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Title: filco's new industrial designer ;)
Post by: msiegel on Mon, 01 March 2010, 19:44:24
now (http://shop.mattel.com/product/index.jsp?productId=4032107) we know why!
;D
Title: Re: filco's new industrial designer ;)
Post by: HaaTa on Mon, 01 March 2010, 21:03:10
*facepalm*
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Post by: hyperlinked on Mon, 01 March 2010, 23:25:36
I like the 0100110 on the laptop display.
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Post by: msiegel on Mon, 01 March 2010, 23:32:59
those strings are not all the same... i wonder if it's ascii, in binary format
XD
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Post by: hyperlinked on Mon, 01 March 2010, 23:46:37
She even has a massively large geek watch.
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Post by: HaaTa on Mon, 01 March 2010, 23:50:13
Bored so I translated it.

0100 0010  0110 0001  0111 0010  0110 0010  0110 1001  0110 0101  

Or in ASCII "Barbie"
Title: filco's new industrial designer ;)
Post by: msiegel on Tue, 02 March 2010, 00:17:35
you might be the first person to discover that :D

although i groaned when i heard about Computer Engineer Barbie, maybe she will inspire someone to be the next Jony Ive.

i'm impressed with the attention to detail. the laptop even looks like it has a standard keyboard :)
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Post by: HaaTa on Tue, 02 March 2010, 04:57:38
I hope so...I'm taking Computer Engineering in University, and the Male to Female ratio is definitely lacking.

Ugh, bluetooth headset.
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Post by: trievalot on Tue, 02 March 2010, 06:03:52
65 people in my office, and one tech girl.
she doesnt look like that.
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Post by: Shawn Stanford on Tue, 02 March 2010, 07:34:13
My wife's a geek girl and she's hot. She doesn't look like Barbie, though. More Italian. Way more Italian.

Also: not so leggy and plastic-y...
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Post by: hyperlinked on Tue, 02 March 2010, 11:50:20
Quote from: HaaTa;161431
I hope so...I'm taking Computer Engineering in University, and the Male to Female ratio is definitely lacking.

Ugh, bluetooth headset.


You might think the opposite ratio would be perfect, but it's actually very bad in a different way. The social dynamics change when you're the vastly scarce resource. I had a 1 in 10 male to female ratio in my program in college and everyone says that it must have been awesome, but when you're that badly outnumbered, there's a lot of social pressure for you to fit in. On the opposite end of things, can you imagine how much more awkward and hard it would be for someone in your program to go up to that one girl and ask her out when she's got at least dozens of other options and could quite possibly be already dating one of your classmates?

It's nice to enjoy a good male-female ratio, but it'd be better to have it in a more modestly lopsided way. Somewhere around 40-60 would probably be more natural feeling, but still very advantageous.
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Post by: itlnstln on Tue, 02 March 2010, 11:53:51
I like "fitting in."
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Post by: ricercar on Tue, 02 March 2010, 12:13:15
my previous company had 12 men to 13 women in the developer cubes. I wanted to stay.
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Post by: itlnstln on Tue, 02 March 2010, 12:15:58
Damn, that's pretty good.  My job's about the same, but I don't work with programmers.  They're all married, though, but that's fine by me, youknowwhatI'msayin'?
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Post by: ricercar on Tue, 02 March 2010, 12:42:56
Married or no, for me it's the view during work hours, not the fantasies of later.
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Post by: hyperlinked on Tue, 02 March 2010, 14:05:04
Quote from: itlnstln;161477
I like "fitting in."


LOL, lemme tell you what I meant by "fitting in." If you live in a world in which you're one of the only dudes and you had to stay on people's good sides for your own survival, you have to learn how to act like one of the girls. There are comments you quickly learn not to make and if someone just broke up with her guy, you learn to say two words that you practice in the mirror just for this occasion: "MEN SUCK!"
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Post by: itlnstln on Tue, 02 March 2010, 14:15:29
Quote from: hyperlinked;161508
There are comments you quickly learn not to make and if someone just broke up with her guy

Like...
 
"Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.  What are you doing later?"
 
"Well, I just got this bottle of Patron..."
 
"**** that guy.  Do you know why they call me ItlnStln?"
 
And many others...
Title: filco's new industrial designer ;)
Post by: hyperlinked on Tue, 02 March 2010, 15:15:37
Quote from: itlnstln;161515
Like...
 
"Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.  What are you doing later?"
 
"Well, I just got this bottle of Patron..."
 
"**** that guy.  Do you know why they call me ItlnStln?"
 
And many others...

Haha! You might survive.
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Post by: ricercar on Tue, 02 March 2010, 15:20:55
Men are ****s.
I'm wrong. So wrong, I could not have been more wrong, as usual.
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Post by: msiegel on Tue, 02 March 2010, 16:02:36
"aw, thanks fellas. now let's get back to work"

(http://www.whataboutclients.com/archives/new-barbie.jpg)