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It appears that Acer has spared no time delivering the 1st Arc A7 desktop GPUs to the media. We’ve been told by Plonter.info, an Israeli technology site, that they actually have a full assessment on this card now.
Acer Predator A770 BiForst 16GB
If you wondered how well a customized Arc A7 GPU could perform, then here is some hard data! Plonter got an early copy of a custom Acer Predator BiForst GPU, literally becoming the first group internationally to test out not only this board, but also any custom Arc GPU. Read more
Recently, Street Fight published a piece on “How Forward-Thinking Brands Are Leveraging Automation” and in it they described how Dickey’s BBQ Franchise has introduced custom commands with Amazon’s Alexa in order to enable franchise owner-operators to periodically find out about real-time sales figures throughout the day. Those sales figures come from a data warehouse platform that Dickey’s BBQ Franchise business custom-developed to support their franchisees.
I know that one aspect of restaurant management is knowing if or when to “cut” kitchen and dining room support staff, depending on a restaurant’s traffic. If lunch or dinner appears to be slow for business, it is important to send waitpeople, busboys, and cooks home in order to reduce unnecessary costs. It sounds to me like this real-time feedback on sales figures is likely intended for this very purpose, since most restaurant owner-operators should know pretty closely exactly how much their daily operations cost, as well as exactly how much money they need to make per hour in order to at least break even, and maybe to even make a good profit. Read more
Most of us think of “spam” as a relatively new concept, but the idea actually predates email by a good one hundred years or so. The first known instance of a mass unsolicited commercial message was in May 1864, when Messrs Gabriel advertised via mass telegram messages that their dental practice would be open from 10am to 5pm until October. In fact, up until the Great Depression, it was common for wealthy folks to be inundated with telegraphs regarding questionable investment opportunities.
TME Magazine – Early Telex Example
Even so, a number of corporations were caught completely off guard in March 1949, when they began receiving unsolicited marketing messages from Pryor and Co. Office Supply in Milford, Pennsylvania:
GREETINGS. PLS ONPASS FOLLOWING MSG TO OFC MGR.
CALL PRYOR & CO OFC SUPPLY PE.6-6410 FOR PAPER GOODS – PEN – INK – RUBBER STAMPS. FREE CATALOG. FREE SHIPPING AVLB. STOP THROWING MONEY AWAY.
ENDS+
The messages continued to arrive sporadically over the next few months. Most regarded the ads as a minor nuisance, but for some, the messages represented a breach in security. The telex lines were meant to be secure, and the numbers to access them were supposed to be a closely-guarded secret.
In July 1949, TMX Magazine (an AT&T trade magazine named for the TeletypeWriter eMergent service) published an article about the incident, claiming the unsolicited messages were being distributed to as many as five corporations. The following month, they amended their story and said the number of folks on the distribution list might be as high as 30. Read more
AngelPad demoed twelve new startups at it’s Fall Demo Day, and some of the startup concepts are pretty inspiring.
As you may know, AngelPad is a mentoring service founded by a team of former Google employees to assist internet technology startups build improved products, promote themselves to get additional investment funding and to generally be more successful. Read more
Mashable has a great article today, This Is How Your DSLR Camera Actually Works, and I thought it worth a quick mention.
DSLR Camera
In the article, Dani Fankhauser explains how the viewfinder, mirror, prism, and lenses come together in helping photographers generate great photos. Dani touches on how the single-lens-reflex technology is one of the main features that differentiates DSLR cameras. “DSLR” is an acronym for “digital single-lens reflex”, in fact. Read more
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