As to some of the other comments so far, even though I don't believe I.Q. is an accurate measure of intelligence, it is at least a fixed quantitative measure of performance on an I.Q. test. Kinda like the SATs: they just measure how well you perform on the SATs.
But the idea behind the standardized tests is that correlations have been found where people who perform well on the tests generally also become successful in other fields.
But I'm all behind you on being skeptical of studies not taking in or at least LISTING the other statistics of the test takers. I'm almost afraid it would be likely because they don't want any other researchers deriving anything from the time they put in.
I never saw any red eyes, but if I started examining the faces of every japanese girl I saw, I think I might have gotten slapped.
When my middle school (a long while back) had a cultural exchange and we took them to a waterpark, the boys absolutely went nuts! Their eyes were out of their sockets, very much like you see in anime. They were following women around just drooling.
I'm not sure you'd get much difference in reaction over there than here depending on your age group. Although, I have never been to Japan.
Neither red nor green should kill your night vision if you are using a single wavelength led. That is why astronomers are using led lights more often now days because the filters used over regular lights allowed too much broad spectrum light still. The broad spectrum is what kills your night vision.
Please stop being lazy and Google for it yourself.
Please stop being ignorant as to think that all questions can instantly be found by guessing at google search terms.
Incidentally, it doesn't matter at all what colour your night vision scopes' display is from the enemy's point of view. Night vision devices are almost always passive devices that collect existing light.
So obviously you're thinking that the enemy is always from one directly. I'm guessing you'll never be on a survelance team. I was already aware that they only collect info, but most assuredly they output it through the viewer and such equipment does not always have a way to be fit or worn. It should have been obvious that the display was what was discussed.
For amateur astronomers, red LED flashlights are available. They are used because even a fairly bright red LED is perceived as relatively dim by the eye, so your eyes don't lose their dark adaptation every time you check your star charts.
Red LED flashlights are used because normal light used with red filters allows too broad of spectrum to reach your eye thus killing your night vision.
Green is used because the human eye is more sensitive to it. Red is used in machines because most detectors are most sensitive to the red area of the spectrum.
Please back up your studies with links.
My guess is that it is because green does not re-transmit as far in distance as red does. Red has a longer wavelength and so can travel further without absorption. You don't want your enemy to be able to see you as well, right?
There was a study done about what would be better to use for star watching: green or red. The reason I recall (yep, no link here eather, but at least I don't make a sweeping statement to cover it) is that green was too close to night vision (for people who used filters instead of LEDs to look at their star charts) and would ruin most people's adjustments.
I bought mine from a computer store clearance sale. Either $5 or $10 (can't remember which). I'm sure if you hit up craig's list or some other such for computer clearances, you'll find what you're looking for.
I picked up some Japanese from Anime to where I can understand a third of non-subs. Learned Mandarin and German in school. Am teaching myself Cantonese because not enough people in SF chinatown understand Mandarin.
What I object to is that if anime has english dub on it, then it is likely a cut version of anime. Did you know that there are THREE versions of Kite out there? Two were released in America (the first 45 minute and a later "director's cut") and neither was complete. I think it has to do with the fact that there was some explicit child porn and the US would probably not let something like that in.
I have no trust that I will ever get a complete version of anime that is commercially released in America unless it's the raw japanese version or a fansub.
The corporate intra / extranet can just be a fileshare.
I've tried to get access to my corporate computer (winNT.. not by choice) and have failed miserably. I've tried the company ftp sites and they don't accept my username/password despite following the sysadmin's instructions completely... I get locked out after 3 attempts.
Attaching my files to an email and then saving that email as a draft is the only way I have found I can get my work files to my remote/home site. If the ftp worked for me, I'd certainly be using it.
Why can't they use transplant bones? Other pieces of body are transplanted (veins, skin, internal organs).
That way, you'd automatically get the porousness and strength of real bone. And the old bone would be able to grow to the new bone which was stated as one of the obstacles.
