Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Taste Change Before Periods

IE 9 How far is the best? Intro to Google Apps

"It's amazing how similar it is IE Chrome 9 to 10!" a friend told me a couple of days, and is that with the arrival of the new Internet Explorer 9 has generated great expectations among users (including me). Now I understand what my friend told me, IE 9 now points to a minimum, it seems that Internet Explorer is not that we're used to seeing. A particular interface similar to that of maximum use Chrome but the elegance of Windows Aero , as well as good integration with Windows 7 (something to be expected), but IE 9 Is the best browser on the market today? .

From my point of view, I am impartial as that I have no problem if I change my default browser with one that gives me more speed and functionality. Consulting on the web, I found that the latest versions of popular browsers are:
Well, there on the web tests to measure the performance of browsers, some evidence were designed by the same brands browser to test their own browsers, others are independent. He collected the tests performed by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes of www.zdnet.com on a PC with Windows 7 64-bit, Intel Q9300 Quad-Core 2.5 GHz, 4 GB RAM and a NVidia GTX 260 GPU, with the following results:

SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark : A test to JavaScript created by the developers of Webkit, used in Safari or Chrome.

Best: 32-bit IE 9
Worse 64-bit IE 9

More slow down a 64-bit software that a 32-bit? The answer is yes, and because IE 9 64-bit still uses a JavaScript engine slow and earlier versions of IE, while 32-bit IE 9 uses a new efficient engine called JIT Chakra.

V8 Benchmark: JavaScript A test used by Google for its V8 engine tune.

Best: Chrome 10
Worse 64-bit IE 9

Peacekeeper Benchmark: FutureMark test for stress testing JavaScript, animations, navigation and forms.

Best: Chrome 10
Worse Firefox 4

bechmark Kraken: JavaScript Another test developed by Mozilla based on SunSpider but with improvements.

Best: Firefox 4
Worse 64-bit IE 9

Conclusions
First, IE 9 64-bit is the same to their predecessors in both 64-bit and 32-bit, too slow, making it a good loser. Surprisingly it is not the same for IE 9 32-bit and that makes good reference to those of Redmon, also leave the suspicion that you have seen changes in other browsers and have wanted to join the same line. Its tight integration with Windows Aero makes it more attractive and considerably faster than previous versions.

entoces, with one less What is the best?. According to the 4 tests, Chrome 10 scored 2 points, IE 9 32-bit Firefox gained 1 point and 1 point 4 was also, in the strict sense Chorme 10 is the winner. However, in the SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark test deviation does not exceed 40 milliseconds, which might call it a tie, then the V8 Benchmark Test Chorme 10 is the outright winner, this be expected as Google, by his own admission, use this test to joust V8 JavaScript engine.

So which is it? No doubt 64-bit IE 9 is too bad, the other browsers in general are pretty even. IE 9 32-bit at this time surprises, but even Google does not make your last update and not takes to catch up, and this is a plus for Google not to have IE 9, and is the ability to update the browser, Chorme undoubtedly surprise us again. Microsoft has worked hard in IE, the browser having to pass slower one of the fastest, which is worthy of recognition.

Finally, today (and despite the efforts of Microsoft) Google Chorme remains one of the leading web browsing and I hope very soon launch its new update, which I think will beat the record again ; to be number 1 according to the tests for web browsers.

Monday, March 28, 2011

Brownies Uniforms From Around The World

Script

For more than a week with a couple friends of mine engineering, Mr. Ricardo Albarracin and Mr. Leonardo Gutierrez have begun the task of delving into Google Apps Script , (hereafter GAS). The idea came from looking for alternatives to automate the management of information in a user-friendly environment. At some point I noticed what a certain person could accomplish with Google Spreadsheets and from that moment I thought of the possibility of working on this tool, which is free from Google .

quickly note that GAS is based on JavaScript , an interpreted programming language , oriented prototypes and imperative. Although we had already had contact with this type of language and Mr. Albarracín Java for mobile application development, we began a process of rapprochement with GAS. Basically GAS is composed of classes and methods that greatly facilitates the use of the features of Google Docs precisely that of a Spreadsheet (Calculation Sheet) in our case, however we are subject to only the classes and methods that have been exposed and / or published by the team of Google Apps, which means that there is all this to master the 100% of its features, on the other hand the number of classes and methods are many and require attention every one of them.

Like everything about Google, the editor of GAS is simple and minimalist, you can easily start to program functions, knowing in advance the scripts to do so. For example, classes exposed to deal exclusively the Spreadsheets are

  • Class SpreadsheetApp
  • Class Spreadsheet
  • Class Sheet
  • Class Range.
is how we create our functions, used to define each of them, the general syntax of GAS. ClassName
. NombreMetodo ( argument1 , argument2 , ..., argument-n )
For example, to display a message box is must call the MsgBox class and pass Browser text Hello World! as an argument:
Browser. MsgBox ( "Hello World!" )
So in order to create and run the function that we planned to enter the Script Editor , this will create a Spreadsheet new and go to Tools> Script> Script Editor ...

Once there create a new sheet set by File> New menu is the name assigned to the new leaf, to assign a short description of this sheet. You can create as many worksheets as the programmer wishes, but it is normal just create one.

Then, once there, he proceeds to write the following code, for example, the new leaf:
function HelloWorld () {
Browser.msgBox ( "Hello World!" )
} To run it, is done through the Run menu> HelloWorld and go! Already we can see the code executed, which in this case is a text box with the message "Hello World!".

