Opera's CEO will swim from Norway to the USA

On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 17:30:57 +0100, Alfred Molon
<al****************@yahoo.com> wrote:

In article <op.splbd1ypr3xrds@sony>, Unknown User says...
Opera 8 has just been released earlier this week and has had an amazing
return with over 600,000 downloads the first day.

Is it better than Firefox ?

Yes, Yes, YEEEEEEES - that feels soooo good!

--
Whatever you do - do something.

Jul 21 '05 #3

GreyWyvern

And lo, Alfred Molon didst speak in
comp.infosystems.http://www.authoring.stylesheets,alt...t.fan.mozilla:

In article <op.splbd1ypr3xrds@sony>, Unknown User says...
Opera 8 has just been released earlier this week and has had an amazing
return with over 600,000 downloads the first day.

Is it better than Firefox ?

http://www.greywyvern.com/img/misc/aww/neil.png

Grey

Jul 21 '05 #4

Alfred Molon wrote:

Is it better than Firefox ?

Of course.

And me thinks Jon may yank out the power lead from Opera's web server when
he sees the downloads reach 999,999. After all, he's CEO -- who can stop
him?

--
Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
Contact Me ~ http://tobyinkster.co.uk/contact

Jul 21 '05 #5

Toby Inkster wrote:

Alfred Molon wrote:

Is it better than Firefox ?

Of course.

And me thinks Jon may yank out the power lead from Opera's web server when
he sees the downloads reach 999,999. After all, he's CEO -- who can stop
him?

Doubt it. Given there are 10 towns in the USA called Norway, it'll be
only a few yards swim in the local river/lake

Tony ;-)

Jul 21 '05 #6

The One

"Tony Raven" <ju**@raven-family.com> wrote in message
news:3c*************@individual.net...

Toby Inkster wrote:
Alfred Molon wrote:

Is it better than Firefox ?

Of course.

And me thinks Jon may yank out the power lead from Opera's web server when he sees the downloads reach 999,999. After all, he's CEO -- who can stop
him?

Doubt it. Given there are 10 towns in the USA called Norway, it'll be
only a few yards swim in the local river/lake

Tony ;-)

He said he will swim from Norway to the USA, if Norway is already inside the
USA how can he swim to it if he is already there?

Jul 21 '05 #7

On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 23:24:49 +0100, The One <no*@this.com> wrote:

"Tony Raven" <ju**@raven-family.com> wrote in message
news:3c*************@individual.net...

Given there are 10 towns in the USA called Norway, it'll be
only a few yards swim in the local river/lake

He said he will swim from Norway to the USA, if Norway is already inside
the USA how can he swim to it if he is already there?

Now don't start all that fillysofikal stuff round 'ere - you'll have the
natives baying for blood.

--
Whatever you do - do something.

Jul 21 '05 #8

robert blake

"William Tasso" <Sp*********@tbdata.com> wrote in
news:op***************@jupiter.cavern.tbdata.com:

On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 17:30:57 +0100, Alfred Molon
<al****************@yahoo.com> wrote:
In article <op.splbd1ypr3xrds@sony>, Unknown User says...
Opera 8 has just been released earlier this week and has had an amazing
return with over 600,000 downloads the first day.

Is it better than Firefox ?

Yes, Yes, YEEEEEEES - that feels soooo good!

i love opera and firefox.

could never figure why Opera didn't get the same publicity as this latest
firefox.

firefox is my default browser now (love those awesome extensions)

Jul 21 '05 #9

Tony Raven wrote:

Doubt it. Given there are 10 towns in the USA called Norway, it'll be
only a few yards swim in the local river/lake

He said he'd go via Iceland.

--
Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
Contact Me ~ http://tobyinkster.co.uk/contact

Jul 21 '05 #10

robert blake wrote:

could never figure why Opera didn't get the same publicity as this latest
firefox.

