OT: The Geek Test

40.03945%

However, you have an imprecise statement in your post.

A quotient is the result of a division operation and does not necessarily imply a percentage, which can be defined as : proportion x

100. While a proportion is, indeed, a quotient, precise use of mathematical terms is important, as Spock constantly reminds us.

Qapla!

I got a 17.357

Oh well. ; )

Randy

You forgot a level, level poser. I scored a 5.52268%.

I must admit, considering I've worked in IT for 15 years, I've always had trouble understanding tech profesionals because of the *geek* factor. I guess I just don't *get* it. I mean really, this fantasy entertainment thing(Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter et all) seriously turns my stomach :/ Rockets and computers are about it for me when geek is involved. Ironicly, I've always thought of myself as a dork with geek like tendencies.

I'll take a 12 pack and a good game on tv anyday over geek.

Ted Novak TRA#5512

how disappointing, I too am only a Total Geek, with 31.16371%.

I don't watch TV so I didn't get any of the TV and other media items. the test seemed somewhat skewed in other ways so at least I got the 5 "I can think of other things" boxes.

They GAME on TV now? Gosh, I didn't know that!

(The test seems a bit skewed to a younger generation. The last time I had a math class, i don't think they HAD programmable calculators. Or at least they were pretty uncommon. I guess I did once program a TI-59 as part of a summer job... And I used Macsyma for an EE class... And there was that time I had driven home more than I ever wanted to know about floating point numbers by TRYING to do physics homework in APL.) (And then there's that whole "when was the last time you took a math class that involved NUMBERs?" question.)

BillW

48.91519% - Super Geek!

Bob Kaplow NAR # 18L TRA # "Impeach the TRA BoD" >>> To reply, remove the TRABoD!

Way to go, Bob! ;)

Did you notice any errors in the questions?

For instance, only a real geek would know that "Clark's Third Law" is realy "Clarke's Third Law". (British spelling, I believe.)

One question got me thinking, though, about who implemented the first "windows" in an OS. Wasn't it Xerox (PARC)?

Bob, you don't build rockets while wearing a Klingon Warrior's uniform... do you? ; )

Randy

Doug Engelbart made the first mouse but he had a lot of other related ideas including multiple windows, which date to the early 1960s... and led indirectly to Xerox Alto

maybe I shudda set followups-to: alt.folklore.computers.

Thanks, Cliff. I remembered the PARC Smalltalk demo, but couldn't remember if it was the first implementation of multiple windows in an OS or not.

34.91124% - Total Geek. Very disappointing. No wonder I can drink more and kick all the other wussy engineers asses at work.

33.92505% - Total Geek

Randy, I don't know if it's good or not, but I scored 17.4872%. I think that means I beat you.

I guess you are either an aspiring Geek, or a closet-Geek with a very effective non-Geek persona ;)

- iz

Christ> Randy, I don't know if it's good or not, but I scored 17.4872%. I think that

Well, I think that's good. ; ) I'm afraid I'm definitely not a geek.

Randy

55.81854% - Extreme Geek

Wouldn't tell me...I took the time and went through the whole thing and checked all the appropriate boxes, then found out that the "Submit" button required that I enable Javascript in my browser (why didn't they tell you that at the top of the page?), so I didn't bother to waste the time to fill the thing out again.

I guess that makes me a "Secure Geek".

just what you'd expect from someone with a ham radio call sign in his sig!

- iz ;)

tater schuld wrote:

29.38856% Total Geek (I think it was the Star Wars and Hobbit answers that got me that high)

steve