Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Smead Smartstrip Labels - Activation Code

Need an activation code to add more labels to your Smead Smartstrip Label Maker? Did you throw away the box that had the code on it? Use this code without the quotations. "rw-0cx-a0". This will add 50 labels to the Label Maker if you happen to misplace your code or need a few extra. This works with Smartstrip® Version 3.0 Labeling System for Shelf Filing or any other Smead Smartstrip Labeling Systems. It is also perfect for use with a Smead Smartstrip labeling system starter kit.


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  • Tuesday, October 25, 2011

    Uncorking Tech

    The first blog of Uncorking Tech is now in session.

    Technology is a must and how the Amish try to survive without it is insane. There is a form of information technology in everything you touch. Even eating a bowl of cereal couldn't be accomplished without technology being somehow involved. Technology is taking leaps forward and is showing no signs of slowing down. Just a few years ago talking to a computer was something they did in Star Trek and never would you have thought that would be real anytime before the year 2100. What will be next?

    Can I get a robot with such extreme AI that it develops a heart? That right there is one thing I am glad technology can not touch. The very part that makes us human. As hard as we try we will never get to a place of programming anything close to the human brain. It's too complex and created by a God that would never share the glory of his greatest creation.

    Straying away from that topic let's talk about this new Siri technology that has been placed in the new iPhone and iPad. Relatively primitive and still in BETA mode it seems to function pretty well, the one problem is that it can only respond to request that have been pre-programmed, unfortunately it does not learn how to conduct answers by itself. Like the recording the professor left Will Smith in I Robot. That means there is a guy behind a desk who tells Siri what to say. Not exactly how you want to picture it but the amount of programming that went into it is extensive and only increasing. Some generic responses can be made to most questions you ask it. Ask it anything about you and most often it will answer with a question. Ask it to tell you a joke, I hear it is quite hilarious. Need to hide a body? Siri will get right on that for you. How about calling you an Ambulance? Not that easy, unless you want Siri to refer to you as Ambulance. Intuitive non the less. Making calling someone even more unlikely. Why call when Siri can have the conversation for me? I almost feel like it is like that scene in Harry Potter when Harry and Ron had Herminoe tell the other things they could say themselves. I feel Siri is the way of the future. Pretty soon you will be ordering your Big Mac from her and that may very well take the job away from your average high schooler. That is why I am standing on the side of technology, someone has to fix it when it breaks.