The underlying theme of the Matrix was about the human condition.
It was about a bunch of sheep waking up each day, heading to the office at 8am and clocking out at 5pm to drive home to the little nuclear family in the new minivan.
People are slaves to life, following rules layed down by unseen forces because "that's the way things are". Hackers don't follow these rules, nor do most geeks.
Do geeks generally wake up and head to the office at 8am each morning like good little wage slaves trying to pay off that new mercedes benz? Rarely. We work when we feel like heading in for the day, and while money is necessary to survive, we generally do it for the challenge.
It's why we're geeks and not suits.
The Matrix summed this up well. A whole world of slaves trapped in their own minds, following the "be a team player" rules layed down by unseen masters.
Except for our hero hackers that break out of the "system" and lead an existance not confined to pointless rules.
I think that makes the Matrix a very good geek movie.
The mouse isn't using the the same method sun's mice used to track. Looks like they're taking snapshots of the surface the mouse is on(like 1500 a second) and using the differences in the snapshots to move the mouse pointer.
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The underlying theme of the Matrix was about the human condition.
It was about a bunch of sheep waking up each day, heading to the office at 8am and clocking out at 5pm to drive home to the little nuclear family in the new minivan.
People are slaves to life, following rules layed down by unseen forces because "that's the way things are". Hackers don't follow these rules, nor do most geeks.
Do geeks generally wake up and head to the office at 8am each morning like good little wage slaves trying to pay off that new mercedes benz? Rarely. We work when we feel like heading in for the day, and while money is necessary to survive, we generally do it for the challenge.
It's why we're geeks and not suits.
The Matrix summed this up well. A whole world of slaves trapped in their own minds, following the "be a team player" rules layed down by unseen masters.
Except for our hero hackers that break out of the "system" and lead an existance not confined to pointless rules.
I think that makes the Matrix a very good geek movie.
Admitably it has its flaws.
-Synn
Started with Java a few years back and I really love the language.
I've just never seen an application for it.
Dunno if Sun helped kill it, or if the hype outshined it's ability. But as a web application developer I've found zero use for Java.
PHP3, Perl and stock html are the only way to go.
I don't mean to bash Java the language, I just really would have liked to have seen it go from being Sun's Java to a Useful Java.
Anyway, if you're into Java and have never used Visual Age I'd _highly_ recommend it.
I've used just about all the Java IDE's and VAJ was the best when it came to glueing together applications visually.
You can wire buttons to text boxes that take input from function calls on other visual elements(like a select box), all without editing code.
Very nice. Get's you into the mindset of writing independant functions and just visual pulling them together.
Only down side was that IBM took their sweet time keeping up with the Java revs.
The mouse isn't using the the same method sun's mice used to track. Looks like they're taking snapshots of the surface the mouse is on(like 1500 a second) and using the differences in the snapshots to move the mouse pointer.
Anyone got a mirror? I want to kicked this one out to a trainee of mine and with a straight face tell him to study it.
The UF support site just put up that it looks like it was a joke.
We can all breath a little easier now. Wonder if Illiad had figured on so much of a fuss being raised over it.