$'s? When both are equally good but one is free and one costs, its a no
brainer IMO

Tony

Jul 21 '05 #11

David Harrison

On 4/21/2005 11:24 PM, The One said:

He said he will swim from Norway to the USA, if Norway is already inside the
USA how can he swim to it if he is already there?

If you haven't stated that you consider Norway and the USA to be
separate, it's perfectly possible. If I swam from the Isle of Wight to
Southampton in England, it'd still be a swim from the UK to the UK. By
analogy, swimming from a town called Norway (in the USA) to another part
of the USA could be described as swimming from Norway to the USA. Clumsy
usage, perhaps, but not inaccurate.

David H

Jul 21 '05 #12

robert blake

Tony Raven <ju**@raven-family.com> wrote in
news:3c*************@individual.net:

robert blake wrote:

could never figure why Opera didn't get the same publicity as this
latest firefox.

$'s? When both are equally good but one is free and one costs, its a
no brainer IMO

does Opera cost?

I must have a free version (haven't used it in a few months, since latest
firefox came out)

Jul 21 '05 #13

Dylan Parry

robert blake wrote:

does Opera cost?
Yes and no.
I must have a free version (haven't used it in a few months, since latest
firefox came out)

Opera is free to use, as long as you don't mind there being
advertisements displayed at the top of each window. Register it, and the
ads disappear (as if by magic :)

--
Dylan Parry
http://webpageworkshop.co.uk -- FREE Web tutorials and references

Jul 21 '05 #14

Unknown User

On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 04:53:18 -0300, Tony Raven <ju**@raven-family.com>
wrote:

$'s? When both are equally good but one is free and one costs, its a no
brainer IMO

I like Firefox pretty much, but one can't compare Opera and Firefox. We
could compare Opera with the Mozilla Suite, but Opera is light years from
Firefox and Mozilla. Opera is free of charge.

--
Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/
http://www.auriance.com - http://www.auriance.net

Jul 21 '05 #15

Unknown User wrote:

Opera is free of charge.

Only if you don't mind the adverts. Since I have all sorts of blocks to
get rid of adverts, I'd rather use a free browser that doesn't subject
me to them.

Tony

Jul 21 '05 #16

Toby Inkster us**********@tobyinkster.co.uk wrote in
<pa***************************@tobyinkster.co.uk >:

Tony Raven wrote:
Doubt it. Given there are 10 towns in the USA called Norway, it'll be
only a few yards swim in the local river/lake

He said he'd go via Iceland.

Won't that mean the shopping will get wet?

--
eric
www.ericjarvis.co.uk
"live fast, die only if strictly necessary"

Jul 21 '05 #17

KeithS

Eric Jarvis wrote:

Won't that mean the shopping will get wet?

:))

Bet that one will sail over some colonial's heads ;-)

KeithS

Jul 21 '05 #18

Greg Schmidt

On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 19:28:29 +0100, KeithS wrote:

Eric Jarvis wrote:
Won't that mean the shopping will get wet?

:))

Bet that one will sail over some colonial's heads ;-)

Ah, that's what that noise was!

--
Greg Schmidt gr***@trawna.com
Trawna Publications http://www.trawna.com/

Jul 21 '05 #19

Greg Schmidt gr***@trawna.com wrote in <zo***************@trawna.com>:

On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 19:28:29 +0100, KeithS wrote:
Eric Jarvis wrote:
Won't that mean the shopping will get wet?

:))

Bet that one will sail over some colonial's heads ;-)

Ah, that's what that noise was!

Iceland is a chain of stores. Originally specialising in frozen food but
now more of a general supermarket. They had a long running TV advertising
campaign with the slogan "Mum's gone to Iceland".

