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Gates, Jobs, Torvalds: Who is Most Important?
Ian Wilson writes "silicon.com has launched its latest Agenda Setters poll which puts together a list of the top 50 people influencing tech. I remember Slashdot carried last year's poll - which was won by Steve Jobs. The full top 50 includes many of the usual suspects. Last year's winner Steve Jobs has slipped down to second place, but perhaps most interesting is the fact that the panel of judges couldn't separate Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates - they are tied in seventh place."
Why, goatse of course...
Cowboy Neal
Free XBox, PS2
Oh wait, IMPORTANT......
...but perhaps most interesting is the fact that the panel of judges couldn't separate Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates - they are tied in seventh place.
Is there any difference between the two men? Don't they both more or less control an operating system that is freely distributable, freely modifiable, strongly based on standards, with rock solid performance?
Slashdot Syndrome: the sudden, extreme urge to correct someone in order to validate one's self.
me?
But look how much crime went down under Vlad!
Oh wiat, this isn't a /. poll.
CELEBRITY DEATHMATCH!
Karma to anyone who can actually call the match.
The poll has been taken offline temporarily for a period of "scheduled maintenance" whoops...
I suspect the euro-wide dna scan is actually to find someone he can nominate as his successor, assuming he already has some of Vlad to compare everyone to... (can you tell I'm not a fan ? [grin])
Simon
Physicists get Hadrons!
It disgraceful that Britney Spears didn't even make the top 50 this year. Without her, I don't think Google would ever get any searches.
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Yes, we planned this. We schedule a slashdotting once a year to keep our IT people on their feet.
This is not a political statement. This is not legal advice. It's a frick'n Slasdot post. However: I'm Running For
How originial:
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So they EXPECTED to get slashdotted?
Tequila: It's not just for breakfast anymore!
How can Al Gore not be on that list!!?? He invented the Internet, for chrissakes!
Where ever you are, whoever you are, thank you.
I like big butts and I cannot lie.
Hey, where's Darl McBride!
If my answers frighten you, stop asking scary questions.
I can get by without a gate, but I can't get by without a job.
The BBC's director of New Media? The guy who tried to make the BBC a "portal"? The guy who introduced Fantasy Football and Pure Soap (both cancelled) to the BBC web site?
We all know the outcome of a celebrity deathmatch between Bill and Linus:
From pictures, I'd say that Linus has a physical advantage over Gates; but Bill would probably play dirty and get someone else (Balmer, perhaps) to fight for him (he never doesn anything for himself.) That would give Linus the excuse to play tag-team with Tove, and she'd kick the ass of Bill, Melinda, *and* Balmer (remember Tove is a six-time Finnish National karate champ!)
I think that when Linus said that SCO was on crack, my respect for the man went up about 1000%.
If I were in power, my regime would have impaling. Our current methods of gently killing people don't seem to be much of a deterrent, but I bet all those violent criminals and spammers would tow the line if they knew they were risking impaling. Bruce the Impaler. Has a bit of a ring to it...
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
You'll buy what eWeek tells you to buy.
Mr Gates is shaping the industry alright.
Try strangling yourself and see if the shape of your throat doesn't change.
I'm number 864,576. You're number 1,365,918.
Duh, he fathered the guy who would one day lead the resistance and bring down SkyNet.
It doesn't get much more technology-influencing than that.
It's rare that you're presented with a knob whose only two positions are Make History and Flee Your Glorious Destiny.
I guess a moderator thought the victims were MS Windows fans.
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
Bull. Windows, Office, and Visual Studio were all products single-handedly coded by Bill Gates himself. Sure, other people have taken on the tasks of maintaining it, but the true vision of these products started under his programming leadership.
Could you site book, chapter, and verse, please? Or is this just Bible FUD?
Isn't this the part where he gather's dna from Vlad, Napolean, Sun Zu, Ghengis Khan, Montezuma, Alexander the Great, Ivan the Terrible and Sgt. Slaughter all to form the new Cobra leader Serpentor?
Isn't that what happened at Jericho? If I recall, the entire population of the city was slaughtered (except for the prostitute and her folks...) once the walls fell down.
Slightly OT, but does place a precedent on mass-killing.
BTW, it was God who brought the walls down and commanded the killing. I wonder what the 4 year olds Jerichoans had done to upset God that much...
"Piter, too, is dead."
BTW, it was God who brought the walls down and commanded the killing. I wonder what the 4 year olds Jerichoans had done to upset God that much...
Well, four year olds can be extremely annoying and noisy. And as you know, God has a certain habit of resting on the seventh day of the week.
Oh, so that's how the goatse guy got his infamous ability...
Thats right. Its rude to call a broad a "chick".
"people would be well advised to take this posting with a grain of salt"
Tell that to Lot's wife!
But clearly, mr. Gates links to 08.html, and mr. Torvalds to 07.html ! So apparantly, they *were* able to seperate them, they're just afraid to admit it! :)
- Leon Mergen
http://www.solatis.com
OK, here's some of who you missed:
:o)
# 3. Niklas Zennstrom
That's professor Farnsworth's arch nemesis; the mayor would have fired him, but he has tenure.
# 6. Richard Granger
Hermione's father.
# 14. Sir David Tweedie
The guy who invented the suit with the leather elbow patches. Rumor has it they're gonna make a big comeback among geeks next year.
# 16. James Murdoch
He was the chopper pilot from the A-Team.
# 25. Joe McGeehan
He played Number 5 on "The Prisoner"
# 31. Len Hynds
Former bass player for UB40. Married to Chrissy.
# 33. John Connors
The leader of the resistance, responsible for the creation of time-travel (as skynet wants to kill him)
# 41. Hu Jintao
Maybe Intao is slang for 'Dick' ?
# 47. David Sainsbury
He invented hamburger helper!
# 48. Andy Duncan
70's sitcom star. She had her own show in 1972.
and my write in vote is Cowboy Neal!
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That's right. So all you knuckleheads who keep asking for the Raiders to win, would ya give it up and let a Diety get some sleep?