Gender Benders...........

Computers: Male or female?

As you are aware, ships have long been characterized
as being female (e.g., "Steady as she goes", or "She's
listing to starboard, Captain!").

Recently, a group of computer scientists (all male)
announced that computers should also be referred to as
being female. Their reasons for drawing this
conclusion follow:

Reasons to believe computers are female:

1. No one but the Creator understands their internal
logic.

2. The native language they use to communicate with
other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else.

3. The message "Bad command or file name" is about as
informative as, "If you don't know why I'm mad at you,
then I'm certainly not going to tell you".

4. Even your smallest mistakes are stored in long-term
memory for later retrieval.

5. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find
yourself spending half your paycheck on accessories
for it.

However, another group of computer scientists (all
female) think that computers should be referred to as
if they were male. Their reasons follow:

Reasons to believe computers are male:

1. They have a lot of data, but are still clueless.

2. They are supposed to help you solve problems, but
half the time they are the problem.

3. As soon as you commit to one you realize that, if
you had waited a little longer, you could have
obtained a better model.

4. In order to get their attention, you have to turn
them on