12-19-2024, 02:57 PM
Jzqw Shooting Challenge Gallery: Plunge II
Now that the first trailer for Iron Man 3 is out, we ;ve all seen our first glimpse of the Mandarin, Tony Stark biggest adversary in the comics. The Mandarin is sort of a Fu Manchu knock-off, who was describ stanley cup ed as a racist caricature by none other than Shane Black, the director of Iron Man 3. So even if Iron Man 3 wasn ;t a co-prod stanley kubek uction with China, chances are the studio would have toned down the character a lot. How good a job did they do of removing the weird racial subtext from the character And how does it work to cast the Anglo-Indian Ben Kingsley in the role We asked some real-life Asian comics nerds, including one Marvel Comics writer, for their thoughts. Marjorie M. Liu is the author of the Dirk 038; Steele series and the Hunter Kiss series, and she also written a lot of Marvel comics over the years, including Astonishing X-Men, Dark Wolverine, NYX and X-23. She tells us: The Mandarin is pretty much a direct descendent of the Fu Man stanley quencher chu yellow peril caricature-at best Orientalist, at worst, racist. The diabolic Asiatic is a hoary Hollywood staple 鈥?one of many stereotypes that Asian Americana have long had to endure whether it the Fu Manchu, the Kung Fu master, the Dragon Lady, or the bucktooth nerd. What amazing is that China through its economic might has succeeded in extracting from Hollywood what civil rights groups and Asian American petitions have been unable to: more respectful representatio Giin These Android Music Apps Could Keep You From Getting Run Over by a Car
We ;ve talked plenty about the flaws inherent in stanley spain Apple Maps, and where it differ stanley kubek s from Google Maps on paper. But how wide is the disparity between the two in actuality We stacked two iPhone 4Ses side-by-side one running iOS 5, one running iOS 6, both on wi-fi with GPS on , and let the two mapping apps do battle. https://gizmodo/17-people-apple-maps-has...ed-5944897 The result Apple has a lot of work to do if it wants to catch up with Google. Overall, both apps seem to find U.S. locales without much of an issue, but the Google Maps app is faster at fetching locations, and has a more efficient UI design for calling upon directions. Apple turn-by-turn navigation system seems to kick into action quicker than Google static driving directions do. Routing directions vary on minor levels, but both seems to get you to the same locations in roughly the same time and distance. When calling upon public transit, Apple Maps has to use third-party apps, which will take you out of the app completely adding time and inconvenience , while Google Maps quickly plots the most efficient route. Then there the case of international locations. Apple Maps does not handle them well at all. Simply type in Heathrow, stanley quencher and you get some random location in the US. Google Maps knows you mean the airport. Ask for the legendary-but-now-defunct Spanish restaurant El Bulli and its the same result for Apple Maps. Google Maps, on the other hand, gives you the locat
Now that the first trailer for Iron Man 3 is out, we ;ve all seen our first glimpse of the Mandarin, Tony Stark biggest adversary in the comics. The Mandarin is sort of a Fu Manchu knock-off, who was describ stanley cup ed as a racist caricature by none other than Shane Black, the director of Iron Man 3. So even if Iron Man 3 wasn ;t a co-prod stanley kubek uction with China, chances are the studio would have toned down the character a lot. How good a job did they do of removing the weird racial subtext from the character And how does it work to cast the Anglo-Indian Ben Kingsley in the role We asked some real-life Asian comics nerds, including one Marvel Comics writer, for their thoughts. Marjorie M. Liu is the author of the Dirk 038; Steele series and the Hunter Kiss series, and she also written a lot of Marvel comics over the years, including Astonishing X-Men, Dark Wolverine, NYX and X-23. She tells us: The Mandarin is pretty much a direct descendent of the Fu Man stanley quencher chu yellow peril caricature-at best Orientalist, at worst, racist. The diabolic Asiatic is a hoary Hollywood staple 鈥?one of many stereotypes that Asian Americana have long had to endure whether it the Fu Manchu, the Kung Fu master, the Dragon Lady, or the bucktooth nerd. What amazing is that China through its economic might has succeeded in extracting from Hollywood what civil rights groups and Asian American petitions have been unable to: more respectful representatio Giin These Android Music Apps Could Keep You From Getting Run Over by a Car
We ;ve talked plenty about the flaws inherent in stanley spain Apple Maps, and where it differ stanley kubek s from Google Maps on paper. But how wide is the disparity between the two in actuality We stacked two iPhone 4Ses side-by-side one running iOS 5, one running iOS 6, both on wi-fi with GPS on , and let the two mapping apps do battle. https://gizmodo/17-people-apple-maps-has...ed-5944897 The result Apple has a lot of work to do if it wants to catch up with Google. Overall, both apps seem to find U.S. locales without much of an issue, but the Google Maps app is faster at fetching locations, and has a more efficient UI design for calling upon directions. Apple turn-by-turn navigation system seems to kick into action quicker than Google static driving directions do. Routing directions vary on minor levels, but both seems to get you to the same locations in roughly the same time and distance. When calling upon public transit, Apple Maps has to use third-party apps, which will take you out of the app completely adding time and inconvenience , while Google Maps quickly plots the most efficient route. Then there the case of international locations. Apple Maps does not handle them well at all. Simply type in Heathrow, stanley quencher and you get some random location in the US. Google Maps knows you mean the airport. Ask for the legendary-but-now-defunct Spanish restaurant El Bulli and its the same result for Apple Maps. Google Maps, on the other hand, gives you the locat
