Opera's CEO to Swim From Norway to the USA 563
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)."
Well then. (Score:5, Funny)
lets get him... (Score:3, Funny)
600.000 times (Score:5, Funny)
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."
Well finally! (Score:5, Funny)
Cold (Score:5, Funny)
Perhaps he'll get on a cruise ship and spend the whole time in the pool?
He'll be disappointed... (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Downloaded.... (Score:4, Funny)
*Drags ow32enen800.exe to the trash...
Opps, I hope the download number didn't go up
I'm the CEO (Score:1, Funny)
Note: for those who do not work in the corporate world, the CEO did actually say that he would swim, but such truths as remembering oaths and word meaning do not apply in the corporate cosmos....
I'll do my part to save this man's life (Score:5, Funny)
Re:600.000 times (Score:5, Funny)
Does someone have a torrent? (Score:2, Funny)
Meanwhile in Seattle (Score:4, Funny)
Muwaaahhaahaha
In other news... (Score:5, Funny)
No, he's more eccentric than that (Score:3, Funny)
Distributed Murder (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Yeah, but which norway (Score:3, Funny)
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
Re:600.000 times (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Yeah, but which norway (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Why will he do this? (Score:2, Funny)
Ah, here you need to think, "out-side-the-box," as my dear managing friends with their minds stuck in dreams of the '90s would say.
You see, during his trip, he is surely to begin to drown. At this point, a beautiful mermaid will rescue him, and take him to a wonderous city under the sea. Here, not only will he learn true love and the meaning of Christmas, but he will also learn the secret to world peace.
Having also learned the secret ways of the merfolk mystics, he will emerge from the depths and proceed to bring a wave of peace and prosperity to the entire world. The fact that he brings this about through a massive invading merfolk army is a minor detail, one that will surely be forgotten in the history books, where children of the future shall learn how wonderous it is to be alive in a world of peace.
One word: (Score:5, Funny)
yeah, ok, sure, I'll do it. (Score:3, Funny)
all to see him eat his words =)
Re:Distributed Murder (Score:2, Funny)
Re:600.000 times (Score:5, Funny)
Re:No way! (Score:4, Funny)
We come from the land of the ice and snow,
from the midnight sun where the hot springs blow.
The hammer of the gods
Will drive our ships to new lands,
To fight the horde, singing and crying:
Valhalla, I am coming!
On we sweep with threshing oar,
Our only goal will be the western shore.
Ah, ah,
We come from the land of the ice and snow,
from the midnight sun where the hot springs blow.
How soft your fields so green,
Can whisper tales of gore,
Of how we calmed the tides of war.
We are your overlords.
On we sweep with threshing oar,
Our only goal will be the western shore.
So now you'd better stop and rebuild all your ruins,
For peace and trust can win the day
Despite of all your losing.
Re:600.000 times (Score:1, Funny)
easy (Score:5, Funny)
do GET 'http://www.opera.com/download/get.pl?id=26712 ' >
done
C'mon in, the water's fine.
In related news, M$ announces... (Score:1, Funny)
Bill Gates also announced he is about to take a month off at Microsoft, to complete his training for the Captain's License on a nuclear submarine.
Re:Cold (Score:2, Funny)
Ooops, I spoke too soon. [cafepress.com] I guess he is a polar bear.
slashdot should get a piece of the pie (Score:0, Funny)
Re:IT: In further news... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Direct Link to Win32 version (Score:1, Funny)
Re:600.000 times (Score:0, Funny)
Re:Shenanigans. (Score:5, Funny)
REALLY?????
Re:600.000 times (Score:2, Funny)
Re:600.000 times (Score:1, Funny)
Everyone I know uses commas as delimiters, unless you're talking about a pocket calculator...
Re:He'll be disappointed... (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, Gov. Schwarzenegger will be there pushing him back in the water telling him the borders are closed.
Uhm.. I doubt he's gonna land in California. Check your world map :-)
Re:600.000 times (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah, every where I look, another number beginning with 6. I agree, it is overused.
Re:600.000 times (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Cold (Score:4, Funny)
they are all giant hairy barbarians with 100 % cold resistance
and sometimes they develop software
Re:Direct Link to Win32 version (Score:2, Funny)
Typical windows users may have difficulty navigating around all the complicated menus. It makes sense to make it easier for them by default.
Real people on the other hand can probably work things like that out one their own.
I tried it once (Score:5, Funny)
I tried it once. I actually made it half-way across before I got too tired and had to turn around and go back.
Airline (Score:1, Funny)
Re:lets get him... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:IT: In further news... (Score:2, Funny)
Shark with laser-beams? Cool!
(Prepares CV for sending to Microsoft. I've always wanted to be a henchman...)
Re:Well then. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:600.000 times (Score:5, Funny)
Go bomb him.
Re:I'll do my part to save this man's life (Score:5, Funny)
"Another?" How many deaths are already on your conscience???
(It's funny, laugh)
The name of the Beast has a number (Score:2, Funny)
every where I look, another number beginning with 6.
<aol>Me too!</aol> All I see is six, six, six. Six-hundred sixty-six. Beastly, isn't it?
Re:600.000 times (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Why, exactly... (Score:3, Funny)
small shell script? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:IT: Opera's CEO drowns off coast of Norway (Score:3, Funny)
This only seems to allow for three more major releases . .
hawk
Re:One word: (Score:5, Funny)
Opera calls their tiny products "embedded".
Re:Why, exactly... (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:lets get him... (Score:5, Funny)
A tiny script runs on the Opera web server...waiting...watching...
He didn't say when (Score:1, Funny)
I feel a little odd now.... (Score:3, Funny)
What support group do I go to for this?
Re:lets get him... (Score:5, Funny)
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
Re:He'll be disappointed... (Score:4, Funny)
not to be outdone... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:IT: In further news... (Score:2, Funny)
What would a shark do with an intellimouse(tm)?
Re:IT: In further news... (Score:2, Funny)
The only thing to worry about is the lasers, and a reflective bodysuit would handle that pretty well. (Of course, then he looks like the Silver Surfer, and then we've got Galactus to worry about.)
Re:No way! (Score:3, Funny)
Also, he was subjected to hearing Bjork for much longer than the rest of the world. Swimming 5000 miles in icy water is a relief by comparison.
Re:lets get him... (Score:4, Funny)