| 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 Asian
connections. |
Have important Asian
connections. |
Strange jargon:
"Stick"
"Rock"
"Wrap"
"E"
"Stash"
"Drive-by"
"Hit (LSD)"
"Source"
"The Pigs" |
Strange jargon:
"SCSI"
"RTFM"
"Packet"
"C"
"Cache"
"CTRL ALT DEL"
"Hit (WWW)"
"Source-code"
"Microsoft" |
| 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. |
Clients really like your
stuff when it works. When it doesn't work they want to kill you. |
Clients really like your
stuff when it works. When it doesn't work they want to kill you. |
| 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. |
| A lot of people are
getting rich while still teenagers. |
A lot of people are
getting rich while still teenagers. |
| Product causes unhealthy
addictions. |
DOOM, Quake, SimCity,
Duke Nukem 3D... |
| Do your job well and you
can sleep with sexy movie stars who depend on you. |
Darn! |