Scannerz

Advantages: Fast, Efficient, Saves paper work & Easy to use
Disadvantages: You may not really need this gadget

...This review has been moved to Member Advice Category. Please read and rate there as this will soon be permanently removed by Ciao. Many thanks to the members of Ciao for pointing out this was an unsuitable category and for letting me know how to have this changed. Since my opinion about the Belkin USB Hub I have been asked by a great many Ciao members what barcode scanning is, how it works and what I use it for. With these questions in mind, I have decided to write this opinion to cover the various equipment I use. I will not dwell as usual on the technical stuff as you already know I myself don?t understand half of it anyway. Instead I prefer to cover the basics and the various applications they have. I will start by explaining why I have bar coding apparatus. I run my own business on the internet. I also use various...

jacqui_1 22.01.2004 (28.01.2004) · Read review
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Review of Wasp Barcode Technologies Barcode scanner

Are you barcoded?

Advantages: very gripping!
Disadvantages: Rubbish ending

...To Start off with, I started to enjoy this book. It drawed me in and made me read it intensely! I will not tell you the problem I have with it just yet! The start ************ The starting of a book always set's the scene. We are following a girl called Kayla Reed in America. The First Chapter, we are in with her and the principal talking. And then somewhere along the line we find out she has no dad and she has to look after her mom, who's in one terrible state! She has no job therefore Kayla's just about keeping the bills together. Then Amber Thorn jumps in showing off her new TATTOO called the Barcode tattoo. And she explains why you can't keep a card and use it... What does Kayla do? ******************************* Well I can't really tell you that except the barcode Tattoo freaks her out! Does she get it or not? Well...

Jonni_boi 29.08.2007 · Read review
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Review of The Barcode Tattoo - Suzanne Weyn

Deconstructing Frank in The Wasp Factory

Advantages: Dark, thought provoking page turner - exceedingly well written
Disadvantages: Dark. Very dark. Disturbing. Scenes of animal and child cruelty

...Seventeen year old Frank is a killer. He kills birds, mice and other small animals. Fortunately, he doesn't kill people any more - it was just a passing phase, when he killed Blythe, Paul and Esmeralda (not all at once, mind you). Frank's brother Eric is also deeply unhinged, with a penchant for burning dogs, and his father isn't entirely playing with a full deck either. The Wasp Factory is a strange book. The plot, such as it is, follows Frank on his isolated Scottish Island as he prepares for the imminent arrival of his half-brother Eric, who has escaped from a secure mental institution. However, that's not really the main point of this rather short novel (I read it in around a day). The book is narrated by Frank, who is a deeply unreliable narrator. Indeed, every 'fact' we learn should be treated with suspicion, since everyone has...

mattygroves 31.08.2009 · Read review
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Review of The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

The Wasps- ARISTOPHANES

Advantages: Quite easy to understand for a modern audience
Disadvantages: may require some athenian legal system knowledge

...Wasps was performed in 422 BC at the Lenaia and won second prize. Wasps are basically about Cleon's control over the Athenian jury system. In the play Wasps the two main characters are Procleon and Anticleon, father and son. Procleon has an obsession with sitting on juries and Anticleon his son, wants to cure his addiction and tries locking im his house, but Procleon tries to escape many times, one of which he pretends he is going to sell his donkey at the market but hides underneath the donkey, like Odysseus under the Cyclops's ram, we would expect Anticleon to recognise this straight away, but the joke is delayed to fit in the joke about Odysseus this is an example of incongruity. The father and son have a debate (the agon) and Anticleon decides to set up a court in their house and have a trial about a dog who has stolen Sicilian...

louisacrompton 02.01.2007 · Read review
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Review of The Wasps - Aristophanes

A Scanner Darkly

Advantages: Good Special Effects
Disadvantages: Not many

..."A Scanner Darkly" is based on the novel by Philip K Dick. Richard Linklater's film stars Keanu Reeves as undercover narcotics policeman; Bob Arctor. This is an interesting film but it didn't really move me deeply. There was some good acting but the story line was simply not exceptional. On deep reflection it is not a film that I would recommend. But if you want to watch it do so at your own risk. 1 hour forty mins Rating (15) The Product details The Actors: Rory Cochrane, Robert Downey Jr., Mitch Baker, Keanu Reeves, Sean Allen (II) Directors: Richard Linklater Format: PAL, Widescreen Language English Region: Region 2 ( DVD formats.) Aspect Ratio: Wide Screen:1 Number of discs: 1 Classification: 15 Studio: Warner Home Video DVD Release Date: 22 Jan 2007 Run Time: 120 minutes...

