Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Unless I've got the term wrong again, "Geeks" (previously a circus term) are the guys who build the computers. The guys you are deprecating are usually referred to by different insulting titles ... Mike Mxsmanic wrote: > Mike writes: > >> I don't know any geeks who don't use their computers. > > All the ones I know are that way. Running word or a game or something doesn't > count. Using a computer means keeping your company's accounting on it, or > keeping your daily accounting on it, or doing anything that actually requires > that the computer be regularly up and running. Geeks cannot afford to do any > of > that, as their computers are too often unusable due to hardware and software > upgrades.