What are you exceptionally good at?

Computers, I think everyone here underestimates their experience in this regard. The population is mostly tech illiterate. Being able to navigate your way around windows, download music and the ability to a program a vcr does not make make you tech literate.

Having knowledge of a few programming languages, basic circuitry and digital logic knowledge, being able to build a computer from parts, familiarity with a command line on various operating systems, network competence would get you mostly into the upper percentiles. f
Most people have this in common here so your knowledge is rarely seems pronounced. Why do you think so many people ask us "Please can you fix my computer?"
 
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Kitchster_uk said:
Music. ABRSM grade 5 French Horn & Theory in primary school, ABRSM Grade 8 French Horn & Theory by 16. BMus (Hons) 2:1 - major in performance & LTCM. Tours of Italy (2), Spain, Czech Republic, Poland and Finland before I was 22. Play for a 1st section brass band, qualified for the National Finals in Harrogate this year. Conducted my first Brass Band contest at 16, coming in 2nd place. I also play bass guitar.

Not bad for a Banker ;)
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Nice .... I played French Horn from 7-18 although I didn't bother with grades after getting 6.
 
[TW]Fox;12974542 said:
Inadvertently annoying people on the internet.
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you cant annoy me so no :D

Greebo said:
Depends if your american or British.

Americans billions are 1,000,000,000 so 1% would be 67 million.

If your British then a billion is 1,000,000,000,000 so the answer would be 6700 million :p
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just no! 1billion is 1000 million thats just stupid i dont know where the **** that stupidity originated from (not directed at you)

like the ****'s who put a . instead of a , and write one thousand euro's like this 1.000EUR! by law i should be able to give them 1 euro and take whatever they sell!

mrbios said:
So either way if its 67million or 670million im in the top 1% for counter strike source, team fortress 2...and any other game i play as theres no game in the world that has 67million people playing it
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no because 1% of everyone who DO that activity, not the whole world
 
A billion is generally accepted as 1,000,000,000 those "british" you talk about are probably all almost dead, no one who does anything important would consider 1,000,000,000,000 to be a billion.
 
platinum87 said:
just no! 1billion is 1000 million thats just stupid i dont know where the **** that stupidity originated from (not directed at you)
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No, the american system of a billion been 1,000 million is stupid. For years, it was accepted that a billion was a million million. When I went to school in the 70's and 80's we were still taught that it was a million million.

In 1975 Chancellor Denis Healey announced that the treasury would adopt the US billion thenceforth to avoid "confusion" between financial statistics published in the two countries.

Interestly enough I beleive Russia, China and Brazil still define a billion as 100 million and have never gone over to the the American system.
 
Skyfall said:
A billion is generally accepted as 1,000,000,000 those "british" you talk about are probably all almost dead, no one who does anything important would consider 1,000,000,000,000 to be a billion.
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So anybody born before 1975 and Bristish is now dead? Hmmm, I must book my funeral. :rolleyes:

And because throughout history different countries have and even now still do not define a billion as 1,000,000,000 is the reason why anybody important (scientists) refer to big numbers as been 10 to the power of to avoid confusion.
 
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platinum87 said:
no because 1% of everyone who DO that activity, not the whole world
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the op didn't say anything about that, just about being in the top 1% on the planet ;)

if it is indeed the case that it only applies to 1% of the people who do that activity then i was once in the top 1% for counterstrike source, but probably nothing else :(
 
my Battlefield 2 commander score is in the top 0.7% :o that's no indication of skill, however; just addiction
 
if its top 1% of people playing then being no1 of the ngstats for deathmatch in UT for a while (admittedly there were better players out there, but not using stats) has to count. :D
 
Morba said:
you what?
sorry, but form some of the posts you have put on here in the past, i struggle to believe that at all.
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So because I like to take the pee a lot I can't be good at anything?
Since I was the only Quality Audit Technician at the Indesit Company that made certain cookers, by default I would be the worlds leading expert because nobody else did it.
Quite simple really.
 
dmpoole said:
So because I like to take the pee a lot I can't be good at anything?
Since I was the only Quality Audit Technician at the Indesit Company that made certain cookers, by default I would be the worlds leading expert because nobody else did it.
Quite simple really.
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no, not because you take the pee, that means nothing. but i struggle to find you held such a highly regarded job given your posts about other jobs and stuff.
 
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