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Mozilla 1.0 Release Parties
Screaming Lunatic writes "With the release of Mozilla 1.0 almost here, the open source Mozilla community is planning a bunch of parties all over the world. You can choose to attend a party already planned somewhere in the world or start up a party in your own neck of the woods. The main party will be at 8pm Wednesday, June 12, 2002 at the DNA Lounge in San Francisco." Currently 37 parties
listed, but many of them look awfully lonely... none near Ann Arbor yet ;)
what a bunch of geeks. It's a commodity. Nothing special.
Is this a 21 and over venue, 18 and over, or all ages? I have some friends who may be interested in attending...
mund freud.
Those scientists have also been able to ressurrect the extinct Mozilla from that remaining DNA.
Mozilla 3:16 says I just kicked your ass.
Mozilla 1.0 orgy... that might get more people to sign up.
I plan on burning cd's of OO1.0 and Moz1.0 with both Windows and linux versions on them ready to go.. and then I'm gonna sell the Cd's at the hamfest I'm attending for $5.00 each (covers my costs of CD's cases,label printing, etc...)
I hope to get at least another 100 people using OO and Moz and away from microsoft products...
I have an excellent banner for my booth too..
Hey, if you aren't being an advocate... then you're just dead weight.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Sorry, I'll download it but I won't be having a party. I would actually like some girls to show up, and having the latest browser doesn't exactly drive the ladies crazy.
It fits the definition of "computer program" more than it does "commodity"
I see there's one in Tokyo, but I'm disappointed.
It should be called "MOZILLA DESTROYS TOKYO IN MASSIVE RELEASE" or something!
God Fucking Damnit
while using the mouse with their left hand. . .
You are not the customer.
...any reason to party is a good reason! I can see it now--RMS drunk on vodka dressed up as Godzilla, Linus up on the turntables spinnin' some wicked trance music, AND NO WOMEN TO BE SEEN FOR MILES!
i want a Mozilla party in Bugtussle Tenn...
Someone should formulate, in mathematical notation, the principle that the current release of Mozilla will approach, but never reach, 1.0.
How many more incremental releases will there be?
As interested as I am with the prospect of a another browers.. I am still having strange problems with it under windows.. It alwasy seems to forget where is profiles folder is and will noth launch untill I create a new profile or point it to the one I made last time.. Why is this needed for the browser?? I can understand it for the E-mail and news but not even the browser works without setting a profile.. I guess it lets you sort your book marks per user but unter windows 2000 and higher users profiles are better handled by the login name.. the app shouldn't even handle it.. And under linuk you have your home folder.. I if it loaded pages faster than IE or konqeror I might be interested but I have not really liked the 0.9.9 verisons or even the first RC much..
EA David Gardner -"... but the consumers have proven that actually what they want is fun."
GeekAustin has also authored a thread pertaining to this subject.
Do you like German cars?
For some reason explorer won't render that list...
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Currently 37 parties listed, but many of them look awfully lonely...
Of course, you can't expect open source people to have good (expensive) food and drinks. Give me an IE party anytime. (As a compensation, of course.)
DNA is the ultimate spaghetti code.
Too bad schools out for the summer. I bet the frats at my university are kicking themselves for not being able to throw some keg parties for this release.
"Every time you find a bug in the 1.0 release you gotta funnel a beer bro!"
JWZ resigned in a very public manner from the Mozilla project and now the official release party is at the DNALounge, the club that JWZ started? Irony abounds..
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain
Everyone knows nerds don't go to parties! I saw it in a movie. (Unless of course they use their computer to create a hot chick and she creates a party for them.)
--RMS drunk on vodka dressed up as Godzilla, Linus up on the turntables spinnin' some wicked trance music, AND NO WOMEN TO BE SEEN FOR MILES!
Change that Godzilla to a Gorn, and add one or two females (350 pound nearly nude Orion slave girls), and you have a Star Trek convention. Beam me up SC0TT13!
yea! I get to see Jamie again. w00t!
I'd love to go, but it's the same day as the Emacs version 21 party (that's alot of hangovers!).
- Gatse
Dudes and dudetts, like total kegger party at my place while we wait for Mozilla to download and compile! Oh the humanity.
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Does anyone remember
You must be using Microsoft's definition of "computer program" : "a slow conglomeration of bugs that doesn't entierly fail in its intended use".
So click !
