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  • D David Wulff

    There are three things you should never talk down. The first two are a persons taste in music, the other is what kids can achieve. I'll believe it when I see it, but this appears to be a professionally run competition which means it should have qualified judges.


    David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk

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    I really expected you to react to the "Bill Sergio's" clone bit with a little more horror. ------------------------------------------ "Isn't it funny how people say they'll never grow up to be their parents, then one day they look in the mirror and they're moving aircraft carriers into the Gulf region?" - The Onion

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    • D David Wulff

      There are three things you should never talk down. The first two are a persons taste in music, the other is what kids can achieve. I'll believe it when I see it, but this appears to be a professionally run competition which means it should have qualified judges.


      David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk

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      There are three things you should never talk down. The first two are a persons taste in music, the other is what kids can achieve. And the third is??? David's ability to count? ;P ------------------------------------------ "Isn't it funny how people say they'll never grow up to be their parents, then one day they look in the mirror and they're moving aircraft carriers into the Gulf region?" - The Onion

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        There are three things you should never talk down. The first two are a persons taste in music, the other is what kids can achieve. And the third is??? David's ability to count? ;P ------------------------------------------ "Isn't it funny how people say they'll never grow up to be their parents, then one day they look in the mirror and they're moving aircraft carriers into the Gulf region?" - The Onion

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        David Wulff
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        No, your ability to read! ;P


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        • B Brit

          All I can say is "yeah, right". A 16-year-old kid writes 780,000* lines of code in 18 months (1500 lines of code per day - or 3 lines per minute x 8 hours x 540 days - plus design, integration, debugging, rewriting any poor implementations of a vastly superior algorithm than anyone has ever thought of), creates a web browser that works 4 - no 6 - times faster (depending on which part of the story you believe), presumably he is going to school at the same time, and learning how to create a web browser at the same time. But, there's more: he incorporated every media player, a DVD player, a language translator, a talking animated figure, and it reads webpages for the blind. (Oh yeah: he says he's been programming since 12 - in other words, he only had roughly two years of experience when he started this project.) He said he was still in a state of shock as he had not expected to win (Wow. Must be a rough competition if he didn't expect to win.) * Or 1.5 million lines of code, depending on which story is right. Maybe he's Bill Sergio's clone. http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/712974p-5244591c.html[^] http://www.fhs.ie/newsroom_latest.asp?id=241[^] http://www.online.ie/business/latest/viewer.adp?article=1924781[^] The only possible method I can think of to do this would be to use a spider to pre-fetch web links, then he bundled it with the MS IE control and some plug-ins. Then, used shifty code count numbers (like adding the code counts of all components - which he didn't write). ------------------------------------------ "Isn't it funny how people say they'll never grow up to be their parents, then one day they look in the mirror and they're moving aircraft carriers into the Gulf region?" - The Onion

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          Marc Clifton
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          Maybe he's Bill Sergio's clone. Speaking of cloning... I can't believe the press those nutso people in Canada have gotten. Of course their not going to give access to DNA material. Just like, of course we'll never hear anything more about this browser. Marc Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator.
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          • M Marc Clifton

            The line I liked best was "at 7 times normal speed the program crashes". WTF? Of course, I wonder why no one has implemented a server on a T3 or something which compresses all the HTML and other ASCII text stuff, and you use a proprietary browser to retrieve and decompress the web sites that the server fetches and compresses for you. If you strip out the graphic components or cache them... Marc Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator.
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            Nitron
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            Marc Clifton wrote: The line I liked best was "at 7 times normal speed the program crashes". for some reason that did stick out... - Nitron


            "Those that say a task is impossible shouldn't interrupt the ones who are doing it." - Chinese Proverb

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            • B Brit

              All I can say is "yeah, right". A 16-year-old kid writes 780,000* lines of code in 18 months (1500 lines of code per day - or 3 lines per minute x 8 hours x 540 days - plus design, integration, debugging, rewriting any poor implementations of a vastly superior algorithm than anyone has ever thought of), creates a web browser that works 4 - no 6 - times faster (depending on which part of the story you believe), presumably he is going to school at the same time, and learning how to create a web browser at the same time. But, there's more: he incorporated every media player, a DVD player, a language translator, a talking animated figure, and it reads webpages for the blind. (Oh yeah: he says he's been programming since 12 - in other words, he only had roughly two years of experience when he started this project.) He said he was still in a state of shock as he had not expected to win (Wow. Must be a rough competition if he didn't expect to win.) * Or 1.5 million lines of code, depending on which story is right. Maybe he's Bill Sergio's clone. http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/712974p-5244591c.html[^] http://www.fhs.ie/newsroom_latest.asp?id=241[^] http://www.online.ie/business/latest/viewer.adp?article=1924781[^] The only possible method I can think of to do this would be to use a spider to pre-fetch web links, then he bundled it with the MS IE control and some plug-ins. Then, used shifty code count numbers (like adding the code counts of all components - which he didn't write). ------------------------------------------ "Isn't it funny how people say they'll never grow up to be their parents, then one day they look in the mirror and they're moving aircraft carriers into the Gulf region?" - The Onion

