| DRUG DEALERS |
SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS |
| Refer to their clients as "users." |
Refer to their clients as "users." |
| "The first one's free!" |
"Download a free trial version..." |
| Have important South-East Asian connections (to help move the stuff.) |
Have important South-East Asian connections (to help debug the stuff) |
| Realize that there's tons of cash in the 14 to 25-year-old market. |
Realize that there's tons of cash in the 14 to 25-year-old market. |
| Your clients really like your stuff when it works. When it doesn't
work they want to kill you. |
Your clients really like your stuff when it works. When it doesn't
work they want to kill you. |
| Job is assisted by the industry producing newer, more potent products. |
Job is assisted by the industry producing newer, more potent products. |
| When things go wrong, a "fix" is just a phone call away, but may
be expensive. |
When things go wrong, a "fix" is just a phone call away, but may
be expensive. |
| Alot of successful people getting rich in the industry while still
teenagers. |
Alot of successful people getting rich in the industry while still
teenagers. |
| Their product causes unhealthy addictions. |
Doom. Quake. SimCity. Duke Nukem 3D. 'Nuff said. |
| Do your job well, and you can sleep with sexy movie stars who depend on
you. |
Damn! Damn! DAMN!!! |
| Strange jargon: "Stick"
"Rock"
"Wrap"
"E"
"Stash"
"Drive by"
"Hit (LSD)"
"Source"
"The Pigs" |
Strange jargon: "SCSI"
"RTMF"
"Packet"
"C"
"Cache"
"CTRL ALT DEL"
"Hit (WWW)"
"Source code"
"Microsoft" |