"Please become a legal adult. You have 20 second to comply."

"You now have 15 seconds to comply."

"You are in direct violation of Dessert Code 1.13, Section 9. You have 5 seconds to comply."

"I am now authorized to use physical force."

(machine-gun fire)

Firefox (and Chrome, and IE, and Safari) copied pretty much everything from Opera. Tabbed browsing, searching from the address bar, mouse gestures, pop-up blocking, etc., etc., all that was in Opera first (sometimes several years before the others).

It's fitting that he has a polish name, but surely all this (and more) was discovered ages ago by Professor A. Donda...

You write quite well for a 4-year-old.

Don't even compare those two. One is just a toy with no real-world utility, that people get bored with after two days and only bring out to impress their friends who still don't have one. The other is an Etch-a-Sketch.

The real question is: is your in-law aware of their resemblance to the the gardener, the mailman and the poolboy?

Last time I checked, -300 was "less than 100", so the option to pick should be obvious.

People who write exactly 1000 lines, on the other hand, are kind of stuck...

Actually I'm pretty sure #4 (according to the TSA manuals) is "a brown-skinned male", but they decided it wasn't PC to mention that.

Look at the picture. It's a fingerbox. The student was clearly trying to troll the TSA.

Meanwhile, they completely missed the real bomb he was carrying inside his bible.

Mankind is divided into three kinds of people: Those who can count, and those who can't.

SunSpider is a "core JS benchmark". It does not focus on interaction with the renderer (which is what JS is used for in >95% of web pages), it basically tests JS performance as a computing platform. While this is likely to become more relevant in the future, it's still not a good measure of how a browser's JS performance impacts user experience.

Opera 9 was quite slow at running SunSpider and yet reacted faster than any browser of its time to user interaction in most pages, simply because it was faster "where it mattered" (interaction with the DOM and renderer).

If I was a cynical person, I'd say that SunSpider (a benchmark created by WebKit) was designed specifically to make WebKit look better than Opera and Firefox... :-P

Absolutely, he's a very competent producer. But that doesn't invalidate that the summary gives him credit for perfecting technology that a) already existed and b) he was not actually involved with in any way.

Absolutely. He's an excellent producer. He's just a so-so director and a terrible, terrible writer. In fact, by now even he has figured out the last part, and doesn't really try to write anything anymore.

I'm sure "Aliens" made a lot more money than "Alien". And yet the latter is a suspense classic with a solid script and a consistent atmosphere, while the former is a mad race between bullet holes and plot holes. Entertaining at times, but hardly on the same level in terms of storytelling (you know, that part of the film that makes you feel things, not just go "Whoa! Geat explosions, dude!").

I'm always amused (though not amazed anymore) by that fact that, whenever someone says "X is a pretty low quality product", someone (usually an american - maybe it's a cultural thing) immediately replies "no, it's great quality because it made a lot of dollars".

I guess heaven must be eating a Big Mac while you use Microsoft Windows to watch Oprah Winfrey.

No, he made a handful of very high-grossing films (sold a lot of tickets but also cost a lot of money to make). If you define "profitability" as the ratio of income to expenditure, he's not even close. But all that is irrelevant, because my comments were about quality (and the ability to not make a whole script hinge on some obvious plot hole).

If your definition of quality is "how much money it makes", then I guess you think Oprah Winfrey and Bill Gates are the pinnacle of human evolution.