this feature also exists in other devices Apple, such as the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Apple's devices show that they are charged one hundred percent before the battery itself is charged at full capacity. At this point the device will be loaded to full capacity of the battery, then stop the load and unload the battery naturally to the lower limit of 95 percent capacity - and then the charging process will start again.
Apple vice president, Michael Ttz'ao, suggesting that this feature allows the machine to maintain the optimal charging mode. "PCB is designed so that it allows you to keep your device connected to a charger for how long you want," says Mr. Ttz'ao, "This is a great feature that has always been in iOS".
In addition, Mr. Ttz'ao noted that the new iPad will provide the battery promises 10 hours from the moment Apple device shows that it is fully charged, regardless of the condition of the battery capacity.
Though now we have not heard any official word Sonny on its next-generation console, and the formal unveiling, we expect to see only in a few months if not more, it seems that it did not interfere with new rumors and speculation to leak out. Today we have reported the site Kotaku on new information and important information about what supposedly will be Sony's next Playstation. According to the site, the information reached many anonymous sources not authorized to speak publicly but they are reliable.
Circle of Life
So what we know so far? We know the Playstation new call code-named "Orbis" Scshhlk interesting is when you take this word and connect it with " Vita "(Portable Software Sony's new), we get two words in the phrase" life cycle "in Latin, which may be kind of a nudge to something we are expected to see the future and perhaps lead the slogan advertising campaign Sony console. Meanwhile, is not known whether this will be the final name of the device or just a code name the company gives him while he is under development, such as the NGP sample, which later turned to PS Vita . Also report the number of PlayStation 4 in apparently we can not play games we bought used or exchanged with friends. Console is expected to be the kind of safeguards built in to prevent us from playing games used, and each game we have acquired will actually locked on one PSN-account, which requires the users to play when connected to PlayStation Network , and are enabled game offline. Yes, the same network that has been disabled for a few days after that was begun last year by the Organization of anonymous hackers and stolen from her personal information about users and no one is promising that a case like this will not come back again.
Goodbye PS3 Games
Yes, it seems that Sony will do what she did to date with all the new console issued by and say goodbye beautiful PS3 game that probably will become a thing of the past. Sony is expected to remove the cells in PS4 (or Orbis) with current console games and not allow their operation next PlayStation.
What about specification? The Orbis is expected to offer AMD x64, and graphics card series of the Southern Islands of AMD, (code name for a series of graphics cards have powerful AMD) resolution support up to 4096 × 2160, (resolution is very high relative standard in the market today, at least for now) or 1080p 3D mode. The console is expected to receive an official launch sometime in the middle of the holiday season in the U.S. in 2013 and by then we'll have to wait patiently for further verifications for newly brought.
What was intended to go through a great marketing move by the company promoting Windows Phone has come into its opposite. The reason: a competition organized in a store in the U.S. where a moving company would face against any participant with Android. The final victory of a Samsung Nexus Galaxy finished with Microsoft denied the prize.
Occurred in Santa Clara and the media have echoed through the news blog of the youth who won the odd competition. Microsoft Store hosted a challenge believing that the company's OS was faster than Android. The game was to see how mobile widgets loaded faster 2 time in two different cities . The prize, a laptop valued at $ 1,000.
As Young explains in his blog, had to sign a waiver accepting that the company used a photo of him in their advertising. After the signing was in line at the "challenge". The user explains that carrying a Samsung Galaxy Nexus with the latest Android OS via the network of Verizon Wireless.
Under competition, the young should take the phone off to begin the challenge:
When I get to the store employee of Microsoft with whom I was going to face the challenge communicating clearly explains that "the first time offering two different cities wins." I felt I had hit the jackpot because I had two installed widgets at startup time, one for my current location and one for Berkeley, and moreover my smartphone had no lockscreen .
Microsoft believed instead that started with an advantage because its Windows Phone also had the default widget setting.
The result once the competition began was that after three seconds the young man had won:
I pressed the power button on my phone and said "done" out loud. Without the default lock screen when you turn appeared directly the two widgets.
In contrast to Microsoft's cost a fraction of a second later as he had to do two things. The first was to light the screen ... and the second unlock the smartphone .
The response was unlikely the company had not won. Microsoft says the young man who was lost "because." After discussions with several employees of the store (we assume they did not expect the outcome), tells the young man was not showing the time of two cities in different states .
Not only that, after the "new" argument employees remind the young man who signed a picture with the advertising company. A sign that read: " My Android was beaten by a Windows Phone . "
Incredible but true. The young man just entering wondering the purpose of the "strategy" of Marketing. If the issue was to demonstrate the WP highlights of the results had not been ineffective. In any case challenges the company to a rematch at any time.
I would be happy to return at beating a Windows phone with my Android ...
