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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 ;)
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
It took 5 times as long to get to version 1.0 than MS did with IE
Have you included the development time of Spyglass? Have you, in fact, compared the features and supported technology of IE 1.0 to Mozilla 1.0?
Now, if you had said "It took 5 times as long to get to version 1.0 than MS did with getting IE to version 6.0", then yes, you might have a point. But you didn't say that, and besides, it has taken less than half the time for Mozilla to reach 1.0 than it has taken IE to reach 6.0...
ah, the most common mozilla troll there is:
It took 5 times as long to get to version 1.0 than MS did with IE
uh, sure, but have you compared IE 1.0 with mozilla 1.0?
the code to netscape communicator was released in 1998, and was abandoned soon thereafter to start a complete rewrite. so, from mid-1998 to now is four years. four years to write a browser that competes in just about every category and class as IE.
when was IE 1.0 first released? 1996? how long had they been developing it before that? since 1994? and they had an entire codebaset to work from, because they licensed it from spyglass.
http://careers.yahoo.com/s/wetfeet/v195.html
so... IE - in development since before 1994. Mozilla - in development since 1998. who's more efficient?
I've requested my entry (ann arbor destroyed by mozilla) be removed to favor Ann Arbor Party in ypsilanti. Please sign up for the Ann Arbor Party, that's where I'll be going...
-Adam
If she's really worth it, she'll figure out what you like, too.
Read Bujold. Free (as in
I doubt JWZ thought his departure would spell the end of the project. He just didn't care anymore, judging from what he said at the time and since. The project was bogged down, going nowhere in his opinion, and he had better things to do with his time.
:-). I think he's the one who has been laughing the whole time...
Like manage to renovate and open a club and operate it for almost a full year before they ever got the release done.
The only thing they're throwing at him is cash. I'm sure he has no problem with that...
...plus, he has posted several notes about *trying* to use Mozilla as the browser on his club kiosks. Submitted bug reports and everything... so he's trying his best to be a good open source dude.
It's a strange world -- let's keep it that way
That's called rewriting history - read his original statement. Only later does he claim it was about "shipping an end-user version soon." That extra bullshit only makes me dislike the arrogant shit even more.
Okay, from his original resignation from AOL and Mozilla:
But despite all this, in the last year, we did not accomplish the goals that I wanted to accomplish. We did not take the Mozilla project and turn it into a network-collaborative project in which Netscape was but one of many contributors; and we did not ship end-user software. For me, shipping is the thing.
Perhaps my goals were unreasonable; perhaps it should have been obvious to me when we set out on this project that it would take much longer than a year to reach these goals, if we ever did. But, it wasn't obvious to me then, or now. These are the goals I was aiming for, and they have not yet been met.
And so I'm giving up.
Not sure where else I should be looking.
It continues. Interesting story - go read it.
I can't speak for the parent poster, but my experience is that women (both geeky and non) are much easier to get along with when you're talking with them and not worshiping them. Especially if they're co-workers, or potential co-workers.
If you're attracted to someone, try flirting. If you're afraid of scaring them off with flirting, well, your hoving from a distance because you don't want to frighten them is actually scarrier than your flirting with them. At least with flirting they know what's up.
If you get rejected...hey, it happens. And it's not the end of the world.
Hope this helps.
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