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              Steven Hicks n 1
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              Looks like I have comepetition (i'm 16 btw.). I just read it and I can't express my reaction to it without it becoming soap box material, besides WTF!! WTF!! WTF!! I have a connection (a friend that works for the news and observer, and I haven't been mentioned..). I think that using the age is a crutch for people... I mean WTF a high schooler getting national attention because he wrote a search engine toolbar for IE big deal... I have been working and still am on 404Browser. I have NEVER used my age to boost the market appeal for my web browser. But it pisses me off to see that he has done that... and I have a contact with Jon Cox (Tech writer N&O) (brother's friend) and also I have informed the Tech person at WRAL (local tech tv person) (without mentioning my age). LOL!!!@At seven times it actually crashes so I have limited it to six -Steven EXTREMELY Fustrated CP Addict

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                Looks like I have comepetition (i'm 16 btw.). I just read it and I can't express my reaction to it without it becoming soap box material, besides WTF!! WTF!! WTF!! I have a connection (a friend that works for the news and observer, and I haven't been mentioned..). I think that using the age is a crutch for people... I mean WTF a high schooler getting national attention because he wrote a search engine toolbar for IE big deal... I have been working and still am on 404Browser. I have NEVER used my age to boost the market appeal for my web browser. But it pisses me off to see that he has done that... and I have a contact with Jon Cox (Tech writer N&O) (brother's friend) and also I have informed the Tech person at WRAL (local tech tv person) (without mentioning my age). LOL!!!@At seven times it actually crashes so I have limited it to six -Steven EXTREMELY Fustrated CP Addict

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                Steven, no offence meant, but half the problem with these articles are the journalists who write them. Quoteb> **At seven times it actually crashes so I have limited it to six He could have been saying something entirely different in context. Regardz Colin J Davies

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                  All I can say is "yeah, right". A 16-year-old kid writes 780,000* lines of code in 18 months (1500 lines of code per day - or 3 lines per minute x 8 hours x 540 days - plus design, integration, debugging, rewriting any poor implementations of a vastly superior algorithm than anyone has ever thought of), creates a web browser that works 4 - no 6 - times faster (depending on which part of the story you believe), presumably he is going to school at the same time, and learning how to create a web browser at the same time. But, there's more: he incorporated every media player, a DVD player, a language translator, a talking animated figure, and it reads webpages for the blind. (Oh yeah: he says he's been programming since 12 - in other words, he only had roughly two years of experience when he started this project.) He said he was still in a state of shock as he had not expected to win (Wow. Must be a rough competition if he didn't expect to win.) * Or 1.5 million lines of code, depending on which story is right. Maybe he's Bill Sergio's clone. http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/712974p-5244591c.html[^] http://www.fhs.ie/newsroom_latest.asp?id=241[^] http://www.online.ie/business/latest/viewer.adp?article=1924781[^] The only possible method I can think of to do this would be to use a spider to pre-fetch web links, then he bundled it with the MS IE control and some plug-ins. Then, used shifty code count numbers (like adding the code counts of all components - which he didn't write). ------------------------------------------ "Isn't it funny how people say they'll never grow up to be their parents, then one day they look in the mirror and they're moving aircraft carriers into the Gulf region?" - The Onion

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                  Sometimes I think this stuff is similar to the water-powered cars last century. As, usual if it's too good to be true, it probably isn't. Regardz Colin J Davies

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                  • D David Wulff

                    There are three things you should never talk down. The first two are a persons taste in music, the other is what kids can achieve. I'll believe it when I see it, but this appears to be a professionally run competition which means it should have qualified judges.


