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Science Project Quadruples Surfing Speed - Reportedly
johnp. writes "A computer browser that is said to least quadruple surfing speeds on the Internet has won the top prize at an Irish exhibition for young scientists, it was announced on Saturday. Adnan Osmani, 16, a student at Saint Finian's College in Mullingar, central Ireland spent 18 months writing 780,000 lines of computer code to develop the browser. Known as "XWEBS", the system works with an ordinary Internet connection using a 56K modem on a normal telephone line.
" A number of people had submitted this over the weekend - there's absolutely no hard data that I can find to go along with this, so if you find anything more on it, plz. post below - somehow 1500 lines of code per day, "every media player" built in doesn't ring true for me.
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CTRL-C then CTRL-V...
you see, it's not that hard to make 1500 lines of code per day!
It then makes use of network magic. You mean no-one ever told you about the magic ?
Invoicing, Time Tracking, Reporting
"To make the software more user friendly, it features a talking animated figure called Phoebe."
:) /. a site...
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Oh goody! Someone to take microsoft's place!
can't wait to see that little tingy pop on me when we
Maybe the Irish have a 1. april equivalent today?
Good God, he could make a fortune if he's on the internet! Genius.
Yes, unless you have one of these!
Three dits, four dits, two dits, dah!
Radio, radio, rah rah rah!
...6 56K modems, with 6 active phone lines required. Your ISP must also support multilink PPP.
I'm sure that that's in there somewhere, oh, yeah, look...there it is commented out above line 53,425 in the code. Yep.
Fill in your four or five-letter word of wisdom here _ _ _ _ _.
All you software developers feel fear. The only possibility is that something has evolved which can actually achieve the productivity gains claimed for all those lame IDEs, design languages and bubble chart systems. An application level script-kiddie now walks the earth. Your jobs are no longer safe, your manager will begin to understand your acronyms and see them as another facet of information hiding, school leavers have made you obselete.
Alternatively there is an opening as a technical reporter just opening up.
I bet he's a Raelian.
Jim: Yes, I --
PHB: Jim...I'm concerned about your performance.
Jim: Er, wha--
PHB: You write, what, 30 maybe 80 "eL Oh Cee" a day? Right?
Jim: Well, the TPS and project plans take --
PHB: Says here, that this 16 year old kid can write 1500 "eL Oh Cee" a day. What do you think about that?
PHB: Don't laugh...this is serious.
Jim: Sorry. I ment --
PHB: Jim, maybe you need to put in more hours. Reconsider your work habbits.
Jim: I work till 10 most nights...
PHB: Jim, it's not the hours it's how efficiently you handle them. I expect todays TPS on my desk by noon, along with a status report on each programming task you've done today.
Jim: It's 11 --
PHB: That's it Jim! Keep up the good work. In the meantime, see if you can increase that "eL Oh Cee" to, say, about a hundread. It's good to make a good impression. Fine. Excellent. I knew I could count on you. I'll see you then! ... Brian...did you fill out that TPS report...
A firewall can not protect you from yourself. Turn off what you do not need. Do not use the firewall to do your work.
Adnan says a six-fold increase is about the maximum practical boost.
"At seven times it actually crashes so I have limited it to six."
Now that's a good debugging technique, no wonder the code has 780,000 lines!
To make the software more user friendly, it features a talking animated figure called Phoebe.
With these skills, I guess he'll be working in Redmond soon...
Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers. -- Leonard Brandwein
But I've seen the advertisements that gives me ten times faster connection, really!
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Do curly brackets on a single line count?
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Rocket science is easy. Neurosurgery, now *that's* difficult.
Maybe he's a big fan of whitespace?
The typical assembler line is way shorter than the typical line of a highlevel language. ;-)
This is really simple how it works. He simply increases the local gravational field while approaching the natural log raised to the 27 power of the speed of light. This causes the future to get entangled with the present and Osama takes advantage of this.
Sure 780,000 lines is a lot, but of course he used his own editor which quadruples his programming speed. :-))
I wonder what ever happened to reading webpages while surfing... Ooohh, right, so that's what you call surfing
Youth+Enthusiasm+Amphetamines=Achieve the impossible.
Then he discovered loops.
and some days you just read /.
AND while, presumably, taking other classes and studying for tests in other courses, having friends, etc?
Whoa...slow down on those assumptions there hoss...
--trb
...amazingly, the ESAT site lists Slashdot as a good resource when doing research. The mind boggles...
http://www.esatys.com/science_set.htm
Note there are no claims that the browser speeds up page loading, rendering, or reading the web. Only 'Surfing' is sped up, which probably means the browser displays just the links and probably auto-clicks a link for you if you don't get around to it fast enough. Remember, surfing on the net is going from web page to web page.
Sounds like another example of trying to steal the blue ribbon, just like the recent clone claims. I mean honestly, claiming we grew a clone in the womb of a woman for the last 9 months which is exactly how regular babies are born but this one is a clone wink wink nudge nudge. Goobs.
Z. http://www.play.net Your games, my job. C'est la vie!
Seems simply enough, this kid has obviously developed an FTL browser.
Explains why it crashes at Warp 7 too, the dilithium code just can't take, keptin!
I had a friend once who did 1500 lines in one day... but he got a REALLY serious nose bleed
I refuse to have a sig... dammit!
I live in Ireland, and can confirm that he did win our national young scientist of the year award. He's been on a couple of Irish chat shows since but still hasn't mentioned even the basic concept behind how it works. Knowing the quality of the competition, he would have still won if it was 6x slower just because he was sixteen!
Anyway he may be able to download pr0n 6x faster but he'll get a girlfriend 6x slower after winning that award.
yeah but this is supposed to be fast and optimized so it can't be wizard driven :)
errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?