In fact, Mr. Kestenbaum said, it is even possible for the person at the front desk to "scan in" the bar code used by delivery services like Federal Express or United Parcel Service as well as the signature of the person accepting the delivery to automatically store the information in the system.
Instead of simply asking me to spell my name, or taking it from my reservation, the desk clerk scanned my driver's license into the hotel's computer system; the scanner misread the license, and as a result, several friends who called were told that there was no Bernstein registered.
The immodest impostor is but a drop in the bucket of opinionated readers on Amazon, where a consumer can vet a book purchase the way you might a desk fan: by scanning only the most negative reviews.
Therefore, as an alternative, try to find others near your existing location who are not perfectly satisfied with sitting at a desk all day, scanning barcodes and handling currency for some big retail company, buying plastic stuff with plastic stuff, and being blathered to by some plastic box in the evening.
But when scanning his desk at Remedy Entertainment, the Espoo-based studio where he serves as the creative director, for clues as to what inspires him to write games that tap into American culture, one thick tome stands out.
But when scanning his desk at Remedy Entertainment, the Espoo-based studio he's the creative director of, for clues as to what inspires him to write games that tap into American culture, one thick tome stands out.
One of the front desk staffers will scan your books and register them as checked out in the library's computer system.
Mamoun Fansa sits at the desk of his Berlin flat, scanning maps of his native Aleppo, summoning up whatever slender threads of optimism he can.
He stood naked on top of the vice president's desk in the Senate chamber, scanning the crowd of sniveling politicians below him.
In one of these, the radioactivity of the sample was quantitated by scanning laser densitometry (Desk TopTM Scanner Plus, Amersham Pharmacia Biotech).
