February 15th, 2011 at 08:51am
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Please help me understand this: THE POST-INDUSTRIAL SIMULACRE?
It has been some decades since Western culture could be accurately described as Industrial. Since the under-consumption crisis of the Thirties, we have shifted entirely into a social structure dominated not by production but by reproduction, not by equivalence but by commutation, not by merchandise but by the model. We live in a post-industrial world. A world no longer where all labor is exchanged and loses its singularity but where labor and leisure become entwined. Not a culture bought and sold but one where all cultures simulate one another. Not a place where love is prostituted but where a liberated keel sexuality is compulsory. And an era in which time is no longer accumulated like money but is broken in a confused web of nostalgia,
fetishism and futurism.
SPK has always been certain to establish its separation from any label like “industrial” because it has always pursued a strategy radically more efficient – the successor to industrial society.
The realization of this difference is vital for any strategy: artistic, revolutionary, terroristic. If not, we shall only continue to confuse the symptom for the cure…
If the industrial era was determined capitalist mode, then the post-industrial is hypercapitalist. And in the sphere of signs the society has become indeterminate and codified. In the pre-industrial era every sign had a corresponding reality. In the industrial, every sign became equivalent to all others with money as the mode of social coherence. Now, however, all signs have become models, slightly differentiating all social reproduction – a generalized code of simulation. The real horror is that this process no longer stops at the factory gate but penetrates our homes, our loves and our minds. All our time becomes marked time…
Walter Benjamin (McLuhan later) was the first to realize that technology was not a productive force but a MEDIUM – the principle – the FORM of the new society of publicity, information and communications networks. Seriality or the mechanical reproduction of exactly equivalent clones had given way to models generative of all forms according to a modulus of differences. This digitalized genetic cellule – the code-produced all questions and all possible solutions. A DNA generative of control of the social organism.
THE END. -SPK
By Barcode Scanner
July 26th, 2010 at 12:42am
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Getting to Understand the Barcode Printers
You must have seen small printed portions on different products, which have a pattern of parallel lines of different widths and numbers below or above them. This is known as a barcode, which is read by the barcode scanners or barcode readers. It contains important information about the product.
You can notice that any type of material products have a barcode; be it electronic items, cosmetics or any other product which you come across in houses or stores. Barcode printer is used to print different types of barcodes that can in the form of label or case tags.
The numbers and parallel lines contain the information in a particular manner, to indicate the product type and price. Whenever this barcode is scanned at the cash counter, the scanner automatically gathers the information about the product.
The price and item information is then sent to the computer or cash register. In the same way your other purchases are scanned by the scanner for barcode reading. Currently, it is very easy for any company to use barcode printer to print barcodes for their products, as lightweight, handy and user friendly barcode printers are available in the market.
There are two types of barcode printers available in the market; one is thermal transfer printer and second is direct thermal printer. The print head of thermal printer produces heat which in turn initiates reaction on the thermal paper. This reaction results in changes in the color of the thermal paper. It turns to black color in selected areas and produces the barcode. In thermal transfer printers, no chemical reaction takes place in spite of heat production which tends to melt the chemical on the ribbon. Then the ribbon slides over the paper, and ink is spread on the paper or label.
There are wide varieties of barcode printers available into the market, which are designed as per the requirements. There are large industrial barcode printers, which are used for manufacturing units or wholesalers companies that need a large amount of barcodes to be printed in short duration. Such printers operate faster and can be used for continuous work. These printers can print on larger scale.
Barcode printers which are used by small offices or retailers, as they cannot print on large sheets. They do not have much space to use larger sheets bigger than regular size. Bulk printing is not possible with these printers.
A lot of varieties of barcode printers are available in market in wide price range that is based upon the models, output quality, and services conditions like warranties or after–sales as required by you. If you are looking for barcode printer with advanced features, you have to spend more than what you need to pay for small barcode printer which can be easily placed on your desktop. Barcode printer proves to be helpful for businesses in many ways like distribution or inventory management, or keeping thetrack for sales and purchase and more.
You must seek professional advice before purchasing any barcode printer as they will help you to gauge your needs and help you to find the exact barcode printer that meets you requirements within budget. It must be kept in mind that there different warranties and after-sales services which are available on different models.
By Barcode Scanner
January 12th, 2009 at 03:22am
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Can you help me understand wireless all-in-one hookups?
I use a single computer with Windows XP and just bought a wireless printer/scanner/copier/fax. I have DSL, an exterior modem connected through the phone line jack, and everything is plugged in the electrical outlet. I don’t use or have a router. I can hook this up by plugging it all in and not using the wireless capabilities, but I’d like to know if I can use the wireless capabilities as it stands now.
I don’t understand the manual.
I don’t understand if I’m suppose to install both or just one of the options = “install usb-connected device” & “install network/wireless device” whether I go wireless or not.
I don’t understand what a network really is – it says I must have a “wireless network that uses a wireless router.” If my single computer connects directly to the web, doesn’t that mean I’m not considered a network? Or doesn’t this mean something else entirely and is just saying there’s no alternative options, I have to get a router in order to use any wireless anything?
Does Windows XP have any wizard options that works around any of this?
In my Control Panel, an icon says it’s a “Wireless network set up wizard”.
Best answer:
Easiest way is going to be with a wireless router. If you have a wireless adapter in your computer (usually don’t come with them), you can set up an AD-HOC network, and connect your printer to that.
If the printer does not have a USB interface (which I would continue to use in this situation), you would need some type of router in order to connect the Ethernet on the printer to your computer.
By Barcode Scanner
June 6th, 2007 at 08:51pm
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how can i scan in color with a hp laser jet 3015 printer/scanner? i am 15 and i wont understand some stuff?
Best answer:
put the picture in the scanner
make sure its connected to your computer and its turned on
go to control panel and find where it says printers and scanners
click on the scanners name, probably hp 3015 or something
make sure its in the color setting, and just keep clicking next
it should scan and then save the picture in the folder you want
By Barcode Scanner
May 12th, 2007 at 11:46am
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Please help me understand coding theory?
Hey, I’m thirteen and for English I’m writing a paper about bar codes and other coding theories. Well I’m really confused and I find the whole concept really complicated. Can anyone please help me? I don’t understand it at all. Any examples of coding theory would be great too.
Thanks!
Best answer:
Have you tried Wikipedia? I know my teenage daughters always say Wikipedia’s articles are too complicated, but you never know. I think this article is fairly good:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcode
Wikipedia also has articles on “Code” and “Coding theory” but they don’t look much help for a general audience.
Otherwise go to the library and find a book on coding. Sorry, but you’ve asked a very general question and it’s hard to offer specific help.
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