I usually only rack about 20,000 miles per year on average (and am almost fed up with overweight passengers who *push* my seat forward so they can have more room and the flight attendants who coddle them). However, I also fly in a wide variety of planes (from puddle hoppers to trans-atlantic | pacific). It could be that the variety opens me up to more possibilities for interference. And it has to be someone in the right area of a plane that can be affected who decided or forgot to not turn of his/her cell. So I really don't know why I happen to get the planes where they make an announcement/ search for the cell. Mine's off.
Why the high amount of miles? Lots of trans-ocean flights or business?
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I'm surprised at the number of people who have responded stating something along the lines of "there is no reported study showing cell phones causing problems..." It would at least be good of them to report their sources (such as a reporter who just didn't find the info).
I don't have the study readily available, but being the child of two Boeing parents, I am aware of some studies done with their planes and cell phones and that it is usually a problem with the cell phone operation in a PARTICULAR LOCATION OF THE PLANE instead of all seats on the plane and that it DOES INDEED cause interference problems. This can readily explain while some people have been able to get away with forgetting to turn off their cell phones and the slashdot reports why some pilots even have had no interference.. HOWEVER, I have been on more than one flight where the announcement has been made to turn off cell phones, no one noticibly is using one, and then a very LOUD, DEMANDING statement is made, "TURN OFF YOUR CELL PHONES AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES NOW! THEY ARE INTERFERING WITH THE CABIN EQUIPMENT."
Priority is easily taken care of in one step: 1. Put everything you can't live without for a week in your suitcase. It will help you hone down what you truly need. You can always wash things at the end of the week and this scenario works for both short and long distance moves. You'll survive for a while on your basic necessities for the long run and you won't have to go digging through boxes to set you up for the short term. My long term (didn't get my things moved down for a month and a half) included clothes, a frying pan, toiletries, and my laptop.
2. Carefully pack things which are fragile and put them in boxes labeled fragile. Some will get broken, but that's what happens when you move thing in vehicles with struts/shocks.
3. Pack the rest by category and label boxes accordingly: pack books with books, kitchen ware with other kitchenware, clothes... etc. If you happen to have bookshelves, it is perfectly acceptable to put one shelf in one box and much easier to unload at the new destination. The best thing I found was to pack everything in the boxes myself, label them with big large letters where I wanted them to go (bedroom, kitchen, bookcase_1...), and then get movers to haul them into a truck and then I could just direct them at the new location where I wanted each box to go when they brought it in.
Pro of moving company:someone else does all the transporting quickly and efficiently. You could even have them do the pack yourself if you trusted them. There are companies that will pack up and box by room for you.
Con of moving company: costs money, they are not as likely to take care in transport as you, and if you go with the wrong company (ie: starving students) then you could possibly not even get your stuff returned.
Pro of transporting yourself: you could get some good exercise in for the day and that really might not be a bad thing in addition to your more careful transport.
And I don't think this is so bad to ask slashdot. I would think that a significant amount have done various moves (for either work, college, or breaking up with SOs) and among the crap are usually some rather helpful posts. Who would you sooner trust: a geek on slashdot or Martha Stewart?
I've got a score of 28 (above 32 being autistic like symptoms). I've always been exceptional at math. The average AQ for mathematics contest winners was 24.5. I'm pretty sure my scores were related to childhood environment moreso than genetics.
I've had no previous problem with using the cds as coasters (condensation only happened on the outside of the ring for me). However, that is not my main usage.
I have, in fact, walked off with hundreds of them carefully swiped into a bag from various movie theatres, pharmacies, and book stores (the place where I usually see them in massive cartons full).
Then I proceed to clear-tape them all together and reflect light into my apartment. My apartment gets light only from a single window and sliding glass door on one short side of the rectangle of the apartment. Since it faces south-east, it works rather well to reflect lots of light in.
I'd actually like to do up the whole patio outside the sliding glass door (I've got about a third of it done) but that would involve swiping more handfuls of cds.
I shall attempt to clarify: I do not mean to say that you are not comprehending because you are male, but because you are viewing women as a separate group and thus negating that any feelings you particularly might feel that a female might also go through in addition to attributing percieved differing qualities.
