# New Daily Feud - The Computer Feud by Scarlett67 \[Game Over\] **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 2, 2008, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-daily-feud-the-computer-feud-by-scarlett67-game-over/461707 "2008-09-02T17:35:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-daily-feud-the-computer-feud-by-scarlett67-game-over/461707/61 "2008-09-03T13:32:42Z")
1. C+ 2. kb 3. Internet Explorer 4. Dell 5. Floppy Disc 6. Steve Jobs 7. Macintosh 8. Don’t know and feeling silly 9. Warcraft 10. Enter ---
**Author:** ![EristicKallistic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/85e7bf/32.png) [@EristicKallistic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EristicKallistic)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-daily-feud-the-computer-feud-by-scarlett67-game-over/461707/62 "2008-09-03T13:42:28Z")
Yeah, I feel silly now because it’s already over 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-daily-feud-the-computer-feud-by-scarlett67-game-over/461707/63 "2008-09-03T14:21:08Z")
Never mind, missed it. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-daily-feud-the-computer-feud-by-scarlett67-game-over/461707/64 "2008-09-03T14:40:41Z")
Y’all help me out with question #8 - I did my best but I don’t know this stuff that well. The answers: **1. C/C++ 19** 1. BASIC 12 2. Java 12 3. COBOL 5 4. FORTRAN 1 5. Perl 1 **2. byte 27** - **I know these are all quantities of bytes, as bits are to bytes** 2. MB 13 - **I counted them as separate answers anyway** 2. bit 3 2. GB 3 2. KB 3 2. terabyte 1 **3. Firefox 26** 3. Windows Explorer 22 3. Netscape 1 3. Opera 1 **4. Dell 40** 4. Hewlett Packard 4 4. Commodore 2 4. IBM 2 4. Compaq 1 4. Gateway 1 **5. Floppies 39** - all sizes of floppies counted together 5. Punch cards 5 5. Cassettes 3 5. ZIP drive 2 5. Laser disc 1 **6. Steve Jobs 13** 6. Alan Turing 11 6. Bill Gates 11 6. Charles Babbage 8 6. Ada Lovelace 1 6. George Boole 1 6. Grace Murray Hopper 1 6. Michael Dell 1 6. Seymour Cray 1 6. Sir Clive Sinclair 1 6. Steve Wozniak 1 **7. iMac 36** 7. MacBook 9 7. Powerbook 2 7. Air 1 7. Performa 1 7. Wubba 1 **8. Zip Drive 8** 8. Apple Newton 7 8. Microsoft Bob 6 8. IBM PC Jr. 3 8. Windows Vista 3 8. CueCat 2 8. JAZZ drive 2 8. WebTV 2 8. 3D headset (virtual reality) 1 8. Amiga 1 8. Atari 5200 1 8. Digital tape 1 8. Dvorak keyboard 1 8. HD-DVD 1 8. Mac G4 Cube 1 8. Netscape 1 8. NeXT 1 8. Optical disc drives 1 8. OS/2 1 8. pass 1 8. pass 2 1 8. pass 3 1 8. pass 4 1 8. pass 5 1 8. SCSI 1 **9. World of Warcraft 45** \<\<\<— conch 9. City of Heroes 1 9. Doom 1 9. Everquest 1 9. Ragnarok 1 9. Ultima 1 **10. Ctrl 21** 10. ESC 8 10. Alt 7 10. Delete 3 10. NumLock 2 10. Windows key 2 10. Caps Lock 1 10. Command 1 10. Enter 1 10. F1 1 10. option 1 10. The “ANY” key 1 10. Tilde 1 ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-daily-feud-the-computer-feud-by-scarlett67-game-over/461707/65 "2008-09-03T14:50:28Z")
1. C++ 2. Bit 3. Firefox 4. Dell 5. Punch Cards 6. Turing? 7. iMac 8. Newton 9. World of Warcraft 10. Insert Joe ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-daily-feud-the-computer-feud-by-scarlett67-game-over/461707/66 "2008-09-03T14:50:38Z")
Our resident computer nerd is ~~~drumroll~~~ **Hoopy Frood**!! Congratulations! :: flings confetti:: **Hoopy Frood** got an incredible 9/10 right, with his one miss being a second place answer. Awesome job! Perfect was only 4 points more - a 548. Thank you, everyone! And thanks **Scarlett67**! Even if I did stink up the place with this one. 😉 We’ll have another some time today. \*\*1. Hoopy Frood 544.00 \*\* 2. gonzomax 538.00 3. Paranoid Randroid 528.00 4. InvisibleWombat 526.00 5. 