Well, we have begun this process and believe we can develop a good job with the GAS and Google Docs. For my part I hope to meet the objective of designing a Platform for Academic Administration to address enrollment information, notes and others in a school.

Later I will publish the progress, problems and issues that we find in the way of GAS, for now I keep a lot of expectation because as we all know we are using the tools of a large internet, Google.

Sunday, March 27, 2011

My Wife Wants A Black Bab

The energy problems in Japan

current economic development is based on energy from oil and nuclear power plants. In recent days, including the consequences of the earthquake on Japan's Fukushima nuclear power and the riots in the Arab world, has reopened the debate on energy dependence.

discussing this with a good friend, very particularly concerned by the consequences of the nuclear explosions, I express my conviction that we have enough scientific basis for having invented high energy sources. Another thing are the vested interests in the environment oil. Many powerful. Do not be so easy to change that.

A couple of days after that, brought me a document, of which transcribe a few paragraphs and that has much to do on this issue. It is a fact written by Dr. Eugene F. Marlowe, twice engineer at MIT and a Ph.D. in Public Health at Harvard. He was president of the New Energy Foundation and editor of the magazine Infinite Energy. Undoubtedly, one of the bravest scientists of the twentieth century and early twenty-first in the development of a new stage.

This is your last Letter:
"A world that all people are curious and open mind, with all my good will, and you have the ability to judge these things. For scientists and engineers, for philanthropy, environmentalists, energy experts, investors in high technology, health professionals, journalists, artists, writers, financiers, businessmen and political leaders see the reality. Whether you're conservative, liberal, Democrat, Republican or an anarchist, not matter, does not even matter if you're agnostic, Buddhist, Christian, Jew, Hindu, Muslim, atheist, or any other spiritual belief, this message addressed to all people of good will as ye.

Dear friend:
start with the memory of those wise men, who have always struggled to bring knowledge to mankind, and they have been ignored until the future was to agree, this is a sincere call, I want it to support research and development of new forms of energy because they are viable and will surely mark a new beginning and dawn for humanity.

(...)

Physics is free and sometimes goes into bounded territories apparently due to the interests of a few who do not give up their current benefits.

On many occasions, despite the favorable results, rejecting viable projects not easily be economically profitable for multinational corporations or the interests of a few. New generations have to wake up and see things with new eyes, must be able to take criticism with enthusiasm and ability to close economist of his predecessors, must erradicara dependence of some institutions that seek to enslave humanity only on all orders life. The young physicists can not forget the past and I ask to take a break with the task of the present uncertainties. Percy W. Bridgman, Nobel Prize in Physics (1946).

For example, the Nobel Prize in Physics 1988, Leo M. Lederman, is not in favor of the search for radically new forms of energy. It is a skeptical "pathological", but nevertheless, he feels that somehow we are at the threshold of the revolution in physics.

(...)

solutions to our energy problems are available, and certainly require investigation and the necessary initial investment, but it is not billions of dollars.

Modern science has overlooked and ignored major scientific discoveries that would be mainstays in technology, and almost entirely resolve the main problems of our civilization? Yes, it has. Not go into the long list of horrors to which many can lead if this technology is used for purposes bèl.liques. I prefer to speak of those that can help humanity to attain a new paradigm and help to solve problems.

Or perhaps you thought that all this does not exist at all? I can assure you there, and now thousands of scientists are aiming in this direction. Surely we have not yet reached our goals, but thanks to a thorough and scientific research that requires enormous sacrifice and work, the goals are now much closer to achieving it. The way in scientific sense, is already marked. Now we need the support of everyone to move forward and reach our common destination: a world with abundant energy, clean and safe, away from centralized geopolitical control. Please heed this call, do not remain arms crossed.

(...)

The research covers the Infinite Energy magazine disclosure suggests that there are at least three major categories of radically new energy sources that Civilization is about to be able to take advantage of technologies to reduce and practices:
- Category 1: Physics of hydrogen, commonly known as cold fusion. This would be non-polluting energy, would not hazardous radiation and also has a zero fuel cost. Only a cubic kilometer of seawater would provide energy equivalent to all the known oil reserves on Earth.
- Category 2: Power vacuum, or Zero Point Energy.
- Category 3: Energy and environmental heat sensitive.

What about solar, wind or hydrogen fuel cells? These are fine, and Infinite Energy also devotes a small space to write on them, but in the future which need plenty of energy, clean energy has almost no chance to escape of good intentions, beneficial, but extremely limited energies of these and other conventional energies.

(...)"

days ago jumped on the covers of alternative means the attempt of the media and some scientific journals ridiculing the proposed cold fusion by Andrea Rossi and Sergio Focardi. The magnitude of this research suggests that there is a viable technology that uses available materials and communism does not produce CO2 or radioactive and has the advantage of being very economical, both from the standpoint of production and the implementation.

The reason why this show has been censored and rejected for publication in scientific journals is not interested in large corporations assume an energy system based on wealth management .

always end up clashing with the oligarchy that has all the power. But new technologies have opened a channel to spread cheap and almost universal. This also means that the population as a budget loaded authoritarian regimes in Egypt and Tunisia, which had a budget for his immense cornification, the issue of new energy sources could pass something similar. And while many hares running.