Word: geeking
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...find the best machine? Easy: I ask my geek friends. For the past few years, they've all said the same thing: the Millennia, from Micron Electronics. And they're right. I bought my first Millennia two years ago and a second this year, ordering through the micronpc.com website. It's the king of PCs. The machine is solid--no tinny clicks and clatters when it does its microprocessing--and it never fails, no matter how much junk...
Instead, some pencil-pushing, pencil-necked geek locked in a basement room at The Seattle Times is helping to determine who plays for the national championship by his computer program. And in a sick way, it's probably fairer. Florida State lost to North Carolina State 24-7 in Week Two and the voters forgave and forgot. Kansas State lost 36-33 Dec. 5 and it was screwed...
...technology, allowing the secure transmission of any information that is meant to be safe from prying Internet eyes. It is SSL, for example, that secures the transmission of the course grades you can retrieve from the Harvard Registrar's on-line site, thus making sure that your nosy computer-geek roommate has no way of knowing how you did in Expos...
...marrying Netscape and taking Sun as a mistress, that's how. Netscape gives Case both a battalion of geek programmers and the software they've been working on, from industrial-strength Web tools to the back-office e-commerce programs that Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale was peddling to corporate customers before he abruptly, and wisely, folded his cards...
...marketing wizardry, Gates blundered in displaying the same attitude that doomed certain robber barons. As writer Ambrose Bierce once gibed of Hearst, "Nobody but God loves him, and he knows it." Likewise, Gates' Xanadu has helped transform the boyishly charming geek into the Microsoft Monster, who is being chased by torch-bearing mobs brandishing antitrust suits. Nowhere in Gates' overwired palace is there a program to inform him how to act in the nation he lives in: the U.S. of A., in which throngs cheered the heavy-metal band Motorhead when it performed Eat the Rich and where Garth Brooks...