I could see this being used as a full-body spray-on armour. Sure, it would still be likely lethal if your shot in the head (since even if the bullet isn't allowed to pierce the skull, the impact alone would probably kill you), and it could be potentially lethal if shot in the neck or side of the face, but even so, if you can prevent the bullet from penetrating the body, the chances of survival increase dramatically. Now, even a shot to the leg would never be fatal. Even though it would hurt tremendously, without piercing the skin, there is no chance to bleed out (internal bleeding is another matter entirely).
To me, the most important factor is going to be how easy it is to get off the body once it's on, especially in emergency situations, such as after someone has been shot and if there is internal bleeding from the impact that a surgeon needs to get to.
While I agree with you in principle that Google is an uneasy investment (which is why, although I love everything Google, I have yet to invest in them), I must protest the comparison to Enron. While it is always possible that I am wrong, I get the distinct impression that Google is much more forthcoming and honest about their situation than Enron. When Enron tanked, it was because of a deliberate and illegal practice of doctoring their financial situation. I highly doubt Google is doing the same thing.
Furthermore, with the debut of Google Payments, and its eventual integration throughout the web, and its current ability to easily sell videos (of which many media companies have already jumped on board, such as ABC, NBC, etc.) with Google Video, and the possible announcement of an Office competitor (with Google Spreadsheets being the starting point), I think they will slowly begin diversifying their revenue, which will make them a much more appealing investment opportunity in the future.
I'm not sure which east coast you live on, but I haven't visited a CompUSA in YEARS. I used to go there all the time, then I heard about all the complaints and other customer service nonsense that went on down there regularly, and I started going to BestBuy and Circuit City. And as a matter of interest, up until this very thread, I wasn't even aware that CompUSA was even still in business, since so many stores have been closed down, and I don't see them around anymore.
Maybe they're more prevalent in the southern part of the east coast? But up here, in the northeast, NO ONE goes to CompUSA. It's BestBuy and Circuit City.
Hell, there are some PHP books out there that do this. I have been primarily a PHP developer for a while now (not because it's the only language I know, I just find it to be the fastest and easiest for me over my experiences with Perl, ASP, and *shudder* ColdFusion, but that's personal preference), and I have found that almost ALL the knowledge I learned from books from the beginning of my experience with PHP is virtually useless nowadays (with the exception of the basics, obviously, like printf() and such). I had to relearn the language as I went along, and I didn't develop a proper security sense of the language for quite a while.
This is funny considering the books I read for learning other non-web languages, such as C, C++ and Java, were written with a much more solid foundation, and I still find the knowledge learned in those books useful today.
Maybe it has something to do with the web language publishers.
PHP has always had this problem, and it always will, because the major reason why PHP is so prevalent on the web is because it is highly accessible to all users, even the most uneducated and unknowledgable individuals, allowing anyone to make a dynamic webpage. However, just as PHP allows anyone to write easy code, it also allows anyone to write proper, secure code for those who understand how to do it. Once again, the problem lies between the keyboard and the chair.
Then... They're going to be... nuts-ier...
We're talking, squirrels will be running in front of their moving cars by the millions just to get a taset of this particular level of nut.
I'm not one for traditional MySpace bashing. I don't find MySpace to be the most horrible thing ever invented, nor a travesty to the internet realm. However, I also do not find it to be anything remarkable or special by any stretch of the imagination, and just could never seem to get into it much. I gave it a real try when I was first invited to use it: I made a profile, checked it occasionally, even tried to make it look nice, but in the end, MySpace just wasn't much fun and started to annoy me. Now, I basically use it just to send messages to old friends telling them to call me. It has become basically a crappy e-mail system for me.
I think the main reason for this is my technology side: MySpace always just seemed poorly done to me. It has attracted innumerous people to it, there is no doubt about that. But this attraction is clearly based upon the social networking capacities only, because everything else I have found to be lacking. It is very slow (I would imagine this to be a result of ColdFusion), buggy, and just generally funny looking. I could never get used to the interface.
In the end, I applaud the creators of MySpace for making some so wildly successful, but it just isn't for me.
It's free! You'll only be responsible for paying for your purchases, including taxes and delivery fees (if applicable). You won't be charged any additional costs for making a purchase through Google Checkout.
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It seems like it will be, in traditional Google form, free. No fees.
This is a link to the letter that was originally sent to the FBA (which was then followed by an absolute flood of letters, faxes, calls and e-mails requesting a formal investigation):
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I came into this thread looking for some laugh-out-loud Gordon Freeman/Half Life jokes... Thus far, I have been sorely disappointed...
Tsk tsk, slashdot... Tsk tsk.
