Computers used in TV and the movies

What I find incredibly unrealistic is how they always seem to have some sort of graphical user interface to do a task. Take last week's episode of CSI:Miami for instance; a man is killed following a bout of speed dating, so this chap comes up with an entire program, complete with 3D modelling just for the case? Someone mentions who the victim might have been able to see, so he taps a few keys and suddenly his line of sight comes up on the screen. This same person mentions the order in which the speed daters moved around (5 minute intervals), he taps a few more keys and all the people move around. Surely it's not possible for him to have anticipated those requirements, and moreover developed a program to show such information in a matter of an hour or so.

Then there's the classic, "tap a few buttons on the keyboard, show a few linues of code flash across the screen and come up with a photo of the person matching their DNA" routine. How ridiculous :p
 
Al Vallario said:
What I find incredibly unrealistic is how they always seem to have some sort of graphical user interface to do a task. Take last week's episode of CSI:Miami for instance; a man is killed following a bout of speed dating, so this chap comes up with an entire program, complete with 3D modelling just for the case? Someone mentions who the victim might have been able to see, so he taps a few keys and suddenly his line of sight comes up on the screen. This same person mentions the order in which the speed daters moved around (5 minute intervals), he taps a few more keys and all the people move around. Surely it's not possible for him to have anticipated those requirements, and moreover developed a program to show such information in a matter of an hour or so.

Then there's the classic, "tap a few buttons on the keyboard, show a few linues of code flash across the screen and come up with a photo of the person matching their DNA" routine. How ridiculous :p
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Do none of you people realise how boring it would be if every time they asked the computer person to do something, he huffed and said 'come back in four hours'?
 
its tv, these things arent real, its not just computers, its everything.

TV by nature is a dramatisation of everything.

If you have to ask a question about whats being shown, then you've allready stopped paying attention to the program.
 
nealw said:
I've just watched an episode of 24 (awesome show btw), and me and my mates were debating about how real the technology used in the show actually is.

Are the programmes or operating systems that they use just a fancy flash based animation plucked out of thin air or do these kinds of things actually exist?

What do you think?

:confused:
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Jazzed up. I'm sure in one of the early episodes of 24 someone tapped a 273.x.x.x IP address in...
 
Psymonkee said:
Syd: Dixon, come in.
Dixon: I read you.
Syd: The IP is 257.x.x.x
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They do this in 24 aswell. After watching a behind the scenes or some other extra on the dvd they did this on purpose so that should someone try and trace the IP then nothing would happen. Although having said that the only people who would try and get more infomation from IP would probably be same people who would realise that such an IP would not exist.
 
The impossible IP addresses are included for the same reason that all telephone numbers in films begin with 555 :)
 
It's a well known fact that you cannot hack unless there are least three spinning green wireframe cubes on screen.
 
Nozzer said:
Jazzed up. I'm sure in one of the early episodes of 24 someone tapped a 273.x.x.x IP address in...
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Perhaps its just the whole '555' telephone thing again, but with less thought involved.
 
E1mo said:
The impossible IP addresses are included for the same reason that all telephone numbers in films begin with 555 :)
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Yeah, but they could use a 10.x.x.x...

Ok I'm a nerd.
 
One word - Swordfish.

Potentially awesome film, except for me cringing everytime something computer related is mentioned or shown.

this makes up about 80% of the movie :(
 
One of the funniest computer interactions I've seen is in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.

Among other things, Scotty picks up an Apple mouse and tries to speak into it. :D
 
Combat squirrel said:
im surprised so many banks use windows xp, 2000 etc, Mahhoosive security holes any1? :eek:

Id have thought they would use some úber custom version linux or something
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All tucked behind PIXs that they pay a fortune to have managed for them.
 
Berserker said:
One of the funniest computer interactions I've seen is in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.

Among other things, Scotty picks up an Apple mouse and tries to speak into it. :D
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Computer? Hello, computer? :D :D :D

I'm actually watching TNG 'Relics' as I type...
 
What about computers in computer games? The likes of Splinter Cell, FEAR, etc, all have uber juiced up interfaces, sound effects, the lot. :p
 
Combat squirrel said:
im surprised so many banks use windows xp, 2000 etc, Mahhoosive security holes any1? :eek:

Id have thought they would use some úber custom version linux or something
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I'm surprised that didn't sound stupid in your head. Windows is well known to all technical people, and programmers too. What happens when windows crashes and won't re-load? Any ATM technician can go down and get it running again. What happens when a custom version of linux won't re-load? Oh wait, they have to either make sure that all of their staff are fully trained on this special ATM only OS, or wait until the programmer(s) can come and fix it. :rolleyes:.

Could the large presence of Macs in tv and films not have something to do with Steve Jobs having quite large film interests and so companies associated to any of his would automatically use Apple?
 
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