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New InfoWorld 2010 Geek IQ Test
http://infoworld.com...-geek-iq-test-597

Meh.

You got 11 of 20 correct.
Your score: 55%


Neophyte: You own an iPhone, but you think it’s complicated.


Love the stupid character substitution - probably cut and pasted from Word...

(via LinuxToday)

Cheers,
Scott.
(Who guessed on most of them.)
New The bad things is...
about 40% of the questions were Windows Only related technology.

Feh.

Windows != GEEK
New Yeah, I had to guess at all of those
You got 9 of 20 correct.
Your score: 45%
Cheerleader: Short skirt, pom-poms, and a Windows phone.
--

Drew
New Got 12. Don't own the iPhone
and I don't think its complicated.
Sure, understanding today's complex world of the future is a little like having bees live in your head. But...there they are.
New 14 had to gues on the winders stuff
Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 55 years. meep
New Re: InfoWorld 2010 Geek IQ Test
You got 10 of 20 correct.
Your score: 50%


Cheerleader: Short skirt, pom-poms, and a Windows phone.
-Mike

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Historical Review of Pennsylvania
New 16/20 here.
What a crock of shit that test is.
New Got a nice low 12/20 . . . but . . .
. . I don't own an iPhone and haven't a clue whether it's complicated or not - but I do know this test is INANE!
New Yeah, it was pretty bad. Fishing for hits is my guess...
New They do silly things with cookies, I discovered.
Lotta guessing, too, especially with the Windows questions. I think it was mis-named; it should be called "Infoworld can-you-prove-you-used-to-work-here quiz". Bizarre mix of questions; some had silly answers mixed in, others wouldn't be out of place on a certification exam.

13/20. Most of the wrong ones were Windows ones, surprise, surprise.

Wade.

Q:Is it proper to eat cheeseburgers with your fingers?
A:No, the fingers should be eaten separately.
New iclrpd
it should be called "Infoworld can-you-prove-you-used-to-work-here quiz"
Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 55 years. meep
New Same
Windows morons.

New They've never recovered from the Windows Witch.
Fortunately I can't remember her name right now. I keep thinking Bonnie Grice, but she was the witch destroying KUSC, our local classical music station.

She was hired as program director by Wally Smith, the popular station manager, who then married her. Fortunately KUSC is listener supported (very well supported, I might add) and when the donation forms started coming in with no checks and a message that no money would come until Bonnie went, attention was paid.

Last I heard Wally and Bonnie were managing a 12 watt station at some Midwestern college.

Unfortunately InfoWorld was advertiser supported not reader supported. There were not controls over the firing of all competent staff and replacement with airheads.

Of course once a few Windows based monopolies and near monopolies developed and everyone else was out of business, not much advertising was bought and InfoWorld dwindled to 35 pages - and then retreated to the Web.
New Interesting point in there
If you manage an advertising-supported medium, isn't it in your best interests to have plenty of players with healthy competition? As you point out, an established monopoly doesn't need to advertise.

If anything, I would expect ad-media to exaggerate the competence of second-tier players.
--

Drew
New And that's exactly what InfoWorld (and others) didn't do.
Actually this was the second wave of magazine extinctions. The first was when the IBM PC came out and everyone started promoting it heavily and simply ignoring everything else.

The carnage among magazines was immense as all the other computer and equipment makers died.
Expand Edited by Andrew Grygus Nov. 19, 2010, 11:34:20 AM EST
New Sandy Reed.
New Sandy....
I swear Scott's reply wasn't there when I posted this!
Expand Edited by scoenye Nov. 19, 2010, 06:48:38 PM EST
New :-)
     InfoWorld 2010 Geek IQ Test - (Another Scott) - (17)
         The bad things is... - (folkert) - (2)
             Yeah, I had to guess at all of those - (drook) - (1)
                 Got 12. Don't own the iPhone - (beepster)
         14 had to gues on the winders stuff -NT - (boxley)
         Re: InfoWorld 2010 Geek IQ Test - (mvitale)
         16/20 here. - (jake123)
         Got a nice low 12/20 . . . but . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (1)
             Yeah, it was pretty bad. Fishing for hits is my guess... -NT - (Another Scott)
         They do silly things with cookies, I discovered. - (static) - (1)
             iclrpd - (boxley)
         Same - (crazy) - (6)
             They've never recovered from the Windows Witch. - (Andrew Grygus) - (5)
                 Interesting point in there - (drook) - (1)
                     And that's exactly what InfoWorld (and others) didn't do. - (Andrew Grygus)
                 Sandy Reed. -NT - (Another Scott)
                 Sandy.... - (scoenye) - (1)
                     :-) -NT - (Another Scott)

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