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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)."
If they will discount me since I'm downloading the Windows version onto Linux using Mozilla?
Beep beep.
What is Opera going to do when it's CEO doesn't carry through though?
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
Well, by posting information, it doesn't mean I don't get it. Besides, I know of a whole lot of people (Americans especially) who weren't aware of how numbers are represented in Europe.
Sorry, what was your point again?
Really not funny at all
Yeah, Gov. Schwarzenegger will be there pushing him back in the water telling him the borders are closed.
Don't even try it, mate. The appalling truth is that my cock is much bigger than yours.
That was classic intercourse!
Thats got to be one of the funniest things I've ever read on Slashdot. Not only that, but it has proper capitalization... somethig most Slashdotters can't seem to grasp.
... and in the DRM, bind them.
For those not watching (though parent may be being sarcastic):
The CNN Article concerning Cat Stevens getting returned to sender.
Don't worry. I consider cock fighting to be a cruel sport.
This is so true, I've found the best time of day to read slashdot is early in the morning (new york time) because it's mainly bloody brits and other europeans, and the comments are much funnier! Once the Americans and Candians sign on its all just trolls, flames, and blatent karma whoreing (btw i'm american)
NO more like a Distributed Denial Of Life attack or DDOL.
Just barely...and only because I'm a woman.
For example, I have to boot Windows (on a Virtual PC) just to open up my company's MS Access Databases and to test Web sites natively under IE6.
Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, START
öh :/ i dont never understand why somewhere month goes first.. of course its go.. first day then month and then year (like numbers smallest first then bigger)..
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In parts of Soviet Russia, humour grasps YOU!
In that case, who asked you anyway?
Don't you mean in the Mysterious Future? ;)
One word: Seinfeld.
He's an American. Americans don't have world maps :-P
I suffer from attention surplus disorder.
Huh? I don't get it...
"Was it a millionaire who said 'Imagine No Posessions?'" -- Elvis Costello
You did , but you missed my smut ;)
Fidelcatsro
It's a village in Canada, made up of igloos :-P
I suffer from attention surplus disorder.
Any computer geek should know that it's year first, then month, then day.
The text sorts better that way.
I'm not sure about standards elsewhere in the world, but in America if you ask someone the date they will likely reply with the format of "April 22, 2005" thus in numeric format it is 04/22/2005 (MM/DD/YYYY) - the numeric format corresponds to the spoken format.
Good idea -- the new pope Benoit XVI should swim the Atlantic. If he floats, he's the pope. Or a witch. Wait...
Should England have been interested in standardizing the English language then it should have produced a dictionary BEFORE colonialization.
We did the best we could with the resources we had available. We apologize for the inconvenience. Just thank your lucky stars we didn't go with Ben. Franklin's idea for phonic spelling.
No way man! you would def. die.
If your British mate, size doesn't really matter does it? UK Male = Cold Limp Fish
Damn straight! We don't need'em either 'cause only WE matter!
:~(
/. has thwarted my plans for world domination once again ... oh well back to cubicle hell for me!
Damn I tried to make a somewhat humour joke, at least in my mind but the lamness filter stopped me
Evil
Beautiful sig.
"Your proactive bipartisan synergy is indemnifying. Good work, carry on."
In parts of the United States, people blatantly unable to grasp the basics of hygiene are called Europeans.
Doesn't Virgin Atlantic have planes with pools on board?
Since the above was obviously too subtle for some moderator, let me try to explain it for the brain dead. If you take a plane from Norway to USA which has a swimming pool, and you swim in this swimming pool during the whole flight, then one could say (assuming one has at least a slight sense of humor) that you are "swimming from Norway to USA". Get it? Ha ha? Come on moderators; the whole point of moderation is to keep the thread from getting bogged down in complete crap, not to make sure there are no posts which do not have 100% relevance, insight, and humor, with perfect writing style.
-chris
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