'What's the best reason to use Windows?' |
Answer |
Votes |
|
Percentage |
The wide selection of viruses and worms (cuz they don't make nearly as many for the Mac, and the ones that do come out 6 months later) |
10 |
|
10.8% |
The ubiquitous Blue Screen Of Death® that that pops up during my workday letting me know it's break time! |
10 |
|
10.8% |
A cute doggie that sucks up CPU cycles as I search for files |
3 |
|
3.2% |
One word: Activation keys |
4 |
|
4.3% |
The daily security patches - they assure me that Microsoft is on top of everything as security is job #1 with them! |
6 |
|
6.5% |
Games. (Yeah it's a real reason - the only one we could think of.) |
13 |
|
14% |
Being a sado-masochist, Windows is the only OS offering the level of pain and gratification I need. |
17 |
|
18.3% |
Total votes: 63 |
'What method should we use to get Apple to hurry up and release Panther already?' |
Answer |
Votes |
|
Percentage |
Call Steve up while holding a knife to the neck of an iMac |
7 |
|
15.6% |
Run through Apple Stores and put things mildly out of place, like the iMac brochure container 6cm to the lef |
4 |
|
8.9% |
Set iTunes on all Apple Store Macs to "Repeat One" and select a Yoko Ono song |
0 |
|
0% |
Using peacful resistance we'll organize a sit-in at Apple Store's nationwide, and force the staff to play the 2003 WWDC keynote over and over and over |
7 |
|
15.6% |
Blackmail Apple by taking pictures of the Jaguar logo doing things that would shame the company, i.e. signing up for a Hotmail account |
6 |
|
13.3% |
Kidnap Steve, tie him up and threaten to force Spam down his gullet. |
5 |
|
11.1% |
Start chanting "Pan-ther! Pan-ther! Pan-ther!", from our individual locations on Earth (or wherever you are) |
0 |
|
0% |
Get the Asian contingent of Mac users to jump at the same time, thereby throwing the earth out of orbit and to its doom (OK, that may not help get Panther out but it'd be fun!) |
16 |
|
35.6% |
Total votes: 45 |
'What's so good about pants?' |
Answer |
Votes |
|
Percentage |
Pockets: for Altoid-storage! |
9 |
|
7.2% |
They provide warmth and shelter for your special area |
21 |
|
16.8% |
They slow the burning sensation from hot McDonalds coffee |
15 |
|
12% |
They can be taken off and used as a strangulation device |
5 |
|
4% |
Inherent magical healing powers |
10 |
|
8% |
They give you the confidence to excel in all areas of life |
14 |
|
11.2% |
Without them, we would all be wearing kilts |
35 |
|
28% |
Total votes: 109 |
'When will 2GAMAAW create a new poll?' |
Answer |
Votes |
|
Percentage |
When the evil alien race of pant eaters takes over earth's overabundance of pants |
1 |
|
4.5% |
Next Friday |
0 |
|
0% |
err... this is a new poll |
3 |
|
13.6% |
Well, I don't think it will happen, because I heard that one of the 2 guy's staff has a surplus of womens clothes |
2 |
|
9.1% |
That last option didn't even make sense |
2 |
|
9.1% |
When one of the 2 Guy's staff has a plethora of time on their hands. |
2 |
|
9.1% |
I don't care when they have a new poll, as long as I don't ever have to read overabundance, surplus, or plethora on their website ever again! |
9 |
|
40.9% |
Next Tuesday |
3 |
|
13.6% |
Total votes: 22 |
'What's the best undocumented feature of iCal 1.5.1?' |
Answer |
Votes |
|
Percentage |
Reminds you it's time to go give Grandma a luffa sponge bath |
1 |
|
4.3% |
Reminds you to change your underpants once a month, whether you need itor not |
0 |
|
0% |
Alerts you to blink your eyes and/or go to the bathroom during long LAN gaming sessions |
1 |
|
4.3% |
Has a built-in calendar to track all Apple events for the next ten years |
1 |
|
4.3% |