Human-drug interaction is not substantial enough to do more than draw general physical conclusions. There are a significant number of studies performed on animals showing behavioral change with hormone therapy, but that doesn't provide the information to know if humans are as tied to them. I know of no study that provides hormone levels equivalent to the opposite sex (and know for a fact that they would take a significant amount of time to level out the dosage for each test subject).
I was using rape because it is a common enough example of an instance where women may feel shamed and powerless. I wasn't attempting to "invoke" penis-waving; the thought was just recently in my mind due to the subject brought up in another recent reply to one of my posts (his terminology was more crude). I agree that the structure may differ in lack of power, and as well in choice of marketed products, but not that it will be reflected in anime they watch, being ultimately a medium of a story, which I do not feel is gender specific. I admit that some of my responses may have been less thought out than they could have been (that's what I get for writing at work), but some of your comments have held an unnecessary degrading fashion, as subtle as it may have been.
Scotland may have more redheads, but there are quite a number of redheads in Ireland. My SO (Irishman on H1B) said they were pretty rare in Ireland but when I visited his family, there seemed to be quite a number, from school children to saleswomen to old grannys.
I think we're going to have to agree to disagree. You continually speak from a male view and site how that is supposed to be different from women, but I see no anomalie for the same traits applying to women. I agree that there are general differences between sex, races, but I argue that they come from experiences: more women get raped than men so more women will develop a victim complex; asians feel stronger duty to family because their parents ground it into them. Conflicts don't have to be so deeply understood. That is something that can add to your understanding but does not detract from a story if you don't see a nuance, nor does it target because of such.
Your viewpoint of "girls' anxieties are about competing with other girls for social status while boys' are about power and authority" is wordiness for the same thing while, at the same time, wrong about girls. To say that girls are after status is the same way that I can observer most men are after status and in fact do a lot more penis waving to get it. Women often feel isolated and alone but it sounds like you're acknowledging them as an anomalie which is far from the truth. In fact, I would say women more often deal with "persecuted powerlessness and shame." Especally in a case of rape: you should talk to these women and hear either how they feel they somehow got themselves into that situation (blaming themselves) or how *other* people blame them for getting into the situation. 1 in 3 women are raped. That's a pretty big chunk of women. Or what about fights? You don't think that girls get beat up by gangs of other girls for doing something as small as not answering?
And if you talk about feminism, then you're also picking a subset of extreme views, not of what I am talking about which is that genderism is conditioned by viewpoint and preconceptions more than inherent.
There are certain types of stories that speak to the anxieties and fantasies of adolescent boys, and until you get to the other side of adolesence, you probably won't recongize them.
Your "other side of adolesence" has nothing to do with recognition. Until you talk to more women, you'll realise that men and women have the same anxieties and fantasies. Getting to your "other side" will not have anything to do with finding out fact. You can become wise enough to take an objective look, but you really won't know anything unless you happen to TALK to them (uh oh.. I said talk.. guess I'm female) and get an honest statement.
The idea of stories which "speak" to fears and dreams automatically being boyish is a crock of shit. Men and women have the same anxieties and fantasies. I could say that Kimagure Orange Road or Maison Ikouku are boyish by the argument that they speak to a boy's anxieties and fantasies (hell, the main characters are boys going after one particular girl and not ever getting the courage to say it outright in addition to not knowing the "correct" things to say) but I thoroughly enjoyed them (and have several images of Ayukawa since she is most like myself of all anime I have watched) and do not see why any other girl wouldn't either.
Are you saying only boys are likely to enjoy anime which centers around fears and dreams of adolescent boys? That's rather sexist. As I mentioned previously, the only anime I can see as particularly boy oriented is the bouncing boobies anime. All I can think of is ouch when watching that stuff.