3acresandatruck 522.00 5. swampbear 522.00 7. Thudlow Boink 516.00 7. Boozahol Squid, P.I. 516.00 9. laughingboy 500.00 10. cmkeller 498.00 11. anyrose 490.00 11. Justin\_Bailey 490.00 13. drm 486.00 14. Scarlett67 478.00 14. Scuba\_Ben 478.00 16. Wvmom 474.00 17. DfrntBreign 472.00 18. QuercusMax 470.00 19. MsWhatsit 468.00 19. Beadalin 468.00 21. winterhawk11 454.00 22. SpazCat 450.00 23. HongKongFooey 448.00 24. Terminus Est 446.00 25. IvoryTowerDenizen 442.00 25. Oredigger77 442.00 27. Petrobey Mavromihalis 432.00 28. brewha 424.00 29. Manduck 420.00 30. ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness 414.00 31. Happy Lendervedder 410.00 32. astorian 408.00 33. bmoak 404.00 34. bibliophage 398.00 34. photopat 398.00 36. Dead Cat 392.00 37. mshar253 390.00 37. brownie55 390.00 39. tarragon918 378.00 40. 42fish 372.00 41. Gangster Octopus 366.00 42. El\_Kabong 362.00 42. bluecanary 362.00 44. pravnik 344.00 45. ivan astikov 342.00 46. Dolores Reborn 326.00 47. OtakuLoki 312.00 48. Asimovian 294.00 49. Nesyut 118.00 50. born too late 24.00 ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-daily-feud-the-computer-feud-by-scarlett67-game-over/461707/67 "2008-09-03T14:57:09Z")
Our resident computer nerd is ~~~drumroll~~~ **Hoopy Frood**!! Congratulations! :: flings confetti:: **Hoopy Frood** got an incredible 9/10 right, with his one miss being a second place answer. Awesome job! Perfect was only 4 points more - a 548. Thank you, everyone! And thanks **Scarlett67**! Even if I did stink up the place with this one. 😉 We’ll have another some time today. \*\*1. Hoopy Frood 544.00 \*\* 2. gonzomax 538.00 3. Paranoid Randroid 528.00 4. InvisibleWombat 526.00 5. 3acresandatruck 522.00 5. swampbear 522.00 7. Thudlow Boink 516.00 7. Boozahol Squid, P.I. 516.00 9. laughingboy 500.00 10. cmkeller 498.00 11. anyrose 490.00 11. Justin\_Bailey 490.00 13. drm 486.00 14. Scarlett67 478.00 14. Scuba\_Ben 478.00 16. Wvmom 474.00 17. DfrntBreign 472.00 18. QuercusMax 470.00 19. MsWhatsit 468.00 19. Beadalin 468.00 21. winterhawk11 454.00 22. SpazCat 450.00 23. HongKongFooey 448.00 24. Terminus Est 446.00 25. IvoryTowerDenizen 442.00 25. Oredigger77 442.00 27. Petrobey Mavromihalis 432.00 28. brewha 424.00 29. Manduck 420.00 30. ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness 414.00 31. Happy Lendervedder 410.00 32. astorian 408.00 33. bmoak 404.00 34. bibliophage 398.00 34. photopat 398.00 36. Dead Cat 392.00 37. mshar253 390.00 37. brownie55 390.00 39. tarragon918 378.00 40. 42fish 372.00 41. Gangster Octopus 366.00 42. El\_Kabong 362.00 42. bluecanary 362.00 44. pravnik 344.00 45. ivan astikov 342.00 46. Dolores Reborn 326.00 47. OtakuLoki 312.00 48. Asimovian 294.00 49. Nesyut 118.00 50. born too late 24.00 ---
**Author:** ![brownie55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f14d63/32.png) [@brownie55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brownie55)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-daily-feud-the-computer-feud-by-scarlett67-game-over/461707/68 "2008-09-03T15:32:47Z")
I guess Everquest must be last century. Did I blow that one. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-daily-feud-the-computer-feud-by-scarlett67-game-over/461707/69 "2008-09-03T15:42:18Z")
Wait, WHAT? I’m in 22nd place? Living with programmers my entire life has finally paid off! ---
**Author:** ![Petrobey\_Mavromihalis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bcef8e/32.png) [@Petrobey\_Mavromihalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Petrobey_Mavromihalis)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-daily-feud-the-computer-feud-by-scarlett67-game-over/461707/70 "2008-09-03T15:49:44Z")
Damn, still not into the top half, but close this time. I shall keep trying (you do know I’m supposed to be working . . .). ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-daily-feud-the-computer-feud-by-scarlett67-game-over/461707/71 "2008-09-03T16:16:54Z")
