Survey posted 2000-01-22 16:00 by Andy.

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Girls actually like calculators OH MY GOSH I CANNOT BELIVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and also (GIRL POWER) and all that was said for the heck of things. and girls should name there calcs, cause that's what girls do playing your emoti.. oh sorry i just got hooked on hummin music I forgot i was typing a response on ticalc.org

Hmm.. The Reply link was broken, so it took me some time to post this stuff, but I finally did! Needless to say this is the first post because others haven't found out how to post about this topic yet. Ticalc, please fix it.
Okay, to the point. At the moment I write this only males have voted and I don't expect too many women to vote (I don't mean to offend anyone). So this is not such a good survey I think. But maybe I'm wrong, maybe we'll see some surpising results or a cool discussion. I'll just wait and see.

First post. Why? The reply link is still broken. I've figured out how to post here, but others haven't. I tried to post before but failed mysteriously.

No woman has voted yet and I don't think many are going to (no offense intended). This survey really won't tell us anything new. I'd rather have more calc related surveys, and more relevant surveys.

So it did appear! Well, as you can see there were several hours between my two posts so I thought something had gone wrong (duh, three hours should be enough) but still I'm glad it's all fixed now. I'm also glad that at least some females voted here because I was very afraid that no woman would vote at all. Thank Q that didn't happen.

Why are you thanking Q? If he were involved he would just mess things up.

I guess I'm the only woman here? Wow I feel special.

There are actually girls who use this site!!? I'm surprised. I would have thought that girls have lives.

Just because a girl is interested in something that primarily guys are doesn't mean she doesn't have a life. Plenty of people (mark this, people includes male and female) enjoy technology (more specifically, programming) and have a "life." I believe there was a debate on what have a "life" was about one month ago, so I don't think it needs to come up again. But, many programmers and calc-likers participate in school sports, church activities, bands, attend parties, "chill," etc.

Matt H.

so people who participate in mosque, synogouge, temple, whatever religious activities, except church don't have a life.

In other words, be PC and use "religious/athiest activites" :)

Umm...I don't see where you got all that stuff from. If you will notice, "church" wasn't the only thing I refered to. So, if you want to be nit-picky, "be PC" and nit-pick about:

bands: some people aren't in bands, rather "musical groups"

sports: some people can't play sports (you are picking on them by saying so!), rather "sports/healthy-and-exciting"

parties: some people aren't popular and you have to cover all aspects [when PC], rather "social gatherings/events"


Look, you trapped yourself and simply asked for it.

Matt H.

I would have, but didn't feel like going that far :)

So why does everyone mess with religion? And it wasn't even the first or last thing mention. That really irks me,

Matt H.

I did, beacuse the other ones weren't so much excluding other groups and actually applied. a healthy-and exciting activity pretty much is a sport (find one that isn't), musical groups is close enough to a band, and even if someone isn't popular, there bound to go to a party. Church activites excludes many people (including myself), which is why I put it.

Can't we all just get along?

i think church refers to religion in general
if i'm not mistaken

You guys are strange

Yes, i believe that is why they call it "seperation of church and state."

What up everyone! Glad to see such a close competition going on right now. Go Warriors, Go!

Is sex a sport? You burn calories!

Lets not start on this get a life thing like everybody talked about on the survey "How many TI calcs do you own?". C'mon, that is annoying.

I agree, a am 13 years old, and an avid programmer, as well as a good athlete. I love to hang out with my friends and go to parties. I'm know in school as "Scientist" and also known for being very smart. I think that people that enjoy programming, or just calcs. in general can still be more than just "Computer Geeks"(pardon the expression). I think that a person's own desicion makes them a comp geek and that if they want to just sit around all day and twiddle their thumbs and play computer games thats fine, but it is their own choice.

What? So I like my TI calculators, does that mean I don't have a life. I only spen 5 hours a day on my calculator.

5 hours a day??? only?? LoL

Only 5 hours eh. I sure hope that is at school, otherwise you don't have a life.

No its not at school.

Hey, I happen to also spend 5 hours on my calculator, so don't you start being sexist.

She wasn't being sexist, she just said she spends time on her calculator. How that being sexist?

I wasn't talking about her

Oh, well, you comment was after hers, sorry.

I wonder what those lines to the left of these text boxes could mean? Do they indicate anything? Anything at all??

Oh wait, I'll bet they are probably some complex means of establishing the thread of an asynchronous conversation! Probably devised by the ancient Incas (not the modern ones), with help from aliens of course.

read her bio. She's being through a lot. Don't tell her she doesn't have a life...

Thank you for telling everybody about that.

What do you mean read her bio she's been through a lot? Her bio says she's Fabio's pet squirrel.

What? *I'm* Fabio's pet squirrel. Is she trying to take my place and eat my stash of acorns? Is she actually me posting messages from a different part of the country? Am I her? This is bad.

Well first off let's get things straight. I'M FABIO'S PET SQUIRREL! No imposter can take MY Fabio away. But wait NO NO FABIO CAN'T HAVE TWO PET SQUIRRELS!! NO! YOU CAN'T BE!! NO!! YOU'RE AN IMPOSTER!! I AM FABIO'S PET SQUIRREL!!

End Joke, sorry for all the yelling, it just worked out that way. :)

Oh my gosh, you spend five ours a day on your calc and it's not at school... ? i want you to have my children ...

-eph

p.s. That's not supposed to be sexual harassment, i'm serious.

Okay...You...You do that. Just do it where I can't see it.

OK... that was about the _STUPIDEST_ thing Ive heard in about a month! Please people try to think before you type....

~Jonathan Taylor

Yes, lets try to stay on topic people.

As is obvious, there are many people who think that 5 hours is a lot, but for me, I spend my day at school programming my 86 in assember, (Yes, I don't have ANY life, but hay, machine language is is challenging and Challenging is better than my classes), and come home and program my 86 using ASM Studio. But I think that intelluctual, (and not :-) ) activity is not a male only realm. So I'm happy to know that you spend time dealving into such a neat platform, so as a guy, it's proof that equal oppertunity is not just talk.

Wow... Don't y'all have better ways of spending time than programming in Assembly?

This is 2002, right?

Why not just use BrainF**k? Or binary, if you want to be really cool. All the cool kids code in binary.

Lol! LauraBird, good for you! And to think that there are those that waste their time telling she has no life... !

hey I'm there with you...I guess it's just the two of us...frightening.

I am here as well, that is three

There's a girl on Dim-TI who contributes a lot to the rumors section. I least I think she's a girl.

Go to the Community->Accounts Directory at this site and type in a common girl first name and select browse. I did this for a half-dozen names and came up with about 15 accounts. There are likely many more. It appears that not everyone with an account is actively involved with the polls and comment areas of this site.

Actually, somewhere there is a rumors of the rumor section and there is a rumor that she isn't female. ;)

Actually, I am here as well....the few the proud

Right on!