

Microsoft develops color barcode that consumers can read with their cell phones







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By Yeah Yeah on 4/16/2007 10:58:30 AM , Rating: -1
Can't wait for my government issue barcode now!!!
These are just more money spent on garbage. B&W works fine, why change it? Aesthetics? Come on. An artsy barcode? Can't wait till some fags start collecting these and start discussing what the artist thought when making that particular barcode. More shit we have to pay for...

By Yeah Yeah on 4/16/07, Rating: 0
By Hare on 4/16/2007 11:16:56 AM , Rating: 2
Seriously. How much more do you think a product would cost with a better barcode?

Black and white barcodes work fine but what if you want to include more information? What's so bad with this type of barcode? Do you work for a competing company or something?

I personally wouldn't mind "scanning" a barcode with my cellphone to see the products webpage or let's say get a table of contents from a book.

This is not a substitute to the old B&W barcode that checkout lines use.

Btw. With that kind of language even if you had a point you would still sound like a moron.

By s12033722 on 4/16/2007 8:14:42 PM , Rating: 2
Uh, no. The point of color is not to look pretty, but rather to allow a single dot to carry more information. With black and white, a dot is either black or not black - two states, on or off. With color, the dot can be black, white, green, blue, or red (assuming they don't branch out into more colors). That's 5 states per dot now, which means more information in the same area.

