Yep. In most cases I'm quite glad... The solution for me: I met my (geek) guy while pursuing a completely different interest, not quite so gender biased. Trying this approach tends to weed out those geeks who are TOO obsessed for their own (and your) good. If you care.
I thought the original point was that geek girls are bad for geek guys, which makes a lot of sense to me. I don't think it's ideal for anyone to go out with someone who shares an obsession as deep as geekism sometimes gets. It's always a breath of fresh air to talk about something _else_ for once! I'm sure the same applies for geek girls, nobody's being sexist. Well I don't think they are anyway.
Anyone can look athletic, have "great ass/body/muscles/whatever!".
Why would I want to? I look ok anyway.
Join a gym, use some of the machines.
It's not a spectacularly athletic body that we want, it's just that someone with at least some muscles and a bit of a tan looks like they actually go out of the house sometimes and do OTHER interesting things that don't necessarily require computers. Geeky guys can be nice, but it's offputting if they look like they spend 24/7 with their computer (and therefore not with their woman!)
I don't believe a computer program will ever be able to create music that sounds like a human wrote it until we create artificial intelligence.
Umm.. Surely if someone writes this program tomorrow, then this will _be_ artificial intelligence, which will now have been created. Does this mean it is OK to have written the program??
As to why this should help coding, I'd say that the way music is structured - several levels of hierarchy, loops, variations on a theme, macros, and so forth - parallels mental models of software. Therefore the same neuron clusters should be involved, and there would be no conflict in doing both at the same time.
Shouldn't it be that things using _different_ neuron clusters are easier to do at the same time? Wouldn't want the structure of some random song to get all mixed in with my code;)
Possibly relevant: If I am playing the piano, I have no problems listening to someone talking and understanding what they are saying. But there is no way I can reply. I can think of the reply in my head, but not speak it. At least not without messing up the piano playing badly!
As far as I can see, it should be fairly easy for someone with a knowledge of the grammar of their language to translate into the intermediate language. Perhaps businesses could pay people to do this for them. Then they only need to employ one expert instead of one per foreign language.
On the other end it would be simple to computer-translate the result into the next language.
Maybe we can't fully automate the process yet, but we can go a fair way.
Hmm, Luxembourg would also be in the running for this, with people speaking Luxembourgish at home, having their lessons held in German and French and also learning English. I guess lots of them know bits of Dutch/Flemish/..... too.
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Yep. In most cases I'm quite glad... The solution for me: I met my (geek) guy while pursuing a completely different interest, not quite so gender biased. Trying this approach tends to weed out those geeks who are TOO obsessed for their own (and your) good. If you care.
I thought the original point was that geek girls are bad for geek guys, which makes a lot of sense to me. I don't think it's ideal for anyone to go out with someone who shares an obsession as deep as geekism sometimes gets. It's always a breath of fresh air to talk about something _else_ for once! I'm sure the same applies for geek girls, nobody's being sexist. Well I don't think they are anyway.
:( but what about those of us who have ftp and clever stuff like that blocked by firewalls?
Could you post a source for this v. interesting statistic?? I'd like to see how someone arrived at it...
It's not a spectacularly athletic body that we want, it's just that someone with at least some muscles and a bit of a tan looks like they actually go out of the house sometimes and do OTHER interesting things that don't necessarily require computers. Geeky guys can be nice, but it's offputting if they look like they spend 24/7 with their computer (and therefore not with their woman!)
Shouldn't it be that things using _different_ neuron clusters are easier to do at the same time? Wouldn't want the structure of some random song to get all mixed in with my code ;)
Possibly relevant: If I am playing the piano, I have no problems listening to someone talking and understanding what they are saying. But there is no way I can reply. I can think of the reply in my head, but not speak it. At least not without messing up the piano playing badly!
Wow, and my refrigerator doesn't even _have_ a hard drive...
On the other end it would be simple to computer-translate the result into the next language.
Maybe we can't fully automate the process yet, but we can go a fair way.
Hmm, Luxembourg would also be in the running for this, with people speaking Luxembourgish at home, having their lessons held in German and French and also learning English. I guess lots of them know bits of Dutch/Flemish/..... too.