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I wish
[bar] 94/36%
This poll looks strangely familiar
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Great Results!
by Nitsuj (Hermit) on Aug 14, 2000 at 19:05 UTC
    YES! This poll shows that the results... vaguely resemble an obscene gesture! Way to go!

    Just Another Perl Backpacker
      hehe, somebody should write some code that queries different polls around the net looking for this type of outcome. It could be similar to the Sucks vs Rules meter.
        It should search for this criteria:
      • Polls should have 4 or 5 choices.
      • Results for questions 2-3 ( or 4) should be greater than questions 1 and 4 ( or 5)
      • Of these results there should be a single result that is significantly larger. Probably 50% on a four question poll?

      Now that could go in to the Cool Uses For Perl.
RE: Will you be attending Linux World
by jjhorner (Hermit) on Aug 14, 2000 at 18:44 UTC

    Oh, how I wish I were attending Linux world. . .

    It was either attend or buy a Linux rackmount system for my home office. What would you have picked?

    Mmmmm, dual processor, 512MBytes RAM, 108GBytes space, and 2 NICs.

    J. J. Horner
    Linux, Perl, Apache, Stronghold, Unix
    jhorner@knoxlug.org http://www.knoxlug.org/
    
RE: Will you be attending Linux World
by le (Friar) on Aug 14, 2000 at 22:37 UTC
    I won't go there because
    1. I can't afford it.
    2. My boss won't let me go.
    3. I don't use Linux. I prefer FreeBSD.
    4. I don't even know where it takes place. :)
      In reference to #3: The BSD people got everybody at LinuxWorld wearing horns. I'm not kidding. (Maybe I'll post a picture of the back of my head tonight.)
        What shocked me was everyone wearing badges that would try to flip over and say BSD...
      I'm lucky :) I just went up to my boss today and said "I'm going to be out tomorrow" he didn't even want to know why.

      Re: 4
      San Jose, Ca. Specifically the convention center.
      -Ted
This poll just looks strange :)
by Mork29 (Scribe) on Aug 14, 2000 at 10:46 UTC
    uuhhh, yea, the topic says my main point...
RE: Will you be attending Linux World
by princepawn (Parson) on Aug 15, 2000 at 22:55 UTC
    I wont attend Linuxworld for the same reason I wont visit the local Perl mongers: I would rather not travel out somewhere when "virtual conferencing" seems good enough?
    How about people from remote places like Africa and Europe and China? It's just not fair to keep holding physical conferences.
      For some people, virtual conferencing is not enough. I know I'd rather have a real ice cream sundae than to just download a picture of one!

      -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

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