Here ya go, you're all invited... now why don't you print out a bunch of these onto glossy postcards and leave them around your local college campus like all the promoters do at mine?
--You will rephrase your request for me to go to hell. Goto statements are not acceptable programming constructs
How many people will show up "fashionably late"? :-)
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You must be using Microsoft's definition of "computer program
What does Microsoft have to do with it?
Anyone interested in a Moz party in the St. Louis, MO USA area?
Celebrate the finer things in life
With Mozilla's Javascript pop-up blocker and pornzilla features, everybody can have their own party in their pants on 'release' day.
Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.
All those email addresses in spam friendly format! Just think of the fun!
I am not a number! I am a man! And don't you
Seriously. Let it begin.
No, you're wrong! There are women, it's just that they are indistinguishable from the "men".
except that they are hairer. Moving into Xena/Hercules convention territory here.
Words fail me when trying to contemplate how stupid a Mozilla release party is. I can't even form properly structured sentences. My mind boggles.
You are all freaks
With apologies to Willian Shakespeare, or anyone with taste for that matter
My Mozilla's Icons are nothing like the Explorer;
China is far more red than her licence red;
If button mean down, why then she come back up?
If html be wires, broken wires jut one of her engine;
I have seen webpages advertising other browsers;
But no such promotions I see in her windows;
And in some MS java there is more delight;
Than in the broken applets that from my browser reeks;
I love to browse her tabs, yet well I know
That some Flash hath a far more pleasing look;
I grant I never saw OS X though;
My Mozilla, when she browsers, slumps through links;
And yet, by Linux, I think my browser as rare
As any I belied with false compare;
I stole this Sig
I think it's a great way to launch, especially if monkey-boy MS can't dance for their rollout, if 2000 crashed(blue screen baby), and we can't have a "Dance on Bill's Grave" party.
I do not trust any entity that has waaaaayyyyy to much centralised power, and i've been wondering about God in that dept.(wonder what upgrades HE gives....)
I think a party is appropriate, not a pie in mozilla's face, or other wankin' PR sh*t, but it's a release.
For you folks groaning and saying that it's not V3 of your fav game, humor from a little back
check out the mozilla up front!
True, it's not release 3 of Game-Quest-Gate-Raider-Zombie, but this is a jab at an OS as much as it is a product. Don't whine. Somebody took up the old line, "If somebody was gonna come up with something better, doncha think they would?"...
Now...if you want to argue too much "Chrome features", ummm, can't argue that, oh gee, look at the time, gotta go....
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The KKK a bunch of sheetheads? You decide!
It looks like Harry Knowles has gotten his mitts on a leaked copy of Star Wars Episode III. And whoo boy, it looks like Georgie boy is writing most of the script himself again!
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Let's get this party started. We can hook it up in Ann Arbor... how about at The Edge??? 94 and Michigan I think is the cross-streets there...
"Champagne for my real friends - and real pain for my sham friends!" http://ericblade.postalboard.com/
...well, Rob, start your own. Break out the old Hope College Bong and invite a few friends.
I knew geeks were antisocial, but begging for a party to spring up near you is downright pathetic.
- A.P.
"Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
These poor people are shunned by society, they deserve to have some fun too.
It's kinda sad that you think a party needs a purpose to be called a party.
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We'll be playing pin the tail on CowboyNeal, after that Frost the Pist, and at night we'll be bobbing for Grunion. The person with the least karma in the Troll Games will be given the lowest latency Internet Access in the world for 1 hour and unlimited posting privileges.
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I am the nightmare of nightmares.
No, you sit around and get shit-faced drunk. Just like any other party.
In keeping with the open source dogma of "you fix it," are all the parties BYOB?
After your beach party would you fine fellowes like to please come to my house and see my beowulf clusters and perhaps play some of my favoirte Linus game, DOOM? I promise it is a fun game in which you run throuug h a maze and shoot monsters and evil humans. There will not be girls, as I perspire a lot when I see one.
Oh give me a break, Rob! If YOU want a party near your home, why don't YOU organize one?
Unlike most people, you have the forum to get the interest in and you can write it off as a business expense!
Seriously - if you want to see a party nearby, MAKE ONE!
(of course, one wonders about the sort of people who would go to a Mozilla release party... will there be many "wimmin of the female persuasion" as a certain squint-eyed sailor might ask...)
