Re: [CGUYS] Croak Poll
I'm surprised that Jeff Bezos beat out Steve Jobs and that Jerry Yang was as poorly regarded as Steve Balmer. My biggest surprise was that Steve Balmer did not score a big negative. I guess you folks are willing to give a bad manager more slack than I do. Or is it that you see him as a better manager than I do? I was surprised as well. Apple is wholly dependent upon Jobs for its success and MS desperately needs to shed the flailing deadweight of Balmer. Can't Paul Allen talk some sense into him, or at least lure him to Portland somehow, drug him, and hide him away in a Hare Krishna sect for a few years? Selling candles at the airport seems a suitable punishment. Yang? I don't even think about him. Asking about Brin and Page would have been better. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Croak Poll
Okay, now. I think that I listed my Sinclair along with my Atari. However, the poll asked about computers that are OWNED, So I should have listed my OSI 100 with 128 bytes of RAM. I thought the wide variety of computers owned by list members was impressive. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Croak Poll
Drug him? I suspect that would take quite a tranq dart to take down a ballmer in it's natrual habitat. Mike On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 6:24 AM, Jeff Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was surprised as well. Apple is wholly dependent upon Jobs for its success and MS desperately needs to shed the flailing deadweight of Balmer. Can't Paul Allen talk some sense into him, or at least lure him to Portland somehow, drug him, and hide him away in a Hare Krishna sect for a few years? Selling candles at the airport seems a suitable punishment. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Croak Poll
On Oct 12, 2008, at 11:02 AM, Tom Piwowar wrote: I thought the wide variety of computers owned by list members was impressive. Agreed. I also found the high number of users of machines other than Windows was similarly worthy of mention. Steve * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Croak Poll
Maybe one of those rocket powered nets they used on Wild Kingdom would work. Drug him? I suspect that would take quite a tranq dart to take down a ballmer in it's natrual habitat. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Croak Poll
I also found the high number of users of machines other than Windows was similarly worthy of mention. Yes indeed. This is a smart group (mostly). * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Croak Poll
Are we going to get the results after this thing closes? Sell on death added a point, buy on death subtracted a point. Here are the net scores in order of popularity. 5 Jeff Bezos 4 Steve Jobs 1 Bill Gates -1 Steve Balmer -1 Jerry Yang I'm surprised that Jeff Bezos beat out Steve Jobs and that Jerry Yang was as poorly regarded as Steve Balmer. My biggest surprise was that Steve Balmer did not score a big negative. I guess you folks are willing to give a bad manager more slack than I do. Or is it that you see him as a better manager than I do? Bill Gates scored +1 by getting a single sell vote. Everyone else voted to do nothing for the largely irrelevant xCEO. As for computers owned... 77% MS Windows 55% Mac OS X 23% Linux 37% Other (Amiga, OS 9, Sun, Sinclair) People may select more than one so percents add up to more than 100% I love my old Sinclair, but I don't think I would have listed it as something I currently use. Even I am not so old fashioned! * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Croak Poll
On Oct 11, 2008, at 7:22 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote: As for computers owned... 77% MS Windows 55% Mac OS X 23% Linux 37% Other (Amiga, OS 9, Sun, Sinclair) People may select more than one so percents add up to more than 100% I love my old Sinclair, but I don't think I would have listed it as something I currently use. Even I am not so old fashioned! Okay, now. I think that I listed my Sinclair along with my Atari. However, the poll asked about computers that are OWNED, not about what computers are USED. I do not currently use either of the two mentioned above, but I do still have, or own them. I only currently use Macs, and they are not all OS X machines either. Three are, three aren't. Perhaps your query should have been about what computers are currently in use, leaving the ownership issue out. I was just trying to answer the questionnaire as accurately as I could. Still, an interesting endeavor. Steve * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Croak Poll
As for computers owned, I didn't vote at all, because the whole thing seemed silly. On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 8:46 PM, Steve Rigby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 11, 2008, at 7:22 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote: As for computers owned... * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] Croak Poll
Been there, done that. Are we going to get the results after this thing closes? Of course. I see some interesting results already, but need a better sample first. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
