Daft Punk

+1 Daft Punk
This is an easy vote for me since I nominated them. The hard part is convincing the rest of you. Homework was a landmark album in the house/big beat genre. Probably the best debut album by a techno band ever. They followed that up with the greatest electronic album of all time, Discovery. If you want to know how good that album is, go watch Interstella-5555. More recently, Random Access Memories has shown they can strip down much of their electronic sound and put out an album with great instrumentation and arrangement while radically changing their sound (in this case to funk, soul, and RandB). Even managed to nab a few Grammy's for the effort.
No disrespect to Jack White. He's made an impact in rock, country, and alternative with his various projects. Even managed a Bond theme, wich shows his relevance to the times. He's a well rounded musician and a worthy contender.
In the end it comes down to subjectivity. I like Jack's work. I love Daft Punk. Own copies of every album (even the live ones which are surprisingly good). They're in my top 5 and are always available for play in the car. Hands down, the best electronic act of all time.

Jack white

Daft Punk

Its a little late, but I do regret not putting Enya in my nominations.

+1 Daft Punk, but I'd say Kraftwerk could give any electronic act a run for their money

Biggest reasons I am voting for Jack White are because of how important the White Stripes were to my development as a music fan. When they first came out (and to a lesser degree the Strokes) I started to realize that there was really great music out there. It caused me to start seeking out new and interesting music rather than simply listening to what the radio told me. Since then, I have always had a huge respect for their music, and Jack White and all of his projects.

About 13 years later (this summer) I finally saw Jack White perform live for the first time. He headlined the second night of bonnaroo and played a massive set. It was incredible, the songs were perfect, his band was incredible and his stage presence was incomparable. It stands up as likely the best performance I have ever witnessed.

In my mind, he has solidified himself as the best rock star of our generation. He did it without self-proclaiming it as Kanye had done the night before. Check out his full set on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkUwAUaW3Yg

Jack White

I like both quite a lot. Daft Punk has inspired a whole lot of my favorite music acts though (Justice, Mstrkrft, Gorillaz).

Daft Punk.

Jack White.

Daft Punk.

If Jack White loses to Daft Punk after beating Spoon, I'm going to be very upset with all of you.

Jack White.

We're tied six-six with three hours to go.

Daft Punk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MteSlpxCpo

Boooooo.

White loses to fucking Daft Punk because all of you suck. Next is Mozart vs. Beethoven. I vote Beethoven.

MOZART ALL THE WAY! :D

Beethoven: Composed German-style/language works
Mozart: Composed German AND Italian-style/language works

Beethoven: 1 opera, rarely performed
Mozart: Many still-successful operas, in Italian and German, with "The Marriage of Figaro" and "The Magic Flute" two of the most performed operas WORLDWIDE.

(Even if you're not an opera fan, I'd again argue diversity/success in multiple genres has to count.)

Beethoven excels in symphonies, with his 5th, 6th, and 9th especially famous, but Mozart has incredibly-popular and indelible symphonies as well, 29, 34, and 40, just to name three.

And Mozart began composing his first pieces when he was 8 years old or so...

MOZART 2014--NACHTMUSIK YOU CAN BELIEVE IN! ;)

Widespread Panic

beethoven without any doubt.

Well, I actually like Beethoven, which is not something I can necessarily say for Mozart, so

I vote BEETHOVEN

+1 Ludvig van
If he's good enough for Alex Delarge, he's good enough for me.

Mozart wrote some great symphonies. I especially like No. 36 and 39-41. His piano concerti are also fantastic (No. 21 is my favorite, superior to Beethoven's even though Beethoven's violin concerto is great.

On a per capita basis I like Mozart better.

Also, I would say Mozart's music is better for choral works. On that point alone Mozart should win.

Beethoven

Mozart wrote more operas? Then I vote Beethoven...

j/k would have voted Beethoven anyway, though obviously I like both.

Mozart, flipped a coin.

Hmm, rereading my post looks like I'm saying Mozart isn't good. That isn't what I meant, really. I just really like Beethoven, and Mozart made good and bad things. Mozart was sort of the Beatles, really.

Mozart, though it is a very close call.

"That isn't what I meant, really. I just really like Beethoven, and Mozart made good and bad things."

Such as...? Not saying Mozart didn't write something bad--just about everyone does--but I don't think I've listened to anything of his I'd call "bad."

His works for me range from OMFGAMAZINGLETMERANTABOUTWHY to "...eh...that was decent background music for 10 minutes."

Nothing truly "bad."