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El primer año del certificado de eficiencia energética
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Actividades diarias de un gerente de éxito
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Top mujeres en el mundo de las ventas (by Linkedin)
Get a flaming cake out and take a deep breath, party people, because it’s time to feel old: The Universal Product Code was first put into use only 40 years ago, when a $0.67 10-pack of Wrigley’s gum was scanned by a cashier at an Ohio grocery store on June 26, 1974. Yes, bar codes have only been on the things we buy for 40 years.
Before the design by IBM engineer George Laurer was first put into use, grocery stores had to change out price tags every time the cost of something fluctuated, and input prices by hand when customers were checking out, notes CBC News.
Those blocks of black lines and numbers has spawned many offshoots — including 2D QR codes — in industries around the world for uses that reach far beyond paying for a pack of gum.
“I did not even envision that happening,” Laurer told CBC News. “It was designed for the grocery industry. It proved that bar codes … were the way to go.”
That 10-pack of gum is now on display at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, as well as one of the first 10 scanners used at that supermarket.
It wasn’t the first bar code ever invented, however — that honor goes to a bull’s-eye bar code created out of the need for an automatic checkout system. That one never caught on, so IBM turned the job over to Laurer and asked him to design a standardized bar code.
In order to make sure the bar code wouldn’t smudge on the printing presses of the day, Laurer made his design so that any smears would only lengthen the code’s bars, which wouldn’t interfere with scanners trying to read it.
Happy birthday, bar code. You don’t look a day over 0 0204 9273 4.
Bar code turns 40: Next-generation codes move past grocery stores [CBC News]
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Timeline de la tecnología Smart
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The bear landed in the middle of the living room, but fortunately the party guests hadn’t arrived yet for the 1-year-old’s birthday party, the homeowners tell JuneauEmpire.com.
“I was literally in the room, and I heard this cracking,” the dad says of the bear’s weight on the skylight. “And the next thing you know, there’s this bear that, I mean, literally, fell right from (the skylight). It was like three feet away from me.”
He says the two locked eyes briefly, before he yelled to his parents to take the baby upstairs to safety. He ran into another room and closed the door.
Meanwhile, Mr. Bear took his time, recovering from his fall and wandering over to the living room table and helping himself to lemon blueberry and peanut butter cupcakes. Which do sound delicious, so who can really blame him?
“The bear walks over and puts its paws up on the table and starts licking his birthday cupcakes, and I’m just like, you’ve got to be kidding me,” said the mom, who saw the whole thing go down from behind closed glass doors in the kitchen.
While he was licking up red and green cupcake frosting, she opened another door that leads to the backyard. The couple then yelled at the bear and showed him out the door, explaining afterward that he seemed used to humans and didn’t put up a fight.
After his banishment, the bear loitered around a bit and peered inside the home.
“It was up by the window like, ‘I want more cupcakes,’” the woman said, with dad adding, “He wanted back in, that’s for sure.”
The couple eventually borrowed bear spray from the neighbors and sprayed him, at which point he ambled back into the woods.
SPOILER ALERT: If you’re the kind of person who gets sad at the part in Bambi with his mom and hunters and etc, stop reading now. Because wildlife officials say there’s no possible way to know for sure, but that cupcake eating ball of fur might’ve been the same one shot and killed by police officers with the Juneau Police Department after he walked into another home that same day.
That happened about 30 minutes after the birthday party binge. So if it was you, Mr. Bear, we hope you at least had really delicious memories of that time you ate all the cupcakes. Now excuse me, there’s something in my eye.
Bear with sweet tooth crashes kid’s party [JuneauEmpire.com]