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Personally, I'm warry of joining up with people that I only know via the internet. But Fark has plenty of fark parties and no one seems to complain about those. Whatever.
I believe that the existence of women is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these...
But I'm at a loss to think of other activities. Suggestions?
Don't forget the basic Netscape model: degrade your brownser from release to release until it is unusable, and then look at your main rival (which actually dares to improve its project between releases) and launch utterly frivolous lawsuits to punish them for the outrage of making their product better while you make yours worse.
So, will there be any booth babes at any of these parties?
Before you try that link, the site has not yet recovered from this morning. :)
If all you have are silver bullets, everything looks like a werewolf.
It took 5 times as long to get to version 1.0 than MS did with IE.
The Mozilla team started from scratch and produced a working web browser in three years, after deciding that the Netscape 5.0 code on which they had been working for the last year just wouldn't cut it. The Microsoft Internet Explorer team bought the Mosaic browser (a project presumably begun in 1992) and released IE 1.0 in August 1995, and it wasn't actually usable until 3.0 in August 1996. Again four years.
Will I retire or break 10K?
... I'd rather they fix bugs. Like maybe http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144882 which has been broken since RC2. I can't even send mail.
Mozilla v1.0
IE v6.0
I think they`ve left it a bit late, dont you? What are the market shares per browser again?
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Is it really appropriate that Mozilla be celebrated at the DNA Lounge?
For those of you not aware, the DNA Lounge is owned by Jamie Zawinski (aka JWZ), a former Netscape employee. When things weren't going his way, JWZ made a very high-profile exit from Netscape Communications and from the Mozilla project. He was very rude about it; he had very harsh words about Netscape's newer employees, he pushed all of the same FUD arguments that MS mouthpieces such as ZDnet tend to do, and he basically declared the project a failure.
JWZ's high-profile registration was a big setback for Mozilla, because it lowered morale inside the team and served as a huge negative PR piece.
Now that Mozilla has successfully reached its 1.0 release, they're going to celebrate by paying JWZ for booze and entertainment? Is this the way to reward the person who did more to hurt the Mozilla project than any other single person in the industry?
Perhaps I'm just being curmudgeonly about this, but I really don't think it's appropriate. Mozilla succeeded despite JWZ.
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I bet they could use some of that Mozilla code in IE7! MS Mozilla!
You too can use the Gecko engine (Mozilla's rendering engine) in Microsoft Internet Explorer. Use this tool to patch iexplore.exe and other apps to use an ActiveX wrapper around the Gecko engine instead of MSHTML.
Will I retire or break 10K?
What about Mrs. Torvalds?
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Congrats, Mozilla team.
Don't forget to include complete source code for both while you're at it- GPL compliance and all.
There's no point in questioning authority if you aren't going to listen to the answers.
They won't give Microsoft a run for the money until they improve "marketing". The layout and wording at mozilla.org was designed to discourage someone from downloading and using the software (the 100% lack of "download and use" buttons anywhere in the site kept me away for weeks after my first frustrating visit to the site).
We'll be combining our regular PHP user group meeting with a Mozilla-release party on June 6 (hopefully that's close enough one way or the other). Food/drinks provided. http://www.tapinternet.com/ for contact info.
creation science book
Hey baby, wanna see my lizard?
Let interface at port 69...
Wanna exchange IP's. Better hurry - I'm dynamic!
On second thought, I'd better resort to large quantities of alcohol...
This is not Irony. This is Money.
worse yet,
how many geeks are going to try pick up girls with the line: 'the real me will be much better, this outfit is just a release candidate...'
this isn't 1998, trance sucks.
ROOK! It's MOZIRRA!
Now THAT's a troll to be proud of. But you shouldn't put her down for accepting penile games, most women actually like dick.
and even if there were, they'd wreck everything, 'cause they have the cooties
I suspect that's the real reason for the trolls. If one doesn't expect to meet female Mozilla fans at the party then one could simply bring a date.
OTH, if yuor pretty and run gentoo a certain amount of drooling is to be expected.
Watching Cowboy Bebop in my jammies, eating a bowl of Shreddies.
Man, I want to go, but it's 21+. Why couldn't they get some sort of club 18+ at least?
He only has to make it available, not distribute it. If he doesn't modify it at all, he can just point to the main repository, and satisfy the GPL.
Not ot mention Mozilla isn't a GPL product. It has it under a myriad of licenses, including NPL and MPL.
