any girls here

[ryutran18]

are there any girls here in this whole forum. i was just wondering if girls are interested in the dvd copying thing. i think they would be too dumb to understand. :D

[DSPguru]

Originally posted by ryutran18
i think they would be too dumb to understand. :D what's there to understand ;) ?

[ryutran18]

apparently i was making a joke. but seriously are there any girls in this forum.

[Vanos_b]

Put it this way: have you ever seen a girl doing anyting else than write a document/e-mail or chat, on a computer? Have you ever heard a girl saying "That DivX/XviD codec is sooo coool!"? Or do you imagine a girl asking "Is Foxer's asymmetric curve compression with parameters higher than 240/15%/25% adviceable?" ? I know that that "too dumb to understand" was just to arouse them, but you've seen the replies. But there's always a posibility...

[diji1]

have you ever seen a girl doing anyting else than write a document/e-mail or chat, on a computer?

... well yeah, but i study comp. science / IT though so it figures. Some of them can even assist me occasionally with something computer related believe it or not! :)

[canadian_fbi]

Originally posted by diji1


... well yeah, but i study comp. science / IT though so it figures. Some of them can even assist me occasionally with something computer related believe it or not! :)
yeah, i'm in csci too at college, but even though the classes are mostly male, still at least 5% of the class is female. so you'd think with the number of people who read this forum, there'd be at least a FEW.

maybe they're not replying for fear of sticking out :)

[macdaddy]

maybe they're not replying for fear of sticking out

You think? Some of the stuff being thrown around in this thread (regardless if it has been said in jest) might be part of the reason why...

[DSPguru]

I know of at least one girl here (a BeSweet user :D ).
and if i were a girl, i also wouldn't reply to this thread.

[rmatei]

As a veteran of this forum (almost a year) I will share my memories with you young men, mhem.
There was this one girl once, Chibi Jasmin, on the old forum. She was pretty knowledgable, she had like 200-something posts. And then this other girl, Babygirl once posted in my newbie forum. Everybody rushed to answer her so fast, it wasn't even funny. And there's that one girl going around nowadays, sarahj69 I think her name is. (I assume she's a girl?). That's it. No other girl has come forward.

And it's surprising:
- seeing BlackSun's real-life looks :sly:
- considering that if some noob got the nickname HotChick or something, you better believe they'd get an answer immediately. And people would forget about things like the forum rules for him.

I guess it's genetic or something. I mean, in addition to her economics degrees, my mother has a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, and she's not dumb. But she wouldn't know how to get AOL to work, or the difference between a bmp and a jpg, or any of that practical knowledge. They just don't really care. Put it this way, guys wear clothes, but that doesn't mean that they're interested in fashion or have sense of fashion. We're just different. Now where's my ecf file...

[diji1]

... who knows who's female ?

Some of the stuff being thrown around in this thread (regardless if it has been said in jest) might be part of the reason why ...

... u think ? theres an undertone there of the same old stereotypes that definitlely stands out ...

Everybody rushed to answer her so fast, it wasn't even funny.

... hmmm, i seems to remember that thread, lol ...

... my mother has a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, and she's not dumb. But she wouldn't know how to get AOL to work, or the difference between a bmp and a jpg, or any of that practical knowledge ... Put it this way, guys wear clothes, but that doesn't mean that they're interested in fashion or have sense of fashion.

... er ... that seems a very generalised way of looking at things to me - i got my gf to read this thread just before i posted this, not happy, not happy LOL - shes says to ryutran18 to go back into his cave ;)

[Emp3r0r]

i'm female.... errr nevermind, I don't bitch enough

[ppera2]

I know couple girls who even know (imagine !) programming !

[MaTTeR]

shes says to ryutran18 to go back into his cave ;)

My GF just said the same thing last night. LOL

Then again, judging by his name, 18 years old could be to young to appreciate females in life:)

[Vanos_b]

I know a couple of girls that know what printf does, but I wouldn'y call this programming

[DSPguru]

Originally posted by Vanos_b
I know a couple of girls that know what printf does, but I wouldn'y call this programming and what 'printf' really does ? i always thought it's a special 'print' for females...

[diji1]

and what 'printf' really does ? i always thought it's a special 'print' for females...

:D ... for some reason i just spent about 5 mins laffing at that ... :D, i bin up to long i think, lol.

