Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 10:37:52 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: Nicholas Charles Brawn <ncb05@uow.edu.au>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: age check :) Message-ID: <19981010103752.I3369@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <361E5F84.14E9660@softweyr.com>; from Wes Peters on Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 01:09:56PM -0600 References: <Pine.SOL.4.02A.9810091938460.24541-100000@banshee.cs.uow.edu.au> <19981009200951.60385@welearn.com.au> <361E5F84.14E9660@softweyr.com>
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On Friday, 9 October 1998 at 13:09:56 -0600, Wes Peters wrote:
> Sue Blake wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 07:46:24PM +1000, Nicholas Charles Brawn wrote:
>>
>>> As a quick check, how many people here are between the ages of 16-20,
>>> 20-25, or 25+?
>>
>> What you're asking is, out of freebsd-chat readers (a very small group
>> of FreeBSD users, possibly older than on our other lists but not
>> necessarily), what are the ages of those list members who are both
>> willing to reveal their ages and also think it is worth answering.
>
> That's a pretty interesting grouping, too. 25+ covers a LOT of age, and
> I for one cannot determine why we would ALL get lumped together. (Oops,
> let out what category I'm in there, huh?) This category not only covers
> me, my siblings and spouse, but also my parents, and all those people
> Willard Scott talks about in the morning. You're assuming ALL OF US have
> the same level of interest in your game? You're most decidedly
wrong.
Come, come, he's just viewing things from his perspective. Agreed,
25+ is not a useful category.
I'm old enough to remember the last time somebody asked this question
(about 2 years ago). At that time, we discovered that there were a
surprising number of over 40s and over 50s in the FreeBSD team. I
haven't seen any admit to this kind of age so far this time round. In
fact, the ones who answered did fit quite well into Nicholas Charles's
categories. If you want to be serious, though,
1. Wait until 3.0 is out of the door. A lot of the key players in
FreeBSD read -chat, but they're too busy right now.
2. Take categories in a maximum of 10 year increments, or just plain
ask "(int) how_old_are_you ()".
Greg
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