I'm so impressed by your use of pointless jargon and unfounded meaningless statistics that I've decided to switch from Linux, the operating system which causes men to oppress, rape, and kill women around the globe, to the more female-friendly MS Windows, which oppresses, rapes, and kills people around the globe regardless of gender.
Cheerio, troll.
Read Bujold. Free (as in
I'm not trying to troll here, but seriously, why are people throwing parties (and why does that make it to /.)? Its a piece of software that helps people do their jobs in a way that they like more. I mean, its not like mechanics go and throw parites because Craftsman releases a new wrench. And architects don't go crazy when a CAD program goes gold.
What's the big deal?
I'm out of my mind right now, but feel free to leave a message.....
Hey, there's no party in Montreal! What gives? I don't want to have to go all the way to Toronto.
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And even love can be rented.
Watching Cowboy Bebop in my jammies, eating a bowl of Shreddies.
I guess its safe to assume Mozilla 1.0 won't have an "about:jzw"
Thanks. Now my nose hurtz becuase of the hot coffee... ;-) Anyway, in response to your original post: I think the guy you responded to was just throwing that out as a tongue-in-cheek joke. Cheap and stupid joke, perhaps, but... Another point: who says drooling is bad, provided it's done with class? Hell, I know I'm immensely flattered when a member of the appropriate sex has their hormones sing at the sight of me... (Note, obviously, I don't mean talking to the woman's chest or something equally crass.) I think it's wrong to be a slavering hound, in other words, but I think perhaps it's taken to far in the opposite direction sometimes, and any admittance of attraction is seen as crude... Dragging this post back somewhat to the realm of topicality... w00w00 mozilla! :-) I think I'm going to make either the Houston or Austin one... (/me checks the server maintenance schedule, shakes his head, and crosses his fingers...)
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Story time. Being the under-age-nerd-with-a-social-life self that I am, I decide that I want to go clubbing.
But boo-hoo, I'm not old enough. So I go to the only guy that I know who makes fake IDs, and ask for one. "Why," he asks, "you're wearing a Linux shirt. You're a geek. You guys don't go clubbing."
Pfffffft. Now I have a legitimate reason. The mozilla release party is only open to those 21 and older.
Heh.
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http://mozilla.org/party/2002/flyer.htmlm ozilla.org/party/2002/faq.html
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Regarding the issue of those underage wanting to go into the party: "and just because you're old enough to vote and kill, you're not old enough to enter a bar."
Perhaps this is a bit off-topic but I think it's a good time to bring it up.
Legal voting age is 18. Legal army age is 18. Legal drinking age in a good amount of states is 21. What the heck? You can vote for politicians, you can get yourself killed and die for your country, but you can't get legally inebriated?
What kind of country do we live in!
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For discussing these things and/or Mozilla problems or suggestions you can go to this Mozilla newsgroup.
I think we need an Enlightenment party when E17 comes out...oh thats right...never
Just in case you haven't heard Spam Gourmet offers a nice service for exactly this kind of situation. You'll get a temporary address that will work for a few times and then expire.
http://www.schnitzer.at/mozparty/#5
I'm organizing that party! However, I'd rather have someone else deal with organizing an managing it, especially after being staff for Canada's #1 anime con, Anime North.
It's an open invitation, just show up at Vinnie's (22 Duncan St.) in Toronto on the Saturday after release and follow the noise. I'd like to have a banner to hang, and Moz1.0 CDs to hand out.
Chris 'coldacid' Charabaruk Meldstar Entertainment
i was trying to think of some good nerd/geek/Mozilla themed pickup lines for a Mozilla party...i came up with...
"Do you wanna see my lizard?"
"Wanna help me with my buffer overflow problem?"
and...
"Are you interested in a brute force attack?"
any other helpful suggestions???
"Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true." - Homer Simpson
Hahahahahaha... this is rich... the old "my time is too valuable to waste on your silly party". If you are using this excuse it is because:
- You weren't invited.
- You are too socially inept to know what to do when faced with real people - thus, you fool yourself into believing that you're better off not going.
- You are a real keener and Study Real Hard so that you can get that extra 0.5% on your math final and really stick it to Johnny Quarterback.
Anyone who has ever REALLY partied knows what a bullshit excuse this is.Listen, most of us don't consider our mom's bridge games to be "parties"...
Kernel parties are full of smart, geeky people.
