How old are you? (plus Meet and Greet)

[Beastie Boy]

First of all, sorry for posting another poll but I am interested in the age profile of this board, and since you're reading this I guess you are too :)

Just to add a little interest, how about writing something about who you are and what you do.

I'll kick off. I'm 32 and married with 2 children aged 5 & 6 (hence the need to back-up my DVDs :D ). I work as an Electrical Engineer for a power distribution company in the UK.

Cheers, Beastie.

[scharfis_brain]

myself being 21 years old. (not really) studying Information technology, working sometimes in a local mail delivery company sorting letters by postal code, hehe.

[SeeMoreDigital]

Hi Beastie Boy,

If you're 32. How come there are no votes in the 31-40 section?

Anyway, with that out of the way. I have to admit I'm 42. Married twice, 2 kids (both girls aged 10 & 13 borrowed from wife #2) expensive to run!

Part owner of a small media production & hire business (with lots of toys)!

Cheers

[Beastie Boy]

If you're 32. How come there are no votes in the 31-40 section?
DOH! Forgot to vote myself.

[r6d2]

Male, approaching dangerously to 40 (fortunately I got to vote already) :)

Engineer by vocation, writer by spiritual needs. One wife, 3 kids (aged 7, 5, 2), and a dog.

Just finishing my sabatic, so I'll go back to work some time soon. As of now, I just enjoy the movies. ;)

[N_F]

3 people ofter 50 so far? I only knew of one.

[RadicalEd]

I'm the only kid :|
been here since I was 15 :/
Probably gonna go into some codec engineering field or at least digital multimedia. I figure I like the stuff and I'm already this versed in it, so why waste it?

[syzygytec]

OLD + 37 divorced, jobless, pc support specialist 18y/o daughter

[majerle]

I' am 29, married in july, no son (till now :p ), just one hamster. Working in a "corporate organisation committed to providing information Technology for all those working in local public administrations" (bla, bla , bla ...)
Btw, i teach how to use mouse and windows/*X system
Hobby: DvD backuping, and RolePlayingGames, and more...

greating from Italy (Rimini)

Andres

[killingspree]

18, at the moment in the military doing my duty :( after that going to study :P (finally)

hobbies: going out (too much recently :/), doom9 DVD/divx/xvid/svcd conversations, watching movies, reading (no not those stupid romance 10 cent books :P)

my 'job': doing 3D presentations of the alps for various companies. (flyovers, 3D internet toors, etc) - http://www.grossglockner.at/main/glockner3d/Pages/index_en.htm - sorry the english part is only partially finished, but it will display correctly anyway. activeX based so atm IE only - sorry. a Netscape/Mozilla equivalent is under development though!

steVe

[Tuning]

I'm 21years old.:)
Engineering student(Computer Science and Engineering).
Interests:Music,Movies,DVDs backing up to MPEG-4(new hobby since july'03),Reading,Painting,Astronomy,Cricket,.........
Ambition:Getting a job in computer H/W field.
Occupation: Part time Assembling/Servicing Computers and Audio Equipments.;)

[Beastie Boy]

Originally posted by killingspree
18, at the moment in the military doing my duty :(
Combined with your nickname, that's a potent combination :eek:

[bilu]

26, married one year and a half, still no kids.

Work in a GSM operator.
Video encoding has been my hobby lately.

Bilu

[Fantasma]

I am 34 years old, single.
Occupation: Admin. Assistant
Hobbies: Computers, Video Encoding, Science Fiction, Mythology, Pr0n.

[RathO]

Im 28, all my teeth.
Occupation: Military (regular force) :p
Interests: BIG fan of anime, DVDs backing up since 1999!, Matroska, ... hum... everything related to audio/video!!, high speed internet.
OH! and i love my girlfriend...

Regards

[killingspree]

Originally posted by Beastie Boy
Combined with your nickname, that's a potent combination :eek:

oh well, i'm in the communications division :P
or in other words, history lessons about telecommunications :D hehe

[UMP]

I'm still 32 years old, married. My first child should born in february. :)

I'm occupied as an IT manager somewhere in a well-known media/entertainment group.

My first rip was in 1999 with a prehistoric tool called DVD Rip 1.15.

ump

[int 21h]

22, just got engaged about a month ago.

Been here since, I dunno.. 2000 sometime? The first rip I ever did was ripped with CladDVD and encoded in Mpeg2avi. Then I messed with M4C for awhile... and the rest is history I guess.

