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Paul LoJ
Supreme Potentate
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jackspencerjr
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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 Posted - 05/01/2006 : 7:32:28 PM
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Terrahawk
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 05/02/2006 : 06:11:23 AM
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Does anyone else think that the 80's were really the Decade of the Nerd? You have a host of "science" movies where the nerds reign supreme. You also have a golden age of regular sci-fi films.
The ROPe gives you three options, convert, submit, or die. There is a fourth, resist. |
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MikeC
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 05/02/2006 : 06:52:44 AM
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I agree with Terrahawk: the Eighties were the beginning of
the Age of the Nerd Ascendant, at least in media.
In life, of course, for all the crowing about how the
nerds now rule the world, we know things are as they
always were: there are cool kids who put down the nerds.
Its just that, nowadays, the nerd is more likely to be
able to hit back, either via weird martial arts (learned
from things like anime) or by ruining the cool kids'
credit rating.
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Paul LoJ
Supreme Potentate
USA
420 Posts |
Posted - 05/02/2006 : 1:16:08 PM
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Originally posted by MikeC
I agree with Terrahawk: the Eighties were the beginning of
the Age of the Nerd Ascendant, at least in media.
"Ascendant" is an apt description. In an age where video games were cool to the general population, nerds started figuring out how to steal them through the phone lines[1].
And thus were the seeds of BitTorrent sown...
-Paul
[1] And change their grades. And avert nuclear holocausts...
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Terrahawk
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 05/02/2006 : 9:42:37 PM
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Originally posted by Paul LoJ
[1] And change their grades. And avert nuclear holocausts...
That would actually be, initiate the countdown to a nuclear holocaust and then manage to avert it. I loved that film.
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commodorejohn
Diocesan Ecclesiarch of the Sacred Order of Jabootu
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Posted - 05/11/2006 : 12:32:57 PM
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Originally posted by Terrahawk
Does anyone else think that the 80's were really the Decade of the Nerd? You have a host of "science" movies where the nerds reign supreme. You also have a golden age of regular sci-fi films.
The ROPe gives you three options, convert, submit, or die. There is a fourth, resist.
Not to mention that up to around '85 an aspiring nerd could get a foot in the door in the software industry by writing a game for his Commodore in 6502 assembler and publishers would snap it up.
...I was born about ten years too late. *sigh*
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Sardu
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 05/11/2006 : 9:20:23 PM
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Not to mention that up to around '85 an aspiring nerd could get a foot in the door in the software industry by writing a game for his Commodore in 6502 assembler and publishers would snap it up.
...I was born about ten years too late. *sigh*
You're not kidding. A friend of mine who's about 6 years older than me went to a trade school and spent maybe $2,000 on an Associate degree in Fortran and COBAL went straight into a county government programming job and now he makes about $75K a year or something keeping up databases on a PC.
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Eraserhead: The Musical!! |
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Capt. Nemo
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
630 Posts |
Posted - 05/11/2006 : 11:01:22 PM
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Originally posted by Sardu
You're not kidding. A friend of mine who's about 6 years older than me went to a trade school and spent maybe $2,000 on an Associate degree in Fortran and COBAL went straight into a county government programming job and now he makes about $75K a year or something keeping up databases on a PC.
Coming soon-
Eraserhead: The Musical!!
Wait a minute.
Did you say Government job?
Par for the course, wouldn't you say?
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Sardu
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 05/11/2006 : 11:20:56 PM
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Originally posted by Capt. Nemo
Wait a minute.
Did you say Government job?
Par for the course, wouldn't you say?
No, because the point is twenty-five years ago he really was a highly qualified specialist just because he could program on a main-frame. Now, the fact that he still has a job making tons of money even though the main-frames are gone- that's bureaucracy. Actually it may be that they still have some stuff lying around that's so archaic only he can deal with it...
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Eraserhead: The Musical!! |
Edited by - Sardu on 05/11/2006 11:22:12 PM |
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Jethro
Altar Boy of Jabootu
Australia
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Posted - 05/14/2006 : 7:04:35 PM
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Originally posted by Terrahawk
quote:
Originally posted by Paul LoJ
[1] And change their grades. And avert nuclear holocausts...
That would actually be, initiate the countdown to a nuclear holocaust and then manage to avert it. I loved that film.
The ROPe gives you three options, convert, submit, or die. There is a fourth, resist.
Or he could simply play a game of chess :) Also liked the movie... |
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John Nowak
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 05/14/2006 : 8:24:23 PM
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>Its just that, nowadays, the nerd is more likely to be
>able to hit back, either via weird martial arts (learned
>from things like anime) or by ruining the cool kids'
>credit rating.
Personally, I found that saying "Give me twenty dollars on Pump #3" was enough revenge.
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