Science Project Quadruples Surfing Speed - Reportedly 646
johnp. writes "A computer browser that is said to least quadruple surfing speeds on the Internet has won the top prize at an Irish exhibition for young scientists, it was announced on Saturday. Adnan Osmani, 16, a student at Saint Finian's College in Mullingar, central Ireland spent 18 months writing 780,000 lines of computer code to develop the browser. Known as "XWEBS", the system works with an ordinary Internet connection using a 56K modem on a normal telephone line.
" A number of people had submitted this over the weekend - there's absolutely no hard data that I can find to go along with this, so if you find anything more on it, plz. post below - somehow 1500 lines of code per day, "every media player" built in doesn't ring true for me.
Hello (Score:0, Funny)
It slices it dices (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Basic maths. (Score:5, Funny)
you see, it's not that hard to make 1500 lines of code per day!
I get it... (Score:4, Funny)
It then makes use of network magic. You mean no-one ever told you about the magic ?
Warning! Your internet connection is not optomized (Score:5, Funny)
Paper clip feature too! (Score:1, Funny)
Oh goody! Someone to take microsoft's place!
can't wait to see that little tingy pop on me when we
Different Calendar (Score:1, Funny)
Re:suspicious (Score:2, Funny)
Good God, he could make a fortune if he's on the internet! Genius.
Re:Hmmmm he even admits it crashes (Score:5, Funny)
The downside on this would be that you age four times as fast while surfing, but hey, there's always something ...
Re:Speeding up browsing? (Score:4, Funny)
Yes, unless you have one of these! [slashdot.org]
Re:Different Calendar (Score:5, Funny)
Well, okay, they don't but it'd be nice if they did... instead of the year round crap.
Hardware requirements... (Score:2, Funny)
I'm sure that that's in there somewhere, oh, yeah, look...there it is commented out above line 53,425 in the code. Yep.
Ulimate script-kiddie (Score:0, Funny)
Alternatively there is an opening as a technical reporter just opening up.
Maybe it's alien technology? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Paper clip feature too! (Score:2, Funny)
So, Jim, I'm concerned with your performance... (Score:5, Funny)
Jim: Yes, I --
PHB: Jim...I'm concerned about your performance.
Jim: Er, wha--
PHB: You write, what, 30 maybe 80 "eL Oh Cee" a day? Right?
Jim: Well, the TPS and project plans take --
PHB: Says here, that this 16 year old kid can write 1500 "eL Oh Cee" a day. What do you think about that?
PHB: Don't laugh...this is serious.
Jim: Sorry. I ment --
PHB: Jim, maybe you need to put in more hours. Reconsider your work habbits.
Jim: I work till 10 most nights...
PHB: Jim, it's not the hours it's how efficiently you handle them. I expect todays TPS on my desk by noon, along with a status report on each programming task you've done today.
Jim: It's 11 --
PHB: That's it Jim! Keep up the good work. In the meantime, see if you can increase that "eL Oh Cee" to, say, about a hundread. It's good to make a good impression. Fine. Excellent. I knew I could count on you. I'll see you then! ... Brian...did you fill out that TPS report...
My guesstimate is... (Score:2, Funny)
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."
Now that's a good debugging technique, no wonder the code has 780,000 lines!
To make the software more user friendly, it features a talking animated figure called Phoebe.
With these skills, I guess he'll be working in Redmond soon...
Only quadruple? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Basic maths. (Score:2, Funny)
Do curly brackets on a single line count?
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Re:Basic maths. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Basic maths. (Score:3, Funny)
Duh (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Basic maths. (Score:5, Funny)
I wonder what ever happened to reading webpages while surfing... Ooohh, right, so that's what you call surfing
The Magic Formula (Score:2, Funny)
1500 lines a day (Score:5, Funny)
Then he discovered loops.
Re:Hmmmm he even admits it crashes (Score:2, Funny)
Re:have you ever been 16 (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Basic math[s]. (Score:3, Funny)
Whoa...slow down on those assumptions there hoss...
--trb
Re:Hmmmm he even admits it crashes (Score:4, Funny)
Neat! I never thought that a web page would have a terminal velocity. Guess it's between 6 and 7 times the normal speed of web pages.
Re:ESAT Young Scientist Competition (Score:2, Funny)
http://www.esatys.com/science_set.htm [esatys.com]
Re:Then why the hell did you post it? (Score:2, Funny)
4X 'Surfing' Speed no big deal. (Score:2, Funny)
Sounds like another example of trying to steal the blue ribbon, just like the recent clone claims. I mean honestly, claiming we grew a clone in the womb of a woman for the last 9 months which is exactly how regular babies are born but this one is a clone wink wink nudge nudge. Goobs.
FTL Browsing (Score:4, Funny)
Explains why it crashes at Warp 7 too, the dilithium code just can't take, keptin!
Re:Basic maths. (Score:3, Funny)
The Competition is Real (Score:2, Funny)
I live in Ireland, and can confirm that he did win our national young scientist of the year award. He's been on a couple of Irish chat shows since but still hasn't mentioned even the basic concept behind how it works. Knowing the quality of the competition, he would have still won if it was 6x slower just because he was sixteen!
Anyway he may be able to download pr0n 6x faster but he'll get a girlfriend 6x slower after winning that award.
Re:Basic maths. (Score:3, Funny)