--
eric
www.ericjarvis.co.uk
all these years I've waited for the revolution
and all we end up getting is spin

Jul 21 '05 #20

John Thompson

On 2005-04-22, David Harrison <da*****@diebots.davidis.diebots.plus.com> wrote:

On 4/21/2005 11:24 PM, The One said:
He said he will swim from Norway to the USA, if Norway is already inside the
USA how can he swim to it if he is already there?
If you haven't stated that you consider Norway and the USA to be
separate, it's perfectly possible. If I swam from the Isle of Wight to
Southampton in England, it'd still be a swim from the UK to the UK. By
analogy, swimming from a town called Norway (in the USA) to another part
of the USA could be described as swimming from Norway to the USA. Clumsy
usage, perhaps, but not inaccurate.

Sure, but he also apparently said that he'd only make one stop during the
swim -- in Iceland for a cup of hot cocoa from his mother.

--

John (jo**@os2.dhs.org)

Jul 21 '05 #21

John Thompson wrote:

On 2005-04-22, David Harrison
<da*****@diebots.davidis.diebots.plus.com> wrote:
On 4/21/2005 11:24 PM, The One said:

He said he will swim from Norway to the USA, if Norway is already
inside the USA how can he swim to it if he is already there?

If you haven't stated that you consider Norway and the USA to be
separate, it's perfectly possible. If I swam from the Isle of Wight
to Southampton in England, it'd still be a swim from the UK to the
UK. By analogy, swimming from a town called Norway (in the USA) to
another part of the USA could be described as swimming from Norway
to the USA. Clumsy usage, perhaps, but not inaccurate.

Sure, but he also apparently said that he'd only make one stop during
the swim -- in Iceland for a cup of hot cocoa from his mother.

That would be Iceland CA then.

Tony ;-)

Jul 21 '05 #22

sigvald

Eric Jarvis wrote:

Iceland is a chain of stores.

Now I know that education is not something you Britishers have been
able to afford but Iceland is a European country and that should be
quite common knowledge.

Jul 21 '05 #23

Els

si*****@binet.is wrote:

Eric Jarvis wrote:

Iceland is a chain of stores.

Now I know that education is not something you Britishers have been
able to afford but Iceland is a European country and that should be
quite common knowledge.

It is. That's why Eric explained to the non-Europeans that it's a
chain of stores, as we already expect them to know it's a country.

--
Els http://locusmeus.com/
Sonhos vem. Sonhos vão. O resto é imperfeito.
- Renato Russo -

Jul 21 '05 #24

si*****@binet.is wrote:

Eric Jarvis wrote:

Iceland is a chain of stores.

Now I know that education is not something you Britishers have been
able to afford but Iceland is a European country and that should be
quite common knowledge.

But apparently up for auction according to Google:

"European Countries
Great deals on European Countries
Shop on eBay and Save!"

Tony

Jul 21 '05 #25

si*****@binet.is si*****@binet.is wrote in
<11**********************@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups .com>:

Eric Jarvis wrote:
Iceland is a chain of stores.

Now I know that education is not something you Britishers have been
able to afford but Iceland is a European country and that should be
quite common knowledge.

Not at the Elephant and Castle it isn't. It's a small shop in the shopping
centre, a big shop a bit down Walworth Road and some TV ads. A small
percentage of people will be aware that it's also a nation, but probably
slightly fewer than know that Bjork is from Iceland. Of course there are
estates round here that make rural Alabama seem the haunt of cosmopolitan
intellectual high flyers.

--
eric
www.ericjarvis.co.uk
all these years I've waited for the revolution
and all we end up getting is spin

Jul 21 '05 #26

Tony Raven ju**@raven-family.com wrote in
<3c*************@individual.net>:

si*****@binet.is wrote:
Eric Jarvis wrote:

Iceland is a chain of stores.

Now I know that education is not something you Britishers have been
able to afford but Iceland is a European country and that should be
quite common knowledge.

But apparently up for auction according to Google:

"European Countries
Great deals on European Countries
Shop on eBay and Save!"

Brilliant. I may have space in the airing cupboard for Liechtenstein.

