[dfxm12]

Hackers shows the career guys as lame and high strung, but the hobbyists (or as Razor and Blade put it, those hacking as a survival trait) as cool and having fun. It's easy for something fun to have the fun sucked out of it when it becomes a career.

I think a part of the hacker sub-culture that Hackers touches on lightly is that you have to make your own space. It's not going to exist for you in some prepackaged easy to consume way and certainly not in a corporation. Cyberdelia was for & by hackers, not a club run by some guy who has a bunch of cookie cutter clubs all over downtown. I don't think this is unique to the hacker sub culture, either.

[antihero]

Today at lunch I dyed my hair orange and then went back to my SAP consulting engagement.

[ethbr0]

I'm surprised your SAP admin approved that change request.

[jprd]

What you fail to realize, is that you will soon re-dye your hair to fit into the approved SAP workflow. Silly non-German with your thoughts of non-conformity.

[itintheory]

> Hackers shows the career guys as lame and high strung, but the hobbyists (or as Razor and Blade put it, those hacking as a survival trait) as cool and having fun.

I think The Plague was having fun.

[eddieroger]

He was only having fun when he was playing cat and mouse with the hackers (or just playing with Lorraine Bracco). When he was in his office being a boring IT guy, he was not enjoying it, nor was Penn Jillette when the Gibson was under attack and his boss was breathing down his neck. The Plague was having fun, but Eugene Belford was not.

[derac]

Yes, the whole plot of the movie is his plan to ransom money and get out of the rat race.

[sleton38234234]

the fastest way to make something UNfun, is to get paid for it. Do this excercise. think of any fun activity. then imagine getting paid for it. If you're honest and you know what those jobs are like then you'll quickly find that getting paid for something sucks nearly ALL the fun out it.

[tapatio]

Very well put.