The Mozilla party? Whats that? A party full of geeks that are dumb as rocks and working for next to nothing or for free indirectly for fucking AOL?
NO thanks. Being geeky and smart is cool. Being geeky low paid idiot who writes OOP code for monopolies, ILL FUCKING PASS.
PS. DIE.
no wonder escaping to geekdom com is favoured by so many.
anyone for a game of russian roulette?
They either love you or hate you. If you love 'em they will love to hate you, and if you hate 'em they will love to love you. Its all bout love right.
ohh well to hell with it, if you just pretend to love me I'll fuck you. Just be honest and keep me confused, else I'll get bored and replace you.
welcome to the game of love. pull, but don't pull too hard at the wrong time unless they need you to which they neglect to say when. push, but don't push too hard.
One thing is for sure, you'll never for sure know when to do what.
Fiver-rah, I respect you. Your sex really rules our minds. Fiver-rah, I accept you, but damn I want my beer.
I noticed a party for the folks in the Triangle (theoretically) at Tir na Nog (Party 53). Why you would pick a place in downtown Raleigh for an RTP party is beyond me, but what the heck...They really should provide a map to the place.
What is your Slash Rating?
When I first scanned the headlines, I thought it said "Mozilla Release Panties", and I started wondering whether they'd be new or used, and maybe I should go see if Opera's gonna be giving out sequined thongs with their new release.
IE, of course, would be boxer shorts with an indelible racing stripe.
It continues. Interesting story - go read it.
With apologies to Willian Shakespeare, or anyone with taste for that matter
Same applies to this peace:
Mozilla, Prince of Denmark
To release, or not to release, - that is the question: -
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of everchanging interfaces,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by freezing end them? - To freeze, - to release, -
No more; and by a release to say we end
The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks
That C++ is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wisht. To freeze, - to release; -
To release! perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that release of 1.0 what dreams may come...
I know everybody finds it humorous that the main party is being held at the DNA Lounge, but it doesn't look like some tricky plot to rub the release in JWZ's face. Instead, it looks more or less like an act of goodwill from JWZ. The location was suggested by JWZ in Bug 10039, the bug slip that seems to have started the party idea:
------- Additional Comment #48 From Jamie Zawinski 2002-04-07 17:13 -------
You are welcome to have your party at DNA Lounge if you cover our staff costs,
and if it's on a night when we're not already booked.
So, heh. I don't know why people seem so quick to think that the Mozilla crew would do that sort of thing.
No Montreal party. Mozilla is illegal there because the developers failed to write all the C code in French.
Er, anyone notice that "osama.bin.l@den.net" is supposed to be attending the Mozilla party in Pakistan ("at Tariq's place")?
We need a dinosaur too... Maybe a gay purple one like the Raptors...
Or a big Barney one... yup.. that's the stuff.
I'm the one who always claims that most geek girls are pretty hot. Like when i demo my list of hacker pick-up lines at school and get told "yeah but all you'll get with that is geek chicks". So? "They're all ugly." I don't know what hole everybody else is living under, but i don't think I've ever met a geek chick who wasn't fine as all hell. (this is by my definition of geek, but hey, I only think we should be even in how we define geeks for girls and for guys)
I vote the rest of us geek guys open our eyes to how nice the pickings are (if slim, but hey it's quality and not quantity right?)
btw I hope you meant those 2 bulleted points to go together because I'm definitely drooling over any girl who runs gentoo (pretty or not =] )
"I don't care about the Constitution!" --Bill O'Reilly, November 17, 2009
Until I see a picture, I wouldn't know whether to cheer og cry. If you are beautiful I'll listen to you, if you are ugly, I'll look the other way.
/. - to be honest I loved the provocation.
Words doesn't cut it alone. And even if you provide a picture there are no guarantees its authentic.
But I sure loved your original wordings and I'm sure looking forward to a good spanking session if we ever meet.You hit me in the bottom and kick me in my bollocks yes?
lick my balls, but don't go away. Stay on
ohh.. btw did you generalize?