Hey MaTTer, is that an aphex twin pic under your moniker there ? I like it anyways! ;)

[MaTTeR]

Originally posted by diji1

Hey MaTTer, is that an aphex twin pic under your moniker there ? I like it anyways! ;)

Thanks diji1! I think it might be as well. I found it on an abstract gallery awhile back and snatched it:D

[theReal]

I know one girl who knows a lot about computer hardware, mp3 encoding and stuff like that. She has a masters degree in computational linguistics. However, she's an exception.

There are of course some girls studying computer science - but that doesn't mean they're interested in the stuff we call our hobbies (Divx encoding and such).
I mean, I know a Professor for computer science who can write an OS in assembler, but he needs the help of his secretary to write an email. See what I mean?

[DSPguru]

Originally posted by theReal
I know a Professor for computer science who can write an OS in assembler, but he needs the help of his secretary to write an email. See what I mean? but unfortunately his secretary is too busy with surfing Doom9's MPEG Forum ;).

[ppera2]

This thread reminds me mostly on blonde jokes.

If you think that color (of hair) has something with intelligence, you have problem with same.

[Nic]

imagine a girl asking "Is Foxer's asymmetric curve compression with parameters higher than 240/15%/25% adviceable?" ?

:D :D :D

Going by the handle "Nic" has often got me the wrong/useful attention in forums (seeing that most guys write it Nick & girls tend to go by Nic).

I wonder if I signed up with the name "SexyBabe" & asked "Whats an MP3 Codec?" What kind of reponse i'd get.....hmmmm. :)

Cheers,
-Nic

[MaTTeR]

@Nic

The response from me would still be the same. Female or no female...a question like that would still get the boot:D

[Emp3r0r]

18 years old could be too young to appreciate females in life
hum, i hope by appreciate you mean screw, cause way back when I was younger my mom would take me to the doctor and help me get better. Not that I waited till I was 18 to try and get two horney females in my bed. NOT gunna let my girlfriend read this one!

[theReal]

It has nothing to do with intelligence, it's just that women are different from men and have other hobbies (usually, not always).

In 90% of all cases, when you give a boy a doll he will take it apart and look what's inside, if you give a girl toy soldiers, she will play "peace amongst the armies". There's nothing sexist about it, it's only genetic. That's why boys compare cpu temperatures and encode divx and girls usually don't. This has nothing to do with intelligence, only with different interests!

[DSPguru]

Originally posted by theReal
There's nothing sexist about it, it's only genetichmmm, can you prove it :devil: ?
i tend to agree with the exsitence of this phenomenon, but imho, it's caused by difference in eduaction, and not by genetic difference.
i'm not saying there is no genetic difference between x & y, just claiming that it has nothing to do with divx/baby dolls.

[sarahjh69]

rmatei

glad to know you still think of me.
I don't post too much these days cos
there is no new stuff to discuss.
But I still read posts in the General, Hardware and DiVX 4 forums

Xmpeg 4.02 and DiVX 4.12 seems to be the end of the line.

love
sarahjane

[Teegedeck]

Originally posted by sarahjh69

Xmpeg 4.02 and DiVX 4.12 seems to be the end of the line.

love
sarahjane

... now, if this doesn't deserve an answer... I'm afraid, you'll just have to stick around more.

Choosing the right nickname could really help getting attention. Someone chose 'sevenofnine', I remember. Now that's bound to be a boy... But with that kind of name it's pretty hard to resist (futile, anyway) answering any of his/her questions.:D

[sierrafoxtrot]

'sfunny, ex-GF used to drive me mad by pointing out macroblocks and ringing artifacts, and offering random values for asymmetric curve compression ... death by criticism. LoL

BTW, there is some genetic component, but IMHO social evolution is making girls hell of a lot more aware, they just let us get away with thinking what we want. jedi mind control y'all. :D

[oddball]

Women have different priorities. They are more interested in socialising and living life or ma,ing life (Dating, Getting hitched, babies, going out with the girls and playing men for the fools they are). Whereas men like us are just sad net geeks who could get laid more often if we spent more time studying women than studying how to encode with the best DiVX settings :)

[diji1]

But I still read posts in the General, Hardware and DiVX 4 forums

... guess that answers the "dumb" part part of the original post - anyone that reads doom9 forum and understands vaguely ( covering myself by vague, lol ... ) whats going on isn't dumb :D - atm im helpin out me lamer friend who just cant understand the guides so i guess ur smarter that him sarahjh69 ( friends male btw, ahem ) ...

hey sarahjh69, did u choose "69" to get more help from lonely computer nerds ( ... or is that like ur dob or somethin ) ... hehe, just curious. congrats ( i guess ) on being the only ( admitted ) female to post on this ridiculous thread :).