Automatic syncronization with Phil Schiller's showering schedule, so you can stay just as fresh |
1 |
|
4.3% |
To sell more .Mac subscriptions, anyone with .Mac can sync to His Steveness's Master Calendar For World Domination® |
0 |
|
0% |
Reminds you to go on dates with real live women, instead of looking at porn all the time |
16 |
|
69.6% |
Total votes: 20 |
'If you're planning to attend the Panther release party, what crazy shenanigans do you plan to pull?' |
Answer |
Votes |
|
Percentage |
Two words: No pants |
2 |
|
5.1% |
Stage a fight between a Jaguar and a Panther |
3 |
|
7.7% |
You and 12 friends come as every version of OS X ("I'm 10.1.2!") |
0 |
|
0% |
Attempt to trade in a copy of Windows 98 for OS X 10.3 |
14 |
|
35.9% |
Shave the Panther logo into your pubic hair |
10 |
|
25.6% |
Dress as Steve Ballmer for an early Halloween scare |
5 |
|
12.8% |
Forget the software release and protest the packaging of endangered species |
3 |
|
7.7% |
Bring X's made out of fishsticks to hand out to other Mac faithful |
2 |
|
5.1% |
Total votes: 39 |
'Scary Halloween Poll: What REALLY goes on at Mac User Group meetings?' |
Answer |
Votes |
|
Percentage |
Windows users are brainwashed into the Mac Way with chants of JOIN US ... JOIN US and a large screen showing of iTunes visualization. |
15 |
|
15.8% |
A spell is cast to increase the computing efficiency of the Big Mac G5 cluster |
11 |
|
11.6% |
Members join psychic energies and mindlink with the Mothership in Cupertino to receive further instructions |
11 |
|
11.6% |
A seance is held to speak to the ghost of OS 9 |
5 |
|
5.3% |
For trick or treat, we pass out copies of Windows 95 as the biggest trick on record |
12 |
|
12.6% |
Scary stories are told of how our OS X installations are haunted by Classic mode |
13 |
|
13.7% |
Using parts of old C.E.O.'s, Ballmerstein is created - and he's nowhwere near as scary as the real Steve Ballmer |
12 |
|
12.6% |
We all use Windows XP. Oh no wait - that answer was supposed to be for our April Fools poll! Dammit! We suck at this! |
16 |
|
16.8% |
Total votes: 95 |
'What Deep Thought is most deserving of a free iTunes song?' |
Answer |
Votes |
|
Percentage |
When in doubt, remember, two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do! |
3 |
|
3.4% |
I was trying to think of a really good deep thought, but my brain is just too shallow. |
7 |
|
7.9% |
Since your back is behind you, if someone was doing something 'behind your back' wouldn't that put them directly in front of you? |
3 |
|
3.4% |
Sometimes I like to walk around with headphones on but not plugged into anything. This way I can pretend to ignore people but still hear the story about how Carl got drunk at the office party last night. |
5 |
|
5.6% |
Give me the itunes code or i will kick you sq'are in da nuts with a sledgehammer strapped to my size 15's. |
9 |
|
10.1% |
If eastern philosophy has taught us anything, it's that Buddha is a fat ass. |
10 |
|
11.2% |
Total votes: 37 |
'Which of these online music stores will be the first to go out of business and why?' |
Answer |
Votes |
|
Percentage |
BuyMusic.com - a naked Tommy Lee and the bad karma from smashing a perfectly good Gibson guitar doomed them to failure |
11 |
|
9.5% |
Napster - reanimating the corpse of the most well-known file sharing service and using it so SELL music was not a good idea |
6 |
|
5.2% |
Walmart - Walmart sells stuff online? Does anyone know that? |
8 |
|
6.9% |
MyCokeMusic.com - Huh, that's funny I never heard of these guys until today. |
11 |
|
9.5% |
Real/Rhapsody - A 4-step authorization procedure and you can only copy a song to a CD only 5 times? Come on. |
6 |
|
5.2% |
