Re: [CGUYS] Croak Poll

2008-10-12 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] Croak Poll

2008-10-12 Thread Tom Piwowar
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.

Re: [CGUYS] Croak Poll

2008-10-12 Thread mike
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

Re: [CGUYS] Croak Poll

2008-10-12 Thread Steve Rigby
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

Re: [CGUYS] Croak Poll

2008-10-12 Thread Jeff Wright
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

Re: [CGUYS] Croak Poll

2008-10-12 Thread Tom Piwowar
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 **

Re: [CGUYS] Croak Poll

2008-10-11 Thread Tom Piwowar
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

Re: [CGUYS] Croak Poll

2008-10-11 Thread Steve Rigby
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

Re: [CGUYS] Croak Poll

2008-10-11 Thread Tony B
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...

Re: [CGUYS] Croak Poll

2008-10-05 Thread Tom Piwowar
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,

[CGUYS] Croak Poll

2008-10-04 Thread Tom Piwowar
A false report that Steve Jobs had a heart attack sent Apple stock plunging. www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103sid=atekONWyM7Asrefer=us That got me thinking about other companies. Hop over to cguys.org and scroll down a tad to the Croak Poll to share your views.