> [@Petrobey\_Mavromihalis](#): > > Damn, still not into the top half, but close this time. > > I shall keep trying (you do know I’m supposed to be working . . .). Me too! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-daily-feud-the-computer-feud-by-scarlett67-game-over/461707/72 "2008-09-03T16:18:19Z")
I’m not last! I’m not last! 😃 Thanks again, **Dolores** and **Scarlett67** for another fun feud. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-daily-feud-the-computer-feud-by-scarlett67-game-over/461707/73 "2008-09-03T16:18:36Z")
Wow- I thought I had this one in the top ten! Oh well… Next feud? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Petrobey\_Mavromihalis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bcef8e/32.png) [@Petrobey\_Mavromihalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Petrobey_Mavromihalis)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-daily-feud-the-computer-feud-by-scarlett67-game-over/461707/74 "2008-09-03T16:23:46Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > Me too! 😛 You either have very easy-going bosses or they’re a bit slow! Or you work from home and have no discipline. (I’m in the 2nd category). Thanks again for putting in the time on this. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-daily-feud-the-computer-feud-by-scarlett67-game-over/461707/75 "2008-09-03T16:54:10Z")
Yay! My best finish ever. > [@Rebo](#): > > **6. Steve Jobs 13** > 6. Alan Turing 11 > 6. Bill Gates 11 > 6. Charles Babbage 8 > 6. Ada Lovelace 1 > 6. George Boole 1 > 6. Grace Murray Hopper 1 > 6. Michael Dell 1 > 6. Seymour Cray 1 > 6. Sir Clive Sinclair 1 > 6. Steve Wozniak 1 Okay, this is just _wrong._ How can Jobs get 13 times as many votes as Wozniak? Not to mention that Jobs, Dell, Cray, and Gates (and arguably Woz and Sinclair) aren’t even in the same pioneering _class_ as Turing, Babbage, Lovelace, Boole, and Hopper. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-daily-feud-the-computer-feud-by-scarlett67-game-over/461707/76 "2008-09-03T17:42:21Z")
> [@InvisibleWombat](#): > > Yay! My best finish ever. > > Okay, this is just _wrong._ How can Jobs get 13 times as many votes as Wozniak? Not to mention that Jobs, Dell, Cray, and Gates (and arguably Woz and Sinclair) aren’t even in the same pioneering _class_ as Turing, Babbage, Lovelace, Boole, and Hopper. And that’s the beauty of this game! It’s bizarre, ain’t it? 😛 > [@Petrobey Mavromihalis](#): > > You either have very easy-going bosses or they’re a bit slow! > > Or you work from home and have no discipline. > > (I’m in the 2nd category). > > Thanks again for putting in the time on this. Nah - it’s a “real” job in a cubefarm. I’ve just been here a long time, and I get my work done. Working the spreadsheet kinda looks like work, anyway! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-daily-feud-the-computer-feud-by-scarlett67-game-over/461707/77 "2008-09-03T17:55:51Z")
Whoohoo! New feud tonight? Hoping it’s something I can take part in this time. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-daily-feud-the-computer-feud-by-scarlett67-game-over/461707/78 "2008-09-03T18:26:00Z")
[Here’s the new one, ya addicts!](http://boardstest.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=10148616#post10148616) ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-daily-feud-the-computer-feud-by-scarlett67-game-over/461707/79 "2008-09-03T18:50:12Z")
Number five. WOOHOO!!! I really expected to be bottom feeding on this one. ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2008, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-daily-feud-the-computer-feud-by-scarlett67-game-over/461707/80 "2008-09-04T00:01:52Z")
I did pretty well. If only I had said CTRL instead of ~, then I’d be in the top ten! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-daily-feud-the-computer-feud-by-scarlett67-game-over/461707.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-daily-feud-the-computer-feud-by-scarlett67-game-over/461707.md?page=5)