The Bar Code, Which Changed Retailing, Turns 35

Posted by peter123 on Friday June 26, 2009 @05:58AM
from the nytimes.com dept.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/26/technology/26barcode.html

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Re:The Bar Code, Which Changed Retailing, Turns 35 by ken on Friday June 26, 2009 @09:58AM (#675419)

UPC is 35. Other barcodes had been in use for years at that point.

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Re:The Bar Code, Which Changed Retailing, Turns 35 by petewarden on Friday June 26, 2009 @01:53PM (#675771)

"the familiar format that uses 30 black and 29 white lines to convey 12 bits of data in binary code."

In Soviet Russia, there's only 4096 possible products. Luckily for us they're actually decimal digits: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Product_Code

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Re:The Bar Code, Which Changed Retailing, Turns 35 by TweedHeads on Friday June 26, 2009 @10:32AM (#675467)

I was wondering if there is a specific barcode for IPv6 so we can tag the world and scan it with our mobile phones, wherever we are.

Yes, there are many barcodes that can be used for that purpose, but I mean, can we hackers design a simple and specific barcode for IPv6? Circled, squared, linear? Bitcode, hexcode?

Emphasis: simple and specific.

Should we open an HN contest?

Reward: world recognition for a thousand years.

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Re:The Bar Code, Which Changed Retailing, Turns 35 by chexov on Friday June 26, 2009 @11:18AM (#675516)

Great idea. The following is also of interest: http://www.worldinternetcenter.com/Pubs/Pubs2004/feb05/IPv6v...

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Re:The Bar Code, Which Changed Retailing, Turns 35 by TweedHeads on Friday June 26, 2009 @10:38AM (#675475)

Ok, I'll go first:

http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/695/bip6.jpg

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Re:The Bar Code, Which Changed Retailing, Turns 35 by kuntal on Friday June 26, 2009 @06:42AM (#675243)

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