Originally Posted by bumble69 (Post 7320925)

Give the geeks a thread and they soon split down into Windows vs Everything else.

Ding ding, round 2.

Chicks dig Unix, fact.

:D:thumbsup::D

Originally Posted by Hutch (Post 7319506)

Funnily enough, one of the initiatives that Thatcher's party introduced during the late '80s was based on exactly those lines. They encouraged arty A'level students to do degrees in computers and engineering in the misguided hope of breeding some super race of geeks who could express themselves. Such students were offered entry to the premier courses in the country with off-subject A'levels.

Originally Posted by lesleys (Post 7321149)

I didn't use Windows until I retired!

Originally Posted by Hutch (Post 7319506)

Funnily enough, one of the initiatives that Thatcher's party introduced during the late '80s was based on exactly those lines. They encouraged arty A'level students to do degrees in computers and engineering in the misguided hope of breeding some super race of geeks who could express themselves. Such students were offered entry to the premier courses in the country with off-subject A'levels.

And that's how, sucker that I am, I ended up starting a degree in computer science - complete with modules in degree level maths. Funnily enough I had no problem with the subject matter (despite getting my A'levels in arts-oriented English, Geography and Economics) but had an epiphany one day in a tutor group. I looked around the classroom at my fellow students and said to myself, 'Jesus H, if these are the people I'll be working with when I graduate, then I'm off'. And so I dropped out. And ended up working for HSBC on the currency trading floor where I had a similar epiphany and went back to college to do the English degree I should have done in the first place. Even funnier then, I suppose, that I ended up working in the geek industries anyway ...

:D

Originally Posted by BadgeIsBack (Post 7321193)

Classic.

I was OK at study until I discovered girls at 15 then I spent all my time trying to get into their knickers or hanging them from the roof of the gym lol. I dropped the arts at 16 as I hated essay writing by hand and in the late 80s PCs were expensive. I then switched back to the Arts at 17 when I decided, being lazy, that it was, after all, easier to read and have an opinion than have to be right with the Maths and the Physics...(now I am looking to get back in with the Physics and Maths after all......)

It was then a few years out on the ground doing an extremely physical hands on job and another 10 years before I went back in as a developer/consultant. I thank my lucky stars I don't do support or desktop...I can just about put up with developers as I find most of them polite, professional and can think for themselves and the days seem numbered when they were social rejects.
But I will never be truly one of them!

Originally Posted by MarkMC (Post 7321094)

I love the cartoon's, some of you wont get it but here goes:]

Originally Posted by MarkMC (Post 7320083)

Can I ask why?:confused:

Originally Posted by lesleys (Post 7321149)

I went to a school that believed in all-round education so I was still learning French/art/music etc along with science A-levels. We used to have to do an external exam called 'Use of English' as a qualification for some unis.

Originally Posted by DadAgain (Post 7323106)

Perhaps we have a thread full of generalists here?

I specialised in Maths, Maths & Physics for my A levels, but at uni soon discovered that Physics was dull and hard. I switched and ended up with a Music and Politics degree (4 years of sex, drugs, rock'n'roll :thumbsup:)... Of course when came to needing some kind of a job the only thing I could find was IT work and years later here I am still doing it....

Funny how Australians get a real confused look on their face when they find out I didnt do an IT degree - the concept of a general non-vocational education is often completely beyond their grasp. :D

Originally Posted by DadAgain (Post 7323106)

Perhaps we have a thread full of generalists here?

I specialised in Maths, Maths & Physics for my A levels, but at uni soon discovered that Physics was dull and hard.

Originally Posted by MarkMC (Post 7323142)

Same here, but my Physics teacher at A lever warned us against doing Physics at Uni, so I did Mechanical Engineering instead. I rekon that was just as boring.:blink:

Originally Posted by bumble69 (Post 7320925)

Give the geeks a thread and they soon split down into Windows vs Everything else.

Originally Posted by lapin_windstar (Post 7324963)

Well, you would expect them to take a very binary approach - either A or B, x or y, Apples or Lemons. ;)