Nazuku 13.12.2007 (21.12.2007) · Read review
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Review of A Scanner Darkly (DVD)

The Wasp Factory!

Advantages: Great gothic horror
Disadvantages: Bit short

...It was released in 1984 - author - Iain Banks It is in first person perspective, it is a narrative told by seventeen-year-old Frank Cauldhame, describing his childhood and all that remains of it. Frank observes many religious rituals of his own invention. As the novel develops, his brother's escape from a mental hospital and impending return lead on to a violent ending and a twist that undermines all that Frank believed about himself. The eponymous Wasp Factory is a clock face salvaged from the local dump. Behind each numeral is a trap, which leads to a different ritual death (for example burning, crushing, or drowning in Frank's own urine) for the wasp that Frank puts into the hole at the centre. He uses the death "chosen" by the wasp to divine the future. There are also the Sacrifice Poles, upon which hang the bodies and heads...

damob123 15.08.2007 · Read review
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Review of The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

Wasps for tea?

Advantages: Answer lots of your unanswered questions
Disadvantages: Leaves you asking a whole lot more

..."does anything eat wasps? along with the next obvious question "why would they bother?" I then saw the New Scientist logo in the top left hand corner, and very nearly put the book back, thinking that it would be too scientific for me. However, I turned the book over and read the blurb on the back. The very next question that this book posed was "How long can I live on beer alone?" and within minutes I was in the queue to buy this book! ~~ About the Book ~~ In the introduction the book explains that these are the best questions from the last eleven years of the Last Word column. It also provides a link to the magazine so that you can ask your own questions or indeed answer someone else's. www.newscientist.com/lastword.ns This book is divided into 8 sections: 1 Our bodies 2 Plants and animals 3 Domestic Science 4 Our universe...

ciaomeister1 19.03.2006 · Read review
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Review of Does Anything Eat Wasps? And 101 Other Questions - New Scientist

wasps are great

Advantages: great sport and team
Disadvantages: World Cup and 6 Nations - Made the start of the season terrible

...It was 4 years ago i got given some tickets for a Lonodon wasps game and i have been a great follower since. I never thought that i would follow rugby, i used to watch the world cup but that was just because it was country. Now after i have been to Twickenham to see England play twice i am hooked. After the rocky start to the season with most of the London wasp players being called away for the Rugby World Cup unfortunatley for them all of the 2nd team were called to play to replace the likes of Simon Shaw, Phil Vickery, Paul Sackey, Raphel Ibanez are but to name a few. Then as if matters could not then get any worse once again some of the players were called up again by their country for the 6 nations. Luckily for Wasps they still battle through in High Wycombe at Adams Park to try to hold, then over the past five games they...

jo_field26 20.04.2008 · Read review
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Review of London Wasps

A Scanner Darkly

Advantages: Very Stylistic, gerat soundtrack
Disadvantages: difficult to follow

...Having read Philip K Dicks book, A Scanner Darkly, I was eagerly awaiting the film adaptation. Upon hearing that George Clooney had optioned it no less, and that Richard Linklater was down to direct it I was kind of ecstatic. I have a lot of respect for George Clooney, following his efforts to turn out less main stream Hollywood films, in favour of thought provoking and interesting films. So when I heard that Keanu Reeves had go the lead role as Bob Arctor, my heart sank. To be fair to Reeves, his last couple of films have been stinkers. Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions were not bad down to his acting, more to the clunky direction of the Wachowski Brothers. But the lead character for A Scanner Darkly, in my opinion would always have needed someone who had a half decent range, and not someone who cam across as a bit of an airhead...

Lloyd1979 26.01.2007 · Read review
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Review of A Scanner Darkly (DVD)

Great Scanner

Advantages: good quality scanning
Disadvantages: software is rubbish, can take for ever to scan an image

...I bought myself this to scan various things (old photos, documents and some sheet music) and this does the job pretty well. It was a bit on the expensive side but I needed something that would give me good quality and I could trust that it would work well so I went for HP as they are well known for good quality products. TECHNICAL INFORMATION It can scan at up to 4,800 dpi (dots per inch) It has 96 bit colour It has a 216x311mm scanning screen Connects by USB It is 303x508x108mm (wxdxh) It weighs 5.2 kg So it can give you very good quality, it gets a lot of colours, it's got a decent sized scanning screen, it's pretty big and it's not a light weight utility. There is nothing in there to put me off though because I still bought it. A LITTLE BIT ABOUT IT Scanners have been dying out because they are getting beaten by...

dbirse 11.03.2007 (11.04.2007) · Read review
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Review of HP ScanJet G4050 Photo Scanner