I work for a state government writing stupid programs to do stupid things primarily. (i.e. remote printer management over SNMP, essentially reinventing JetAdmin)

[Sirber]

I'm 21. I'm finishing my studies in computer (general). I have a part time job in an insurance compagny, and I'll be fulltime soon. My speciality is PHP4/SQL with Linux. I'm still single. My hobbies/interrests are: programmation (PHP4/SQL, Delphi, VB6), Go (http://kgs.kiseido.com), animes, japanese/korean/chinies movies, bicycle, audio/video compression and network/files security. About music, I listen to almost everything, except Céline Dion :devil:.

[SeeMoreDigital]

I bet you wish she had gone down singing, with the Titanic (while performing the music video). Instead of Kate Winslet then?

Cheers

[ronnylov]

I'm 36 and have one 4 weeks old daugher and my girlfriend also has a 12 year old son but we are not married but we live together. I am a test engineer at a test and research institute in Sweden.

[N_F]

I'm 19 years old. Moved to a new city to start studying at university ~3 months ago. Decided to take a break from school for a few years about a month ago to contemplate what I really wanna do with my life. Currently looking for job.

If any of you swedes on this board live somewhere in Östergötland and have a job for me, don't hesitate to contact me :)

[Sirber]

Originally posted by SeeMoreDigital
I bet you wish she had gone down singing, with the Titanic (while performing the music video). Instead of Kate Winslet then?

Cheers Whitout joking, I hate almost all the "cultural stuff" québec produce.

[nFury8]

37 years old, very close to slamming the Four-Zero line. I'm an architect by profession. Currently working in a multimedia department in an architectural/engineering firm. Hobbies are electric guitar, movies, music, video encoding, 3D graphics, and of course sex with my wife :D. One more, hanging out in this forum as much as my free time will allow. I'm asian, from the Philippines to be specific.

[Uli]

Hehe, luckily i'm 40 and can vote in the 31-40 range. I'm working as a senior software consultant/developer at a well known car producer from northern germany ;)
*NOT* married :p
So i can spend my money and time for computers and cars and...

greetz, Uli

[windtrader]

I'm one of the old farts around here at 47. What is amazing is only one vote for the school age crowd. I KNOW they are computer savvy and able to visit Doom9. A number of reasons crossed my mind but none really stuck.

Any sound rationale for the low <18 voter turnout?

[Sirber]

maybe young farts don't know where to browse ;)

[Beastie Boy]

It is surpising that there aren't more votes in the <18 band. I have no idea why that is though, unless they just aren't voting.

Thanks for all the posts so far. I find it really interesting to read about all the forum members and their interests. Keep 'em coming :)

Cheers, Beastie.

[windtrader]

Maybe we should raffle off a DVD movie as an incentive to get the under 18 crowd to vote. ;)

[Nibor]

Originally posted by Beastie Boy
It is surpising that there aren't more votes in the <18 band. I have no idea why that is though, unless they just aren't voting.
HERE! A vote from me :D
I'm 17... Seems like RadicalEd and me are the only 'teenagers' round :)
Well, I'm in the third year of an apprenticeship as an 'IT Specialist' (:p) and DVD conversion is one of my hobbies as well as programming (and everything else which is computer-related ;))...

Yeah that's it!...

.:: Nibor ::.

PS: Wow, I used all my 4 favourite smilies in this post c",) *g*...

[KpeX]

20, male, mechanical engineering student.

Been reading here since mid 2002 or so. First DVD backup was with CladDVD and DVD2AVI following some poor guide on vcdhelp.com and was terrible. Once I found Doom9 the quality of my backups improved dramatically ;).

I honestly don't think there are that many under 18 interested in DVD backups. Most of my fellow engineering students (who are supposed to be technically versed, right) can barely get their downloaded DivX's to play.

[Wilbert]

28, male, studied applied mathematics and doing a phd mechanical engineering.


I honestly don't think there are that many under 18 interested in DVD backups. Most of my fellow engineering students (who are supposed to be technically versed, right) can barely get their downloaded DivX's to play.
That holds for all people I know personally. Most of them don't even know what XviD is.

[netterpaladin]

26, male, doing PhD in biochemistry,
I can count my own backups on one hand but have been reading these pages for a long time (I think I could qualify for the least skill for the time I have been around here).

Why am I here: I like watching movies and anime.

[Justinus]

I'm 25 years old. A uni student (converting into PhD pretty soon from computer systems engineer to business IT). Has been an anime & manga fan since 1980.

[SeeMoreDigital]

Damn!

Not many people in my club (41-50). If I change my birth certificate and hack into a few government computers to change my records can I change my vote to the 31-40 age band?

