altezza Veteran Posted May 29, 2003 Veteran Share Posted May 29, 2003 Old but classic :happy: ;) :D 25 Interesting Things That You Learn About Computers in The Movies... 1. Word processors never display a cursor. 2. You never have to use the spacebar when typing long sentences. 3. All monitors display 2 inch high letters. 4. High-tech computers, such as those used by NASA, the CIA, or some such governmental institution, have easy-to-understand graphical interfaces. 5. Those that don't will have incredibly powerful text-based command shells that can correctly understand and execute commands typed in plain English. 6. Corollary: You can gain access to any information you want by simply typing "ACCESS ALL OF THE SECRET FILES" on any keyboard. 7. Likewise, you can infect a computer with a destructive virus by simply typing "UPLOAD VIRUS." Viruses cause temperatures in computers, just like they do in humans. After a while, smoke billows out of disk drives and monitors. 8. All computers are connected. You can access the information on the villain's desktop computer, even if it's turned off. 9. Powerful computers beep whenever you press a key or whenever the screen changes. Some computers also slow down the output on the screen so that it doesn't go faster than you can read. The *really* advanced ones also emulate the sound of a dot-matrix printer as the characters come across the screen. 10. All computer panels have thousands of volts and flash pots just underneath the surface. Malfunctions are indicated by a bright flash, a puff of smoke, a shower of sparks, and an explosion that forces you backward. See #7, above) 11. People typing away on a computer will turn it off without saving the data. 12. A hacker can get into the most sensitive computer in the world before intermission and guess the secret password in two tries. 13. Any PERMISSION DENIED has an OVERRIDE function. LOL TRUE 14. Complex calculations and loading of huge amounts of data will be accomplished in under three seconds. In the movies, modems transmit data at two gigabytes per second. 15. When the power plant/missile site/whatever overheats, all the control panels will explode, as will the entire building. 16. If you display a file on the screen and someone deletes the file, it also disappears from the screen. There are no ways to copy a backup file -- and there are no undelete utilities. 17. If a disk has got encrypted files, you are automatically asked for a password when you try to access it. 18. No matter what kind of computer disk it is, it'll be readable by any system you put it into. All application software is usable by all computer platforms. 19. The more high-tech the equipment, the more buttons it has. However, everyone must have been highly trained, because the buttons aren't labelled. 20. Most computers, no matter how small, have reality-defying three-dimensional, real-time, photo-realistic animated graphics capability. 21. Laptops, for some strange reason, always seem to have amazing real-time video phone capabilities and the performance of a CRAY-MP. 22. Whenever a character looks at a VDU, the image is so bright that it projects itself onto his/her face. 23. Computers never crash during key, high-intensity activities. Humans operating computers never make mistakes under stress. 24. Programs are fiendishly perfect and never have bugs that slow down users. 25. Any photograph can have minute details pulled out of it. You can zoom into any picture as far as you want to. Example: "What's that fuzzy thing in the corner? I don't know, let's check. It's the murder weapon! Let's look under the bed for the killers shoes. no, just some comics books (Marvel 1954, very rare). Let's check the closet shelves...!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cesardrgn Posted May 29, 2003 Share Posted May 29, 2003 12. A hacker can get into the most sensitive computer in the world before intermission and guess the secret password in two tries. 13. Any PERMISSION DENIED has an OVERRIDE function. 19. The more high-tech the equipment, the more buttons it has. However, everyone must have been highly trained, because the buttons aren't labelled. 22. Whenever a character looks at a VDU, the image is so bright that it projects itself onto his/her face. Yeap. I see those in movies... :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
threetonesun Posted May 29, 2003 Share Posted May 29, 2003 25. Any photograph can have minute details pulled out of it. You can zoom into any picture as far as you want to. Example: "What's that fuzzy thing in the corner? I don't know, let's check. It's the murder weapon! Let's look under the bed for the killers shoes. no, just some comics books (Marvel 1954, very rare). Let's check the closet shelves...!" Heh ... Blade Runner comes to mind :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aeons Posted May 29, 2003 Share Posted May 29, 2003 SO true :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AQUaDeX Posted May 29, 2003 Share Posted May 29, 2003 lol, No. 4, 5 and 25 are very very true Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deimos Posted May 29, 2003 Share Posted May 29, 2003 19. The more high-tech the equipment, the more buttons it has. However, everyonemust have been highly trained, because the buttons aren't labelled. lol thats the best. :cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpanda Posted May 29, 2003 Share Posted May 29, 2003 haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radioboy Posted May 29, 2003 Share Posted May 29, 2003 lol, No. 4, 5 and 25 are very very true Your avatar and sig disturb me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linked Posted May 29, 2003 Share Posted May 29, 2003 Don't worry about him, AOL has now included a feature that fills in it's own image sources into all Avatar and Signature feilds automatically. Self advertising. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
