April 4th, 2011 at 01:20am Under Forum
Barcode History?
Which was the first product to be sold in the United Kingdom using a barcode?
Best answer:
On June 26, 1974 a single pack of chewing gum became the first retail product sold with the help of a barcode and scanner.
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February 15th, 2011 at 08:19am Under Forum
Obama is the worst President of the U.S. history!?
Why do people like Obama? he is a bad president. obama supports or not, can you explain these crazy idea that he has?
Crazy idea #1
tax distribute, tax the rich and cut taxes on the lower and middle class. with the huge cap. gain tax, the market will have no more investors! the lower and middle class won’t invest a lot of money in the market.
Crazy idea #2
regulating housing temp. at 79 degrees. and if you go higher or LOWER then 79 degree’s, you will get tax 6 cents for every kilowatt. Accomplishment that they want”save energy”
Crazy idea #3
Timothy Geithner wants power to shut down any non-financial business , why is that a good idea?
Crazy idea #4
The give act : force adults and kids to force volunteer. why? we are the biggest country who volunteer and gives most of the money to charities….
Crazy idea #5
Farm Bill: The government dictates how farmers grow food and what food they grow and how they do it! And if you have a garden, the gov. dictates how and what you grow, don’t follow orders,you get jailed or fined. Food safety Modernization Act; gov. will force you to sign a forum to say when you will eat the food and force to give a barcode. This will bankrupt the small farms!
Crazy idea #6
Timothy Geithner wants power to shut down any companies that he THINKS are bad.
Crazy idea #7
The federal reserves prints 3 trillion dollars last week and Obama borrowed that 3 trillion dollars from the federal reserves to fund his crap. thus, causing inflation(guess what, Double digits!) Now the united nation wants to spit ball around ideas for a new global currency since Obama broke a HUGE promise. let me explain. after WWII, 1945, the US started the gold standard, and later the dollar became the global currency. we promise to never violate the gold standard. Then in 1971 or 72, the pres,decides to print money and violate the gold standard. so paper money became I.O.U. to others countries. so before the UN decides to drop the dollar, we said that we will borrow money from them and buy their stuff. And we made a second promise to never print like crazy and spent so much money. Obama violated that by printing 3 trillion dollars and spending more that bush did in 8 YEARS FIGHTING 2 WARS AND SAVING PEOPLE FROM KATRINA! He spent more than bush in 2 1/2 months! He pledges tospend 20 trillion dollars and has already spent 9-15 trillion dollars!!(near the 13 trillion dollars is more scientific)
Can you explain all of this, EH?!?!!?!?!?!!?!?
by the way, none of the administration has any experience in running a actual business and most of them never worked in the private sector.
jeremy_hancock
have you watch the news lately? glenn Beck has told us, bill o’reiley, WZZM news also said stated about the farm bill.
Max hoopla,
Presidents do get rated this early, his approval rating(obama) has gone up and down. Right now his rating is less that bush rating is.
American,
I agree with you on that.
crazyolina21,
Stop blaming it on bush. Obama is doing a bad job, not bushes fault, his own fault.
mayna_smo_mry,l
haha, yeah, sorry for the bad grammer, i gotta organize the last part a little better, i kinda think it’s funny that the communists in chinas says that we are spending too much money and that we are being too socialist.
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February 15th, 2011 at 08:05am Under Forum
Any Idea for a cool name tag for the History Fair topic ‘The Gutenberg Printing Press”?
Hi guys ! i just wanted to ask you and get your opinion on the Gutenberg printing press. I’m looking for a cool title that resembles a lot.
A title sort of like ‘The Gutenberg printing press: Making lives easier by the copy’ i liked that title; but apparently; its not that catchy….
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February 15th, 2011 at 07:50am Under Forum
How to answer questions in OCR History exam to get the top marks?
I wanted to know how to structure the questions that are 4 marks, 6 marks, 10 marks etc in the GCSE OCR History exam?
Thanks
surely explaining what you know and the facts are the same thing? Do you mean explain the source and then add your own knowledge?
Thanks
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November 17th, 2010 at 04:51pm Under Reviews
Webster’s bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on “Barcode,” including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Barcode in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Barcode when it is used in proper noun form. Webster’s timelines cover bibli
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October 21st, 2010 at 01:56pm Under Forum
(ap us history exam)i did not place barcode label on multiple choice section booklet?
criticial and urgent question: how many bar code labels did you have to use for ap us
I today took the exam and i placed two bar code labels on both essay answer sheet and multiple choice scantron sheet.
But many people told me that we were supposed to use three of them in the registration booklet for multiple chocie question scantron sheet, essay answer sheet and the question itself.
How many of those lables did you use and if i did not put one on the test itself am i screwed?
Best answer:
I put 3
its probablly not a BIG deal, but it may delay your score
im sure you’ll be fine.
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August 18th, 2010 at 12:41pm Under Articles
The History of Barcode Labels
BARCODE LABEL HISTORY
The need for a solution to inventory control in grocery stores emerged long before a reasonable solution was found in barcode labels. In 1932, a student wrote a paper on a punch-card system that would do the job that today barcode labels perform. The idea wasn’t feasible because the punch card readers were too bulky and too expensive unlike the barcode label readers stores use today.
Another student imagined using the Morse code system to assign each product an id label, with some small changes to the Morse code symbols; the modern barcode labels were born. At first grocery stores were reluctant to use the new barcode labels since the ink was unstable and the cost of the barcode labels weren’t cost effective for most small chains of the day. In the early 1970s a computer company reinvented the barcode labels system and released it to food markets. This time around barcode labelswere a huge success and soon became used not only in grocery stores but also in almost all retail industries.
Companies soon began using barcode labels on just about every inventory item since barcode labelsmade it easier to track items in the company’s possession. Shippers could track the contents of their trucks with barcode labels, which dramatically lessened the time spent checking shipments in on the loading docks. A worker could simply scan the barcode labels on the side of the trucks and instantly know exactly what was being dropped off. Rental companies also use barcode labels to track which items are being rented and returned. Scientific laboratories employ barcode labels to scan in samples while professional industries use types of barcode labels to keep an accurate count of inventory and assets that the company holds.
Cri Davies is marketing manager for Etiquette Labels – UK Independent Experts in Labels, Label Printing, and Label Printing Solutions. For more information visit the Etiquette Network
In this video I demonstrate how the new Microscan MINI Hawk imager decodes Intelligent Mail Barcode (IMB) at high speed. I used two IMBs: one printed on white paper, and one printed on yellow paper read thru an envelop window. The two IMBs are rotating on a circumference of 12 inches at 107 inches per second. This is the maximum speed of the display used for this demo. Faster speed can be achieved. The Mini Hawk can also be used for Universal Postal Union (UPU) barcode applications.
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July 25th, 2010 at 12:42pm Under Articles
The Barcode Scanner’s History
A laser Barcode Scanner is the most common type of Barcode Scanner. They are generally easy to use and do not have to be in real close proximity to a barcode in order to read the barcode. The idea of the modern barcode can be traced back to Barcode Scanner948 when a graduate student at Drexel Institute in Philadelphia approached a teacher and told him about a conversation regarding a way to quickly and accurately capture product data at the check out counter. The idea intrigued the teacher and he worked on a product for the next two years and finally invented the first barcode by using Morse code. The student and the teacher applied for a patent. IBM wanted to develop the technology but the teacher and student held out for a price that more closely reflected the potential of the technology and sold the patent to Philco in the early 1960s, and Philco went on to sell the patent to RCA. There are many Laser Barcode Scanner to choose from and manufacturers include Wasp, Motorola, Honeywell and DataLogic to name a few. These scanners can read a barcode from about six inches all the way up to about thirty feet depending on the scanner you wish to purchase. A laser Barcode Scanner can cost as little as one hundred fifty dollars and as much as two thousand dollars. The Honeywell 4820 scanner is great for light industrial mobile barcode reading applications. It features Bluetooth v1.2 radio wireless communications for freedom of movement in retail, warehouse and distribution. It offers movement of up to thirty-three feet from the base. This laser Barcode Scanner is priced at approximately six hundred dollars . The Wasp WLS9500 series laser Barcode Scanner is a high performance scanner – Magnetic Card Writer. It is ideal for healthcare, retail and warehouse use. It will even read damaged or poorly printed barcodes and can scan barcodes up to approximately thirty feet away. It is designed to withstand constant, rigorous use in office to warehouse environments. It is priced at approximately three hundred dollars. The Motorola Symbol LS2280 laser Barcode Scanner is lightweight but will give you maximum productivity. It will work from near contact to approximately seventeen inches away. It is ideal for hospitals, retail stores, education and government settings. It is very durable and offers a scratch resistant tempered glass exit window. It is priced at approximately one hundred sixty dollars. These are only three examples of many great laser Barcode Scanners that are available. You can often findgreat deals online and it is also very easy to do a comparison of features to ensure that you are purchasing the Barcode Scanner that will meet all of your needs.
