Does this mean the pet stores of the future will allow a cashier to swipe an animal across an electric eye, greatly increasing the efficiency and speed with which people can buy large quantities of animals? Such a system could greatly help out my habit of buying as many mice as I can! Although, it becomes a problem when geneticists demand that barcodes be placed on individual fruit flies so that they, too, can be bought quickly and efficiently.
Yeah, I know the barcodes won't be put on the animals... but maybe after a trial run, customers will demand it!
"We got to market six months faster, and saw 14 percent in cost savings over Linux." -quote from ad on the side of the article concerning Microsoft Windows Server System.
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Does this mean the pet stores of the future will allow a cashier to swipe an animal across an electric eye, greatly increasing the efficiency and speed with which people can buy large quantities of animals? Such a system could greatly help out my habit of buying as many mice as I can! Although, it becomes a problem when geneticists demand that barcodes be placed on individual fruit flies so that they, too, can be bought quickly and efficiently.
Yeah, I know the barcodes won't be put on the animals... but maybe after a trial run, customers will demand it!
Such lawsuits against BitTorrent sites would have to stop, but lawsuits against individuals could still continue.
"We got to market six months faster, and saw 14 percent in cost savings over Linux." -quote from ad on the side of the article concerning Microsoft Windows Server System.
Oh, the irony of ad placement.