fun with demographics

"Mr R@t (2.3 zulu-alpha) [comms room new build]" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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I wonder what the corellation is between:

- all cyclists
- those who are working in academia of some sort in high level research

No, but when I'm not doing my proper job, I lend my lab analytical skills to those graduates who
don't have my 28 years experience. Then they get all the credit!

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- those in an equivalent "research" (i.e. internal customer-facing)

position

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in the private sector in a tech-based SME

No

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- higher level (i.e. real technical people, not just helpdesk droids) IT staff
- other scientists and "brainy" people (Doctors, medical or otherwise and the like)

Left school at 16.

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- Linux users

Windows XP

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- males with beards

I've got a 'tache lke Eddie Shoestring.

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Mr R@t (2.3 zulu-alpha) comms room new build said:

- all cyclists

I'm all cyclist, alright!

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- those who are working in academia of some sort in high level research

No

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- those in an equivalent "research" (i.e. internal customer-facing) position in the private sector
in a tech-based SME

No - well, I am customer-facing, but not in that sense. I do systems design and analysis, and
application design. And stuff. Lots of "stuff" :-)

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- higher level (i.e. real technical people, not just helpdesk droids) IT staff

That would be me :-)

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- other scientists and "brainy" people (Doctors, medical or otherwise and the like)

Nah - thick as two short planks. IQ not much over 150, as last measured.

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- Linux users

Guilty as charged :-D Also Mac user, if that counts.

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- males with beards

Perrish the thort.

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"Mr R@t (2.3 zulu-alpha) [comms room new build]" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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I wonder what the corellation is between:

- all cyclists

Guilty as charged

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- those who are working in academia of some sort in high level research

Not on your nellie!!

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- those in an equivalent "research" (i.e. internal customer-facing)

position

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in the private sector in a tech-based SME

Used to be -- but I escaped

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- higher level (i.e. real technical people, not just helpdesk droids) IT staff

Are there any higher level IT people? I classify all IT people below pond life.

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- other scientists and "brainy" people (Doctors, medical or otherwise and the like)

30 yers agoo I kuddnt speel injeanear -- now i R won 🙂

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- Linux users

See comment above on pond life.

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- males

Last time I looked, Yes.

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with beards

I haven't shaved today (yet) if that counts.

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I think there is a very high set intersection in all these categories;

with

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some clearly fitting into more than one set 😉

??

T

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I wonder what the corellation is between:

- all cyclists

Cyclist, car and Landrover driver, motorcycle rider / competitor.

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- those who are working in academia of some sort in high level research

Nope .. , just been made redundant from a 'high profile' position in engineering to be a caretaker
at a primary school. It's a 'lifestyle change'.

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- those in an equivalent "research" (i.e. internal customer-facing)

Used to be, but in engineering.

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position in the private sector in a tech-based SME

Nope

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- higher level (i.e. real technical people, not just helpdesk droids) IT staff
- other scientists and "brainy" people (Doctors, medical or otherwise and the like)
- Linux users

Windows.

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- males with beards

Nope, never ..

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I think there is a very high set intersection in all these categories; with some clearly fitting
into more than one set 😉

Alex

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Mr R@t \(2.3 zulu-alpha\) comms room new build said:

I wonder what the corellation is between:
- all cyclists

[blah]

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- Linux users
- males with beards

Real ale drinkers?
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Mr R@t \(2.3 zulu-alpha\) comms room new build said:

I wonder what the corellation is between:

- all cyclists

Yes, bicycle, no car.

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- those who are working in academia of some sort in high level research

No

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- those in an equivalent "research" (i.e. internal customer-facing) position in the private sector
in a tech-based SME

Yes

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- higher level (i.e. real technical people, not just helpdesk droids) IT staff

Sort of, Project Management Consultant for IT company

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- other scientists and "brainy" people (Doctors, medical or otherwise and the like)

Physics Degree

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- Linux users

No

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- males with beards

Yes (at the moment)

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I think there is a very high set intersection in all these categories; with some clearly fitting
into more than one set 😉

Well, I seem to have lent some support to your hypothesis

Best regards, John

David Damerell said:

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- males with beards

Real ale drinkers?

Same thing, surely?

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about it perhaps you could think when we talk of bicycles, that you see them printing their proud
wheels i' the receiving earth; thanks awfully.

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"Mr R@t (2.3 zulu-alpha) [comms room new build]" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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I wonder what the corellation is between:

- all cyclists

If I'm not, I want to know who's left all the oily bits lying round my house

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- those who are working in academia of some sort in high level research

I work in academia, but I'm not doing the research

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- those in an equivalent "research" (i.e. internal customer-facing)

position

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in the private sector in a tech-based SME

Nope. Don't like the private sector - they expect results :-)

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- higher level (i.e. real technical people, not just helpdesk droids) IT staff

Theoretically, but usually I doubt it....

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- other scientists and "brainy" people (Doctors, medical or otherwise and the like)

No.

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- Linux users

When necessary. And Unix. And Windows. And Macs. And.... well, I'm sure you get the idea. I think
it's an extension of my juvenile tv addiction - anything with a VDU.....

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- males with beards

Male, clean shaven.

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I think there is a very high set intersection in all these categories;

with

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some clearly fitting into more than one set 😉

Ain't we a bunch of conformists.......

E

Tony W said:

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- Linux users

See comment above on pond life.

I always think of Windows victims^Wusers as close relatives of a certain type of motorist; they both
blindly use inefficient systems regardless of fitness-for-purpose resulting in frustratation, anger
and eventually a crash...

Sorry, couldn't resist. 🙂

Regards,

-david: male, Linux-using, research assistant...if only I had a beard

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Left school at 16.

Perhaps I was unclear (I suppose I had confused things by mentioning the title Dr, although there
*do* appear to be several of these on this froup!) - but by "brainy" people I did not mean that they
*must* posess a degree or similar qualifications.

There are also the self-taught types (myself included, I left after a-levels) - I had always
considered Simon to be a very intelligent chap - and he always seems to be conducting some kind of
experiment when he is not listening to odd stuff on the wireless or re-housing sundry felines,
like one of those old-school Northern "inventor / mad scientist" types. This is the sort of spirit
I admire 😉

And I can only think Guy was being ironic when he said 150 wasn't a *high* IQ 😉

Alex

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- all cyclists

I am a cyclist

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- those who are working in academia of some sort in high level research

Not in research, but I do some work tutoring 1st year PhD students in science communication.

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- those in an equivalent "research" (i.e. internal customer-facing) position in the private sector
in a tech-based SME

Train various subjects in private sector too

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- higher level (i.e. real technical people, not just helpdesk droids) IT staff

Oh no, I couldn't describe myself as a techie - but I do train people coming into HE who are of a
more "mature" age who may not have used a computer as a tool of academic life in how the computer
can be a useful tool in their studies

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- other scientists and "brainy" people (Doctors, medical or otherwise and the like)

Last time IQ was measured it was 150 something or other. I'm doing an MSc - does that count?

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- Linux users

Sadly, I am a Macrocr*p XP Professional user 🙁

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- males with beards

Nah. Nor am I a female with a beard. I am however, married to a bald man with a beard - does
that count?

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"Simon Mason" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Left school at 16.

Perhaps I was unclear (I suppose I had confused things by mentioning the title Dr, although there
*do* appear to be several of these on this froup!) - but by "brainy" people I did not mean that
they *must* posess a degree or similar qualifications.

There are also the self-taught types (myself included, I left after a-levels) - I had always
considered Simon to be a very intelligent chap - and he always seems to be conducting some kind of
experiment when he is

not

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listening to odd stuff on the wireless

That's very nice of you to say so :-) I conducted an experiment at 0500 in bed the other day lying
there half asleep. My minidisc remote control has a directional AM radio inside. I tuned into the
Voice of Russia on 1323 kHz, which I know broadcasts from a relay station at Wachenbrunn in Germany.
I rotated the radio until the station was nulled out. The radio was now pointing at the transmitter
site in Germany.

Then tuned to 1386 kHz, which was broadcasting the same programme, but from Bolshakovo in the
Kaliningrad exclave of Russia. Moving the radio to null out this new transmitter made a second
angle. By triangulating the two angles I could work out that I was indeed in bed. Aha, you might
say, I could be at the exact opposite point, having only two angles to work with. Yes, but that
would put me in Armenia and it would be 0900 there and light. It was dark, so I must be I
Yorkshire :-) I thank you.
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Tony W said:

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- Linux users

See comment above on pond life.

I always think of Windows victims^Wusers as close relatives of a certain type of motorist; they
both blindly use inefficient systems regardless of fitness-for-purpose resulting in frustratation,
anger and eventually a crash...

Sorry, couldn't resist. 🙂

Horses for courses. For a lot of things Windows is (sadly) the de facto standard. Its 'orrible, not
suitable for any real computing (i.e. real time control systems) or much in the way of number
crunching. As a type writer its OK until the screen goes blue 🙁

I've used over 20 OS in my career -- and still think George IV on the old ICL 1900 series was as
good as most (removes tongue from cheek!!)

T

"Simon Mason" <[email hidden]> wrote: ) It was dark, so I must be I Yorkshire :-) I
thank you.

"Clap, clap, clap."

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- males with beards

Real ale drinkers?

Same thing, surely?

Nah. Like I mentioned yesterday, my missus won't let me grow a beard
:-(

I only want to because shaving's such a PITA.

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Mr R@t said:

And I can only think Guy was being ironic when he said 150 wasn't a *high* IQ 😉

It's not all that high, just about high enough to hold an intelligent conversation ;-)

(165 at last - actually only - measurement).

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Mr R@t said:

And I can only think Guy was being ironic when he said 150 wasn't a *high* IQ 😉

It's not all that high, just about high enough to hold an intelligent conversation ;-)

(165 at last - actually only - measurement).

I feel fick

Tony W said:

I feel fick

Here, have this bucket.

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at the keyboard of 'Tony W said:

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I always think of Windows victims^Wusers as close relatives of a certain type of motorist;

Horses for courses. For a lot of things Windows is (sadly) the de facto standard.

Erm, I think you just made his point. As in "Horses for courses. For a lot of things Cars are
(sadly) the de facto standard" You actually sacrifice more by dispensing with a car than by getting
rid of windoze.

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Its 'orrible, not suitable for any real computing (i.e. real time control systems)

That's a specialist task. Most of the systems that beat windoze for desktop and server use aren't
suitable for that, either.

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or much in the way of number crunching. As a type writer its OK until the screen goes blue
🙁

My screen doesn't go blue. Period.

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I've used over 20 OS in my career -- and still think George IV on the old ICL 1900 series was as
good as most (removes tongue from cheek!!)

Hmmm, I have very faint memories of (IIRC) George III, before my then-Client upgraded to VMS.

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