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I'm curious (age poll)

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celticgeek:
I'm a physicist, but spent a lot of my career as an engineer, so does this mean that old engineers are attracted to this comic and forum?

pwhodges:
I guess that of older people we are more likely to get around the Internet this much.

And you don't appear to have filled in the poll ('cos I know I have).

Les Harris:
The must be a reason for it but I don't know what it might be.  

One of the funniest men I ever knew was a physicist - Max Komesaroff, who migrated into radio astronomy - fucking cancer got him and it got his wife about ten years later.  Sad stuff and I miss him sorely.  Make that miss them both!

I like QC for a lot of reasons - the story lines, the unexpected turns, the characters, the artwork, everything.  This a rare talent and it says a lot that it appeals to such a wide range of ages.  

LH

Les Harris:

I guess that of older people we are more likely to get around the Internet this much.[/b][/i]

Not sure about that.  I know a lot of people around my age who aren't even computer literate, let alone spend time unearthing all sorts of stuff on the Internet.  (Cable and a big slab of bandwidth helps, of course.)  I have been in touch with people that I attended school with and it is quite frightening how many of them appear to be just vegetating.

pwhodges:
I mean, those of us who have been using computers since before they were fashionable (since 1966 in my case) will be in touch with more stuff than those who have come to them later in life.

OTOH I know plenty of young people who aren't computer literate (I am a computer manager in a university, and I have to keep putting them right on the simplest things) - but they can still find things because they are familiar with the Internet even if they don't do it sensibly.

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