It would seem I wasnt fast enough to post this story, but I had a couple more links and useful info, so here it is:
Google Checkout has been released today. From their blog:
We've heard time and again from users: "I find great stores through Google search, but every time I try to buy from an online store, I have to re-enter the same billing, shipping, and credit card information. There are too many steps. Why can't it be as fast as a Google search?" This motivated us to improve the online purchase process, and so today we're announcing Google Checkout, a checkout option that makes buying across the web fast and easy."
Google CheckOut includes single signon and badges on adwords of merchants that use Google CheckOut.
Features include using many addresses and many different cards for buyers and a "Payment Guarantee" against chargebacks for sellers.
AdWords users get $10 in sales processed for free for every $1 spent on AdWords.
For those of us text
weary, there are videos for buyers and sellers
It may not be directly related to things like the code they are taking but they are giving things back to the world as a whole: www.google.org They give to projects like the Acumen Fund and PlanetRead.
And FYI, this site has been around for a looong time but they have been slow to put stuff on the page.
That a pretty good idea, don't forget to build a vac tube TV while your at it, oh and make sure you store all those parts nice and safe in a large underground vault, oh you know what, just put your family and maybe a few families there too while your at it. And wait, oh i don't know, about 80 years or so for the background radiation to fade and the fallout to settle...
(oh and make sure there's plenty of water too, you don't want to have to go out early and risk having your bones scraped clean by the desolate winds)
Can't help you out with much more then the uptime http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=30gigs.co m [netcraft.com] which, interesting enough, actually hasn't been plotted yet, but that should change in a few days.
This isn't even a problem in newer sensors. These don't take a picture in the normal sense of the word, they scan the discharge from the finger so you have a simple mono output that only depends on the finger being alive and not even dirt affects these much.
(granted these are a bit finicky and i had to send mine back)
The thing is that they are moving to teaching business processes to the engineers (in this case CS majors). There is a class at my university called "Systems Analisys and Design" and part of the course is that you have to have a project team, with a leader and you must hold weekly meetings and have business processes and turn in forms, status reorts and the like, esentially as if the professor was your supervisor.
You know, universities should pay more attention to real world scenarios like this. Maybe then there would be less effort on screwing with politics, and more on doing a good job. Oh well, just add this to the list of things fresh programers get slaped with right out of college.
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Google Checkout has been released today. From their blog: We've heard time and again from users: "I find great stores through Google search, but every time I try to buy from an online store, I have to re-enter the same billing, shipping, and credit card information. There are too many steps. Why can't it be as fast as a Google search?" This motivated us to improve the online purchase process, and so today we're announcing Google Checkout, a checkout option that makes buying across the web fast and easy."
Google CheckOut includes single signon and badges on adwords of merchants that use Google CheckOut.
Features include using many addresses and many different cards for buyers and a "Payment Guarantee" against chargebacks for sellers.
AdWords users get $10 in sales processed for free for every $1 spent on AdWords.
For those of us text weary, there are videos for buyers and sellers
It may not be directly related to things like the code they are taking but they are giving things back to the world as a whole: www.google.org They give to projects like the Acumen Fund and PlanetRead.
And FYI, this site has been around for a looong time but they have been slow to put stuff on the page.
So did IBM, at least thier aptiva line.
That a pretty good idea, don't forget to build a vac tube TV while your at it, oh and make sure you store all those parts nice and safe in a large underground vault, oh you know what, just put your family and maybe a few families there too while your at it. And wait, oh i don't know, about 80 years or so for the background radiation to fade and the fallout to settle...
(oh and make sure there's plenty of water too, you don't want to have to go out early and risk having your bones scraped clean by the desolate winds)
/. munged my link, its: http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=30gigs.co m
Can't help you out with much more then the uptime http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=30gigs.co m [netcraft.com] which, interesting enough, actually hasn't been plotted yet, but that should change in a few days.
This isn't even a problem in newer sensors. These don't take a picture in the normal sense of the word, they scan the discharge from the finger so you have a simple mono output that only depends on the finger being alive and not even dirt affects these much.
(granted these are a bit finicky and i had to send mine back)
8 hours a day (9-5), 5 days a week (Mon-Friday)
(and no, its not www.php.net)
I remember there was a project called PHP.NET or some such but i cant remember where it where I saw it. Anybody remember such a thing?
The thing is that they are moving to teaching business processes to the engineers (in this case CS majors). There is a class at my university called "Systems Analisys and Design" and part of the course is that you have to have a project team, with a leader and you must hold weekly meetings and have business processes and turn in forms, status reorts and the like, esentially as if the professor was your supervisor.
You know, universities should pay more attention to real world scenarios like this. Maybe then there would be less effort on screwing with politics, and more on doing a good job. Oh well, just add this to the list of things fresh programers get slaped with right out of college.
You have to look at it all on even terms. What if Windows was open source and free, or if MacOS was, and what if these were all platform independant.