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Re: Enough with the QR Codes

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Post by rhizome » Mon, Mar 19, 2012, 3:22 PM UTC

chrislomax wrote: post #59

ragmondo wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You mean like "OCR Font?" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCR-A_font

Perfect, I wasn't even aware there was a font for this purpose! I don't see the point in QR codes, I have never seen an every day use for them and it makes me slightly angry that they have been adopted so heavily. I do take into account people have found a use for them in niche situations. It just seems these ugly black barcodes could have been avoided by legible OCR fonts with a decent OCR scanner built into the pho…

Hardware-wise, OCR is not as simple to process as QR.

Re: Enough with the QR Codes

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Post by corin_ » Mon, Mar 19, 2012, 8:17 PM UTC

When commenting earlier I forgot to mention that I have a personal use-case for QR codes - an easy way to put a page I'm looking at on the PC onto my phone, easier than typing in the URL or mailing the link.

http://code.google.com/p/qrbookmarklet/ (not made by me, just used by me)

Re: Enough with the QR Codes

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Post by Jetlag » Tue, Mar 20, 2012, 10:14 PM UTC

rurounijones wrote: post #60

veidr wrote: post #49

I see people scan QR codes often, and even occasionally do myself; but then, I live in Japan. Here, QR codes became popularized well before the 'smartphone', because everybody's regular phone has been able to scan them for years. (I think from around the turn of the millennium, at least.) That makes sense, because as as bad as smartphone on-screen keyboards are, entering URLs on a numeric keypad was even worse . Two…

Plus the fact that not ALL QR Codes are URLs to marketing sites. I have seen plenty of "stick in a microwave" type meals that have a QR code which, when scanned, display nutritional information which would never have fit on the tiny label. Mind you this is also in Japan so....

For a moment I thought you were going to say that your microwave scanned the QR to automatically set itself.

Re: Enough with the QR Codes

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Post by kbd » Wed, Mar 21, 2012, 12:42 PM UTC

veidr wrote: post #49

I see people scan QR codes often, and even occasionally do myself; but then, I live in Japan. Here, QR codes became popularized well before the 'smartphone', because everybody's regular phone has been able to scan them for years. (I think from around the turn of the millennium, at least.) That makes sense, because as as bad as smartphone on-screen keyboards are, entering URLs on a numeric keypad was even worse . Two…

> A small barcode that can be scanned with the device that everybody already has in their pocket is a cool thing, and QR codes are nearly that.

Why nearly?

Re: Enough with the QR Codes

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Post by jvm » Wed, Mar 21, 2012, 6:40 PM UTC

rhizome wrote: post #70

jvm wrote: post #27

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Playing the Japan card during discussion of a cultural phenomenon is the equivalent of playing the Hitler card in a political debate. If there's one thing that's clear, it's that they will do absolutely anything in Japan. EDIT: In Japan, this is the kind of thing they watch on TV: http://youtu.be/xqoXcLqVemA

Yeah. Those wacky Orientals, eh?

I was just trying to point out cultural differneces in a tongue-in-cheek manner. I think Japan is the least Europeanized wealthy country (the other Asian tigers count too but are less renowned for shocking westerners). As a result, it's often a lot less valid to generalize from Japanese culture to American culture than, say, Australian or German.

There's a world of difference between pointing out cultural diversity and racial stereotyping. I guess the fact that I'm actually kind of into Vermillion Pleasure Night blinded me to the fact that some people might have interpreted my comments as derogatory.

Re: Enough with the QR Codes

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Post by rhizome » Thu, Mar 22, 2012, 6:36 PM UTC

jvm wrote: post #75

rhizome wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah. Those wacky Orientals, eh?

I was just trying to point out cultural differneces in a tongue-in-cheek manner. I think Japan is the least Europeanized wealthy country (the other Asian tigers count too but are less renowned for shocking westerners). As a result, it's often a lot less valid to generalize from Japanese culture to American culture than, say, Australian or German. There's a world of difference between pointing out cultural diversity a…

They're not necessarily derogatory, just ignorant. For instance, "least Europeanized" is indeed a generalization to Western culture, just a negative one.