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Boom!

Jobs up to #19, 79 rating, 627 votes.

Gates drops to #13, 87 rating.

J. Ive still at #28, but up to 71 rating...

Stephen Colbert is gonna be the one to beat.

i like both,both are great to me.

Gates down to 86 rating.

Jobs up to 81 rating, 729 votes.

Ive up to 72 rating.

Behold the power of MDN!

Pumping up Jobs' rating and knocking down Gates'. Won't be long now...

I do too. But if he mentions it on his show, then he'll almost certainly win. The Colbert Nation is a strong internet force.

"CON: Apple still has just 6.1% of the U.S. market share for personal computers. Jobs is currently under scrutiny from federal authorities for allegedly backdating his stock options."

Sounds to me like there are no cons, then.

Gates drops to #16, 85 rating.

Jobs at #19 with 82 rating.

Ive at #25 with 74 rating.

LOL @ Gates' con.

"CON: The Gates Foundation has been accused of investing and reaping vast profit from companies that have been involved in unethical practices, worker discrimination, health-care fraud and slave labor."

Wtf?

[]iYou know what to do.


Firing up the PC botnet now boss

hehe I'm everywhere and nowhere at the same time.

Jobs has passed Gates.

Jobs at #17 with 85 rating.

Gates at #18 with 84 rating.

All is right with the world again, but let's cement this thing shut!

That story on outsourcing breast milk is a lot more interesting. Some leche on my Golden Grahams.

4:15PM PDT: Jobs Rank: #17, Rating 84, Votes 1097.
Gates Rank: #18, Rating 83, Votes 3355.

So Steve has moved out in front.

Why are two foreign fsckers in spots 2 and 3?

Steve to #14. I can't find Gates. Must've missed him in the list.

no cookies, big numbers to make up, vote and vote again, MDN folk we can do this

5:05 PM PST

#13 Steve Jobs 85
#18 Jonathan Ive 83
#24 Bill Gates 80


Michael Dell ... nowhere to be found ....PRICELESS!!

Theres something fishy going on... Come on guys - we have to retaliate against "Bhumibol Adulyadej!"

Jobs at 13 - 14(Back and forth) with 86%

Gates at 12 -> 24(keeps going down) with 80%

Bill Gates is definitely more influential than Steve Jobs, albeit in a negative way. Consider the hundreds of millions of Windows users. The key word is “influential” not “beneficial”.

I've voted 100 for Jobs now about 10 times, and 1 for Gates about 10 times. Let's keep going. Get Steve past those smelly foreign fuckers, and bury Bill at the same time.

??? Vote for Miyamoto too!!!!

Bhumibol Adulyadej !!!????

What? Did he decree that all his Thai subjects had to vote for him???
It's good to be King!

You've got to hand it to Time magazine online. Can you imagine how many hits this creating?!!!

Cons for Gates:
What about his software is universally despised as second rank, and everything they have ever done of any use is always a copy of someone else? He's not influential, he just owns a successful business.

Jobs @ 12

Ive @ 14

Gates @ 24

Paris Hilton is dead last

I'm sure it's possible for Jobs and Ive to take 1 and 2... with a little help from their friends.

I've been voting for Ive for about 600 votes so far.

My hand is getting cramped.

The only influence she has is in my pants. WTF?

Mathematicaly, my vote of 1 for her has a much bigger impact on the rankings than a 100 for Jobs or Ive.

Steve just made the top 10--we're kickin' ass now!
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MDN magic word = SPIRIT! yeah!

Much easier to knock down that to rise up.... thank the hedge fund managers for that strategy.

Who's next to fall?

Why does the King of Thailand deserve 64,000 votes???

With some of those names on there, I might as well be listed!

Who the - - - - are half these people? Don't think I'm that oblivious to who's who in the world.

He's the King. It's good to be the king. Who wants cake?

The fact that Microsoft has been successful in developing its current market share is evidence enough that Bill Gate’s company is influential. Tell me, do you know of any business that wasn’t influential that was also successful? In other words, you have to influence people to patronize your service or purchase your product in order to be successful otherwise you would fail. The number of total Windows users world wide speaks for itself that Microsoft has does a great job of bamboozling a rather large population.

Bill Gates' influence hasn't gotten to me yet. Oh wait, I did buy The Magic School Bus Explores the Human Body CD-ROM for the kids in the mid-nineties. That one is published by Microsoft, so I guess Bill Gates influence has gotten to me too.

All Steve Jobs got me to do since then is purchase 3 Macs, 7 iPods, OS X upgrades, iLife, iWork, .Mac…

What a horrible voting interface. I think they are trying to discourage voters.

Which way round is the vote? It should say 1 for most, 100 for least, or the other way around... I hope we are actually voting SJ up and Gates down...

100 good, 1 bad

or maybe it is the other way round...

"Why does the King of Thailand deserve 64,000 votes???"

If you got an email or SMS saying 'vote or else', you might have added yours too!


[Disclaimer: This comment is meant to be funny only and is not an aspersion on Thailand, its King or subjects.]

"Microsoft has done a great job of bamboozling a rather large population."

Well put ShadowMac...

Let's hope that history records the Microsoft era as it really is, sorry, I mean 'was'.

Make sure you set the slider to Rating 100 !!!!!

Steve is at 7, this morning he'd dropped, but picked up again.

Surprised they let you vote more than once, they should have at least planted a "cookie" to stop most from voting more than once.

I feel like there is some guy in a dark room hitting the Angelina Jolie button over and over again for days. She can't be that popular.

mr jobs @ 4 with 89%
you can vote more than once!

Why? His numbers indicate an automated voter.

Anyone have a counter script to help out our friends at Apple?

Bet it helps to go to anyone ranked ABOVE Steve and Johnathan and vote a 1. Because it's not number of votes, it averages what the people were voted.

So I went through the higher ups a few times and put in a 1 for them.

To word that statement better:
I mean the poll averages the RANK of what the people voted (1 to 100) NOT the NUMBER of votes. Number of votes doesn't matter.

IT2,

I have the same feeling, and have been doing the same. Anyone care to automate it?

Someone in Colbert's camp is doing the same.

Just a thought for those holding an investement in AAPL. Taking 2 of the top 5 positions (potentially 1 and 2) would make for a VERY nice (free) PR piece.