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The geeks I wanted to understand were the ones who were doing what they wanted to do, not where their job or money had taken them.

Mr Gray was as big a celebrity among computer geeks as Mr Fossett is among thrill-seekers, and the story played out in the same way.

We think geeks will appreciate the power of being able to start a fire with such a simple tool.

Finally, I'll be able to get away from all you nerdy tech geeks and hang-out with real men!

Computer geeks being what they are, the term is often used as a verb: "That machine won't even POST, so we should swap the memory. "

In its story and its execution, TRON: Legacy is the sort of film that tech geeks yearn to see.

He said he was sometimes recognised on the street, but mostly by "geeks and wonks" .

One of the sketchy ideas I had at the beginning of all of this was a sort of "Seven Habits of Super Effective Geeks" .

He offers this as a special case of the idea that geeks seem to be able to find each other across national, language and cultural barriers.

Recalling the days of tweaking, Mac geeks come out with killer Terminal tweaks, some are very useful, some are plain amazing.

The internet is no longer a geeks' affair in the rich world, but woven into the fabric of business and life even in the poor one.

Emoney is no longer just a matter of geeks playing games.

They think about customers all the time and do not try to invent convoluted stuff that can only be understood and appreciated by geeks.

The "tagging" that Flickr and Del. icio. us offer is still far from the mainstream, and are mostly used by hard-core technology geeks.

Leading Geeks describes the beliefs and behavior of geeks, their group dynamics, and the unique nature of technical work.

Its criminal creators have so far adapted it to surmount all the obstacles put up by the firm's security geeks.

And for most people, geeks or not, modern life is just this incredibly complex problem amenable to no good obvious solution.

Gadgets are no longer just for geeks, and if technology is to appeal to a broad audience, simplicity trumps fancy specifications.

As for the geeks, Mr Koelbeck said iPad-bashing was an identity statement, but the device also had the capacity to divide geeks.

Coffee. Well, I don't actually talk about this much, but I do love coffee, and I know that coffee geeks are very annoying.

Komanoff's work may not have made him a celebrity, but his rigor gained him a reputation within the rarefied world of traffic geeks.

And he observes that a fascination with free software seems to link together geeks of all cultures.

Nevertheless, enterprising British geeks have been exploring less serious applications for the Oyster Card over the past few years.

Most of the geeks here say they expected Facebook to be about sharing photos, videos, and thoughts with friends and family.

Over the last five years, an eclectic bunch of electronics tinkerers, designers, and geeks have coalesced around a new self-identification.

Even for computer-geeks and web-workers, going places and running errands is still a necessary part of life.

And, geeks point out, the computing world has now become so interconnected that it will be hard for a single company to control it.

Technology industries are rife with toxic managers, especially brilliant, warped geeks responsible for creating breakthrough technology.

Just two years ago, smartphones were viewed as expensive toys for geeks and Apple fan boys. No longer.

She adopted the trappings of student government kids, alternative potheads, debate geeks, jocks, partiers, and ultimately mean cheerleaders.

This myth is the basis for one of the most classic mistakes that geeks make when pitching their ideas.

Not only does it pinch some of Google's best geeks; it even pinched one of its best cooks.

As a result, Newegg built a massive army of geeks who generated content and provided an extremely valuable experience to its users.

I used to think that insurance companies employed geeks who spent their days calculating compound probabilities.

"Only geeks care about this stuff, " says Dr Cerf.

It is migrants, rather than geeks, who have emerged as the "most aggressive" adopters of new communications tools, says Ms Broadbent.

Generally it is better to be a nerd rather than a geek. Only real geeks and nerds know why.

For geeks, OpenID is an open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric digital identity.

Where the cloud touches down is not just the business of the geeks.

As I mentioned, Mathew's code is quite good. It shows a level of skill that most part-time web geeks might find difficult to attain.

This show about four geeks and a less intelligent beauty always hits the spot.

Indeed, geeks have coined a word, "Googlearchy" , for the way in which search engines encourage web traffic towards the most popular sites.

Nature loves chaos when it pushes systems toward equilibrium, and geeks call this universal property entropy.

"It's what geeks do, " she said.

Geeks are no longer revered as gods amongst humanity for our ability to manipulate computers.

Currency geeks, mark your calendars: The 25th anniversary for that historic pact is next Wednesday, Sept.

For too long we have tried to sell action figures and lunch boxes to overweight "geeks" and "nerds" .

Or is an unaffiliated rogue group of China tech geeks going after the personal mails of prominent Americans?

The most important industry of the 21st century , computers and IT, has been at least partly created by geeks.

Almost everyone has a presence on Facebook, including Web developers, business managers, and social geeks.

Geeks use up a lot of network resources, try to find ways around rules, and create problems for tech support.

A lot of geeks I know like to say that our smartphones are becoming more and more like the Tricorders on Star Trek.

In "Geeks, " this information is remarkably well organized, but it still feels dizzying.

Apple is not for the mass market but the tech geeks and elites who don't care about the lack of China-specific content.

And without the web, the internet would have remained essentially a tool for geeks and professionals.

Cosmologists hope gamers, programmers, computer scientists and geeks-of-all-trades can help them identify evidence of dark matter.

NBA stat geeks tend to employ all sorts of methods and measures to argue whether a given player is good, bad or just average.

The carrier could flirt with the geeks to boost its profile, attracting developers and creative types.

The ones who are, it appears, are mostly male students and geeks (which, for the record, is a term of affection at ReadWriteWeb).

Until recently, the technical detail of derivatives excited only financial geeks.

These geeks in suits, working in the basements of trading companies, are the hackers of the '90s.

but I'd like to limit the number of museum geeks.

