They're not cool, they're all nerds. We are all nerds. No one were geeks or nerds, they were just interested in things.
It just means you're very, very interested in things and you have a lot of knowledge about it. They're very passionate about comic books, they're very passionate about what they wear, they're very passionate about their work. You see a lot of people living their lives in the middle. These guys don't. They don't live their life in the middle, they go for whatever they want.
And of course, according to the regular society it's really not the norm, but I think we share that similarity: I'm very passionate about my craft and my acting, and these guys are very passionate about astrophysics," Nayyar said.
Share this on:. I think being a geek is cool A geek has an ownership of their geek nature --Jerry Holkins. So the term 'geek' or 'nerd,' it really just transcends to someone who's very passionate about a certain lifestyle. Most Popular.
Fine art from an iPhone? The best Instagram photos from After IVF shock, mom gives birth to two sets of identical twins. Inside North Korea: Water park, sacred birth site and some minders. Oh yeah, the bizarre origin stories we were talking about.
This word is the youngest of the four, found in the s. In an odd book called The Lizzard of Ozz , an author named Dr. Rufus T. This spelling of dorque suggests a connection to Dorque , a s slang nickname for a solider.
Dork went on to mean people who do silly, ridiculous things. Butthead , anyone? Could the s have anything to do with that? The most frequently cited story is that Dr. Nerd had to have been around before Seuss, but the doc certainly made it more popular. Etymologists think nerd has a combination of influences , in addition to Dr. Seuss and possibly informing his own use.
Technological prowess was never a requirement to be a nerd ; only that the nerd be extremely intelligent in any academic area to which they paid attention while ignoring the trivial social scene. The more pressing issue on mobile devices for Flutter devs is still trying to reduce "jank" — lag created by shader compilation. The Philippines' Department of Foreign Affairs DFA has disabled its online passport application tracker, citing a "data privacy issue" and hinting that information could have leaked.
The Philippines requires citizens to use the site, which launched only a couple of months ago, to apply for a passport — walk-in applications are allowed only under exceptional circumstances. However, at time of writing, the tracker is returning a error. The US government sued Uber this week, claiming the ride-hailing app giant unfairly charges disabled riders waiting fees if they need extra time to get into vehicles.
A surcharge is added on top of a ride fare if a passenger takes longer than two minutes to enter a vehicle after it arrives. Uber added wait time fees in some US cities in before expanding the policy across the country. These fees, however, discriminate against people with mobility or visibility issues, federal prosecutors argue. When her Uber arrived, her wheelchair needed to be folded away into the vehicle, and a nursing assistant helped her into the car. The whole process took about five minutes.
Microsoft Windows 11 build appears to prevent links associated with the Microsoft Edge browser from being handled by third-party applications, a change one developer argues is anticompetitive.
Back in , Daniel Aleksandersen created a free helper application called EdgeDeflector to counter behavioral changes Microsoft made in the way Windows handles mouse clicks on certain web links. But there are ways to register a custom protocol handler, for operating systems and web browsers , that defines the scheme to access a given resource URI. Jointly US-Dutch owned Booking. The alleged miscreant, named as "Andrew", is said to have stolen "details of thousands of hotel reservations in countries in the Middle East," according to a new book written by three Dutch journalists.
Helpfully for non-Francophones, the homepage and much of the info is in English — although saying that, just to warn you, the same isn't true of all the background information and the various organisational pages we're about to link to. Hewlett Packard Enterprise has bagged a contract to build a supercomputer for the United Weather Centres — West, the remit being to help improve the accuracy of forecasts in Northern Europe.
The Register - Independent news and views for the tech community. Part of Situation Publishing. Review and manage your consent Here's an overview of our use of cookies, similar technologies and how to manage them. Manage Cookie Preferences Necessary. Always active Read more These cookies are strictly necessary so that you can navigate the site as normal and use all features. Sign in. Topics Security. Resources Whitepapers Webinars Newsletters.
Get our Tech Resources.
0コメント