typically weren’t considered handy in any other aspect of life. But what exactly is a geek and who is considered a geek in today’s day and age? Is it still a stigmatism to be considered a geek? And what makes a geek any different then, let’s say, a nerd? So what exactly is a geek? According to a typical google search of the word geek you are assigned a label of someone who is an unfashionable or a socially awkward person who is generally only obsessed with computers. But is that really all it is
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stated in a few of my posts during the week, before this course I was clueless to the world of accounting. I’ve had my assumptions, all of which are being proven to be wrong. My first assumption is that accountants were all nerds and that it was boring. Which either means I’m a nerd or this is actually an interesting and informative class; I believe it’s the latter. The required readings for the week were chapters one and three, which help lay the groundwork for the rest of the class. I scoured the Internet
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THE GEEK 354 West Walnut Ave. Dalton, GA 30720 (706) 123-1234 www.thegeek.com [pic] | | | |Jeremy Hickman |Georgia Hickman | |CEO |CFO
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Nerds With nerds being around so many years over time things are beginning to change in their subculture. Nerds in modern day are not like the use to be back in the days. Everything about them are evolving from lame to the point now you can barely notice them from any other person. They’re just trying to fit in just like any other subculture now days. Nerds are not the same now how they were back then. Everyone calls this subculture by many names mostly Nerds or Geeks. What about the nerds and
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MGT 190 Business Plan 1) Introduction A. This business plan introduces Nerd Patrol, a computer services company. It describes our plans to construct a successful LLP. B. Nerd Patrol is a computer and network services company. We provide a broad range of services that include hardware and software upgrades, hardware repairs, debugging software problems and dealing with network problems. C. We are eager to combine 15 years of professional computer systems and software engineering experience as
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Valentino Cervantes NT1110 Saturday AM Triumph of the Nerds Part I Synopsis Triumph of the Nerds is a biographical account of the inception of the personal computer. Narrated by Bob Cringely, we learn the history of the major players and contributors to the new personal computer era. Bob spends time telling the story of how the personal computer was developed and what it consisted of in its original state when it was a piece of ply wood and some circuits that you had to assemble and how it
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Tyler Miller used to be known as "Nerd Boy." Until, his junior year when he vandalized the school with spray paint. He left his wallet at the scene, therefore he got caught. He had to pay off thousands of dollars and work with the custodial staff the whole summer. He also worked at a landscaping business, which caused him to be very muscular instead of thin and scrawny. Tyler's father works with Bethany Milbury's father, Bethany being the girl he's liked since who knows when. On the last day of summer
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Triumph of The Nerds-Part 1 Bob Cringely “PC gossip columnist” Abstract Bob Cringely puts PC big shots and nerds on the spot, and tells their incredible true stories from his own Silicon Valley garage. Bob speaks about the emergence of the Personal Computer (PC), stimulating the “PC Revolution”. And it was all started by nerds. It happened more or less by accident; the people who made it happened were amateurs; and for the most part still are. Part 1 is entitled: IMPRESSING THEIR FRIENDS-They
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REACTION PAPER Prepared to: MS. AILEEN L. RILLON The Triumph of the Nerds is a documentary chronicles of the rise of the personal computer/home computer beginning in the 1970s with the Altair 8800, Apple I and Apple II and VisiCalc. It highlighted the progress and competitiveness of the market between companies like Microsoft, Apple, IBM, Xerox, and Lotus, just to name a few. It continues through the IBM PC and Apple Macintosh revolution through the 1980s and the mid 1990s, ending at the beginning
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Reaction Paper Triumph of the Nerds In the early 80's nobody really knew what a computer was. Many people probably never saw a computer in person. Bill Gates and Paul Allen are people whose work together to make today’s life easier as what Microsoft known. After the mild success of the Microsoft other people wanted to make computers as well. Two such men were Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs. They started a computer company out of a garage called Apple and set about to make a better computer. After
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