Ever since Broderick played a hacker who got chased around by "the government" in the hit 80's movie "Wargames", all us American geeks have this weird fantasy about "the government" wanting our brains and being willing to kill for our knowledge. Many movies since then have picked up on this fantasy and encouraged the same sort of thinking, "The Matrix", "Hackers", and "Yentl" being prime examples.
In any event, I don't think it's so much a disassociation from being part of the bigger global picture so much as a simple, yet perverse desire to be stalked by men in dark suits, ties, and shades, sporting semiautomatic pistols with silencers. A desire to be James Bond with a PalmPilot running an home-brew OS while dot matrix printers at the homestead are printing out reams of secret government documents onto green-striped paper. "The government" isn't the US government, but rather the fictional organizations contrived in these movies, internalized into geek fantasy.
I guess the sarcasm got lost when the post I actually responded to got modded out to -1/flamebait. Now my reply looks mean-spirited towards someone I agreed with...:( Ugh.
Wow, just 4 megs of memory? Good heavens, they're actually going to back down from their current fairly common configuration of 8 megs for the next generation of Palms? Well, I guess with memory prices so high, and ever increasing(!), you must be right. Combine that with the inherent limitation in ARM processors which only allows 22-bit addressing? You're right, only a celibate "fart-knocker" would run X-Windows on a Palm-sized device.
"Liberals... claim to be open, but bitch about everything."
You contrast being "open" with "bitch[ing] about everything". I'm not sure I understand the relationship here. Stating an opinion, or "bitching", is what open debate is all about. It is a lack of truly listening that is closed-minded.
On the other hand, bitching that some group "bitch[es] about everything" may reveal a lack of introspection. With introspection comes empathy, and from empathy, open-mindedness.
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Ever since Broderick played a hacker who got chased around by "the government" in the hit 80's movie "Wargames", all us American geeks have this weird fantasy about "the government" wanting our brains and being willing to kill for our knowledge. Many movies since then have picked up on this fantasy and encouraged the same sort of thinking, "The Matrix", "Hackers", and "Yentl" being prime examples. In any event, I don't think it's so much a disassociation from being part of the bigger global picture so much as a simple, yet perverse desire to be stalked by men in dark suits, ties, and shades, sporting semiautomatic pistols with silencers. A desire to be James Bond with a PalmPilot running an home-brew OS while dot matrix printers at the homestead are printing out reams of secret government documents onto green-striped paper. "The government" isn't the US government, but rather the fictional organizations contrived in these movies, internalized into geek fantasy.
I guess the sarcasm got lost when the post I actually responded to got modded out to -1/flamebait. Now my reply looks mean-spirited towards someone I agreed with... :( Ugh.
Wow, just 4 megs of memory? Good heavens, they're actually going to back down from their current fairly common configuration of 8 megs for the next generation of Palms? Well, I guess with memory prices so high, and ever increasing(!), you must be right. Combine that with the inherent limitation in ARM processors which only allows 22-bit addressing? You're right, only a celibate "fart-knocker" would run X-Windows on a Palm-sized device.
Why must everyone who posts complaining about something be guilty of their own complaint! Of course I NEVER make such mistakes.
"Liberals... claim to be open, but bitch about everything." You contrast being "open" with "bitch[ing] about everything". I'm not sure I understand the relationship here. Stating an opinion, or "bitching", is what open debate is all about. It is a lack of truly listening that is closed-minded. On the other hand, bitching that some group "bitch[es] about everything" may reveal a lack of introspection. With introspection comes empathy, and from empathy, open-mindedness.
They make less, actually. Team sizes on games in Japan are HUGE compared to the programming teams in the US.