The Microsoft Online Digital Music Purchasing Experience - Ok, it's not even out yet, but you know it'll be overly complicated, confusing, and just plain sucky. |
22 |
|
19% |
Total votes: 64 |
'After the newer and faster PowerMac G5's are announced, what should we hound Apple about releasing?' |
Answer |
Votes |
|
Percentage |
videoPods |
10 |
|
6.5% |
iMacs that change hue via voice commands |
6 |
|
3.9% |
iBooks that attack unathorized users who fail a voice recognition test |
7 |
|
4.5% |
Even more faster PowerMacs! |
13 |
|
8.4% |
Pants that adjust height according to weather conditions |
30 |
|
19.4% |
Powerbooks with fission reactor cores for a near-unending power supply |
18 |
|
11.6% |
Brain-wave analysis software - you think, it types. |
21 |
|
13.5% |
G6 Xserves |
8 |
|
5.2% |
Total votes: 113 |
'What's the best reason to keep the "2 Guys, a Dell, and a Web Site" moniker?' |
Answer |
Votes |
|
Percentage |
We can still complain about Windows, but instead of getting flames from Windows users, we get sympathy comments |
7 |
|
5.2% |
Because L.A.D.U.G. sounds soooo much better than L.A.M.U.G. |
2 |
|
1.5% |
Maybe, just maybe, Apple will send us free stuff to switch back |
33 |
|
24.4% |
It's all about marketshare, baby! |
31 |
|
23% |
We're sellouts. |
5 |
|
3.7% |
Microsoft is holding our girlfriends (a.k.a. blow-up dolls) hostage |
3 |
|
2.2% |
Mike Dell is the most original thinker since Leonardo DaVinci |
6 |
|
4.4% |
We could name our kids Dell: could you imagine the teasing a kid would get for being named Macintosh? (Yes, the kids we're gonna have with our blow-up dolls, smartass) |
6 |
|
4.4% |
Total votes: 93 |
'Tomorrow is the first birthday of the iTunes Music Store. What are you doing to celebrate?' |
Answer |
Votes |
|
Percentage |
Going out and slaughtering the first born child of everyone in town (Did I say slaughter? I meant buy them an ice cream cone.) |
8 |
|
6.4% |
Taking iTMS out and getting it drunk, and then trying to get in it's pants (hey, it's legal: one iTMS year is like 19 human years) |
4 |
|
3.2% |
Egging all of the other music download services' houses, and leaving flaming bags of poo on their doorstep |
9 |
|
7.2% |
Buying and listening to every one of the 102 Happy Birthday songs in the iTMS library |
2 |
|
1.6% |
The same thing I do every Wednesday: Get drunk on bathtub gin and hit on my sister |
12 |
|
9.6% |
Buying it a gift certificate to itself |
8 |
|
6.4% |
Making a cake in my easy-bake oven and singing happy birthday to iTunes |
5 |
|
4% |
Creating a Windows virus that automatically installs iTunes for Windows, launches it, and purchases all the bad 80's music it can find. |
35 |
|
28% |
Total votes: 83 |
'What's the best way for Apple to beat Microsoft at their own game?' |
Answer |
Votes |
|
Percentage |
Tie Safari into the OS that way you can't uninstall it and any problems affecting Safari can thereby affect the whole system |
6 |
|
2.7% |
Allow remote sites to install Spyware and Adware without the user's permission, as that opens a whole new market for Apple |
2 |
|
0.9% |
Work hard at porting all the latest and greatest viruses to the Mac |
5 |
|
2.3% |
Have Mail automatically run any and all incoming viruses as root and then pass them along to not only everyone in the user's address book, but Apple's entire mailing list of customers |
8 |
|
3.6% |
Disable the administrator password feature and just let programs do whatever the heck they want |
32 |
|
14.5% |
Sell out to MS, because nobody else can write code that poorly |
86 |
|
38.9% |
Total votes: 139 |
'Which slogan best suits Microsoft?' |
Answer |
Votes |
|
Percentage |
Mediocrity is our middle name! |
24 |
|
