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Opera's CEO to Swim From Norway to the USA
Viggeh! writes "An overly excited Jon S. von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software, today proclaimed at an internal company meeting that if the download numbers of the new Opera 8 Web browser reach 1 million within the first four days of the launch, he will swim from Norway to the USA with only one stop-over for a cup of hot chocolate at his mother's house in his home country, Iceland.
The new browser was released Tuesday and was downloaded 600.000 times in the first 48 hours since release. The challenge will end on Saturday at 0900 a.m. CET, so if you want to try out some new software and make the CEO stick to his big words, download it at Opera's webpage(direct link)."
I guess he doesn't have much faith in his own product eh?
talk about overusing significant digits
Posted by Zonk on 08:51 AM -- Friday April 29 2005
from the friday-morning-swim dept.
Viggeh! writes "An overly excited Jon S. von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software, today drowned off the coast of Norway after promising to swim to America if Opera managed a million downloads in its first four days. Everyone at Opera is quite sad, but they promise Opera 8.1 will have even more features because that's what he would've wanted. He leaves behind 7 computers, a wife, and 2 children."
I've seen the slashdot effect kill many a server over the years, but at last we take it to the next level. Hit that link enough, and a man will die!
~~~~~ BigLig2? You mean there's another one of me?
...when he gets turned away my US immigration and has t oswim back home.
Well of course his suit will become wet, dumbass, he's gonna be SWIMMING!
P.S.: if you rate this "flame/troll" you'd better get a sense of humor. And no they don't sell those at Wal-Mart.
by not downloading Opera
For some reason 950,000 copies of Opera have suddenly been downloaded by an IP block owned by a company in Redmond, Washington.
I'll turn into a supernova and burn up everything. Well I'll turn into a black little hole and you'll turn into string.
Would that be a Distributed Murder Attack?
Din't you read this?: with only one stop-over for a cup of hot chocolate at his mother's house in his home country, Iceland.
:D
He's an Icelander. He's one of the guys who grew up reading things like Njal's Saga, playing with his friends at being Gunnar or Kári and beting each other with wooden swords, playing with snow outside at some -10C and under blizzards and getting his head messed up with the perma-summer-light/almost no light seasonal cycle.
If one of these guys says he's swimming accross the Atlantic, I'd advise to my good american friends to lock themselves in their houses and get ready for a raid.
I lived 2 years in Iceland; let me tell you, it was fun there
---- Take the Space Quiz!
Shrinkage.
"Eyewitnesses have reported a Microsoft corporate jet in the area where von Tetzcher was last seen. According to one witness, the jet descended to just above sea level, and dropped a largem ferocious-looking fish with some sort of optical device attached to its head, into the water".
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
This is most definitely not happening.
REALLY?????
I tried it once. I actually made it half-way across before I got too tired and had to turn around and go back.
The best way to predict the future is to create it. - Peter Drucker.
On Slashdot, the webservers are the ONLY things that ever "go down".
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
Looks like you're trying to replace the CEO of opera with a small shell script! :-D
Disconnect your television. Do your own research. Draw your own conclusions. They're probably lying. Don't be a sheep.
Not to mention the modding-up for the people who explain it.
Add in the modding up of the person who points out that the person who explained the modding up procedure is being modded up and it's a full blown mod orgy.
Do you Gentoo!?
A tiny script runs on the Opera web server...waiting...watching...
A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.
YES! I KNOW IT'S A JOKE, HOWEVER ....
Dude! That is a crappy bit of code. The likelihood
of it ever working is vanishingly small.
Several problems:
Because your test is not synchronized with the
download counter your chances of stopping
at 999999 are, well, like winning the lottery.
Having determined that there have been 999999
downloads there is a nasty race condition before
the interface is brought down.
Believe it or not, once the counter reaches 999999
the number of downloads may be higher because
the process updating the counter hasn't committed
its changes yet.
For extra credit I advise that you go away and
rethink your solution otherwise your boss will
be pissed at having to swim through shark
infested water. I also see a pink slip on
your horizon.
- Moomin