HA HA! TFF! :laugh:

:thumbsup::thumbsup:

Apparently you found the secret!! ;P Hence the reason I know this thread exists.

It's my belief that it all boils down to genetics, as it accurately does for females in sports. While there are exceptions for every rule, the stereotypical nature of men and women are not without merit, and with a good result. Typically men are not good at many things that, generally, women are. That said, riding the discrimination bandwagon is just as ignorant as are the remaining minority of folks who contrbute to it. There's my two cents, and all IMHO. Let me stress "opinion". :-D

Respectfully, one experience does not quantify a rational conclusion.

Jim Crafton wrote:

lock your machine up till it figures out what the hell to do

This is so true. And everyone knows it.. except for maybe MS? You can go make a caffinated drink, visit with your neighbors, turn to google, click several old dead links, stumble on and watch some funny vids, search online some more, find your answer and implement a solution - all this before F1 loads. If you were sufficiently capable of waiting for F1, you end up with an alarmingly unproductive and baffling query result. I've seen ants, using their own bodies, build stunning expansive bridges over water. All I want is an answer to a question from help file.

I don't personally run A/V or MW cleaners, except for a scan once every 6 months to a year just to affirm my suspicions that my common sense practices haven't failed me. Unfortuntely, my clients consist of many individuals with varying degrees of common sense or knowledge of security practices. I highly recommend ESET AntiVirus (not free but works very well with low over-head and a low nag level). For malware MBAM (MalwareBytes) is free and decent. However, for better Malware proection you'll want to register MBAM because it will perform scheduled scanning. For those clients who click every link they see in front of their face, you'll want that, and the ESET firewall on high-guard. Then for the problem children, who can miraculously get infected as soon as they look at a computer, I would turn on some content protection like ContentWatch, add blacklists to the router, and then finally terminate their employment. rofl.

Ian Shlasko wrote:

going into a bank and repeatedly trying to make a deposit, then FINALLY realizing that you're talking to the security guard instead of the teller

:thumbsup: :-D I'm so going to spit this out, somewhere, during some conversation, giving the illusion i'm naturally insightfully funny.

lol Nice diagram. So now that this small group has pretty clearly placed me in the nerd group, I would like to know where the nerd parties are? I notice geeks have all these crazy parties. Where are the nerd parties? Or do they have parties too but relabel them educational seminars? :-\

Mark Wallace wrote:

Give me a new woodworking machine or set of cutting tools, though...

So funny you mention that. I just picked that up as another hobby of late, and built my own entertainment center. I didn't even know what a jigsaw or router was when I started, so I had to learn. I was analyzing an entirely new dataset! So much fun!

Well that solves it then. My Result: 14.20664% - Geekish Tendencies See that, just tendencies. So when someone says to me "you're a geek", I can reply with "No, just slightly geekish". But, by doing so, should most definitely make me anal retentive. :laugh:

I think I might be a geek. However, I get the feeling, after comparing myself to the droves of self-proclaimed geeks that I'm not. I read somewhere that one of the most label-inflicting habits of a geek is akin to liking techo-gadgets or having some strange cultish affinity for Lord of the Rings (and the like). I could care less about almost all newer gadgets though, iPhone or i(anything) for that matter. I also can't speak klingon, and have no desire. So while I consider myself a geek because I find great joy in developing databases, data-driven apps and turning complex datasets into understandable information, I don't think I fit the mold. If not a geek, then what? Anal? Odd? lol

Not if there's a fire, not even if you hear the sound of a thud from my home, and one week later there's a smell coming from there that can only be a decaying human body, and you have to hold a hanky to your face because the stench is so thick that you think you're gonna faint - even then, don't come knocking.

lol! Some members just can't be saved.

My Code Project Daily News was very late today, not arriving until 8:30 AM. This is unacceptable. I can not live without it earlier. Save a member - deliver faster! :-D

You know you are NOT a geek when you ask someone what they do for a living, and after they reply with software applications developer, and you respond with - "Oh that's great becuse I'm having a problem with my computer...." :mad:

ROFLMFAO!

rofl

Oakman wrote:

upgrading from cassette tape to SSSD 51/4 floppies. Jon

Yea! Same here Jon. When I heard I wouldn't need cassette tapes anymore, I was "Wha? No way!". :thumbsup:

You will never learn, unless you try. Succeed or fail, don't give up. Assuming of course you actually like what you're doing/learning. Never listen to another's notion that you "can't" or "shouldn't". Yes, malformed threads can cause the behavior you are experiencing, and they will extend to the end-user unless corrected.