I'm not sure I'm the one to respond to this since I am (and have often been told) that I am very competitive. And I will certainly tell people (though I try very hard to be modest... I'm working on it because I know it's annoying) about how I beat the tree puzzle in Black and White where you have three different trees through an algebraic matrix transformation, but that's only because I have a bit of an inferiority complex and occasionaly feel the need for outside approval for validation. Wow, that was a long sentence. In a sense, that's what these guys with bravado are doing.
To answer your question, some girls would probably play more if there were more guys around that played for the comraderie. What is the joy in playing with someone who begins by killing you off before you even learn half the controls? But a better response is that more girls would play if they're shown the game is cool and fun to play.
The only girls I've seen to go as far in bravado as guys have been in my brief encounters with watching Jerry Springer and they look like idiots, too. Are girls and guys the same? In the sense that the sexes cover the same spectrum. But everyone's different.
No, this girl was smart and decided to buy the game... not to kick everyone's ass, but because she liked playing it.
I used to even play the street fighter and mortal combat games.
I'd like to mention that I can kick many a guy's ass, not because I have spent many hours playing, but because I learned how to do particular button combos to get the moves I wanted. This supports the girls enjoy puzzles theory. The reason I kick boys' butts is that I know the moves, I know how long it takes to execute, I BLOCK (you would be amazed to find out how many guys don't), and I figure out what my opponent's weakness is and use what I know to play it to my advantage.
Oh, I played starcraft on battlenet, in the late night computer rooms, in groups of friends (where I happened to be one of two girls and both of us were duking it out at the end), and on my own.
And my latest game I have to beat (since I beat myst exile and black & white) is Pools of Radiance which someone gave me as a b-day gift.
As a closing statement, I'd like to mention that my sister played all the warcraft games and it was because my brother *wasn't* playing starcraft when it came out that I decided to play.
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As to some of the other comments so far, even though I don't believe I.Q. is an accurate measure of intelligence, it is at least a fixed quantitative measure of performance on an I.Q. test. Kinda like the SATs: they just measure how well you perform on the SATs.
But the idea behind the standardized tests is that correlations have been found where people who perform well on the tests generally also become successful in other fields.
But I'm all behind you on being skeptical of studies not taking in or at least LISTING the other statistics of the test takers. I'm almost afraid it would be likely because they don't want any other researchers deriving anything from the time they put in.
I never saw any red eyes, but if I started examining the faces of every japanese girl I saw, I think I might have gotten slapped.
When my middle school (a long while back) had a cultural exchange and we took them to a waterpark, the boys absolutely went nuts! Their eyes were out of their sockets, very much like you see in anime. They were following women around just drooling.
I'm not sure you'd get much difference in reaction over there than here depending on your age group. Although, I have never been to Japan.
Neither red nor green should kill your night vision if you are using a single wavelength led. That is why astronomers are using led lights more often now days because the filters used over regular lights allowed too much broad spectrum light still. The broad spectrum is what kills your night vision.
Please stop being lazy and Google for it yourself.
Please stop being ignorant as to think that all questions can instantly be found by guessing at google search terms.
Incidentally, it doesn't matter at all what colour your night vision scopes' display is from the enemy's point of view. Night vision devices are almost always passive devices that collect existing light.
So obviously you're thinking that the enemy is always from one directly. I'm guessing you'll never be on a survelance team. I was already aware that they only collect info, but most assuredly they output it through the viewer and such equipment does not always have a way to be fit or worn. It should have been obvious that the display was what was discussed.
For amateur astronomers, red LED flashlights are available. They are used because even a fairly bright red LED is perceived as relatively dim by the eye, so your eyes don't lose their dark adaptation every time you check your star charts.
Red LED flashlights are used because normal light used with red filters allows too broad of spectrum to reach your eye thus killing your night vision.
I've also not bought new cds in the past two years AND written letters stating this fact.
The problem is, they're going to use this "slumping sales" in their data of "getting it illegally from somewhere else."
My solution has been to buy used cds. No money going anywhere there.
Blue is Microsoft's Color. Therefore, blue is the color of choice for legacy users, and legacy equipment.
Uh, blue is IBM's color and has been for quite a while. Ever hear of "big blue" or "Deep Blue"?
