It's amusing that l337 speak has been so long out of style so long that it's made a comeback by not only being embraced, but extended. You've missed the whole point of the strip, which resonates with gaming nerds of all ages. For the Steve Wozzes, Roberta Williamses, John Carmacks and the rest of the incidental programmers, it was always about the addiction and the fun. Perhaps it was Pong, Adventure, King's Quest, NetHack, Zork, Neuromancer, Civilization, DOOM, mudding, Quake or Everquest. From the typing of buggy programs out of Byte, to the pre-SLS days of having to port programs your owned damned self to run anything on Linux, to those who painfully create Klingon fonts for LaTeX, there have always been the nerd's nerds, shunned even by the more earnest technical elite. Perhaps they're not always the most technically savvy of folk, and certainly they don't give a damn about contributing to the greater good of open source, but each in their own way a slave to the temple of Turing. BBoCS shows that the spirit is alive and well.
My favorite webcomic recently came to an end. Apparently, the author decided to get a life. *sniff* Still, I always felt that the lifestyle depicted in there hit a little too close to home.
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Can you imagine if patent law had been around when the periodic table was being fleshed out?
http://www.linuxiso.org/distro.php?distro=7
Why not just download the ISO again? Oh. Yeah. Printed documentation. Uh huh.
Oh my dear boy. Despite what you may read on the Bad Boys of Computer Science message boards, people were l337 and hacking Rogue back in 1985.
Rogue Source circa 1985
It's amusing that l337 speak has been so long out of style so long that it's made a comeback by not only being embraced, but extended. You've missed the whole point of the strip, which resonates with gaming nerds of all ages. For the Steve Wozzes, Roberta Williamses, John Carmacks and the rest of the incidental programmers, it was always about the addiction and the fun. Perhaps it was Pong, Adventure, King's Quest, NetHack, Zork, Neuromancer, Civilization, DOOM, mudding, Quake or Everquest. From the typing of buggy programs out of Byte, to the pre-SLS days of having to port programs your owned damned self to run anything on Linux, to those who painfully create Klingon fonts for LaTeX, there have always been the nerd's nerds, shunned even by the more earnest technical elite. Perhaps they're not always the most technically savvy of folk, and certainly they don't give a damn about contributing to the greater good of open source, but each in their own way a slave to the temple of Turing. BBoCS shows that the spirit is alive and well.
My favorite webcomic recently came to an end. Apparently, the author decided to get a life. *sniff* Still, I always felt that the lifestyle depicted in there hit a little too close to home.
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