5.9% |
If you can find a better company, well, we'll buy them and bring 'em in-house. |
57 |
|
14.1% |
Our promise to you: half the features and twice the bugs as the other guy. |
29 |
|
7.2% |
Microsoft: Spreading FUD and throwing money at legal problems since 1981. |
44 |
|
10.9% |
We're at least 20% less sucky than we used to be! |
60 |
|
14.8% |
Hey, it works. Quit complaining. |
30 |
|
7.4% |
Our failure. Your frustration. |
84 |
|
20.7% |
Total votes: 328 |
'So what's the REAL reason Steve was in the hospital?' |
Answer |
Votes |
|
Percentage |
"Johnson" reduction surgery, as women were complaining things were just too big down there. |
0 |
|
0% |
He had his wireless card upgraded from Airport to Airport Extreme |
2 |
|
1.7% |
His alien symbiote died of old age and another one needed to be implanted |
8 |
|
6.7% |
He gave birth to another great idea! |
5 |
|
4.2% |
Something about a bizarre accident with a new iMac prototype, some fishsticks, and iPants |
2 |
|
1.7% |
His left lung exploded do to an iAir malfunction |
5 |
|
4.2% |
Underwent emgerency surgery to have his foot removed from Micheal Dell's ass |
20 |
|
16.8% |
Total votes: 42 |
'Apple recently shipped Shake - What's the next software title Apple will release?' |
Answer |
Votes |
|
Percentage |
Gyrate - dance move creator and routine assembly |
7 |
|
4% |
Acquire - locate and download MP3's not yet available in the iTMS |
6 |
|
3.4% |
Grow - agricultural assistant, keep track of crops, legal or illegal (optional Hydroponic plug-in available |
20 |
|
11.4% |
Pimp/Ho - billing and client tracking software |
20 |
|
11.4% |
Run - helpful hints, maps, and tools to help convicts on the lam be more successful |
3 |
|
1.7% |
Preach - Keynote for religious-types |
23 |
|
13.1% |
Total votes: 79 |
'Assuming CherryOS is a real product, how will Apple deal with it?' |
Answer |
Votes |
|
Percentage |
The normal, they'll sick their undead mutant ravenous tiger-Lawyers of doom on the CherryOS staff |
5 |
|
3.7% |
Steve Jobs will close his eyes and think them out of existence, not even being remembered by their friends and families |
4 |
|
3% |
Apple will challenge them to a game of DeathPong. Or perhaps BeerPong. |
1 |
|
0.7% |
Ninjas. |
16 |
|
11.9% |
Apple engineers will depants CherryOS programmers at all major conventions in front of the hottie programmer chicks |
8 |
|
5.9% |
They'll just let Windows viruses and worms work their mojo, disrupting CherryOS from ever working in the first place. |
17 |
|
12.6% |
Fishsticks. |
7 |
|
5.2% |
Total votes: 58 |
'Who are the best U.S. presidential candidates?' |
Answer |
Votes |
|
Percentage |
Jobs and Schiller - if they can turn Apple around they can do anything! |
26 |
|
13.6% |
Ivie and Tevanian - With Ivie's creative genius and Tevanian's technical know-how there's no limit to what we can achieve |
3 |
|
1.6% |
Ben and Jerry - What better way to stop an international dispute than everyone having a bowl of Chunky Monkey ? |
6 |
|
3.1% |
Gates and Ballmer - Not only could they buy us out of recession, but the comedic potential is better than Bush Jr. and Gerald Ford combined! |
51 |
|
26.7% |
Seigfried and Roy - A president that survived a tiger attack will say measures to other countries. Plus, think of how exciting presidential addresses wil become! |
5 |
|
2.6% |
Dale Earnhardt and Dick Trickle - Just because. |
6 |
|
3.1% |
Strong Bad and the Cheat - 1. How cool would that be? 2. We'll bully and cheat our way to whatever we want. (Wait, how would that be different?) |
26 |
|
13.6% |
Tony Blair - Ah. screw it, let's just give up and go back under British rule. |
26 |
|
13.6% |
Total votes: 149 |