Hang on. That will effect my pension won't it. Sod it, I'll need that money for my false teeth and toupees!!!!

Better stay where I am then. At least my time machine works.... "I'm going back, to the future"!!!!!!!!!

Cheers

Jeez. There's no beer in the future!

[trbarry]

56, male, unemployed assembler programmer

And it looks like I'm the only one willing to admit to being that old here. ;)

- Tom

[r6d2]

Originally posted by trbarry
56, male, unemployed assembler programmer
Hi, Tom. May I ask which was the first assembly language you learnt? Atari 6502 here, I was 15 years old. I even had to build an assembler compiler in BASIC, since there was none available. The Atari 800 series was (IMHO) a beautiful machine indeed.

[echooff]

48, married with 4 boys aged 9 to 26. Retired from the military after 24 years. Working on a military base monitoring communications. Coach 2 of my children in baseball and Pop Warner Football. I started doing this to back up all the video I shot during my visits to all seven continents. Fortunately for me this was the first site I selected from my Google search.

[humet]

Hey,

Am I the youngest one who uses this forum? I'm 16 years old!

Is anyone younger?

humet :D

[trbarry]

Hi, Tom. May I ask which was the first assembly language you learnt?

My first assembler language was some teaching made up thing that I don't even remember the name of, followed by IBM 360 and Z80 (TRS-80), IIRC. That would have been in the late 1970's.

But I wrote my first "Hello World" program in Fortran back in 1966. After one computer class back then I decided I didn't like it and did not touch computers again for almost 10 years. ;)

- Tom

[unmei]

23, male, computer science student 2nd year.
Before that, i studied microtech for two years -only to realise hardware does not interest me very much and i were better off making programming my main field.

I started out with turbo pascal with 11 years when my dad was tired of me bugging him about the lisp he wrote and giving me the turbo pascal disks and manuals he hid somewhere, then moved to delphi at the age of ca 14. Then i was into computer music ("techno", but not that dance stuff, rather experimental/jazz) which i did until entering the microtech course. There we learnt C. In compu science we were introduced to Java and ASM, now C again and hopefully soon C++. My leisure time code is still all Delphi (can't get that language out of my head after growing up with it).
Besides programming itself, i think i like math more than most people around me (=.=) and am also a bit interested in computer graphics (old school stuff like BMRT and PovRay mostly).

I don't watch movies often (actually veery few), except anime wich i also buy and encode for about two to tree years now.

My music today cannot easily categorised as i like many "contemporary" styles like, but not limited to, german and french hiphop, punk, reggae, jungle or even metal. -But besides programming and anime there isn't really much time for other things :)

[spuddog]

51 tool and die maker

[mmgrover]

41, Programmer (Research & Development) using C, C++, Visual Basic, Delphi, ASP, PHP and what ever else I find interesting :-)
I love Borland Products, and have for years....


Married, 6 kids who each just had to have there own computer!



mike

[Justinus]

Aren't you have to buy a PC each year then? Since, I normally buy a new PC every 4-5 years.

[Ginta]

I'm 24 and I'm currently finishing my studies in Materials Engineering.

As a hobby, I like encoding Anime-related material and I intend to be able to do some decent encodes someday...
:rolleyes:

[Uncle Joe]

Hi!
You forget the olders than 70!....What a pitty!
I,m 71 old and I feel 21..
Well...22, maybee.

[bilu]

I'm glad to see a portuguese young grandpa around :)

I'm from Alcochete.


Bilu

[Keethr]

54 and going strong. Been playing with computers since 1968. Now I have hours of home video that I need to get off the old tapes and onto something so that my children and grandchildren can see them. (Anybody know a good way to copy 8mm film to DVD, without costing much?)

[Beastie Boy]

Originally posted by Uncle Joe
Hi!
You forget the olders than 70!....What a pitty!
I,m 71 old and I feel 21..
Well...22, maybee.
Please forgive me. It never crossed my mind to provide a 70-80 age group in the poll :D

Cheers, Beastie.

[Boulder]

Soon to be 27 and to be married next August:D

I should finish my inorganic and analytical chemistry studies next summer provided that I get my diploma work done. I should also finish my military service in January-April. Being a chem fella, they put me to a place where they research different methods of protection from the gases and other stuff that are used in chemical warfare. That will make a interesting mark in my CV:p

I'm into movies, music and computers. My latest addiction is Sonic Youth, but as you may figure, Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett's also very close to my heart with some alternative stuff like Alice In Chains.

I don't even remember how I got here in the first place:confused: