Geek girls or is just men on this forum

[LostNotFound]

On a semantic point, I think it's worth distinguishing between geeks and nerds.

Geeks know stuff. They have a greater than average level of professional skill. They get stuff done, even if non-geeks find it hard to understand the value of it. Typically, they are constantly searching both to deepen and broaden their geekiness. Because they are creative and knowledgeable, they tend to be interesting and dynamic, if at times a little puzzling. Typically, geeks are both enthusiastic evangelists and self-effacing. Often, they're polymaths whose expertise embraces several fields.

Nerds on the other hand, are both dull and common. They tend to have an obsessive yet shallow interest in a technical field but little real love for it. They're more interested in accumulating kit than actually doing anything with it. Their creativity at best extends to unusual configurations of off-the-shelf equipment or ideas. In company, they will tend to bore the pants off others with their droning about non-topics and one-upmanship about their gear.

Probably around 25% of males over the age of 14 know how to build, configure and maintain computers. But most of these are nerds rather than geeks.

Nerds are into overclocking. Geeks design integrated circuits.
Nerds know all the latest cool apps and utilities. Geeks write them.
Nerds spend most of their spare time gaming. Geeks write the games they play (and then spend their spare time gaming).
Nerds design web pages. Geeks design web browsers...

and of course likewise in other fields than computing.

nice bit of boring one-upmanship there .. i guess yer a self confessed "nerd"

 

[untethered]

nice bit of boring one-upmanship there .. i guess yer a self confessed "nerd"

If you think that trying to establish an agreed terminology is "boring", you're on the wrong thread. I note that you have no comment on the substance of my thesis.

 

[Hocus Eye.]

Never trust a Geek bearing gifts. It might turn out to be a Tr...

...never mind.

Hocus

 

[Xanadu]

yeah but do you pronounce it "sequal"?

No, I use ANSI english

 

[Xanadu]

apologies for using MS abombination SQL rather than propper SQL

Real geeks don't use MS Access to produce queries

 

[Pingu]

Real geeks don't use MS Access to produce queries

couldnt agree more but it was all I had to hand

will get it parsed into proper SQL on monday when I have access (*snort*) to a v2r6 box and will lob in some multi index partitions for good measure.

(with propper annotaions and comments of course)

 

[Xanadu]

Double points for the *snort*!

 

[LostNotFound]

If you think that trying to establish an agreed terminology is "boring", you're on the wrong thread.

The way you're doing it, yes, it is boring. Boring, arrogant and insulting.

It shows you up as an elitist sneering little shit.

I'm happy with simply getting on with BEING a computer hobbyist, nerd, geek, whatever people want to call it. You can continue writing self-aggrandising bullshit about what that means.

bye bye, twat.

 

[miss minnie]

time out geeks... less of the insults please.

 

[untethered]

...boring. Boring, arrogant and insulting... elitist sneering little shit... self-aggrandising bullshit... twat...

You seem to be the only person that took it as a personal insult and the only one that found it necessary to throw abuse around, rather than disagree with what I'd said in a civil fashion.

Perhaps a little less time at the keyboard and a little more time picking up social skills would be in order.

 

[Pingu]

Never trust a Geek bearing gifts. It might turn out to be a Tr...

...never mind.

Hocus

neigh

anyone who did that would be lower than a worm

 

[lobster]

so far boys have still populated this thread even though it was aimed at girls

 

[silentNate]

I am reminded, reading this thread, of a witty quip I once read about women looking for potential suitors among the techy fraternity:

The odds are good, but the goods are odd.

Thats fantastic

I know a fair number of female geeks, I guess it must be the company I keep...

Epona has confessed to often indulging her inner geek

If the OP is fishing for company then at least with female geeks you are promised interesting conversation if nothing else

 

[miss minnie]

today's *geek of the day* is female

 

[Pingu]

today's *geek of the day* is female

shes purty

bet shes not really a geek