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Movie computing howlers
Don't know whether to laugh or cry
Mon Oct 04 2010, 14:45
FILMMAKERS take a lot of liberties with reality, and nowhere is this more true than in their depictions of computing technology.
We've compiled what we think are some of the most appalling examples, and you can see if ours match the ones you recall by reading our list of Top 10 technology movie clichés. µ
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When the hacker types code furiously for several minutes at a rate of ten keystrokes per second, and then raises his hand 30 centimeters over the keyboard for three seconds before punching "Enter"...
monitors / displays:
have you noticed on some movies AND serials, the 'monitor display' is 'projected' onto the users face so you can see the characters and graphics clearly on their face???
If you have done **any** home movies using a projector, you will know the 'user' will only see a flashing point of light!
young people see here for details..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movie_projector
Please, 'Inquirer staff', if you find a good link, find a few more, and title it 'todays good links' ...
or at least copy some of the content, as some posters have done! :)
then you wont look so bone lazy... :p
Dumb. Also their way of getting into the spaceship, flying a totally alien craft.
Such feeble fare is a good argument for copyright infringement. I'd be *real* upset had I paid money to see ID.
1. Viruses with elaborate graphics
2. Administrators with giant control rooms (as pointed out, a single point of control or access)
3. Floppy disc capacity (apparently unlimited)
4. Unlimited zoom (on digital images, instead of degenerating into a blocky pixelated mess)
5. Ultra-fast internet connections (over dialup with a hacked payphone or, mobile connection)
6. Servers using advanced graphical interfaces
7. Monitors matter (as in, shoot out the monitors, and the computer dies)
8. Mobiles as control consoles (don't see the problem with a telnet session into a unix datacentre, but the author talks about randomly taking over other devices from your mobile. maybe possible in the future)
9. Hackers are white/Asian American boys /from a middle class american upbringing/ (author points out that, while IT is male dominated, it is however, very race diverse.)
10. GPS tracking indoors (speaks for itself)
The one where all computers and electronic devices apparently go 'Widdly-widdly-widdly-weeeeeee' when you use them, like a higher-pitched, quiet dial-up modem.
Do they use the sound effect instead of the HDD activity light?
Wouldn't it just p--- you right off having to listen to your computer doing that all day long, you'd flip your lid by lunchtime