Green is used because the human eye is more sensitive to it. Red is used in machines because most detectors are most sensitive to the red area of the spectrum.
Please back up your studies with links.
My guess is that it is because green does not re-transmit as far in distance as red does. Red has a longer wavelength and so can travel further without absorption. You don't want your enemy to be able to see you as well, right?
There was a study done about what would be better to use for star watching: green or red. The reason I recall (yep, no link here eather, but at least I don't make a sweeping statement to cover it) is that green was too close to night vision (for people who used filters instead of LEDs to look at their star charts) and would ruin most people's adjustments.
I bought mine from a computer store clearance sale. Either $5 or $10 (can't remember which). I'm sure if you hit up craig's list or some other such for computer clearances, you'll find what you're looking for.
I picked up some Japanese from Anime to where I can understand a third of non-subs.
Learned Mandarin and German in school.
Am teaching myself Cantonese because not enough people in SF chinatown understand Mandarin.
What I object to is that if anime has english dub on it, then it is likely a cut version of anime. Did you know that there are THREE versions of Kite out there? Two were released in America (the first 45 minute and a later "director's cut") and neither was complete. I think it has to do with the fact that there was some explicit child porn and the US would probably not let something like that in.
I have no trust that I will ever get a complete version of anime that is commercially released in America unless it's the raw japanese version or a fansub.
The corporate intra / extranet can just be a fileshare.
I've tried to get access to my corporate computer (winNT.. not by choice) and have failed miserably. I've tried the company ftp sites and they don't accept my username/password despite following the sysadmin's instructions completely... I get locked out after 3 attempts.
Attaching my files to an email and then saving that email as a draft is the only way I have found I can get my work files to my remote/home site. If the ftp worked for me, I'd certainly be using it.
Why can't they use transplant bones? Other pieces of body are transplanted (veins, skin, internal organs).
That way, you'd automatically get the porousness and strength of real bone. And the old bone would be able to grow to the new bone which was stated as one of the obstacles.
They'd better not put it on two player mode or the second computer connected will be able to generate the exact same encryption algorithm!
I usually only rack about 20,000 miles per year on average (and am almost fed up with overweight passengers who *push* my seat forward so they can have more room and the flight attendants who coddle them). However, I also fly in a wide variety of planes (from puddle hoppers to trans-atlantic | pacific). It could be that the variety opens me up to more possibilities for interference. And it has to be someone in the right area of a plane that can be affected who decided or forgot to not turn of his/her cell. So I really don't know why I happen to get the planes where they make an announcement/ search for the cell. Mine's off.
Why the high amount of miles? Lots of trans-ocean flights or business?
I'm surprised at the number of people who have responded stating something along the lines of "there is no reported study showing cell phones causing problems..." It would at least be good of them to report their sources (such as a reporter who just didn't find the info).
I don't have the study readily available, but being the child of two Boeing parents, I am aware of some studies done with their planes and cell phones and that it is usually a problem with the cell phone operation in a PARTICULAR LOCATION OF THE PLANE instead of all seats on the plane and that it DOES INDEED cause interference problems. This can readily explain while some people have been able to get away with forgetting to turn off their cell phones and the slashdot reports why some pilots even have had no interference.. HOWEVER, I have been on more than one flight where the announcement has been made to turn off cell phones, no one noticibly is using one, and then a very LOUD, DEMANDING statement is made, "TURN OFF YOUR CELL PHONES AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES NOW! THEY ARE INTERFERING WITH THE CABIN EQUIPMENT."
There is a difference between flatscreens and flat PANEL monitors.
Priority is easily taken care of in one step:
1. Put everything you can't live without for a week in your suitcase. It will help you hone down what you truly need. You can always wash things at the end of the week and this scenario works for both short and long distance moves. You'll survive for a while on your basic necessities for the long run and you won't have to go digging through boxes to set you up for the short term. My long term (didn't get my things moved down for a month and a half) included clothes, a frying pan, toiletries, and my laptop.
