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Nick Burns: Fixes Your Computer, Makes Fun of You

2008-04-24 09:00:52 by geeksugar in geeksugar -- Geek is chic.
 
...Nick Burns, or "Your Company's Computer Guy," is one of my favorite SNL characters ever he would fix your computer, and then degrade you as only a bored IT guy can. Sadly, I have to say that Nick Burns is a too-often true stereotype. What is it about that job? I have had an IT guy treat me like I was a luddite, but luckily, the Sugar HQ...
 
Tags: nick burns, nick, nick burns experience, computer, guy, guy treat, computer guy, favorite snl characters, 2000-era jamie foxx
 
 
 
 
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Nick Taleb's 'The Black Swan' Rules

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2008-01-14 16:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
...Nick's insights and actually make money in the market I guess that's why he's rich and retired and writing bestsellers while I'm still passing gas and producing this virtual rag But I digress Here's the Financial Times story. Beware of the 'black swan' effect Nassim Taleb's bestseller has had a salutary effect on investors' awareness of risk...
 
Tags: black swan, taleb, negative black swan, talebs, talebs ruminations, market, market participants interact, nick, book deals
 
 
 
 
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Nick Neg says Intel undermined the OLPC, likens company to alcoholic

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2008-01-09 16:01:44 by admin in Cool Gadgets and Gizmos
...Nick says of Intel: They were selling laptop with their brand on it directly to exactly the same people we were talking to. They would go in even after we had signed contracts and try to persuade government officials to scrap their contract and sign a contract with them instead. Thats not a partnership. Apparently OLPC had six million dollars...
 
Tags: olpc, block olpc sales, intel, nick, nick neg, olpc customers, apparently olpc, underhand sales tactics, persuade government officials
 
 
 
 
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Nick Neg says Intel "undermined" the OLPC, likens company to alcoholic

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2008-01-09 08:15:00 by Paul Miller in Engadget
...Nick says of Intel: "They were selling laptop with their brand on it directly to exactly the same people we were talking to. They would go in even after we had signed contracts and try to persuade government officials to scrap their contract and sign a contract with them instead. That's not a partnership." Apparently OLPC had six million...
 
Tags: olpc, intel, block olpc sales, nick, olpc customers, nick neg, apparently olpc, underhand sales tactics, persuade government officials
 
 
 
 
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English novelist Nick Hornby on eBook readers

2008-07-07 12:56:44 by John Brownlee in Boing Boing Gadgets
 
...Nick Hornby, in which he level-headedly points out all the little niggling problems that face ebook readers in gaining mass acceptance. Some of the points are elegantly restated tropes of the anti-ebook argument ("Book lovers love books as a form of medium, where as music lovers are ambivalent to CDs and only really were ever passionate about...
 
Tags: ebook readers, assume ebook readers, music, music lovers, books, penguin books, nick hornby, music industrys, mass acceptance
 
 
 
 
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Nick Hornby on why eBook readers are not the new iPods

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2008-07-04 10:53:00 by Shinykatie in Shiny Shiny
...Nick Hornby's got in on the eBook bashing act, writing a guest post for thh Penguin blog about why the eBook has a long way to go before it's even close to replacing books. What's interesting about his column is that although he points out the obvious failings of eBook readers that we've all managed to spot, he also makes some very obvious -...
 
Tags: ebook readers, ebook, nick hornby, thh penguin blog, obvious, obvious failings, philippe starck, guest post, average geek
 
 
 
 
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Author Nick Hornby not feeling the fever pitch over e-books

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2008-07-05 22:10:00 by Joshua Fruhlinger in Engadget
...Nick Hornby isn't so into e-books . After walking into a British Borders book store to find the 399 ($790) Iliad for sale next to some 4 paperbacks, he poo-poo'd the platform in a guest column on the Penguin Blog. So here we have a book author blogging on a book publisher's site about the downfalls of a technology that could supplant his...
 
Tags: e-books, books, book readers, book, author nick hornby, book author, book publisher, fancy schmancy doohickeys, portable entertainment devices
 
 
 
 
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Nickelodeon/MTVN Kids & Family Group to Launch 3 Mobile Sites

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2008-03-24 11:03:30 by Patrick Birmingham in Cell Phone Digest
Nickelodeon/MTVN Kids and Family Group today announced the launch of three new mobile websites that provide easily accessible information and resources to audiences on wireless devices through branded content from Nickelodeon, The N and ParentsConnect The new mobile websites focus on Nickelodeon/MTVN Kids and Family Group's target demos: kids...
 
Tags: kids, parentsconnect, parentsconnect mobile website, mobile website, nick, parents, nick mobile website, parents access, games
 
 
 
 
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The Invisible on DVD

2008-02-21 19:55:39 by Dee in CybersView
 
...Nick Powell who seems on top of the world as he prepares to graduate from high school. Chatwin has also had roles in War of the Worlds, Smallville, Weeds and Lost. His character in this movie was a bit tortured and flat at first, but he grows on you His best friend Pete played by Chris Marquette of Strong Medicine and Joan of Arcadia is one...
 
Tags: nick, pete accuses nick, involves nick, movie, movie develops, annie, bad apple, friend pete, margarita levieva
 
 
 
 
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Iron Man a strong start to overall cinematic Marvel universe

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