null_ Posted May 29, 2003 Share Posted May 29, 2003 Oh, how true! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lawtai Posted May 29, 2003 Share Posted May 29, 2003 lol that's pretty funny how true it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nosocks Posted May 29, 2003 Share Posted May 29, 2003 i watched bad company last night, and until then i didn't know that a laptop display could do a retinal scan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ironguy Posted May 29, 2003 Share Posted May 29, 2003 Also, Computer users can type 400 words per minute in the movies - without changing the position of their hands! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aem4162 Posted May 29, 2003 Share Posted May 29, 2003 I liked how Ferris Bueller changed his attendance record on the school computer from his computer at home while the principal sat there watching the numbers change. I wish I coulda done that before mom found out that I was skipping classes... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Veteran Posted May 29, 2003 Veteran Share Posted May 29, 2003 so many of these are true. some are quite funny. btw, i agree with nuggetman :s :x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+John Teacake MVC Posted May 29, 2003 MVC Share Posted May 29, 2003 Swordfish also comes 2mind. He could break 128bit Encryption in 1min. It took 100,000 computers 24 hours to break it in real life but His laptop could do it in under a min. But it was fun 2 watch. I already posted something like this in a Swordfish sequal thread on Neowin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrogers Posted May 29, 2003 Share Posted May 29, 2003 Don't worry about him, AOL has now included a feature that fills in it's own image sources into all Avatar and Signature feilds automatically. Self advertising. PLEASE tell me you're joking...I wouldn't think that is possible, but I learned long ago not to underestimate the lengths to which certain mega-companies will go to push their products. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrogers Posted May 29, 2003 Share Posted May 29, 2003 Swordfish also comes 2mind. He could break 128bit Encryption in 1min. It took 100,000 computers 24 hours to break it in real life but His laptop could do it in under a min. But it was fun 2 watch. I already posted something like this in a Swordfish sequal thread on Neowin. it was bj power, man! lol, with Halle Berry (I think it was her; it's been awhile) going down on him, he could do anything! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToastGodSupreme Posted May 29, 2003 Share Posted May 29, 2003 25 is so true... there are dozens of movies which have done this... I remember one movie, there was a picture from a security camera tape (already we know that ANY picture from survelance tapes are going to have quality loss, I mean, they're just survelance cameras). Then the good guys take the picture which is of a parking lot, and try to figure out the license plate number on a car that is JUST off the picture. So they zoom in like, a dozen times to the SIDE VIEW MIRROR which of course, reflected the plate number to the exact angle of the camera. Also, they're able to grab the number from the mirror. My ass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon75 Posted May 29, 2003 Share Posted May 29, 2003 HeHeHe that is great! If only life was a movie! Think how much fun we would have! HeHeHe we all could rule the world in a matter of minutes. Not to mention that we all would be Super STUDs! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimmyT Posted May 30, 2003 Share Posted May 30, 2003 26. When someone wants to erase data from a computer, he simply shoots the screen. That way noone can ever restore the data from this computer :p (more, from SIMONE movie) 27. Hard-disks are 3.5" harddrives with glass housing, you can take them to any other computer and simply plug them in to their weird-hd-drive which is a CD-ROM tray that takes hard-disks! 28. You can put a virus to destroy everything, throw away the hard disk, and then type: kill virus, and suddenly all your data is back! (even though the hard drive is no longer in the computer!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
memNOC Posted May 30, 2003 Share Posted May 30, 2003 22. Whenever a character looks at a VDU, the image is so bright that it projects itself onto his/her face. this is so funny and moronic that i actually laughed outloud when i saw it in "Hackers" a loooong time ago.. but to actually see it in "The Matrix" a few years later............. :x mindblowing, to say the least.. studio producers either think were too dumb to notice one does NOT get freekin letters imprinted on their face when using a computer, or they think the effect is too cool to pass upon.. :angry: wtf.. but all others are also true.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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