I could see this being used as a full-body spray-on armour. Sure, it would still be likely lethal if your shot in the head (since even if the bullet isn't allowed to pierce the skull, the impact alone would probably kill you), and it could be potentially lethal if shot in the neck or side of the face, but even so, if you can prevent the bullet from penetrating the body, the chances of survival increase dramatically. Now, even a shot to the leg would never be fatal. Even though it would hurt tremendously, without piercing the skin, there is no chance to bleed out (internal bleeding is another matter entirely).
To me, the most important factor is going to be how easy it is to get off the body once it's on, especially in emergency situations, such as after someone has been shot and if there is internal bleeding from the impact that a surgeon needs to get to.
While I agree with you in principle that Google is an uneasy investment (which is why, although I love everything Google, I have yet to invest in them), I must protest the comparison to Enron. While it is always possible that I am wrong, I get the distinct impression that Google is much more forthcoming and honest about their situation than Enron. When Enron tanked, it was because of a deliberate and illegal practice of doctoring their financial situation. I highly doubt Google is doing the same thing.
Furthermore, with the debut of Google Payments, and its eventual integration throughout the web, and its current ability to easily sell videos (of which many media companies have already jumped on board, such as ABC, NBC, etc.) with Google Video, and the possible announcement of an Office competitor (with Google Spreadsheets being the starting point), I think they will slowly begin diversifying their revenue, which will make them a much more appealing investment opportunity in the future.
I'm not sure which east coast you live on, but I haven't visited a CompUSA in YEARS. I used to go there all the time, then I heard about all the complaints and other customer service nonsense that went on down there regularly, and I started going to BestBuy and Circuit City. And as a matter of interest, up until this very thread, I wasn't even aware that CompUSA was even still in business, since so many stores have been closed down, and I don't see them around anymore.
Maybe they're more prevalent in the southern part of the east coast? But up here, in the northeast, NO ONE goes to CompUSA. It's BestBuy and Circuit City.
Hell, there are some PHP books out there that do this. I have been primarily a PHP developer for a while now (not because it's the only language I know, I just find it to be the fastest and easiest for me over my experiences with Perl, ASP, and *shudder* ColdFusion, but that's personal preference), and I have found that almost ALL the knowledge I learned from books from the beginning of my experience with PHP is virtually useless nowadays (with the exception of the basics, obviously, like printf() and such). I had to relearn the language as I went along, and I didn't develop a proper security sense of the language for quite a while. This is funny considering the books I read for learning other non-web languages, such as C, C++ and Java, were written with a much more solid foundation, and I still find the knowledge learned in those books useful today. Maybe it has something to do with the web language publishers.
PHP has always had this problem, and it always will, because the major reason why PHP is so prevalent on the web is because it is highly accessible to all users, even the most uneducated and unknowledgable individuals, allowing anyone to make a dynamic webpage. However, just as PHP allows anyone to write easy code, it also allows anyone to write proper, secure code for those who understand how to do it. Once again, the problem lies between the keyboard and the chair.
Then... They're going to be... nuts-ier... We're talking, squirrels will be running in front of their moving cars by the millions just to get a taset of this particular level of nut.
The only inconvenient thing here is that the conspiracy theorists are going to go absolutely nuts over this.
I'm not one for traditional MySpace bashing. I don't find MySpace to be the most horrible thing ever invented, nor a travesty to the internet realm. However, I also do not find it to be anything remarkable or special by any stretch of the imagination, and just could never seem to get into it much. I gave it a real try when I was first invited to use it: I made a profile, checked it occasionally, even tried to make it look nice, but in the end, MySpace just wasn't much fun and started to annoy me. Now, I basically use it just to send messages to old friends telling them to call me. It has become basically a crappy e-mail system for me. I think the main reason for this is my technology side: MySpace always just seemed poorly done to me. It has attracted innumerous people to it, there is no doubt about that. But this attraction is clearly based upon the social networking capacities only, because everything else I have found to be lacking. It is very slow (I would imagine this to be a result of ColdFusion), buggy, and just generally funny looking. I could never get used to the interface. In the end, I applaud the creators of MySpace for making some so wildly successful, but it just isn't for me.
I don't. The Google Plex is like a sysadmins playground... So much hardware to toy with, so little time!
How much does it cost to use Google Checkout?
It's free! You'll only be responsible for paying for your purchases, including taxes and delivery fees (if applicable). You won't be charged any additional costs for making a purchase through Google Checkout.
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It seems like it will be, in traditional Google form, free. No fees.
It's not even just education-related services... Anything that services the high school and college age crowd is going to get a renewable audience (thus able to include MySpace, and why it is so successful). http://www.student-manager.com/, http://www.facebook.com/, http://www.myspace.com/, http://www.blackboard.com/ all have one thing in common: They service the high school to college age crowd.
This is a link to the letter that was originally sent to the FBA (which was then followed by an absolute flood of letters, faxes, calls and e-mails requesting a formal investigation):
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