Post #335,910
11/18/10 4:44:54 PM
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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 itâÂÂs complicated.
Love the stupid character substitution - probably cut and pasted from Word...
(via LinuxToday)
Cheers,
Scott.
(Who guessed on most of them.)
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Post #335,912
11/18/10 4:55:01 PM
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The bad things is...
about 40% of the questions were Windows Only related technology.
Feh.
Windows != GEEK
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Post #335,916
11/18/10 5:05:27 PM
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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.
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Drew
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Post #335,918
11/18/10 5:07:27 PM
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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.
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Post #335,920
11/18/10 5:21:58 PM
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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
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Post #335,924
11/18/10 6:01:25 PM
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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
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Post #335,928
11/18/10 6:53:18 PM
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16/20 here.
What a crock of shit that test is.
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Post #335,929
11/18/10 8:18:26 PM
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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!
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Post #335,930
11/18/10 8:26:51 PM
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Yeah, it was pretty bad. Fishing for hits is my guess...
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Post #335,935
11/18/10 9:32:53 PM
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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.
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Post #335,940
11/18/10 10:55:36 PM
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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
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Post #335,950
11/19/10 8:58:13 AM
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Same
Windows morons.
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Post #335,962
11/19/10 11:04:20 AM
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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.
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Post #335,963
11/19/10 11:11:00 AM
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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.
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Drew
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Post #335,964
11/19/10 11:30:45 AM
11/19/10 11:34:20 AM
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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.
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Post #335,966
11/19/10 11:53:08 AM
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Sandy Reed.
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Post #335,978
11/19/10 6:47:46 PM
11/19/10 6:48:38 PM
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Sandy....
I swear Scott's reply wasn't there when I posted this!
Edited by scoenye
Nov. 19, 2010, 06:48:38 PM EST
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Post #335,980
11/19/10 7:00:58 PM
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:-)
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