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Apr 15, 08 - 02:52 pm Comment from: Journo

Already...

Bill Gates currently down to 60.
Steve Jobs up to 19.

Gates down to 59.

Jobs still at 19...

Jobs up to 20 now. Gates at 59.

In the immortal words of Simpsons anchorman Kent Brockman: "I've said it before, and I'll say it again: democracy just doesn't work"...

Apr 15, 08 - 03:24 pm Comment from: Cubert

"Even Eliot Spitzer currently ranks higher than Jobs (#202, 22 rating on 5,136 votes)."

That's because he has been actively recruiting the hooker vote.

even FakeSteve has taken notice

http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2008/04/someone-is-out-to-get-me.html

p.s. you would think that this Rain guy leading the poll for the 2nd year would make someone wonder about how useful this is? (too many script-kiddies over there in Korea with crazy-high-speed internet...)

Apr 15, 08 - 03:32 pm Comment from: Scott

Steve Jobs is now at 21. The good news is that it looks like that everyone in Redmond has already voted him down and gates, up, so as the votes equal out, we'll see who lands where.

I also think that Time's Pro's and Con's are kind of misleading. They have half a sentence in Pro's then a paragraph under the Con's.

This is EXACTLY why polls are worthless.....ha pretty funny....Vote early and OFTEN....ha

Apr 15, 08 - 03:43 pm Comment from: Fred Mertz

Jobs up to 21, Gates down to 58...

Hey Kids!

Forget ye not Steve Ballmer!

Currently #82. Do the monkey dance and slide on over to the left...

Apr 15, 08 - 03:49 pm Comment from: Ampar

Wouldn't a quick AppleScript program make this easier?

Apr 15, 08 - 03:53 pm Comment from: Ampar

Too bad you can't give Gates and Ballmer a zero vote. Jobs aside, Gates ranking higher than the Dalai Lama is proof enough that evil is rampant and running amok on the Intarweb.

Pure subjective hogwash.

People seem to be confusing Influential with Popular or visible in the media.

Dell and Gates above Jobs???

How else do we explain the high rankings of our ever annoying socialists like Chaves, Castro, and (hairy) Pelosi?

Sad.

Steve Ballmer is even on this list?
You are kidding me?

Gates down to 57, Jobs still at 21.
(Uncle Fester at 83)

Apr 15, 08 - 03:58 pm Comment from: CheekyGit

Steve is up to 22. And I only had to vote 512 times.

Ahem:
Michael Dell: Currently at #122.
Paul Allen: Currently at #38

BTW: I note that Rain, 'Korean pop sensation', was 'last year's landslide winner of this poll.' I expect the guy is good with so many fans. And I enjoy Asian pop. But 'most influencial person in the world?

To me that defines this poll as bizarro stoopid.

Apr 15, 08 - 04:01 pm Comment from: Spudly

Stupid Koreans have nothing better to do than vote for their New Kid on the Block between frags @ their LAN "parties". kinda funny actually. like to see this RAIN clown on the cover of TIME! fat f*&#xki;ng chance!

Apr 15, 08 - 04:02 pm Comment from: Ampar

In more important news, the virtual chick in the Rappelz MMORPG ad banner is disturbingly hot.

This is just sad - reading the comments on the site it is obvious there is stuffing going on - which makes the whole thing worthless. The Hillary comments crack me up, tho - they have almost made her into Mother Teresa. Good Lord! The epitome of evil getting a lovefest. And why Ballmer is even included it beyond me. There was one comment in there for Ryan Seacrest - a worthless poll and a waste of time. And there in the intrawebs in a nutshell

Apr 15, 08 - 04:08 pm Comment from: Ampar

"which makes the whole thing worthless"

Web surveys usually are pointless.

Unless it's privately and scientifically conducted like Harris Interactive, it's hit whoring at its finest or worst depending upon your perspective.

Let's take a vote.

If you want to save one step in your ballot stuffing, there is a pixel in the interface that allows you to hit '100' AND 'Submit' at the same time.

So here is the procedure (this is so idiotic!):
1) Go to the Jobs page
2) Move your cursor over to the magic pixel and don't touch your trackpad/mouse/whatever again until your stuffing behavior has been completed.
3) Left-click the magic pixel.
4) Command-r to reload the page.
5) Repeat steps 3 and 4 until you get carpal tunnel syndrome.

