La Tortue Cynique / The Cynical Turtle

Tenkû no Shiro Laputa (Castle In The Sky) in theaters soon

At least Laputa is released here. I failed to mention that I was looking for this soundtrack, soon released by ULM / Universal. I wanted to know if it was the 1986 or the 1999 version of the score. It's clear after seeing the release official site that this is the 1986's one.

By the way, this site is painful, completely in Flash, slow as Hell, with some silly JavaScript blocked by Mozilla (hopefully, I like pop-up prevention) if you reach the normal welcome page.(Cyberpunk, 2003/06/11 04:06) lien permanent

Comments on "What's New in Visual Studio .NET 2003"

Found a reference on OSNews on this article[3leaf.com]. I can't resist to comment some parts.

There are a couple of things worth pointing out right off the bat. First you can (and may have to) install both VS 2002 and VS 2003 on the same machine at the same time. They will operate side-by-side just fine.

Wow! It's exceptionnal, a MS software that manages to not mess too much with the registry! Two rounds of applause!

You can even install Visual Studio 6, VS 2002, and VS 2003 Final Beta, all on Windows .NET Server RC2.

Who wants to install an IDE on a server? The free cash era is dead guys.

As usual, VB leads with productivity and IDE enhancements.

Followed by some stunning things:

• procedure separators: VB coders apparently need a line drawn between the methods
• context-sensitive object and method drop-down menu: champagne!
• automatic skeleton when implementing an interface: well, I've this for almost 3 years in JDEE...
• abbrev mode: type try and you've got a "Try catch end try"... hmm, abbrev.el, ©1985, 1986, 1987, 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc... another killer feature...

One new feature with VB .NET is that you can now declare variables right inside of loops. [...] They've also added in bit shift operators for VB.NET.

The clone wasn't finished? I'm surprised.

You can now build mobile applications (which use either ASP .NET Mobile Controls for targeting browser-enabled cell phones, or Smart Device Applications for targeting the Pocket PC) without downloading any extra extensions.

So either you're online with a browser or you've got a Pocket PC... hmm... I think there are higher priorities right now. But it's nice you don't have to pay more (what's the price already? 1900€?) for such a little market share.

There's really nothing bad to say about VS 2003.

At least there is something new!

Les limites de l'expression publique

Dans l'affaire de Lyon Mag et des producteurs de beaujolais, le Lyon Mag va peut-être un petit loin dans la mauvaise foi. Leur interviewé fait une descente en règle du beaujolais, dans le style à part les dix crus du beaujolais, tous les autres ne font qu'un jus chimique à partir de raisin pour gagner beaucoup d'argent rapidement (que j'exprime en termes polis). Etant donné que ce n'est pas la vérité, ce genre de propos n'est pas normal dans un journal à diffusion publique.
La deuxième interview, avec un journaliste beaucoup moins courtois et qui a visiblement pris fait et cause pour le premier interviewé, est aussi intéressante à lire. A la lecture de ces deux interviews, ce qui ressort est la mise en cause du modèle économique des vins du Beaujolais, plus que de leur qualité elle-même. La cible désignée est Georges Dubœuf, figure de proue du Beaujolais Nouveau et très influant auprès de la coopérative.
Le Lyon Mag prend donc un chemin déguisé pour attaquer cette politique commerciale, qui consiste à obtenir de l'argent de l'Union Européenne pour changer sa stratégie de distribution et de publicité, et en profite pour attaquer bassement tous les producteurs.
Là-dessus, le Lyon Mag est condamné "sans avoir pu se défendre" dixit un de leur représentant ce matin sur France-Info... enfin bon...(Regional news, 2003/06/11 04:03) lien permanent

Sans titre

Meg finds salade niçoise better in New-York than in Paris... but did she tasted it in Nice at least?(Tout venant, 2003/06/11 03:58) lien permanent