Women vs. Computers.

[Digobick]

Originally posted by: toant103
Women prefer emotional crap and socializing with other people. Apparently they don't see the social aspect of fragging the sh-- out of someone in CS

LOL

 

[Kadarin]

Aarrrrghh! It's the attack of the thread which just will not die!

 

[ElFenix]

this thread is a year and a half old!?!?!?

 

[no0b]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
this thread is a year and a half old!?!?!?

Now this is the oldest thread around. I only noticed the date because one of the edited messages was a older version.

 

[ohtwell]

All my mom does on the computer is talk to people about Michael Bolton and play solitaire.

I don't just use it for the reasons you stated.

The computer has too many uses to use it only for chatting and writing papers.


: ) Amanda

 

[SSP]

Originally posted by: guapo337

Originally posted by: toolgirl
Where and what kind of girls do you actually talk to?

damn tool girl. calm down. it was just an observation he made. a rather valid one, too.

AHAHAHAHA!!!! This is so damn funny! That was posted over an year ago, and she doesnt come here anymore (not much anyway).

 

[thereds]

this thread rules!

 

[oLLie]

Wow this is an old thread. It seems like a lot of people in here took what thereds said personally. As far as I read all he stated was that guys tend to be more involved with more aspects of computing than girls (in his experiences). It's not a statement that I would disagree with and yet a lot of people made the assumption that he made it in the spirit of a "males are better/smarter than females" statement which I did not get at all when I read it.

but... I don't wanna start this thread all over again so the above is JUST gibberish and does not reflect my opinion in any way.

 

[Geekbabe]

Originally posted by: Zucchini
yup other then solitair, making a game for women is very hard. I'm starting to think only startrek holodeck level would be attractive to them.

Just take Q3 and make the storyline take place in the mall...

 

[Geekbabe]

Originally posted by: SmiZ
Not to piss you off ToolGirl, but I have to agree with thereds. The girls I know who own a computer use it for IM, email, and writing papers. The only 133t haX0rs I know are guys. I go to a tech school with 12,000 students and I can't think of one girl I know who's interested in computer hardware or tweaking or warez or anything more in depth.


Not a bad thing, just an observation.

You don't get out much


Aside from that,those women use the computer for what they need it for... using their time to concentrate on their own areas of future professional expertise.If everybody loved hardware and tweaking there wouldn't be anybody left to pay us

 

[Geekbabe]

Originally posted by: UnixFreak
what is the connection between estrogen and solitaire, anyway. I have not known a girl that was not obsessed with this game. Its a lot like taco bell. Ask around. See if you can find a female who doesnt like solitaire and taco bell. I dont like to stereotype, but Its what I have noticed, all girls I talk to like one or both to the extreme. My G/F could get by with webtv. Email and chat, and solitaire, thats all the big box w/ bright lights is used for.
It could be a 486 for all she cares, as long as these three things can be done.

I never play solitare and I hate Taco Bell... next question ?

 

[Geekbabe]

People using computer labs are generally end users who either don't have their own systems or are a bit far away from hoime and need to send email. It stands to reason that you'll see such people typing papers,sending email and engaging in chat.If I could only access a computer a few times per week, that's what I'd be doing too

 

[oLLie]

Originally posted by: baffled2
People using computer labs are generally end users who either don't have their own systems or are a bit far away from hoime and need to send email. It stands to reason that you'll see such people typing papers,sending email and engaging in chat.If I could only access a computer a few times per week, that's what I'd be doing too

I would think that college-age girls in a computer lab would be the more "techie" representative portion of the girls as opposed to the girls who have their pc's in their dorms and are less likely to be engineering majors. Could be wrong of course

 

[thereds]

Originally posted by: baffled2

Originally posted by: UnixFreak
what is the connection between estrogen and solitaire, anyway. I have not known a girl that was not obsessed with this game. Its a lot like taco bell. Ask around. See if you can find a female who doesnt like solitaire and taco bell. I dont like to stereotype, but Its what I have noticed, all girls I talk to like one or both to the extreme. My G/F could get by with webtv. Email and chat, and solitaire, thats all the big box w/ bright lights is used for.
It could be a 486 for all she cares, as long as these three things can be done.

I never play solitare and I hate Taco Bell... next question ?

There are exceptions to every rule. You knew that, didn't you?

 

[sharkeeper]

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Cheers!

 

[hopefloats]

:Q ROFL!!!

 

[FrustratedUser]

Bump

 

[imported_Papi]

Originally posted by: toolgirl
Where and what kind of girls do you actually talk to?

Burrrrrrrn!

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
this thread is a year and a half old!?!?!?

and now its another half a year old!

 

[CraigRT]

haha @ old as hell thread..

 

[FrustratedUser]

Yes it is.

 

[UnixFreak]

I love this thread. Its been here almost as long as I have.

 

[yoda291]

I think to say that women aren't as familiar with computers isn't exactly true. I mean, take your average guy, take away his games and sit him in front of a computer. He will do the same thing that women do on the machine. He'll chat up, post of bbses, snatch a few mp3s and change his wallpaper a few times. Do women and men have different tastes? Yup, I learned that in kindergarten, doesn't mean anything. So does playing games=computer power user? Definitely not. I spend my day coding up utilities in any number of programming languages, tweaking my development servers, etc. I haven't touched a game in months. Do guys play more games that girls? Yup, that could be because most games are marketed for men than women. Honestly, does blowing off limbs using a million polygons for the little details and pixel shaders for the blood really sounds all that feminine to you? On top of that, the best web engineer I have ever met is a female. She's damn cute too and she just pwns me. Some of the best software developers I know are female and they all posses "mad 1337 skillz" by any definition of the word. You can say that, most women aren't that comfortable with the machine, but that's true of guys too. Go to the gym and I'll best most of the guys there wouldn't know the difference between make clean and make world. No one expects them too, but to make a blanket statement about women like that isn't true. I think what we're seeing is that guys spend more time on the machine because guys spend more time playing games and crap.

my 2 cents.

 

[drum]

There are exceptions to every rule. You knew that, didn't you?

there's an exception to every rule, except the rule that says there is an exception to every rule...
speking of the length of the thread... thats how long it took me to read the freakin thing.

 

[ElFenix]

i <3 this thread.

this thread pwns me!