MR. Shallow Hal III
Alan_Thicke, the world's greatest unknown and unseen Troll, dead at 1:35pm EST. And I quote:
One of the world's most encouraging trolls was pronounced dead today in his corroding adobe home. "Alan_Thicke was a great Troll", says a local homeless woman. "I will miss Alan_Thicke and I'll miss the smell." At approximately 1:35PM EST, neighboring trolls noticed a smell of cleanliness and upon investigating the source, were directed to the mound Alan_Thick occupied. "We just saw him there, and he smelt unlike anything else and so we buried him 'cause we know what is best for Alan_Thicke", says a local, scraggly and green-tinged, angry Troll that occupies a garbage can. A local construction business waived all liability due to the fact that one of their porta-jons had been placed upon Alan_Thicke's adobe home 3 months earlier and removed."
A tragic day, indeed. I will miss Alen_Thicke.
I am the nightmare of nightmares.
That's not a big achievement, just read the install docs and everything work..
:)
But can you make it run with gcc 3.1 from the bootstrap? If so, and you're pretty, are you available? I promise I'm geek enough
So am I to understand that all the other parties are also to occur on the 12th, having seen no indication to the contrary?
"I don't care about the Constitution!" --Bill O'Reilly, November 17, 2009
Awww .... must be 21+ to attend the SF party? Grumble... I'm not going to drive to Arizona or Oregon - I don't have a license yet. Anybody else want to start a Mozilla party for teen 'zilla people?
Call Ted Nugent
Please mark parent down as troll.
You will get a lot closer to figuring out women when you start figuring out yourself, and realize that neither men nor women really want to be figured out. They want to be related to, respected, turned on, loved, left alone, supported, admired, and played with. Not figured out. I'm not attracted to women who make figuring me out a project, I'm hardly surprised to find out that converse is true.
Any american living in the past 8 months or so who can't see that is too blinded by flags to see reality clearly.
What, no one wants to host a party in Kansas? Fine! I'll drink for all of you!
He's going to /5/ parties... most likely all on the same day...
Luke-Jr
We'll be playing pin the tail on CowboyNeal, after that Frost the Pist, and at night we'll be bobbing for Grunion.
What about pin the tail on goatse guy??
you mean people can't be hacked ? :)
well, they're at versiion 1.0
now if they can come out with a product that is better than the one that controls 95% of the market, they'll have something.
Wave your flag all if you like, but it dosent change the fact that for MS operating systems, (and Mac) there is no better browser than IE.
Combine that with the fact that many of the once faithful have accepted the cold hard reality that there are no reasonable desktop alternatives to MS, and this is kinda pointless.
It'll be a cold day in hell before IIS runs anything for me, but it'll be the same day that I switch to mozilla
Can I shove it in your throat, and then fuck you hard? I've always wanted to deep-dick a well educated woman. you never replied to my earlier post, you muff-diver!
btw, do you like it up the ass?
heh, so are these losers going to make the 'theme' of the parties sitting around, getting really bloated, and 'acting' really slow in honor of the browser?
if so, i recommend 'richard simmons - sweatin to the oldies', heh. =].
i'm too skilled for a sig. heh.
I've watched Mozilla for Windows grow quite a fair bit from humble beginnings; and I'm really quite impressed with how it has developed. I'm sure there are people who would jump to say it was always fast and better and faster than Internet Explorer; but this is from a view point with modest hardware. I've always used Internet Explorer before simply because it was fast. Click and it booted, no wait and no pain ;). Now, finally, I am writing this post using Mozilla RC3 Windows binaries, and it is faster to boot than Internet Explorer; even on lower hardware, and the page loading time is much faster not to mention a faster render time. I'd just like to give a big congratulations to the Mozilla development team, because they've managed to, without access to the very internals of the operating system, create a browser faster than one that does. Good job, and it can only get better from here :-).
I like karma. Feed me.
I don't even use mozilla, I can't see a good reason too when Opera is around. The only thing I ever celebrate is when a new stable kernel is released, which seems to be many moons ago...
Sounds like you could use some Lesbian GNU/Linux
Seriously you made some good points - but not all the people (men?) that will be at the parties will be the stereotype you present.
Some of us will be decent people who just happen to like Mozilla - well I say us, but there's no party in Scotland :(
I compiled the full mother load ~30MB the other day on my slackware 8.0 which is powered by a PII 300, /w 320 MB RAM, and has an 18 GB ultra2 scsi HDD.
/w simmilar hardware and not have this problem?
when i launch mozilla or mozilla -mail or whatever, it takes approximately 20 seconds for the browser/mail client to appear. surfing/typing in URLs is *painfully* slow. i mean, if I type a URL, the characters appear once every 3 seconds.
anyone know how to speed this behemoth up? anyone compile from source
dmarien
This alone makes going to one of these parties worthwhile. Now if only we could explain this to the rest of society.
