4th March 2003, 2:01 PM
A real virus hunt would actually be very boring indeed. What's the plot? Is this Ice Nine supposedly "so volitile that no software can stop it once unleashed!" or something else so uninformed as that?
And another thing, why is it that computer programs in movies either have the weird 3D interface that looks completely impracticle OR the command prompt from 1976? Why is it that these supposed "computer nerds" never actually do any real hacking and just end up guessing a password? Why are ALL the computers these weird mac hybrids usually? When the nerd on TV is doing something on a BLACK SCREEN, why is their face lit up like the freakin' sun? What's up with that file on Daredevil being deleted LINE BY LINE as if they expected anyone who actually knows anything about a computer to buy that? What's with the totally uneeded showing of what I can only guess is machine code on the screens in The Matrix, as though any nerd could really learn to read that, or would need such fancy graphical effects, or like learning ONE computer's machine code could possibly apply to any other computer? Let's not forget how computers are ALWAYS beeping, even when you just are typing stuff in (by the way, the programmers are some of the loudest typers in the universe according to Hollywood), which is something I'd be sure to kill everyone in the vicinity if I had to endure. That's why on a new Windows installation I always turn OFF IE's annoying clicking sound.
Okay, rant over :D. Yeah I realize it's all just for mood and likely directors and art guys don't know a thing about computers. I do feel sorry for any programmers on set that have to obey the wims of those guys though...
And another thing, why is it that computer programs in movies either have the weird 3D interface that looks completely impracticle OR the command prompt from 1976? Why is it that these supposed "computer nerds" never actually do any real hacking and just end up guessing a password? Why are ALL the computers these weird mac hybrids usually? When the nerd on TV is doing something on a BLACK SCREEN, why is their face lit up like the freakin' sun? What's up with that file on Daredevil being deleted LINE BY LINE as if they expected anyone who actually knows anything about a computer to buy that? What's with the totally uneeded showing of what I can only guess is machine code on the screens in The Matrix, as though any nerd could really learn to read that, or would need such fancy graphical effects, or like learning ONE computer's machine code could possibly apply to any other computer? Let's not forget how computers are ALWAYS beeping, even when you just are typing stuff in (by the way, the programmers are some of the loudest typers in the universe according to Hollywood), which is something I'd be sure to kill everyone in the vicinity if I had to endure. That's why on a new Windows installation I always turn OFF IE's annoying clicking sound.
Okay, rant over :D. Yeah I realize it's all just for mood and likely directors and art guys don't know a thing about computers. I do feel sorry for any programmers on set that have to obey the wims of those guys though...
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)