Computers used in TV and the movies
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MATTeL said:Since Windows 3.0 IIRC... man the wav file of Arnie saying "I'll be back" for everyone closing windows was hilarious...
We used to have "Good morning Vietnam!" on loadup of windows. Drove me nuts after a while. Saying that the windows theme that plays on startup now really annoys as well.
2000? thats pretty new. I saw a nationwide cash machine showing illegal operation recently running 95.
This was a Nationwide machine too! I don't know to be honest, it might've been 95, I only really glanced. It wasn't actually Windows that had crashed though, I think they were fixing a mechanical fault of some kind.Amp34 said:2000? thats pretty new. I saw a nationwide cash machine showing illegal operation recently running 95.
Amp34 said:We used to have "Good morning Vietnam!" on loadup of windows. Drove me nuts after a while. Saying that the windows theme that plays on startup now really annoys as well.
2000? thats pretty new. I saw a nationwide cash machine showing illegal operation recently running 95.
Are you sure it wasnt OS/2?
Cartman saying 'That sucked ass' when something crashed got quite annoying, esp as it was in W98!!
WRT OP, the best TV computers are the 'image enhancing' ones: take a rubbish video of someone in a mirror in the dark when its foggy and get a perfect mugshot!
WRT OP, the best TV computers are the 'image enhancing' ones: take a rubbish video of someone in a mirror in the dark when its foggy and get a perfect mugshot!
Think long and hard about posintg next time! Since when have you EVER heard a computer make fancy noises as you 'upload' or 'download' data from the net or USB stick or otherwise!? LMAO
Me and few friends reckon it would be better if, when Jack plugs a USB stick into the computer, the infamous 'do do' MS Sound plays, and when he removes it....'de do'.....now THAT would add a certain element of humour!!
Me and few friends reckon it would be better if, when Jack plugs a USB stick into the computer, the infamous 'do do' MS Sound plays, and when he removes it....'de do'.....now THAT would add a certain element of humour!!
I do love the representation of computers in films, mainly because its almost all so removed from reality as to be pure nonesense.
The 2nd Matrix (reloaded?) is the only one that has a normal computer interaction in it when Trinity hacks into the power grid using NMAP and a well known windows security hole.
In one CSI episode they were investingating something relating to an internet 'webcam' porn site, and throughout 99% of the film everything was technically correct (apart from the mysterious graphical way the computer pieced together data off a 'blanked' hard disk), which suggests the writers had technical consultants involved. Then they came to identifying the workstation where the e-mail had come from and they listed a 5 number IP address. Doh! WHY?!? It would have been better to have chosen a private address than something impossible like that. Of course it also ignored that communication would have come from a NATed address, or just one of a small number of public addresses, and so on and so forth.
The 2nd Matrix (reloaded?) is the only one that has a normal computer interaction in it when Trinity hacks into the power grid using NMAP and a well known windows security hole.
In one CSI episode they were investingating something relating to an internet 'webcam' porn site, and throughout 99% of the film everything was technically correct (apart from the mysterious graphical way the computer pieced together data off a 'blanked' hard disk), which suggests the writers had technical consultants involved. Then they came to identifying the workstation where the e-mail had come from and they listed a 5 number IP address. Doh! WHY?!? It would have been better to have chosen a private address than something impossible like that. Of course it also ignored that communication would have come from a NATed address, or just one of a small number of public addresses, and so on and so forth.
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You're admitting to being an incompetant application programmer? You've got more guts than I thought!Berserker said:Oi! I resemble that remark.
Amp34 said:We used to have "Good morning Vietnam!" on loadup of windows. Drove me nuts after a while. Saying that the windows theme that plays on startup now really annoys as well.
2000? thats pretty new. I saw a nationwide cash machine showing illegal operation recently running 95.
its not 95, its NT4.
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It had Win 95 on, thats why i knwo it asnt me or 2000
I love the way everything they use opens instantly, not the instantly a fast computer does it, but even faster. And the instant connecting and downloading/uploading fron the internet. I want the average americans connection, it must be about 100Mb/s both ways.
More recent classic mess ups that spring to mind from Alias. Sydney is breaking into a lab and opening a few ports on the firewall to allow her partner (Dixon) to pull the data.
So far so good. Even had one of them fancy folding keyboards so it really fitted with the stealthy scene. Then it happened....
Syd: Dixon, come in.
Dixon: I read you.
Syd: The IP is 257.x.x.x
I actually had to rewind the DVD and watch/listen again to confirm what I had heard
Meh was funny to me anyway
So far so good. Even had one of them fancy folding keyboards so it really fitted with the stealthy scene. Then it happened....
Syd: Dixon, come in.
Dixon: I read you.
Syd: The IP is 257.x.x.x
I actually had to rewind the DVD and watch/listen again to confirm what I had heard
Meh was funny to me anyway
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Last summer when i use to work in ladbrokes i noticed the cash quest machines when you boot them up they are running XP.They are basicly a PC in a box with a touch screen.