--
eric
www.ericjarvis.co.uk
all these years I've waited for the revolution
and all we end up getting is spin

Jul 21 '05 #27

Dylan Parry

Eric Jarvis wrote:

Brilliant. I may have space in the airing cupboard for Liechtenstein.

Crikey that's scary... I said almost exactly the same thing[1] to my gf
when I read Tony's post! :)

_____
[1] My exact words were "I have my eye on Liechtenstein. It sounds like
a nice place" :)

--
Dylan Parry
http://webpageworkshop.co.uk -- FREE Web tutorials and references

Jul 21 '05 #28

Eric Jarvis wrote:

Iceland is a chain of stores. Originally specialising in frozen food but
now more of a general supermarket.

http://www.iceland.co.uk/

--
Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
Contact Me ~ http://tobyinkster.co.uk/contact

Jul 21 '05 #29

Toby Inkster wrote:

Eric Jarvis wrote:

Iceland is a chain of stores. Originally specialising in frozen food but
now more of a general supermarket.

http://www.iceland.co.uk/

Not to be confused with http://www.iceland.com/

Tony

Jul 21 '05 #30

On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 20:02:47 +0100, Eric Jarvis <we*@ericjarvis.co.uk>
wrote:

si*****@binet.is si*****@binet.is wrote in
<11**********************@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups .com>:

Eric Jarvis wrote:
> Iceland is a chain of stores.
Now I know that education is not something you Britishers have been
able to afford but Iceland is a European country and that should be
quite common knowledge.

Not at the Elephant and Castle it isn't. It's a small shop in the
shopping centre, a big shop a bit down Walworth Road and someTV ads.

It's also the lorry in front of me on the M25
A small
percentage of people will be aware that it's also a nation, but probably
slightly fewer than know that Bjork is from Iceland. Of course there are
estates round here that make rural Alabama seem the haunt of cosmopolitan
intellectual high flyers.

it isn't?

--
Whatever you do - do something.

Jul 21 '05 #31

On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 21:05:31 +0100, Tony Raven <ju**@raven-family.com>
wrote:

Toby Inkster wrote:
Eric Jarvis wrote:
Iceland is a chain of stores. Originally specialising in frozen food
but
now more of a general supermarket.

http://www.iceland.co.uk/

Not to be confused with http://www.iceland.com/

Oooh - I like this game. Seems ice land is in fact already in USA

http://www.ice-land.com/

or maybe not

http://www.ice-land.net/

--
Whatever you do - do something.

Jul 21 '05 #32

William Tasso wrote:

On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 21:05:31 +0100, Tony Raven <ju**@raven-family.com>
wrote:
Toby Inkster wrote:
Eric Jarvis wrote:

Iceland is a chain of stores. Originally specialising in frozen
food but
now more of a general supermarket.

http://www.iceland.co.uk/

Not to be confused with http://www.iceland.com/

Oooh - I like this game. Seems ice land is in fact already in USA

http://www.ice-land.com/

or maybe not

http://www.ice-land.net/

Or how about http://makeashorterlink.com/?V2AE122FA

Tony

Jul 21 '05 #33

Ed Mullen

Tony Raven wrote:

William Tasso wrote:
On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 21:05:31 +0100, Tony Raven
<ju**@raven-family.com> wrote:
Toby Inkster wrote:

Eric Jarvis wrote:

> Iceland is a chain of stores. Originally specialising in frozen
> food but
> now more of a general supermarket.
http://www.iceland.co.uk/

Not to be confused with http://www.iceland.com/

Oooh - I like this game. Seems ice land is in fact already in USA

http://www.ice-land.com/

or maybe not

http://www.ice-land.net/

Or how about http://makeashorterlink.com/?V2AE122FA

Tony

ROFLMAO. Too funny. But, you're all totally out of control now!

--
Ed Mullen
http://edmullen.net
http://edmullen.net/Mozilla/moz.html
A penny saved is ridiculous.

Jul 21 '05 #34