Ack! Our party has been Slashdotted!! Anyway, for any folks who want to party, in addition to the 800,000 or so who have signed up in the past 2 hours, the gig is at Remote Lounge, in the East Village. Our web site is (graciously!) hosted at mozdev.org.
The date is currently scheduled for Friday, the 7th, but it might move to the 12th, to coincide with the bash at DNA Lounge.
Party on!
If all the world's a stage, anyone who says they want better lighting spends far too much time in a dark theatre.
My comment was directed only at people who regularly whine/joke about lack (or quality) of women. It wasn't meant to be a blanket statement condeming all slashdotters, nor by illogical extension, everyone at the Mozilla party.
If you're already decent, as most of you are, move along. There's nothing to be seen in that comment.
Read Bujold. Free (as in
It could also be because a party for a web browser is fucking gay and some of us go out to party for the purpose of socializing, not to praise a piece of software. Truly ridiculous.
It's amazing that they finally have relased a 1.0, this goes to show you how great the leadership was for this project.
They can be, but he doesn't like to be.
Is I thought you said "Oprah's gonna be giving out her sequined thongs"
Sure point taken ..
Yup I did... plenty of room for sources for both on the CD.
It's true. You're whining about geeks asking for pretty ladies, which then pushes respectable female geeks away. Your point is good, but... most geeks don't want a geeky woman!
Who wants a woman that can code better than you? Who wants a woman who understands the ins ands outs of Linux? Not me! Sure, I don't want a total airhead, but an artist, a musician, a doctor, those are all very skilled things, but mean that the woman isn't a total geek.
I couldn't think of anything worse than having a girlfriend/wife who did anything closely related to my line of work. Variety is the spice of life you know.
mogorific carpentry experiments
I wil jave party wif nakid girlz
like zomilla - gud browbser, parties on !
Yay mofizla is 1.o many yers laters tha it should-been, woop an crashis like daemon broken sumtimes.
ParTy woop - nakid gurlz.
Bring it on you fiery lizard - it's now or never.
A slashdotting - you get the stick first and then the carrot !
...wouldn't Linus be playing with his daughters somewhere _upstage_?
It's all Hood
more beer.
- I am a boy.
- What you said needed to be said!
The geek community at large has a awkward attitude at best towards women. A lot of my geek friends are either raving sexists in denial, view women as some kind of aliens, or ignore them altogether.This makes a lot of girls hesitate to get into computers and that is truly a shame.
Those are 51% of the potential braincells alive we are talking about! There might be dozens of potential female Linuses out there for all we know!
If nothing else, I bet more geek girls would make my male geek friends a lot less irritating...
Am I the only male geek out there with 50%+ female friends?
"First lesson," Jon said. "Stick them with the pointy end."
I'll party for Mozilla as soon as it actually runs on OpenBSD.
Serve Gonk.
The main directory at Los Alamos National Laboratory is (well, look it up, let's not /. them) but it is in the 505 area code.
I called. I asked for Angela Taylor's direct number. They have never heard of Angela Taylor. I asked if she might be at another facility. They said that if she was, she would be listed in their directory.
Angela, you should call human resources. Perhaps you've been riffed and you haven't been told yet.
Well, MAYBE lets say I was a guy, which is easy because I am, and lets say the idea of the post was Parties are kinda dull without girls, and the ratio of girls will be low!
Droves of Geek Girls?? Get a life! Girls' minds as a general rule are incompatible with machines, computers, and all the other stuff guys like. Girls will never be as geeky, of as many as guys, sorry, no linda torvalds.
This is a sexist post, but then we're talking about sexes aren't we?
"And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the World"
1 John 4:14
Lets say, hypothetically, that i am the kind of guy who'd whine and complain about there being no gurls at geek parties. And lets say i read that post. Hypothetically, if i were that type of guy, i wouldn't really care. I mean, that you had said that. Because, hypothetically, you become a whiner yourself. You are (in theorey) yapping about how you dont like people that yap about something - in this case people missing people hypothetically like you.
Now lets say that i'm a nice guy. Not just a guy that doesnt complain that there are no gurls, but a guy that doesn't go to these types of things HOPING to find a gurl to stare at and dream about for years to come as the unattainable dream of a misguided fool. Would i even want you at a party? What point is there of me to think, nay, hope, nay, wish, that a (hypothetically) intelligent female would be at this sort of suare if i didn't want to seek her out and begin an enlightening conversation?
