First, I don't want Opera CEO to convince me of something. I just want to hear his oppinion about the product of his company compared to the competitive product.
Do you even remember the questions you asked? "As Opera CEO, can you give me some possible reasons why should I switch to Opera? What advantages or outstanding featues it has, compared to Firefox?" After reading those again, it appears English isn't your native language so your intent may be different than how it comes across.
And second, I thought ANY Internet user is the target market for the browser making company...
Could be true, but it's often not the case. It costs money to market to different users. It takes different development resources to make it suitable for grandma vs. making it for power users. Maybe Opera is trying to be the one-stop browser for everybody... or maybe it focuses on only power users and mobile devices. That would be a good question to ask.
So either one or both agencies in question are simply incompetent, or lying to us.
I noticed you made a grammatical error above with an unnecessary comma. So are you incompetent or are you just lying to us? False dilemmas suck... try to avoid their use.
As Opera CEO, can you give me some possible reasons why should I switch to Opera?
Why should a CEO convince you of what features are compelling for you? Read the Opera feature set, learn what other people have written, and come to your own conclusion. Odds are if you expect the CEO to have to convince you, you're probably very young/naive or you're just not the target market.
How does a web browser not having mouse gestures, for example, affect interoperability? I don't think it does at all. That's one thing they could have patented and licensed out to other companies without affecting internet standards.
... we don't get all the stories because we're not connected all the time.
That's why there's this link to yesterday's stories, etc. When I don't read slashdot for a few days, I just go back and skim through the titles looking for topics of interest. So, no... I don't think dupes are a good thing, especially not for something that made the front page. It wouldn't be so bad if something in a subsection were duped to the front page as that gathers more exposure and comments than being buried in the IT section.
Do you like other people joke about YOU when it's your turn? Grow up people!
When it's my turn, I hope other people do make jokes to lighten up the situation. Note that the post you replied to wasn't making the team's situation the *subject* of the joke -- an important distinction.
As for growing up, how about you realize that not everyone online shares your particular sensitivities and shouldn't be required to change their behavior just because you find it offensive. Imagine what the world would be like if we first had to survey everybody's sensitivities first and tailor our responses in order to minimize any potential offense?
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If only someone else mentioned Veronica, the trilogy would be complete. Oh, wait...
While I'm at it, I love how they claim it's a limited edition and every watch has its own engraved serial. My Seiko has its own serial number engraved in the metal and, last time I checked, they didn't claim to be producing it in infinite quantities.
And I think you'll find that the language spoken is perfectly intelligable, if you speak it.
Well, duh. That was my point, though in reverse.
As to your other comments, the main point of my reply was to address the racist bit. We agree that there are several explanations possible for the conversation.
Just a little bit racist, no? Just because someone speaks a foreign language, they're immeidately suspect?
Why don't you try to comprehend his point rather than knee-jerking off in a racist accusation? The action that is suspect is the fact that the staff, after being requested the price, first spoke on a walkie-talkie in an unintelligable language before delivering the price. This leads one to suspect that perhaps the unintelligable conversation was regarding the price. Even more so when you take into account that the staff members at both stores appeared to be of identical nationality which makes it likely that the unintelligable conversation was between them.
Since when is an IP address considered sensitive personal information? It's ridiculous when you consider that the user clicks on the AdWords link, which Google records along with the IP address. The user is then redirected to the destination website which can then record the IP address as well. The destination website can even determine that the request from IP 12.34.56.78 actually came from an AdWords click. Google's just not sharing which clicks it billed for correspond to which IP addresses (which both parties have a record of anyways).
Something I've always wondered... is it possible to have software running on some algorithm to execute its own trades automatically, or are there rules in place to prevent this? I'd imagine some investment firms probably do this already and have a beowulf cluster looking for profitable patterns.
... the fetus cows grow too big for natural birth, so all of them have to be born by caesarean section. An injectable myostatin blocker avoids this problem...
Myostatin is what limits muscle growth, so if having smaller muscles avoids the birth problem you'd want to inject myostatin, not a blocker.
Not only is it cheap, but the sound quality is better than phone lines. (way better than cell phones)
I would disagree. Calling my parents using SkypeOut is horrible. I love the price, but the quality is down the toilet. Lag is a huge issue and I'm on a high-speed connection. I pay the 10 cents a minute and use my cell phone instead. It could be the area they're in has a lousy PSTN interface, but it's certainly not anywhere near cell phone quality for me.
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So get a Windows Mobile-based Pocket PC cellphone that has WiFi and download Skype for it. If your carrier doesn't support high enough bandwidth, you won't be able to use Skype on it for voice, but with wireless it's no problem.
I might do it for $10^9, so that I could realize my dream of founding a University (which would attempt to promote critical thinking, problem solving, ethical behaviour...
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First, I don't want Opera CEO to convince me of something. I just want to hear his oppinion about the product of his company compared to the competitive product.
Do you even remember the questions you asked? "As Opera CEO, can you give me some possible reasons why should I switch to Opera? What advantages or outstanding featues it has, compared to Firefox?" After reading those again, it appears English isn't your native language so your intent may be different than how it comes across.
And second, I thought ANY Internet user is the target market for the browser making company...
Could be true, but it's often not the case. It costs money to market to different users. It takes different development resources to make it suitable for grandma vs. making it for power users. Maybe Opera is trying to be the one-stop browser for everybody... or maybe it focuses on only power users and mobile devices. That would be a good question to ask.
