Boys, boys! Speaking as one who has done time with both species (and am currently living with a geek), I feel quite qualified to answer the question. Both creatures are extraordinarily intelligent (very sexy), able to discuss nearly any topic (hot), and both have excellent earning potential (sexist, I know, sorry). However, there are two very important differences between geeks and nerds: Both are aware of their social ineptness and lack of skills with women, but only geeks will do something about it (you know, the Kama Sutra, The Joy of Sex, The Top Ten Lines That Will Get Her Into Your Bed, etc.); while the nerd wallows in the abstract question of "What does "relationship" really mean, anyway. I mean, can you really know another person?" And then he will shake his head and move on to more important topics like his next manifesto. But, perhaps, the most significant difference that I have noticed between them is that geeks have a sense of humor, although usually quite twisted (sizzling! Is it hot in here or is it just me? Honey, could you come here for a minute, okay, 30 minutes, no wait, an hour's good.), and nerds do not.
Interesting reading on the problems of creating AI is: In Our Own Image, by Maureen Caudill. The book discusses the technological requirements, from the very basic to the advanced, necessary to create a functional being: sight, language, neural networks, autonomous learning, etc. Facinating. There are also some interesting social ramifications presented - would the being have the same rights to life?, etc.
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Okay, let's say it's not a bad thing that we know each others' secrets. Great!! Now instead of the Old Boy Network, we can have The Tops, The Bottoms, and The Vanillas. If you don't understand the references above, visit a mega on-line bookstore and buy a book: let them give you a cookie, enjoy some spam, open those unsolicited brown-paper wrapped pkgs. Your significant other won't hold it against you and I'm sure that your God-fearing, family-values boss will slap you on the back and have you over for some Saturday night fun. Don't forget your toys!:);) Secrecy is the best kept secret.
I am amazed that any university is able to house its students under living conditions that would not be acceptable in the "real world": no electricity, water "privileges"? OSU should be more concerned about students tumbling down the basement stairs in search of the only available electricity; or being attacked on their way to a building with electricity in order to complete the coursework for which they are paying. Maybe a better story than these students being arrest for using - excuse me - stealing electricity, would be: "Building (OSU) condemned for substandard living conditions."
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Boys, boys! Speaking as one who has done time with both species (and am currently living with a geek), I feel quite qualified to answer the question. Both creatures are extraordinarily intelligent (very sexy), able to discuss nearly any topic (hot), and both have excellent earning potential (sexist, I know, sorry). However, there are two very important differences between geeks and nerds: Both are aware of their social ineptness and lack of skills with women, but only geeks will do something about it (you know, the Kama Sutra, The Joy of Sex, The Top Ten Lines That Will Get Her Into Your Bed, etc.); while the nerd wallows in the abstract question of "What does "relationship" really mean, anyway. I mean, can you really know another person?" And then he will shake his head and move on to more important topics like his next manifesto. But, perhaps, the most significant difference that I have noticed between them is that geeks have a sense of humor, although usually quite twisted (sizzling! Is it hot in here or is it just me? Honey, could you come here for a minute, okay, 30 minutes, no wait, an hour's good.), and nerds do not.
Interesting reading on the problems of creating AI is: In Our Own Image, by Maureen Caudill. The book discusses the technological requirements, from the very basic to the advanced, necessary to create a functional being: sight, language, neural networks, autonomous learning, etc. Facinating. There are also some interesting social ramifications presented - would the being have the same rights to life?, etc.
Okay, let's say it's not a bad thing that we know each others' secrets. Great!! Now instead of the Old Boy Network, we can have The Tops, The Bottoms, and The Vanillas. If you don't understand the references above, visit a mega on-line bookstore and buy a book: let them give you a cookie, enjoy some spam, open those unsolicited brown-paper wrapped pkgs. Your significant other won't hold it against you and I'm sure that your God-fearing, family-values boss will slap you on the back and have you over for some Saturday night fun. Don't forget your toys! :) ;) Secrecy is the best kept secret.
I am amazed that any university is able to house its students under living conditions that would not be acceptable in the "real world": no electricity, water "privileges"? OSU should be more concerned about students tumbling down the basement stairs in search of the only available electricity; or being attacked on their way to a building with electricity in order to complete the coursework for which they are paying. Maybe a better story than these students being arrest for using - excuse me - stealing electricity, would be: "Building (OSU) condemned for substandard living conditions."