From: "Eric Hildum" <Eric_Hildum@itochu.net>
> Some thoughts on bar codes, as I just recently had a reason to look into
the
> subject in a bit of depth.
>
> 1) There are a lot more types of barcode out there than you may realize -
> and most of them you would not recognize as barcodes even if you looked
> straight at them.
>
> 2) Many of the barcode systems carry a lot more data than you might
realize;
> up to several kilobytes in a surprisingly small area.
Aren't some of these schemes a bit more advanced than barcode - i.e.,
two-dimensional? That's what I saw when I was looking into this.
> 3) In the keitai case, since the scanner is likely to be infrared, there
is
> really no reason to print the barcode in a human visible ink anyway...
Uh...unless you can get the print job to radiate in infrared, I don't see
how this can work. Why would the scanner be in infrared in the
first place?
-m
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Received on Tue Nov 21 16:44:15 2000