Not, really, as it's happened before. [...]
So either one or both agencies in question are simply incompetent, or lying to us.
I noticed you made a grammatical error above with an unnecessary comma. So are you incompetent or are you just lying to us? False dilemmas suck... try to avoid their use.
As Opera CEO, can you give me some possible reasons why should I switch to Opera?
Why should a CEO convince you of what features are compelling for you? Read the Opera feature set, learn what other people have written, and come to your own conclusion. Odds are if you expect the CEO to have to convince you, you're probably very young/naive or you're just not the target market.
Would you ever consider going back to charging for the browser, yet making it Open Source, and offering support for the paid version?
What would be the point would be of that? I don't think I've ever had a need for a support incident for a web browser. Have you?
How does a web browser not having mouse gestures, for example, affect interoperability? I don't think it does at all. That's one thing they could have patented and licensed out to other companies without affecting internet standards.
Okay, 1 in a million. So a 1 ghz machine should be prone to 1,000 errors a second.
Your computer is subjected to 1 billion cosmic rays per second? I hope you have a very large tinfoil hat, preferably lined with lead.
... we don't get all the stories because we're not connected all the time.
That's why there's this link to yesterday's stories, etc. When I don't read slashdot for a few days, I just go back and skim through the titles looking for topics of interest. So, no... I don't think dupes are a good thing, especially not for something that made the front page. It wouldn't be so bad if something in a subsection were duped to the front page as that gathers more exposure and comments than being buried in the IT section.
Okay... if you ever figure it out so that it works even 10% of the time, you *have* to submit a story on it with the full plans!
Someone just learned a hard grammer lesson on slashdot for EVERYONE to see - how humiliating.
Meanwhile, in another post, a humiliating spelling lesson is underway.
Do you like other people joke about YOU when it's your turn? Grow up people!
When it's my turn, I hope other people do make jokes to lighten up the situation. Note that the post you replied to wasn't making the team's situation the *subject* of the joke -- an important distinction.
As for growing up, how about you realize that not everyone online shares your particular sensitivities and shouldn't be required to change their behavior just because you find it offensive. Imagine what the world would be like if we first had to survey everybody's sensitivities first and tailor our responses in order to minimize any potential offense?
If only someone else mentioned Veronica, the trilogy would be complete. Oh, wait...
That's not just funny, that's ART!
While I'm at it, I love how they claim it's a limited edition and every watch has its own engraved serial. My Seiko has its own serial number engraved in the metal and, last time I checked, they didn't claim to be producing it in infinite quantities.
And I think you'll find that the language spoken is perfectly intelligable, if you speak it.
Well, duh. That was my point, though in reverse.
As to your other comments, the main point of my reply was to address the racist bit. We agree that there are several explanations possible for the conversation.
Just a little bit racist, no? Just because someone speaks a foreign language, they're immeidately suspect?
Why don't you try to comprehend his point rather than knee-jerking off in a racist accusation? The action that is suspect is the fact that the staff, after being requested the price, first spoke on a walkie-talkie in an unintelligable language before delivering the price. This leads one to suspect that perhaps the unintelligable conversation was regarding the price. Even more so when you take into account that the staff members at both stores appeared to be of identical nationality which makes it likely that the unintelligable conversation was between them.
... this stuff takes years before payment is ever made.
And the settlement will be for... free credit towards more AdWords!
Since when is an IP address considered sensitive personal information? It's ridiculous when you consider that the user clicks on the AdWords link, which Google records along with the IP address. The user is then redirected to the destination website which can then record the IP address as well. The destination website can even determine that the request from IP 12.34.56.78 actually came from an AdWords click. Google's just not sharing which clicks it billed for correspond to which IP addresses (which both parties have a record of anyways).
Interesting, thanks. Any good resources you'd recommend for API-based trading?
Ah, so you mean injecting non-Belgian Blue cows after birth... makes sense now.
Something I've always wondered... is it possible to have software running on some algorithm to execute its own trades automatically, or are there rules in place to prevent this? I'd imagine some investment firms probably do this already and have a beowulf cluster looking for profitable patterns.
The responsible party attempted ritual suicide, but instead of one cut 50mm in length, they instead made 50 cuts of 1mm each.
Attempting suicide with a 2 inch cut?
... the fetus cows grow too big for natural birth, so all of them have to be born by caesarean section. An injectable myostatin blocker avoids this problem...
Myostatin is what limits muscle growth, so if having smaller muscles avoids the birth problem you'd want to inject myostatin, not a blocker.
Not only is it cheap, but the sound quality is better than phone lines. (way better than cell phones)
I would disagree. Calling my parents using SkypeOut is horrible. I love the price, but the quality is down the toilet. Lag is a huge issue and I'm on a high-speed connection. I pay the 10 cents a minute and use my cell phone instead. It could be the area they're in has a lousy PSTN interface, but it's certainly not anywhere near cell phone quality for me.
So get a Windows Mobile-based Pocket PC cellphone that has WiFi and download Skype for it. If your carrier doesn't support high enough bandwidth, you won't be able to use Skype on it for voice, but with wireless it's no problem.
Ever heard of Google?
I might do it for $10^9, so that I could realize my dream of founding a University (which would attempt to promote critical thinking, problem solving, ethical behaviour...
:)
I almost fell for it, right up until that part!