My point? If you dont want them to whine dont give them anything to whine about. And if it bothers you so much, fuck, deal with it in an adult manner! People suck and we aren't doing much about that by making ourselves sucky in the process.
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http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/
for some reason, the fonts are so small, that I am having to highlight the text, and copy and paste it into gnotepad to be able to read it. Maybe it's just my RHL system, but these folks apparently have not tested their page in Mozilla. So, I might assume that if they did have a Mozilla 1.0 Release party, some explaining would need to be done before the night gets very old.Test.
Hacking the Network
...since you've gotten like 8 karma from this thread alone! Brings new meaning to the phrase "Karma Wh..."
*RUNS AWAY BEFORE HE CAN GET SMACKED*
For those of you in the Schenectady NY, and in hopes of getting a good turnout, there will be a Mozilla Release Party in North College in room 312. Please come by and celebrate with us. Punch and pie will be provided along with a live band. It should be a good time for all. The party will last a few hours but all are welcome to stay for as long as desired. There will be a nice theatre setup and we've got Empire queued up and ready to be played. ;-)
Just because it is not crashing anymore doesnt
mean it is complete. It has tons of stuff missing in DOM/DHTML, and all that good stuff Internet Explorer offers. Without those, use communicator or Mozilla 1.0, there is not going to be very much difference. It is very unlikely that Mozilla will get any more popularity than its predecessor got. Well, skin and theme lowers will masturbase their megalo dreams using mozilla that is for sure.
Did it ever occurr to you that maybe Jamie doesn't harbor any ill-will towards the makers of Mozilla? That maybe he just resigned because he wanted a change and was sick of coding 24/7 on a project that (to him) appeared to be going nowhere? I mean, for crying out loud, the world isn't all black and white, friends and foes (slashdot user system to the contrary . .
Nathan's blog
Makes me think of what happened to a friend of mine when he was in college in NH.
He and 3 others were on the way back to campus. The driver, who was over 21 stopped and bought a sixpack. He put it in the trunk. The cops, who apparently had the place staked-out, arrested my friend and one of the other passengers.
They argued that the kids had access to the beer because of the fold-down rear seat. The law enforcement community was too stupid to keep terrorists out of 767 cockpits, but they've got folding car-seats down to a science.
Fscking New Hampshire cops with their "live free or die" license plates hauling away a kid who had never touched a drop of booze in his life. Can i put the bullet in my gun now Andy, can I?
You go, girl!
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Uhm. I mean... You stay, girl!
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No that's not coming out right either...
Oh what the hell...
Except for that part about operating systems causing men to do anything but kill -9, SEGV or TRAP women and the part where you 'switch' operating systems, I think I like you (in the nicest posible way).
Anyway, I hope you have a great party and I think you can be pretty sure the whiners will be too busy whining to be there to spoil it for you.
Karma? What's that again?
I don't see it as a whine -- merely an observation that there aren't many girls at these sorts of things. I generally don't mention it, but if you look around at any sort of "geeky" gathering it's obvious that the ratio is 95/5 if you're lucky (more like 99/1 often). The Linux conventions are actually some of the more balanced ones, comparatively (often even with 90/10 ratios!). Take a look around at a Magic: The Gathering tournament sometime and note the number of girls present.
10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
I guess that's just another thing that will be fixed for 1.1.
use constant PERL_IS_BROKEN => $] >= 5.006;
Maybe if you were nicer, you'd get invited to more parties.
"Seriously people, if you want women to go to your parties, don't alienate them."
Seriously, a lot of programmers are the way they are because they were traumatized in childhood. They got into programming because they were needing the logic to counteract the illogic of their lives with their parents.
So, while your post is valuable, it is not easy for them to change. When they are around something that reminds them of the potential of being a warm and caring individual, they experience a huge amount of hidden inner conflict.
Your real hostility came out in this post. Read your post from the viewpoint of someone who is the target of that hostility. Would you know how to act around someone who is making you the target of hostility? Would you ever feel comfortable around hostility?
Here is the link :-)
Actually, you have one hell of a deal. Where are you pressing those cds?
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Actually, would there be any interesting similar parties where _men_ are lacking... Somehow, there always seem to be much less women than men on this planet.