I haven't seen such a poorly coded poll since the pioneering days of the net. Nostalgia wafts gently in the breeze...

Did you read the CON: section for Steve Jobs? I thought Time liked him and what exactly is the iPhone fatigue? Haven't seen that anywhere around here.... Here is the section:

PRO: With its raved-about interface and unmatched hipster cred, the iPhone changed everything.
CON: The "gPhone" (not an individual phone, but a Google-designed open-source operating system) may change everything again. What's more, iPhone fatigue set in almost simultaneously with iPhone hype, and complaints about service remain. AppleTV — a sort of iTunes/TiVo superbox for television — has yet to find a toehold. And will people keep updating their expensive Apple electronics in a recession?

Apr 15, 08 - 04:24 pm Comment from: Ampar

I'm surprised Zefram Cochrane isn't on the list.
Oops. Too soon?

Given that Rain is #1, I have to think that the Koreans, who dislike Apple and its iPod are pushing Steve down. They are more likely spamming the vote than MS-acolytes.

Apr 15, 08 - 04:34 pm Comment from: CheekyGit

Jobs now at 23. With a few hundred thousand more votes maybe he can make to 24.

Give 1 to this Rain & cia.

Apr 15, 08 - 04:38 pm Comment from: Journo

Current standings:

Rank: Name, Avg. Rating - Total Votes
12: Gates, 56 - 12,159
89: Ballmer, 41 - 7,582
122: Dell, 38 - 4,201
200: Jobs, 23 - 43,352

Why is there no '0' option? A one seemed to high for Ballmer and Gates.Kind of made me feel dirty.

Apr 15, 08 - 05:00 pm Comment from: Eric

What a pointless poll...

You can vote multiple times (just flip the page and back) and some nobody named "rain" is at the top???? whatever.

Current standings:

Rank: Name, Avg. Rating - Total Votes
15: Gates, 55 - 12,367
89: Ballmer, 41 - 7,643
121: Dell, 38 - 4,243
200: Jobs, 23 - 43,841

This list a joke. Number 2 is a korean pop singer. no.1 is colbert etc...

This list is a joke. I would not even bother to vote.

Apr 15, 08 - 08:12 pm Comment from: What?

Did you guys bother to read the pros and cons? What is this crap?
PRO: With its raved-about interface and unmatched hipster cred, the iPhone changed everything.
CON: The "gPhone" (not an individual phone, but a Google-designed open-source operating system) may change everything again. What's more, iPhone fatigue set in almost simultaneously with iPhone hype, and complaints about service remain. AppleTV — a sort of iTunes/TiVo superbox for television — has yet to find a toehold. And will people keep updating their expensive Apple electronics in a recession?

Current standings:

Rank: Name, Avg. Rating - Total Votes
19: Gates, 52 - 13,403
93: Ballmer, 40 - 8,017
127: Dell, 36 - 4,520
195: Jobs, 25 - 48,386

MDN MW: "effect." As in, MDN is having an "effect" on TIME's poll.

¡Viva Colbert!

The cons for steve jobs is the gphone, the cons for the head of google are the gphone!!! What a joke

Apr 16, 08 - 04:05 am Comment from: encoree

I just want to add some information about Rain. Rain was in the Time's Top 100 in 2006 and this was not a poll ! Rain is a talented singer and actor, popular not only in Korea but throughout Asia. He even clinched one of the main parts in Speed Racer (Taejo), he even has a Lego Mini-fig (http://shop.lego.com/ByTheme/Product.aspx?p=8159&cn=527&d=261) for that matter.
I think most of the votes come from Asia outside Korea. Then so many votes means there's actually a world outside the USA...
If you want more info about Rain, go here http://www.hancinema.net/korean_Rain.php or on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain_(entertainer)

Rank: Name, Avg. Rating - Total Votes
47: Gates, 47 - 14,874
98: Ballmer, 39 - 8,275
138: Dell, 35 - 4,697
195: Jobs, 25 - 55,580

ok i just voted over 40 times between yeserday and today and steve jobs is still at 26.... come on guys.. i just want him to beat mr gates.. ...at everything