2. Carefully pack things which are fragile and put them in boxes labeled fragile. Some will get broken, but that's what happens when you move thing in vehicles with struts/shocks.
3. Pack the rest by category and label boxes accordingly: pack books with books, kitchen ware with other kitchenware, clothes... etc. If you happen to have bookshelves, it is perfectly acceptable to put one shelf in one box and much easier to unload at the new destination. The best thing I found was to pack everything in the boxes myself, label them with big large letters where I wanted them to go (bedroom, kitchen, bookcase_1...), and then get movers to haul them into a truck and then I could just direct them at the new location where I wanted each box to go when they brought it in.
Pro of moving company:someone else does all the transporting quickly and efficiently. You could even have them do the pack yourself if you trusted them. There are companies that will pack up and box by room for you.
Con of moving company: costs money, they are not as likely to take care in transport as you, and if you go with the wrong company (ie: starving students) then you could possibly not even get your stuff returned.
Pro of transporting yourself: you could get some good exercise in for the day and that really might not be a bad thing in addition to your more careful transport.
And I don't think this is so bad to ask slashdot. I would think that a significant amount have done various moves (for either work, college, or breaking up with SOs) and among the crap are usually some rather helpful posts. Who would you sooner trust: a geek on slashdot or Martha Stewart?
Also, there was news over the weekend of increased Mercury levels in Californians due to their consumption of fish.
;)
All those geeks with high bank rolls going out and eating sushi...
I've got a score of 28 (above 32 being autistic like symptoms). I've always been exceptional at math. The average AQ for mathematics contest winners was 24.5. I'm pretty sure my scores were related to childhood environment moreso than genetics.
I've had no previous problem with using the cds as coasters (condensation only happened on the outside of the ring for me). However, that is not my main usage.
I have, in fact, walked off with hundreds of them carefully swiped into a bag from various movie theatres, pharmacies, and book stores (the place where I usually see them in massive cartons full).
Then I proceed to clear-tape them all together and reflect light into my apartment. My apartment gets light only from a single window and sliding glass door on one short side of the rectangle of the apartment. Since it faces south-east, it works rather well to reflect lots of light in.
I'd actually like to do up the whole patio outside the sliding glass door (I've got about a third of it done) but that would involve swiping more handfuls of cds.
I shall attempt to clarify: I do not mean to say that you are not comprehending because you are male, but because you are viewing women as a separate group and thus negating that any feelings you particularly might feel that a female might also go through in addition to attributing percieved differing qualities.
Human-drug interaction is not substantial enough to do more than draw general physical conclusions. There are a significant number of studies performed on animals showing behavioral change with hormone therapy, but that doesn't provide the information to know if humans are as tied to them. I know of no study that provides hormone levels equivalent to the opposite sex (and know for a fact that they would take a significant amount of time to level out the dosage for each test subject).
I was using rape because it is a common enough example of an instance where women may feel shamed and powerless. I wasn't attempting to "invoke" penis-waving; the thought was just recently in my mind due to the subject brought up in another recent reply to one of my posts (his terminology was more crude). I agree that the structure may differ in lack of power, and as well in choice of marketed products, but not that it will be reflected in anime they watch, being ultimately a medium of a story, which I do not feel is gender specific. I admit that some of my responses may have been less thought out than they could have been (that's what I get for writing at work), but some of your comments have held an unnecessary degrading fashion, as subtle as it may have been.
Scotland may have more redheads, but there are quite a number of redheads in Ireland. My SO (Irishman on H1B) said they were pretty rare in Ireland but when I visited his family, there seemed to be quite a number, from school children to saleswomen to old grannys.
I think we're going to have to agree to disagree. You continually speak from a male view and site how that is supposed to be different from women, but I see no anomalie for the same traits applying to women. I agree that there are general differences between sex, races, but I argue that they come from experiences: more women get raped than men so more women will develop a victim complex; asians feel stronger duty to family because their parents ground it into them. Conflicts don't have to be so deeply understood. That is something that can add to your understanding but does not detract from a story if you don't see a nuance, nor does it target because of such.