TV geeks will see differences among the two technologies in areas such as contrast, color saturation and brightness.

Just because you're great in sports and really handsome and get all the pretty girls doesn't mean you can pick on the less-fortunate geeks.

But those same geeks beamed this week when NASA revealed its plans for its next generation heavy-lift booster.

Those boys who do work hard and apply themselves are criticised and sneered at, called 'geeks' and 'nerds'.

This is not just a question for geeks.

On Wall Street, the math geeks are known as quants.

Until the mid-1990s they were largely ghettos for geeks who hid behind online aliases.

To really know if you are part of this proud parental pack of geeks, read on. . .

The results pointed to a cultural shift in the way Americans perceive geeks.

Until some robotics geeks and an army of Osage natives learn to fight back.

His short-story collection, Palo Alto, about a bunch of California freaks and geeks, hits bookstores on Oct.

Reaching this computing nirvana, however, will require action -- and not just by bearded geeks.

I'm not a technically-inclined person atall; I didn't think I'd have anything in common with the geeks Mike talked of.

Google and the geeks from Silicon Valley aim to revolutionize the 70-year-old TV industry. Conquering the Internet was easy in comparison.

One of the reasons there's a chasm between geeks and mangers is that managers sometimes forget who they are and what they did.

Its appeal transcends geeks. So when we came across this cool Darth Vader USB Flash Drive, we were at once hooked on.

And be careful, your genes are in danger. Will geeks become endangered species?

Of the people surveyed by the Opinion Research Group for Modis' study, 17 percent said they were geeks.

Until now, the issue of cybersecurity has largely been the domain of computer geeks.

I once heard a decidedly non-technical Marketing VP call out "data geeks" in the audience.

The technology boom has turned many young geeks into millionaires.

The rise of the cloud is more than just another platform shift that gets geeks excited.

Geeks go a little too far by focusing on only one topic.

GEEKS are salivating with anticipation.

MH: I'm mainly active within my loco, coordinating parties, hostingevents, cooking for herds of geeks.

They believe that people who read are nerds, geeks or bookworms.

At the same time, the survey showed self-identified geeks are not as fond of the label "nerd. "

Things that only geeks who have delved too greedily and too deep could ever discover.

For bike geeks, no event can match Sea Otter's mix of racing action and pure gear porn.

A specter is haunting Western wine geeks: the prospect of 1 billion Chinese people besotted with wine.

Brain geeks call this response inhibition.

Do geeks wear T-shirts more than other pockets of consumers?

Geeks also have brainy interests, usually in tech.

Yet the Android "ecosystem" , as geeks call it, is also facing growing challenges.

Carol: Brains, four eyes, nerds, geeks .

No matter how hard programmers try, their UIs look like they are designed by geeks.

Jobs and Woz unveiled the prototype to their fellow tech geeks at the home brew computer club in 1976.

Most geeks and nerds are also computer gammers.

We've never tried this, but as geeks, it seems pretty neat.

Geeks like awesome tech toys and the iPhone is certainly that.

With their spreadsheets and teams of math geeks, investment bankers like to show their deal work as a kind of deep science.

Feedback from tech geeks is not bad: good signal strength and battery talk time as long as 4. 5 hours.

Framing the talk, he asks, "Why do geeks look alike? "

If you have wee geeks, you need to check out our Little Star Wars costumes for the best Halloween bit ever.

We can look forward to more, different and greater delights from technology, rather than more tools built by geeks for geeks.

No diploma Wizards geeks out there, but are few.

Bitcoin has got geeks excited. What about economists?

This watch looks designed especially for science geeks, because it displays the time on nixie tubes.

Joey: Okay, hey, museum geeks, party's over.

Some geeks buy and install Bluetooth adapters for their PC's to wirelessly communicate with their mobile phones.

We despise geeks - but we are also intimidated by them, and they retain a powerful influence on our thinking.

Gucci: Oh, no, I don't want to know any more geeks like you.

They're all nerds or geeks or Ugly Betty-types.

Geeks understand the importance of towels.

Hey, museum geeks! Party's over.

Geeks and nerds are usually weak and small because they don't get enough exercise.

The term blogosphere is used by journalists and computer geeks alike.

Not all of them are so-called game geeks.

That is why geeks flock to Silicon Valley and financiers converge on New York.

Dave: I know what you mean. I can't stand computer geeks.

For math geeks, this is standard exponential decay.

The geeks grew up, and it wasn't so bad.

The Library Bar is a very nice place for geeks to hang out.

Also, we are the worst kinds of Geeks and Nerds, but that wasn't news to anyone.

Akihabara now boasts around 30 maid cafes that cater not just to male geeks but also to couples, tourists and the merely curious.

Development geeks rave about the benefits of adding iodine and other micronutrients (such as vitamin A, iron, zinc and folic acid) to diets.

We seek out and amplify the "faint signals" from the alpha geeks who are xcl ating the future, and report on it here.

They are not geeks. They are also interested in singing, dancing, and so on. They are excellent, and they can always help me a lot.

A friend of mine and myself were somehow the "geeks" in our school class, and he told me something about SuSE, so we tried SuSE 9. 0.

Geeks, technophiles, and IT pros tend to love this approach because they still control their own data and have local copies of everything.

Fooling Houdini: Magicians, Mentalists, Math Geeks, and the Hidden Powers of the Mind

Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho

Freaks and Geeks: The Complete Series - Limited Yearbook Edition

With Thomas, R. , "Geeks and Geezers" , Harvard Business School Press, 2002

The Difference Between Geeks And Nerds [Humor]

man , those musical geeks , they ' re gonna eat you alive