And your point of view is that people who are passionate about hacking are obsessive-compulsive with an antisocial attitude. Nice one!
My point of view is that you really hate the fact that the people you've always regarded as losers because of their introverted nature can play the technology game better than you. Your only hope now is for the rules to change to your advantage.
Look, friend, I was in the same umbrella as you. I used to like wearing black t-shirts telling people how conformist they were and how much better me and my friends were. Then I got older than sixteen and realized what I was missing in the world.
What the fuck is this "technology game" you're talking about? I've made one web site. It got lots of attention and registered ten thousand users in a month. That's as much of a technology game as I play, and I play it well. Am I losing the game of getting drivers to work on my Linux box? Yeah, but I don't lose any sleep over it.
The people driving technological innovation right now are frequently the people developing for the iPhone. The iPad's going to spark an entirely new wave of programmers that are slightly less pathetic. If we want to be juvenile and pretend there's a game here, my side's not the one that lost Wednesday. But there is no game, and you're free to continue staring ar your stupid little screen, and I'm free to continue telling you I think you're acting like I'm a dumb jock and you're the clever geek. That you continue to hold that delusions says more than anything I could say in response.
Fortunately it's not up to you or the vast majority of people to decide what is or isn't a waste of time for me or anyone else.
If it wasn't for a lot of people investing significant chunks of their lives in something they were passionate about there would be no systems at all today.
