Another Wee Bit Before Bed Time

 All very pointless really...( Said in a very proper english accent)

Conducting both surveys and EEG scans, Microsoft has published a study suggesting that the average attention span has fallen precipitously since the start of the century. 

While people could focus on a task for 12 seconds back in 2000, that figure dropped to 8 seconds in 2013 (about one second less than a goldfish).

 Reportedly, a lot of that reduction stems from a combination of smartphones and an avalanche of content.

 The study found also a sunny side: while presence of technology is hurting attention spans overall, it also appears to improve person's abilities to both multitask and concentrate in short bursts.

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 An ear-to-the-ground reports:

... that Kim Dotcom views Hillary Clinton as "an enemy of online freedom." 

Hilary's candidacy came up when Kim was asked about a tweet he made in which he called himself "Hillary's worse nightmare in 2016." 

He says now that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange would probably be a bigger headache for Clinton. 

 "I'm aware of some of the things that are going to be roadblocks for her," he added. 

Dotcom said he hoped to expand the influence of the Internet Party and provide some transparency.

 Brietbart adds that a conflict between Assange and Clinton may have personal motivations, but it also seems inevitable.

 Hillary is obsessive about maintaining control of information. 

 She created a personal server in her home to handle her emails as Secretary of State and then deleted all the contents after self-selecting the emails she believed were work-related.

 Assange is famous for parceling out secret information. He has access to information.” 

Pressed on what that information might be, Kim claimed not to know the details. 

 As for why Kim and Assange might feel antipathy toward Hillary, Kim explained, “Hillary hates Julian… she’s just an adversary of, I think, internet freedom.”

  Perhaps, if he really does have damaging information on Hillary, Assange is awaiting the right moment to reveal it.

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Folks don't try this at home...

As Microsoft prepares for the launch of Windows 10, review sites have been performing all sorts of benchmarks on the tech preview to evaluate how well the operating system will run.

 But now a computer science student named Alex King has made the most logical performance evaluation of all: testing Windows 10's performance on a 2015 MacBook.

 He says, "Here's the real kicker: it's fast. 

It's smooth. 

It renders at 60FPS unless you have a lot going on.

 It's unequivocally better than performance on OS X, further leading me to believe that Apple really needs to overhaul how animations are done. 

Even when I turn Transparency off in OS X, Mission Control isn't completely smooth.

Here, even after some Aero Glass transparency has been added in, everything is smooth. 

 It's remarkable, and it makes me believe in the 12-inch MacBook more than ever before.

 So maybe it's ironic that in some regards, the new MacBook runs Windows 10 (a prerelease version, at that) better than it runs OS X."

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 This comic book-esque movie "Mad Max" Fury Road is very high octane and corny as all get out.

 

I went and saw it in 3D Friday.

Warner Brothers has a hit! (At least with me.)

My favorite part of the movie? 

The flame throwing guitarist on a massive truck outfitted with large speakers and four large drums with seated drummers in the rear.
 


I made a deal with my wife that if she would go with me to see this movie I would agree to going with her to one "Chick Flick."

She hated this movie and couldn't wait for it to be over.

While I enjoyed everybit of it's insane dude flickedness.

Dudes you have to see this movie!

It has a moral to it somewhere but I was way to busy taking in all of the action to figure it out.

The chick flick I have am required to go see with my wife?

"Far From The Madding Crowd."

UGH!

To cleanse my movie going pallet I am going to go see Mad Max again in normal 2D mode.

I have followed all of the Mad Max movies from the beginning and this one did not disappoint in the least bit.

Although the spotlight is not on Max this time around. Big deal! We'll get over it.

☼ ☼ ☼ ☼ ☼ 5 Stars Warner Brothers!

Some "men" types did not like this movie apparently:

Men's Rights Activists Call For Boycott of Mad Max: Fury Road

 Aaron Clarey, author of the blog Return of Kings and prominent figure in the Men's Rights Movement, is calling for a boycott of George Miller's new edition to the Mad Max franchise "Mad Max: Fury Road," calling the film a "Trojan Horse feminists and Hollywood leftists will use to (vainly) insist on the trope women are equal to men in all things..."

Critics have been applauding the film, which currently scores 98% on RottenTomatoes.