                    David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk

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                    peterchen
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                    from the article: Adnan says a six-fold increase is about the maximum practical boost. "At seven times it actually crashes so I have limited it to six." :wtf: sounds like "modern redneck science"


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                      All I can say is "yeah, right". A 16-year-old kid writes 780,000* lines of code in 18 months (1500 lines of code per day - or 3 lines per minute x 8 hours x 540 days - plus design, integration, debugging, rewriting any poor implementations of a vastly superior algorithm than anyone has ever thought of), creates a web browser that works 4 - no 6 - times faster (depending on which part of the story you believe), presumably he is going to school at the same time, and learning how to create a web browser at the same time. But, there's more: he incorporated every media player, a DVD player, a language translator, a talking animated figure, and it reads webpages for the blind. (Oh yeah: he says he's been programming since 12 - in other words, he only had roughly two years of experience when he started this project.) He said he was still in a state of shock as he had not expected to win (Wow. Must be a rough competition if he didn't expect to win.) * Or 1.5 million lines of code, depending on which story is right. Maybe he's Bill Sergio's clone. http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/712974p-5244591c.html[^] http://www.fhs.ie/newsroom_latest.asp?id=241[^] http://www.online.ie/business/latest/viewer.adp?article=1924781[^] The only possible method I can think of to do this would be to use a spider to pre-fetch web links, then he bundled it with the MS IE control and some plug-ins. Then, used shifty code count numbers (like adding the code counts of all components - which he didn't write). ------------------------------------------ "Isn't it funny how people say they'll never grow up to be their parents, then one day they look in the mirror and they're moving aircraft carriers into the Gulf region?" - The Onion

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                      Larry Antram
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                      From the story: It has got every single media player built in :-D

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                      • B Brit

                        All I can say is "yeah, right". A 16-year-old kid writes 780,000* lines of code in 18 months (1500 lines of code per day - or 3 lines per minute x 8 hours x 540 days - plus design, integration, debugging, rewriting any poor implementations of a vastly superior algorithm than anyone has ever thought of), creates a web browser that works 4 - no 6 - times faster (depending on which part of the story you believe), presumably he is going to school at the same time, and learning how to create a web browser at the same time. But, there's more: he incorporated every media player, a DVD player, a language translator, a talking animated figure, and it reads webpages for the blind. (Oh yeah: he says he's been programming since 12 - in other words, he only had roughly two years of experience when he started this project.) He said he was still in a state of shock as he had not expected to win (Wow. Must be a rough competition if he didn't expect to win.) * Or 1.5 million lines of code, depending on which story is right. Maybe he's Bill Sergio's clone. http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/712974p-5244591c.html[^] http://www.fhs.ie/newsroom_latest.asp?id=241[^] http://www.online.ie/business/latest/viewer.adp?article=1924781[^] The only possible method I can think of to do this would be to use a spider to pre-fetch web links, then he bundled it with the MS IE control and some plug-ins. Then, used shifty code count numbers (like adding the code counts of all components - which he didn't write). ------------------------------------------ "Isn't it funny how people say they'll never grow up to be their parents, then one day they look in the mirror and they're moving aircraft carriers into the Gulf region?" - The Onion

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                        When can we get our hands on this software and run our own tests? .:suss:


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                          The line I liked best was "at 7 times normal speed the program crashes". WTF? Of course, I wonder why no one has implemented a server on a T3 or something which compresses all the HTML and other ASCII text stuff, and you use a proprietary browser to retrieve and decompress the web sites that the server fetches and compresses for you. If you strip out the graphic components or cache them... Marc Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator.
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                          HTTP already includes extensions for gzipping content supported by most, if not all, browsers, though most sites have this feature turn off due to the processor overhead on a busy server. But if you have a largly text only site on the end of a slow link it can make a world of difference. That brings me to another thing, the bulk of downloads for most sites has to be graphics in highly compressed JPG, how do you speed that up, you can't. Also if he has writen a client how can that speed up surfing when the servers are the ones sending the data? And another thing, why do we need more propriety protocols/markup just when I though that that everyone was getting their act together and things just work. All sounds like a steaming pile of **** to me. Stephen

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                            When can we get our hands on this software and run our own tests? .:suss:


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                            Thats pretty bad.. having a huge press release without providing a URL... I searched google and it didn't come up with this "product". -Steven CP Addict

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                            • C ColinDavies

                              Steven, no offence meant, but half the problem with these articles are the journalists who write them. Quoteb> **At seven times it actually crashes so I have limited it to six He could have been saying something entirely different in context. Regardz Colin J Davies

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                              Colin, you forgot the </b> tag. ;P


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                              • B Brit

