From: Sunil Rao <sunil.rao@ic.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Partners Wanted
Date: 1999/07/13
Date: 1999-07-13T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <378B2996.CCC1B9FD@ic.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 378B28DE.E5655351@ic.ac.uk
Sunil Rao wrote:
>
> Jim wrote:
> > But UK stats show young girls are more likely to be online than young
> > men (under 18's.)
>
> Looking up pictures of their favourite boy band. Doesn't necessarily
> mean they'll go into the field, they know they need to know how to use a
> comp even to get a secretarial job. Pure pragmatism, no interest. :)
Before I get roundly flamed, of course I'm stereotyping here. Just
making the point that simply because more of them use computers doesn't
mean that more of them are actually curious about how they work. This is
seriously offtopic for comp.lang.c so I'll shut up.
--
{ Sunil Rao }
"In my opinion, I think that an author when he is writing should
definitely not get into the habit of making use of too many
unnecessary words that he does not really need in order to put his
message across." - George L Trigg, Phys. Rev. Lett. 42748 (1979).
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-07-08 0:00 Partners Wanted Bahram Mirkalami
1999-07-09 0:00 ` Mark
1999-07-12 0:00 ` Bahram Mirkalami
1999-07-09 0:00 ` Kim N�rby Andersen
1999-07-09 0:00 ` P.S. Norby
1999-07-09 0:00 ` Roedy Green
1999-07-12 0:00 ` Sunil Rao
1999-07-12 0:00 ` Jim
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Sunil Rao
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Sunil Rao [this message]
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Edward Hill
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Edward Hill
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Scott McMahan
1999-07-13 0:00 ` P.S. Norby
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Warner Bruns
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Andrew Koenig
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Richard Heathfield
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Andrew Koenig
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Richard Heathfield
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Dale King
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Dale King
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Roedy Green
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Andrew Koenig
1999-07-13 0:00 ` LR
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Andrew Koenig
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Steve Horne
1999-07-14 0:00 ` Michael F. Yoder
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
[not found] ` <01beca1a$86d1a800$0e01a8c0@eton.powernet.co.uk>
1999-07-09 0:00 ` P.S. Norby
1999-07-09 0:00 ` firewind
1999-07-10 0:00 ` John Duncan
1999-07-10 0:00 ` Kenny A. Chaffin
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