Word: geeks
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...WERE A BOOKISH BOY. TODAY, YOU MIGHT BE CALLED A GEEK. [Laughs] I've heard that word, but I never knew what it meant. In my childhood, there were others that were as assiduous as I was and some more learned than I. I was not unusual, not in my time...
...self-deprecating world of Japanese business, Horie was a loud sign that screamed ?love me, love my money.? The chubby, self-described geek eschewed business suits for designer t-shirts and $400 jeans. He drove a Ferrari and dated models and actresses. One day he bought a racehorse; on another he announced a private space tourism venture; on another he said he was reocrding a music CD. ?I don?t think I?m going to die,? he wrote in one of his books. ?At the current rate of scientific research, isn?t it possible that they?ll come up with...
...laptop with a nice keyboard, a big screen, compatibility with all websites and e-mail providers, and access to other stuff the 770 can't pull off just yet, such as Windows Media 10 audio and video content from Yahoo! and others. The 770 is a bit of a geek's toy, but one even a borderline geek could get the hang of. Just make sure you've got great eyesight, and a willingness to periodically update system software...
...Gates to change his mind. Bill and his wife Melinda, another computer nerd turned poverty warrior, love facts and data with a tenderness most people reserve for their children, and Bono was hurling metrics across the table as fast as they could keep up. "He was every bit the geek that we are," says Gates Foundation chief Patty Stonesifer, who helped broker that first summit. "He just happens to be a geek who is a fantastic musician...
...third quarter of 2005. In that period, the Razr accounted for 1 in 25 phones sold by any major carrier. The Razr is on track to surpass the best-selling phone of all time, Motorola's StarTAC. If that phone, the world's first clamshell, was Motorola at its geek-chic best, the Razr is just chic. Initially sold in silver, a black Razr made its debut as a gift to nominees at the Academy Awards this February. For Christmas, the company is selling the hot-pink Razr, promoted mainly as a red-carpet accessory to Hollywood starlets...