Your viewpoint of "girls' anxieties are about competing with other girls for social status while boys' are about power and authority" is wordiness for the same thing while, at the same time, wrong about girls. To say that girls are after status is the same way that I can observer most men are after status and in fact do a lot more penis waving to get it. Women often feel isolated and alone but it sounds like you're acknowledging them as an anomalie which is far from the truth. In fact, I would say women more often deal with "persecuted powerlessness and shame." Especally in a case of rape: you should talk to these women and hear either how they feel they somehow got themselves into that situation (blaming themselves) or how *other* people blame them for getting into the situation. 1 in 3 women are raped. That's a pretty big chunk of women. Or what about fights? You don't think that girls get beat up by gangs of other girls for doing something as small as not answering?
And if you talk about feminism, then you're also picking a subset of extreme views, not of what I am talking about which is that genderism is conditioned by viewpoint and preconceptions more than inherent.
There are certain types of stories that speak to the anxieties and fantasies of adolescent boys, and until you get to the other side of adolesence, you probably won't recongize them.
Your "other side of adolesence" has nothing to do with recognition. Until you talk to more women, you'll realise that men and women have the same anxieties and fantasies. Getting to your "other side" will not have anything to do with finding out fact. You can become wise enough to take an objective look, but you really won't know anything unless you happen to TALK to them (uh oh.. I said talk.. guess I'm female) and get an honest statement.
The idea of stories which "speak" to fears and dreams automatically being boyish is a crock of shit. Men and women have the same anxieties and fantasies. I could say that Kimagure Orange Road or Maison Ikouku are boyish by the argument that they speak to a boy's anxieties and fantasies (hell, the main characters are boys going after one particular girl and not ever getting the courage to say it outright in addition to not knowing the "correct" things to say) but I thoroughly enjoyed them (and have several images of Ayukawa since she is most like myself of all anime I have watched) and do not see why any other girl wouldn't either.
Are you saying only boys are likely to enjoy anime which centers around fears and dreams of adolescent boys? That's rather sexist. As I mentioned previously, the only anime I can see as particularly boy oriented is the bouncing boobies anime. All I can think of is ouch when watching that stuff.
I'm not sure I'm the one to respond to this since I am (and have often been told) that I am very competitive. And I will certainly tell people (though I try very hard to be modest... I'm working on it because I know it's annoying) about how I beat the tree puzzle in Black and White where you have three different trees through an algebraic matrix transformation, but that's only because I have a bit of an inferiority complex and occasionaly feel the need for outside approval for validation. Wow, that was a long sentence. In a sense, that's what these guys with bravado are doing.
To answer your question, some girls would probably play more if there were more guys around that played for the comraderie. What is the joy in playing with someone who begins by killing you off before you even learn half the controls? But a better response is that more girls would play if they're shown the game is cool and fun to play.
The only girls I've seen to go as far in bravado as guys have been in my brief encounters with watching Jerry Springer and they look like idiots, too. Are girls and guys the same? In the sense that the sexes cover the same spectrum. But everyone's different.
No, this girl was smart and decided to buy the game... not to kick everyone's ass, but because she liked playing it.
I used to even play the street fighter and mortal combat games.
I'd like to mention that I can kick many a guy's ass, not because I have spent many hours playing, but because I learned how to do particular button combos to get the moves I wanted. This supports the girls enjoy puzzles theory. The reason I kick boys' butts is that I know the moves, I know how long it takes to execute, I BLOCK (you would be amazed to find out how many guys don't), and I figure out what my opponent's weakness is and use what I know to play it to my advantage.
Oh, I played starcraft on battlenet, in the late night computer rooms, in groups of friends (where I happened to be one of two girls and both of us were duking it out at the end), and on my own.
And my latest game I have to beat (since I beat myst exile and black & white) is Pools of Radiance which someone gave me as a b-day gift.
As a closing statement, I'd like to mention that my sister played all the warcraft games and it was because my brother *wasn't* playing starcraft when it came out that I decided to play.