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The buyer has become increasingly difficult

January 30, 2009

The crisis is already here with official certification, now that the Bank of Spain says that we are in recession (as if we knew what our pockets already, and do not notice) is changing many things.


One of the changes that are seeing is another twist to the distribution policies in supermarkets. Large supermarket chains (there is much talk of Mercadona, but I'm sure you all do) are committed to becoming more costly to purchase.


Mercadona has explicitly announced that it will reduce its brands sold in supermarkets. In addition to selling will reduce the size and presentation of brands to be sold dignar. That is perhaps the band Lecha "Happy Cow" but only 1.5 liters bottles. If you want the 1 liter bottle, then is not, nor that of 0.3 liters. The excuse that it is by reducing their logistics costs, get better prices for their customers. But if you're a customer who want to 1 liter bottle, because if you buy the more you have to pull over, then you'll get fat saves.


And as I say, not only does Mercadona, but nearly all supermarkets. There are several products that I almost can not eat. What I have here sometimes, but if you like yogurt brands that are not white or Danone, in my village not going to find. So to make the purchase, my wife has to make logistical preparations for a championship. We carry a list of what we need to buy. That list should then be divided among the supermarkets where they sell everything. So the cookies for breakfast that you like my daughter are the Hiberber. But he likes my son are in the MasyMas. I do not fault the palates of my children are well. The brand of milk that I like to me (I'm so weird) MasyMas is in the bottle with screw cap of 1.5 liters. But that just drink milk and I prefer tetrabric 1 liter to buy it because Mercadona, which still brought. And that could continue with the pasta, pizza, canned, soft drinks. If I like the CocaCola Light, because only see the Zero almost anywhere?. At the end instead of going to one place to buy, at least to go to three sites. So little savings, because the increase in time spent on the purchase, discomfort, take the car, parking is worse ....


And supermarkets are becoming more aparicencia cloned among them, seem to resemble more and at worst, the paucity of choice. I see no problems in promoting their brands who want white, but let the others too, because everyone knows what he wants. And the white marks also hold a danger of breaking the monotony and innovation. Let me explain, the white marks are not advertised, are subject to known and established products in the market. Those who get new products to market, manufacturers are under its own brand. Those with research departments. What incentive to innovate is going to have a juice maker to present a more natural juice with your brand, if the two months to put up for sale, the white mark appears in the same juice cheaper. So to dismiss the research and manufacture the same juice forever.


And under this policy choice is spreading to other areas of our lives: politics, education, technology ... the idea is that we are free to choose among the fewer choices the better.

Rangerfans (Kindle Edition) newly tagged “blog”

January 30, 2009

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Learn how a CMS by creating a very simple

January 30, 2009

PHP para principiantes Through Computer Practice, I find a very interesting article for those interested in web programming: how to create your own CMS in PHP.


Article is in English and used to learn how to operate basic systems so widespread as Wordpress, noting as interacts with MySQL PHP . As the author says, "does not hurt to take a look under the hood and get an idea of how the system works."


The tutorial addresses the following topics:



  • Create a database.

  • Connect to a database.

  • Show a form with two fields.

  • Save form data in the database.

  • Show the data to be saved.


An excellent article expand knowledge if you're interested in this and not go beyond placing Wordpress plugins, which can carry only a few hours of application. Ideal if you are learning PHP, so you can go beyond what is there. By the way, is included with a small ZIP files already created as a supplement.


Tutorial: PHP for beginners: building your first simple CMS



Analysis of the nVidia 295GTX

January 29, 2009

Went on sale two weeks ago, long, but I step. So today when I saw a great analysis in Castilian MadBoxPC the card, because I remembered that ho had written anything about it.


This card nVidia again put at the head of competition for more powerful graphics card market. This model achieves oust the Ati 4870X2. To achieve this, use the same system. They have got two chips GT200 and have united in a single card using the SLI.


So if you want to play in a big way and have a monitor at least 22 "(better yet more) this is your card. If it develops a good source of food to feed the beast and a good processor, but it is money thrown away. And speaking of money, has not come out as expensive as other news from nVidia. And imagine that Ati be thinking a little lower in the price of the 4870X2, now that it no longer reigns ...

Affection cuélgame table

January 29, 2009

andalusia honey, look at me that the laptop is slow.


The time change is an outrage, but there are things that remain the same. Before the women expected her husband to hang the pictures, take and make blackdecker holes. Or to change a light bulb or fix the dripping faucet. But now, now part of the male partner, which is responsible for installing antivirus laptop, seeing as the computer is not a printer or Internet wrinkle leaves ...


Y spends more on that in couples in marriages or domestic partnerships. It is as if during the courtship, the man had to prove their technological skills to conquer women.


I imagine that more than one reader of the blog you get me to do the above statements. But I refer to the facts. I have all the PCs that come days and come to the workshop by one of these ways:



  • Is the girlfriend of my laptop. It was not the Internet, and you reinstall Windows, I got a virus, but now is not the sound or WebCam and I do not clarify. If not back in two days killed me everything perfect, you can look fast?

  • As the PC was slow, my boyfriend will not change what I know now is not the Sims, if you do not know how you let me touch it.

  • Look to see that it happens that my boyfriend was not formatted, and now are the photos of the last two years.


And a warning for boyfriends before format the computer to the bride, very careful not to backup, then the consequences can be dire, very dire, as happened to the boyfriend of the third paragraph above.


But it is something that is determined by age, forming a sort of Gaussian distribution. According to the 40 arrived, the thing is balanced, coming in many cases come to the woman's husband with the laptop, so you take a look. And with increasing age, is repeated for the young, but with the aggravating circumstance, that in these cases the women were barely on the PC.


