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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: Microsoft LiveLabs Volta
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 07 00:49:21 GMT
Microsoft LiveLabs Volta
“JavaScript is just an assembly language,says Live Labs
product manager Alex Daley.”
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=480
See, VD? I told you so…
http://mv.asterisco.pt/2007/Nov/cat.cgi?Slowly%20but%20Surely
— MV
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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: Nintendo ES OS
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 07 20:57:21 GMT
Inside Nintendo’s ES Open-Source Operating System
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=16503
Nintendo ES Operating System on JavaScript
http://ajaxian.com/archives/nintendo-es-operating-system-on-javascript
Must be the US Xmas shopping but they are about 1 week behind
the geezer! (a little bit whoa!, a little bit wheeee!)…
http://mv.asterisco.pt/2007/Nov/cat.cgi?Its%20Official,%20Javascript%20is%20the%20Next%20Big%20Thing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKNBPIMsCwU
— MV
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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: Fish at Aula Magna
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 07 01:22:21 GMT
Just got back from the Fish concert at Aula Magna.
– opening act Forgotten Suns sucked; the singer either
got stagefright or stressed his voice during soundcheck;
halfway through he had to give up; I guess singing in
a real stage isnt the same as singing in bars
– the light technicians sucked; its not obligatory to
know the songs so that you can create a complimentary
ambience to them; but you should at least have some
feeling and know what each button on the board does
– Fish sucked; the band cant provide the ambience
demanded by the songs on the setlist; the setlist
sucks because it was a mish mash of Marillion’s Straws
album and Fish songs; the arrangements and orchestrations
for the songs sucked because the band sucks; and Fish
sucked by completely fucking up most of the songs by
either being out of tune or forgetting the lyrics
I do not enjoy paying 35 Euro to see bad cover bands,
so, Fish, do us a favour and get back with Marillion. They
cant write lyrics to save their lives but you sure suck
at harmonics and melodics.
The only person more pissed off than me was my
brother: yesterday Scorpions sucked even harder.
— MV
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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: JavaScript in All of the Tiers
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 07 01:28:21 GMT
http://almaer.com/blog/javascript-in-all-of-the-tiers
“There have been some exciting updates which now mean that
JSON is the data representation of choice, and for views,
you can simply use JavaScript functions”
http://jan.prima.de/~jan/plok/archives/89-CouchDb-updates.html
Yes, quite nice, but that doesnt really mean “Javascript in
all of the tiers”. With CouchDB being written in Erlang, there’s
a tier which is not Javascript. Now, if someone could come up
with CouchDB but written in Javascript… that would be something.
For example, offline use would become easier…
Nonetheless “Programming CouchDB with Javascript” is starting
to get interesting…
http://jan.prima.de/~jan/plok/archives/108-Programming-CouchDB-with-Javascript.html
Probably the theme for the week, once I go to and get back
from….. yep, Brussels, for a change… you gotta love it…
http://www.eu2007.pt/UE/vEN/Reunioes_Eventos/ConselhosMinistros/CJAI9.htm
— MV
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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: Saude, Educacao e Direitos
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 07 21:07:21 GMT
E que nao falha: sempre que oico alguem a papaguear
“ah e tal a saude e a educacao sao direitos de todos
e portanto tem de ser publicos”, nao tarda nem cinco
minutos para ouvir a parte do “mas para os meus filhos
nao serve, como posso eu mando-os para a escola e para
o hospital particular”…
E de hipocrisia, incoerencia e imoralidade atrozes.
O problema esta na interpretacao do que e um “direito”.
E que ter um “direito” nao e ter uma *garantia*; ter um
“direito” e poder ter livre acesso (livre as in freedom,
not as in gratis) a algo, se a esse algo se puder alcancar…
Health Care Is Not A Right
“Government intervention in medicine is immoral in principle and
. . . disastrous in practice. No man . . . has a right to medical
care; if he cannot pay for what he needs, then he must depend on
voluntary charity. Government financing of medical expenses . . .
even if it is for only a fraction of the population, necessarily
means eventual enslavement of the doctors and, as a result, a
profound deterioration in the quality of medical care for everyone,
including the aged and the poor.”
[Leonard Peikoff, “Medicine: The Death of a Profession,”
http://www.aynrand.org/site/News2?id=13873&page=NewsArticle
— MV