                                All I can say is "yeah, right". A 16-year-old kid writes 780,000* lines of code in 18 months (1500 lines of code per day - or 3 lines per minute x 8 hours x 540 days - plus design, integration, debugging, rewriting any poor implementations of a vastly superior algorithm than anyone has ever thought of), creates a web browser that works 4 - no 6 - times faster (depending on which part of the story you believe), presumably he is going to school at the same time, and learning how to create a web browser at the same time. But, there's more: he incorporated every media player, a DVD player, a language translator, a talking animated figure, and it reads webpages for the blind. (Oh yeah: he says he's been programming since 12 - in other words, he only had roughly two years of experience when he started this project.) He said he was still in a state of shock as he had not expected to win (Wow. Must be a rough competition if he didn't expect to win.) * Or 1.5 million lines of code, depending on which story is right. Maybe he's Bill Sergio's clone. http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/712974p-5244591c.html[^] http://www.fhs.ie/newsroom_latest.asp?id=241[^] http://www.online.ie/business/latest/viewer.adp?article=1924781[^] The only possible method I can think of to do this would be to use a spider to pre-fetch web links, then he bundled it with the MS IE control and some plug-ins. Then, used shifty code count numbers (like adding the code counts of all components - which he didn't write). ------------------------------------------ "Isn't it funny how people say they'll never grow up to be their parents, then one day they look in the mirror and they're moving aircraft carriers into the Gulf region?" - The Onion

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                                :~ I wonder if this kid was actually attending school or cutting classes to get his code finished. :~ something just ain't right:~ Later, JoeSox www.joeswammi.com "Male Employee #2I have a question Nick, I'm trying to do this quarterly, I just, I can't get the stupid e-mail package to open at all. Nick Burns: It's the e-mail that's stupid, not you right?"

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                                  All I can say is "yeah, right". A 16-year-old kid writes 780,000* lines of code in 18 months (1500 lines of code per day - or 3 lines per minute x 8 hours x 540 days - plus design, integration, debugging, rewriting any poor implementations of a vastly superior algorithm than anyone has ever thought of), creates a web browser that works 4 - no 6 - times faster (depending on which part of the story you believe), presumably he is going to school at the same time, and learning how to create a web browser at the same time. But, there's more: he incorporated every media player, a DVD player, a language translator, a talking animated figure, and it reads webpages for the blind. (Oh yeah: he says he's been programming since 12 - in other words, he only had roughly two years of experience when he started this project.) He said he was still in a state of shock as he had not expected to win (Wow. Must be a rough competition if he didn't expect to win.) * Or 1.5 million lines of code, depending on which story is right. Maybe he's Bill Sergio's clone. http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/712974p-5244591c.html[^] http://www.fhs.ie/newsroom_latest.asp?id=241[^] http://www.online.ie/business/latest/viewer.adp?article=1924781[^] The only possible method I can think of to do this would be to use a spider to pre-fetch web links, then he bundled it with the MS IE control and some plug-ins. Then, used shifty code count numbers (like adding the code counts of all components - which he didn't write). ------------------------------------------ "Isn't it funny how people say they'll never grow up to be their parents, then one day they look in the mirror and they're moving aircraft carriers into the Gulf region?" - The Onion

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                                  http://radio.weblogs.com/0103966/2003/01/13.html#a1168[^] "So it's not managing bandwidth but managing the way the browser itself handles and presents information"


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                                    All I can say is "yeah, right". A 16-year-old kid writes 780,000* lines of code in 18 months (1500 lines of code per day - or 3 lines per minute x 8 hours x 540 days - plus design, integration, debugging, rewriting any poor implementations of a vastly superior algorithm than anyone has ever thought of), creates a web browser that works 4 - no 6 - times faster (depending on which part of the story you believe), presumably he is going to school at the same time, and learning how to create a web browser at the same time. But, there's more: he incorporated every media player, a DVD player, a language translator, a talking animated figure, and it reads webpages for the blind. (Oh yeah: he says he's been programming since 12 - in other words, he only had roughly two years of experience when he started this project.) He said he was still in a state of shock as he had not expected to win (Wow. Must be a rough competition if he didn't expect to win.) * Or 1.5 million lines of code, depending on which story is right. Maybe he's Bill Sergio's clone. http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/712974p-5244591c.html[^] http://www.fhs.ie/newsroom_latest.asp?id=241[^] http://www.online.ie/business/latest/viewer.adp?article=1924781[^] The only possible method I can think of to do this would be to use a spider to pre-fetch web links, then he bundled it with the MS IE control and some plug-ins. Then, used shifty code count numbers (like adding the code counts of all components - which he didn't write). ------------------------------------------ "Isn't it funny how people say they'll never grow up to be their parents, then one day they look in the mirror and they're moving aircraft carriers into the Gulf region?" - The Onion

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                                    So much talk, but no trial software or technical details.


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