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July 5th, 2010 at 12:43pm Under Articles
A History Of The Barcode And Barcode Scanners
Have you ever wondered how long barcode scanners have been in use for in major retail shops? For many people, this is the only means of security and accurately storing information about the product. Those many of the younger generation will not know that this system has only been around the seventies, even though the barcode did not pick up properly until the eighties.
Prior to barcodes and barcode scanners (also known as barcode readers), there were no real monitoring system, stock counting and monitoring were completed manually. This was a time consuming and laborious task, often leading to miscounts and guesswork on the stocktaking. It is hard to believe that barcodes were not in use until nearly forty years ago, as this is now an essential part of our modern life. This begs to raise the question of, how did we function without barcodes?
Before the notion of automating the grocery checkout point, there were no such thing as a scanner or electrical device to read the product code. In fact, there were no real system of buying for a long time, therefore grocery shops and shop owners were at risk from theft and burglary. The only way to prevent this was physically count each product one by one, recording down on paper how many of the products were left and correlating how many had been sold against the takings.
As grocery stores were expanding and more products were being stocked it became vital that an accurate inventory was completed, which was difficult to do without a sound system. The idea for an automated system was presented to a group of ambitious students in 1932. Based at Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration, the group headed by Wallace Flint began a project to automate the grocery checkout system and their inventory system.
The group came up with a system whereby shoppers would select their items from a catalogue, which corresponding to the product in the catalogue were tickets that they could tear out. These tickets were punch cards, which they would then hand to the cashier upon purchasing the items. The cashiers would then insert this into a reader, to which the product is then pulled out from the storeroom and delivered to the counter. A customer receipt and an easier system for updating the inventory records would follow this.
The system was a step into the right direction, however this saw problems as the reader was expensive to build and run. It was not until a student, Bernie Silver, at Drexel Institute in Philadelphia, overheard a conversation about automating a data collection system. Silver relayed this information to his colleague and fellow teacher, Norman Woodland, who upon hearing this spent the next two years working on a device.
The first barcode that Woodland had come up with based on Morse code, stretching the lines vertically. This was then converted into circles, whichtoday is known as the ‘bulls eye’ code. Many years later Woodland took up employment at IBM, and continued with his work on data collection. He used his time at home to build a reader, which was large in size and expensive to run. In an attempt to gain assistance with the prototype, Woodland approached his bosses at IBM who made an offer for the patent.
However, Woodland Silver sold the patent to Philco, who then sold it to RCA. During the 1950′s and 1960′s many inventors proposed ideas for the data collection system and reader. It would not be until 1973 when IBM one the proposal coming up with digit codes, beginning with 0. In 1974 Wrigleys chewing was the first recorded product in a grocery store to have used with a UPC barcode and read using a laser barcode scanner.
All through the 1970s, barcode scanners and scanning systems were more affordable as the price of microprocessors became more affordable. Since then the barcode has become an important and integral part of product data collection, this revolutionised our ability to collect data using an automated system. It also virtually eliminated errors of data recording and data storage, which has certainly proved to come a long way since the days of manually recording products and ordering stock based on guesswork.
Anna Stenning has taken an interest in barcode scanners and all things technological, within the world of retail data recording.
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July 4th, 2008 at 07:53am Under Forum
How Do You Delete Address Scroll Bar History? Plz Help! :(?
Okay so me and my friend went to myspace (and we are not allowed too) and we deleted the history but it shows up when we were typing in the website typing thing. I dont want my parents to see or we will get in alot of trouble. So how do you delete the history in the address bar code?
Best answer:
what internet are you using?
it varies depending on what browser you use.
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