An Eternal [Advocacy] Flame Quiz

Close your eyes, give me your hand
Do you feel my heart beating
Do you understand
Do you feel the same
Am I only dreaming
Is this burning an eternal flame?

(S.Hoffs/B. Steinberg/T. Kelly)

Ah, the eternal OS advocacy flame! The smell of Macintosh zealots flaming Linux zealots flaming Windows zealots in the morning... but how to pick your side of this eternal conflict? This quiz hopefully will provide the right answer. It doesn't matter what operating system you really use. Just let your subconscious go and answer the following questions...

PS. The result will appear as a pop-up window. If you use a pop-up blocker, the result might never show up. This quiz was tested on the following laboratory animals: Mozilla Firefox, MSIE and Safari. Now on to the show.

You ended up at a hobbyist convention with lot of time to kill. You are more likely to spend it watching a presentation by:

The guy who demonstrates how to turn your old refrigerator into a quadrophonic TV-set
The guy who is the most popular among the crowd
The guy who collects rare books by obscure authors

Someone offers you a holiday of your lifetime. You can do whatever you want within a budget limit of $100.000. You'd rather go to:

An extreme survival expedition in Borneo, Antarctica, Himalayas (or all of them)

A five-star resort in Monte Carlo, Aspen, Hawaii (or all of them)

You'll have slightly more posh holidays at your usual place for less than $10.000, saving more than $90.000 in cash

You look down and see a tortoise, Leon. It's crawling toward you.

This must be some mistake. My name is not Leon.
You're quoting some movie, right?
My mother? I'll tell you about my mother!
If you could choose, you'd rather commute to your work in a:

Perfectly working public transportation system
A vehicle that has excellent blend of mileage, performance and functionality
A vehicle that has its own distinctive style
Which of the following thoughts would cause more fear in your mind:

People think I'm a wimp
People think I'm not entirely normal
I think I am entirely normal, after all
You hear about a professional charging $1000 per hour. Your first comment would be closest to:

It's outrageous and should be banned
I'm lucky not to need his services
This guy must be really good!
Where would you rather take your significant other?

Don't know yet - I'll decide when I have one
To the movies to see the latest blockbuster
To the modern art gallery to see the latest installation by some Iranian conceptual artist

Reading a poem you notice the following passage: "Every second a man dies, every second a man is born". You think to yourself:

It can't be true. There would be no population growth. It should be rather "Every second a man dies, every second approximately 1.05 of a man is born". But then again, it shouldn't be "every second"...

Poetry! What a waste of time. Alright, people die, people are born - what's your point in stating the obvious, Mr Poet?

Let's try a simple deconstruction of this. Thanatos is close to Eros, so the author probably thinks about sex. Interesting that thinking of sex, he thinks of a man - what a fine piece of gay poetry!

Which of the following should (well, you hope so) show up in your obituary:

...inventor of the useful...
...successful...
...creator of the unique...
"People". Your free association with this word is closest to:

All people are born equal and free. We must fight the tyrants who claim otherwise!
It's just a plural for "human".
Why most of the people are soooo boring?

You would be most happy solving this quiz on:

A terminal telneted to the most powerful computer in your country, where you have your very own shell account

The fastest personal computer with the best graphics chip money can buy, located under your own desk

A laptop on a table in a really good restaurant, where you are about to have a great dinner

Wine is...

Not an emulator
An alcoholic beverage
A gift of Gods