From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 108793,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gid108793,public X-Google-Thread: fb3cb,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb3cb,public X-Google-Thread: 115d3b,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gid115d3b,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: f973d,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gidf973d,public X-Google-Thread: 10a146,ea9e17ea4e695a57 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public From: Sunil Rao Subject: Re: Partners Wanted Date: 1999/07/13 Message-ID: <378B2996.CCC1B9FD@ic.ac.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 500481725 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <37852976.F8027C86@home.com> <7m4dut$r3i$1@news.cybercity.dk> <3785F6D1.3BE9@cacd.rockwell.com> <378c3a1e.594832624@news.bctel.ca> <378A1146.3810776F@ic.ac.uk> <378a1d89.31805403@news.mistral.co.uk> <378B28DE.E5655351@ic.ac.uk> Organization: ISE @ ic.ac.uk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.java.security,comp.lang.javascript,comp.lang.delphi,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.ada,alt.lang.delphi Date: 1999-07-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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).