But where the thing is extraordinary, when the groom is the secretary of the company, which tries to repair the server of the company where his girlfriend works. It has long talked about how many workers in SMEs are autoexprymen so happy. But when you look at the boyfriend of an employee, going to a franchise to buy a server parts, and mount one months passed ... and then the thing is fireworks. We had two companies that last year we almost called the other day passed the accounting of the two and asked if their leaders have changed their software provider. And the accountant ... laughs and says that better than two grooms are employed there almost full time trying to make things work. And the accountant laughed, because he has many skills, but said: "I pay for the bills, not to repair computers"

Internet Explorer from bad to worse

January 29, 2009

In addition to previous post testing of Windows 7 I dare bet with the new version of Internet Explorer called Release Candidate 1, which would be the Internet Explorer 8.

Frankly I can not believe that every browser still getting different products, little things that improve visualization and speed to follow the standards of the web for once and for all the developers will not have to test sites in each browser to see what differences between the two. The time lost is impressive.

Precisely for this reason that the place I gave the trial version of Internet Explorer has been miniscule. Since I use Firefox and I’m pretty much in line with the performance of this browser. But obviously I have installed other sites to test while developing. The “compatibility mode” is something you really do not understand the term … disables the functions of the same IE makes the site look bad?.

FeedDemon synchronizes with Google Reader … maybe

January 29, 2009

Previously, he and attach a review of FeedDemon, one of the best desktop feed readers. In it, we talked about some of the developments which will bring the new version 2.8, but it has been announced recently, is actually a bomb: FeedDemon will sync with Google Reader .


FeedDemon sincronizado con Google Reader So far, everything is an image on Flickr (the one I have included here) rise by the developer of the program Nick Bradbury , and announced via Twitter. In his blog, Bradbury has written more about the topic because of the expectation that has been created (translate):


I must say that this is not 100% definite that this feature will see the light of day. Is still at an experimental stage. I have an unwritten policy not to promise a feature I've written the code, and much remains to be done here.


Bradbury also questions about specific things they would like to see users , beyond mere synchronization, so changes in FeedDemon are in Google Reader. Personally, I like to keep the classification of entries arranged in folders you want to save (the clipping folders ), but I imagine that that has to be a bit difficult because I think that Google Reader does not allow such things that can be done both in FeedDemon as Newsgator.


Despite what the developer, I feel that end up being implemented this feature , especially after it sparked so much interest. Integration with Google Reader is something that so far has been achieved by few desktop readers (eg RSS Bandit). The biggest problem you have is your reader FeedDemon Web Newsgator, although good, is an aesthetic improvement and rematadamente slow .


A feature like this boost the spread of FeedDemon including those who are reluctant to use it preferring the ubiquitous Google Reader. However, suppose that the problem is to get stronger to keep the reader with integration.


In truth, if he succeeds Bradbury, only missing make it portable (although with Google Reader, it would be a little redundant but no less interesting). A story to turn back and continue to analyze the results appear in the version RC3 (this is where these versions appear).



But do they have computers?

January 28, 2009

I thought I still write with goose feathers and the paper was a novelty, seeing as many bundles, we still used the parchment.


I refer to the news that appeared yesterday in the press reporting that the courts were still in Madrid PCs running MS-DOS ... And the truth is that the news has filled me with joy, but if they had computers. At least they are in the twentieth century.


Because if we go to a judicial agency, it seems that we start a journey through time and we will introduce in the past that he believed that one had already passed. And do not say anything if you have to do a procedure or file a lawsuit.


But anyway, the problems of justice is not so much a lack of means, such as lack of modern processes. Let me explain, it is not put modern computers, but to modernize procedures, to be clear that we live in the twenty-first century, not in the nineteenth and simplify all legislation ...

2 hard disks borders

January 28, 2009

Western Digital introduced a new line of hard drives, and the top of this new family is a 2 disc borders.


In addition to size, the discs out for their speed RMP 7200. a very low consumption, support for SATA2 and that if, perhaps a high price (300 Euros). Now yet to see the price and availability in Spain. Because that's another few months we ask is that something that is a little rare, or something with a high price for us to achieve horrors, but that is another story.


I guess if it announces Western Digital, Seagate and Samsung as soon not have their borders 2 models on sale.

And now, playing in three dimensions

January 27, 2009

If you spoke on Sunday to see 3D movies at home, now let's take a step further and get to play in three dimensions.


This year will be the year of the three dimensions. Hopefully someone has a few euros in your pocket to enjoy these advances. Zalman last year introduced a line of monitors with 3D support. I remember I saw a banner advertising the text of 3D monitors and thought it was a way of saying that his monitors were not, however, that actually offered three dimensions. But finally I could read a review on these monitors and I started to realize my error.


These monitors Zalman, they are generating two stereoscopic images of what we see on the PC. With the help of glasses with polarized lenses, these images are converted into a 3D image in our brains. And it seems to work. So if you need a modern nVidia graphics card, a Windows only works with 32 bits, not all games (but if more than 300). And ask about a monitor for the Christmas campaign, but in the end I was not afraid to sell it. The price of Zalman as a bit more than double a normal display of the same size.


But now, following the path opened by Zalman reach the major manufacturers. Philips, LG, Samsung, announced for this year 2009, 3d monitors. And the first one presented, it is Samsung. In their numerique, could test the new SyncMaster 2233rz. An outstanding display with two features:



  • Frequency of 120 Hz. real, if your graphics card supports 120 fps, this monitor displays.

  • Support for 3D technology through polarized sunglasses.


Also in the great test of monitors who were in numerique, has achieved the highest score, and so far had achieved no monitor. For now, we have no price, will not be cheap. But everything can not imagine that, just that sales go up, and start mass production to lower prices, but technology is one to which I see a great future. And not only in games but in professional applications.

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