Why was the price included as part of the barcode? I thought that the idea of a barcode was to contain a unique identifier that could be matched up with an item in the Stores database to get the price and inventory information. As I understand it the recode issue involved people printing their own fake barcodes with a reduced price and then using them to buy stuff in stores. I don't understand how this could have worked when the item price should not be a part of the barcode itself. Unless they were swapping the code on one item with one from a similar but cheaper product. But you hardly need to use a website to do that!
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why don't we all just use "arns" and "microts"?
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Why was the price included as part of the barcode? I thought that the idea of a barcode was to contain a unique identifier that could be matched up with an item in the Stores database to get the price and inventory information. As I understand it the recode issue involved people printing their own fake barcodes with a reduced price and then using them to buy stuff in stores. I don't understand how this could have worked when the item price should not be a part of the barcode itself. Unless they were swapping the code on one item with one from a similar but cheaper product. But you hardly need to use a website to do that!
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you don't still need a soundcard, this chipset has integrated sound as well. And very good it will be too. With real time AC3 encoding no less.