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Opera's CEO to Swim From Norway to the USA
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Zonk
on Fri Apr 22, 2005 07:51 AM
from the friday-morning-project dept.
from the friday-morning-project dept.
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)."
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Well then. (Score:5, Funny)
600.000 times (Score:5, Funny)
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IT: Opera's CEO drowns off coast of Norway (Score:5, Funny)
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."
No way! (Score:5, Funny)
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
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Re:IT: In further news... (Score:5, Funny)
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Well finally! (Score:5, Funny)
Distributed Murder (Score:5, Funny)
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Cold (Score:5, Funny)
Perhaps he'll get on a cruise ship and spend the whole time in the pool?
One word: (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:One word: (Score:5, Funny)
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.
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One word: (Score:5, Funny)
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Direct Link to Win32 version (Score:5, Informative)
Here is a better download link: http://www.opera.com/download/ [opera.com] Unfortunately not all platforms have an Opera 8 download yet.
He'll be disappointed... (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, but which norway (Score:5, Informative)
Sure enough, there's Norway, Maine [norwaymaine.com].
Shouldn't take him that long.
Re:Yeah, but which norway (Score:5, Interesting)
Sure enough, there's Norway, Maine. Shouldn't take him that long.
...except for that stopover in Iceland (described as "his home country", so no wriggling out of that one).
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I'll do my part to save this man's life (Score:5, Funny)
In other news... (Score:5, Funny)
Not possible (Score:5, Interesting)
Also, going via Iceland might be a bad idea - since in the north atlantic he will freeze to death without a dry suit. And try surface swimming six hours with a dry suit some time...
easy (Score:5, Funny)
do GET 'http://www.opera.com/download/get.pl?id=26712 ' >
done
C'mon in, the water's fine.
The obvious answer (Score:5, Insightful)
I hadn't heard about Opera 8, and if it wasn't for the slashvertisement, I'd've been in the dark.
This is well timed - just today I installed iTunes, was completely bowled over, and was wondering - if a non-free music player can be this cool, what about a non-free web browser?
nice to see them CEOs get out of the comfy office once in a while
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Re:Why will he do this? (Score:5, Insightful)
Does your breathing improve my web browser's performance somehow?
Do you, through breathing, disrupt Microsoft's monopoly or create world peace?
No, it does not. Your continued living is therefore pointless. Please die.
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Re:Why, exactly... (Score:5, Insightful)
Because this gives a lot of posters getting positive moderation by pointing out this fact, giving a link to the general download page (the latter is almost guaranteed to get +5 Informative) or maybe even by making fun of it.
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