Yorkshire PC Posted September 8, 2009 Report Share Posted September 8, 2009 What computers can do in movies...- People typing on a computer can safely turn it off without saving the data. - A hacker is always able to break into the most sensitive computer in the world by guessing the secret password in two tries. (Remember "Goldeneye") - You may bypass "PERMISSION DENIED" message by using the "OVERRIDE" function. (See "Demolition Man".) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkshire PC Posted September 8, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2009 What computers can do in movies...- People typing on a computer can safely turn it off without saving the data. - A hacker is always able to break into the most sensitive computer in the world by guessing the secret password in two tries. (Remember "Goldeneye") - You may bypass "PERMISSION DENIED" message by using the "OVERRIDE" function. (See "Demolition Man".)oops! have i posted in the wrong section? If I have, mods please delete or move this to the Joke section...apologies for the mistake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted September 8, 2009 Report Share Posted September 8, 2009 It's fine here :) A thing that makes me cringe is the alacrity with which USB memory sticks are shoved in and out of computers as fast as a fiddlers elbow with absolutely no thought of the "Safely remove hardware" requirement of these things. OK, it may be acceptable sometimes to do this but as the perpetrators are always in a tearing hurry, the stick may well still be reading/writing. Result? An expensive bit of useless plastic with a USB connector attached but perhaps more important, a total loss of the secret formula (or whatever it was) which was he whole point of the operation.Another one is the way computers behave in catastrophe situations - great showers of sparks and flames, sometimes loud bangs and lots of smoke(e.g. James Bond again). It doesn't work like that. A computer going off with a bang is extremely rare and not a result of someone bashing it with a hammer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belatucadrus Posted September 9, 2009 Report Share Posted September 9, 2009 I'm still waiting for the day when you can just ask your computer a question and Majel Barret will display the answer on a holographic display, none of this tedious coding crud. And they never seem to have any voice recognition issues, I still have horrendous memories of trying to train an early generation IBM viavoice eeeeeek! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gandalph Posted September 9, 2009 Report Share Posted September 9, 2009 I'm still waiting for the day when you can just ask your computer a question and Majel Barret will display the answer on a holographic display, none of this tedious coding crud. And they never seem to have any voice recognition issues, I still have horrendous memories of trying to train an early generation IBM viavoice eeeeeek!I'm with you on that one Curly. All the 'Speech Recognition' software I have seen demonstrated has been a load of rubbish. What tickles me is, when the computer comes up with the wrong word, the demonstrator nearly always says ' You have to have time to train these programs of course, we only had about ten minutes to teach it before we had to demonstrate the software'. where really they have all been at it for hours but they want you to buy it. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dencandy Posted September 11, 2009 Report Share Posted September 11, 2009 Then there's the old one "Cannot compute" just at a crucial point in the plot where the space station or whatever is asked the one question that will save everyone's life.My favourite response to that was in a 70s sci-fi film where the computer was about to self-destruct the space-station, refused to obey the cancel order, then was asked "How do you know you exist?" The computer then wrote "I have to think about that" & shut down all its operations saving everone's lives. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted September 11, 2009 Report Share Posted September 11, 2009 Why do most film computers type in white on black screens? I don't honestly believe that everyone in films can also type at the speed usually seen. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted September 11, 2009 Report Share Posted September 11, 2009 Why do most film computers type in white on black screens? I don't honestly believe that everyone in films can also type at the speed usually seen. :lol:All computers used to type white on a black screen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted September 11, 2009 Report Share Posted September 11, 2009 Why do most film computers type in white on black screens? I don't honestly believe that everyone in films can also type at the speed usually seen. :lol:All computers used to type white on a black screen.I am referring even to modern films. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted September 11, 2009 Report Share Posted September 11, 2009 The computers I started with were green on a black background - orange on black if you were a manager. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted September 11, 2009 Report Share Posted September 11, 2009 The computers I started with were green on a black background - orange on black if you were a manager.Very pretty. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted September 11, 2009 Report Share Posted September 11, 2009 Classic! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted September 11, 2009 Report Share Posted September 11, 2009 The computers I started with were green on a black background - orange on black if you were a manager.That was very upmarket Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted September 11, 2009 Report Share Posted September 11, 2009 The first one I used didn't have a monitor only a line printer. No keyboard just punched cards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanHo Posted September 11, 2009 Report Share Posted September 11, 2009 The first one I used had a series of parallel wires, each having a number of wooden beads you could slide along the wires.The instructions were in Chinese so I never learned how to use it................ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belatucadrus Posted September 11, 2009 Report Share Posted September 11, 2009 When I did A level computing all the parents had proudly been shown " The computer room " what wasn't actually mentioned was that it wasn't actually a computer just a bleeding great teletype unit with a tickertape punch connected via modem to a big Honeywell computer. To add insult to injury they cut the link half way through the course because the subscription price went up. Imagine trying to do an A-level with minimal literature and no real chance to test what BASIC skills you'd managed to pick up against the odds, let's say it did not go well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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