KDE on the NBC Show "Heroes"

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday September 28, 2006 @02:11AM from the well-isn't-that-nice-for-them dept.

Vesuv writes "The pilot episode of NBC's flagship drama for the 2006 fall season proudly features a laptop showing a KDE desktop and KDE applications such as Kopete and KMix running on Mandriva Linux. " The show itself looks to have potential for essentially an x-men knockoff. I mean, it ain't written by Sorkin (all hail jesus) so I'll give it a few more episodes to decide if all the angst is gonna kill me or not.

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The show is totally unrealistic by Anonymous Coward · 2006-09-28 02:13 · Score: 5, Funny

Don't get me wrong... teleportation, flight, invulnerability, etc... all okay. But a hot girl using linux on the desktop? Yeah, right!
1. Re:The show is totally unrealistic by dsginter · 2006-09-28 02:29 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  But a hot girl using linux on the desktop? Yeah, right!
  
  Because they all know that it isn't ready for the desktop yet! OTOH, most of them use BSD on the server side.
  
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2. Re:The show is totally unrealistic by Phu5ion · 2006-09-28 02:32 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  You have to think in the context of the story, this was not some random product placement. She has a dark mysterious past, she's on the run with almost no money. She can't afford to buy a new license of Windows after updating her system to give internet peep shows.
  
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3. Re:The show is totally unrealistic by mbadolato · 2006-09-28 02:37 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Same here! My wife ran Fedora for a long time, then FreeBSD when I sold her laptop and gave her my server. She now is on OS X.
  
  She hasn't had a Windows desktop in 3 or 4 years now. For what she needs (Email, browser, and IM) the other systems are just fine for her.
  
  And she's hot, so there :p
4. Re:The show is totally unrealistic by UnknowingFool · 2006-09-28 02:39 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  But a hot girl using linux on the desktop?
  
  As long as the girl, doesn't say "This is GNU/Linux. I KNOW GNU/Linux!" That would ruin the fantasy for me.
  
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5. Re:The show is totally unrealistic by Anonymous Coward · 2006-09-28 02:52 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  And besides, BDSM is dying.
6. Re:The show is totally unrealistic by Elm+Tree · 2006-09-28 03:01 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  I think you're using hot in a different way. Putting her in the oven doesn't count.
7. Re:The show is totally unrealistic by Kozar_The_Malignant · 2006-09-28 03:17 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Nice. However, I didn't notice the monitor in the first picture, and it was clearly in the way in the second. :-)
  
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8. Re:The show is totally unrealistic by MobileTatsu-NJG · 2006-09-28 03:38 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  "Don't get me wrong... teleportation, flight, invulnerability, etc... all okay. But a hot girl using linux on the desktop? Yeah, right!"
  
  *fap fap fap*
  
  oo! And there's a hot chick using it!
  
  *FAP FAP FAP*
  
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9. Re:The show is totally unrealistic by robyannetta · 2006-09-28 04:10 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  I'm glad the girl on the screen didn't say "FSCK ME"
  
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10. Re:The show is totally unrealistic by drachenstern · 2006-09-28 04:15 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  the real question is, does she have a lower slashdot id# than you?
  
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11. Re:The show is totally unrealistic by acwork2 · 2006-09-28 05:09 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Wow I thought I had a twisted mind but you took OS perversion to the next level. Kudos, you owe me a new keyboard.
  
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Ow, my virgin eyes! by Anonymous Coward · 2006-09-28 02:15 · Score: 4, Funny

BITCH!
You can't show that on the internet!
Important point to note: by zaren · 2006-09-28 02:17 · Score: 5, Funny

The scene in question with the KDE stuff involves a hot chick getting naked online.

And you notice the windowing system and applications on her laptop.

Slashdot, you never cease to amaze me :)

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1. Re:Important point to note: by Tank · 2006-09-28 06:13 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  An engineer is outside his office one day, when another engineer rides up on a fancy new mountain bike.
  
  "Where did you get that bike?" he asked.
  
  "You'll never believe it. I'm walking to work through the park this morning, and this girl rides up to me on this bicycle. She jumps off the bike, takes all her clothes off, and says 'You can take anything you want!'"
  
  After regarding his friend for a moment, the 1st engineer replied.....
  
  "Good call, her clothes never would have fit you..."
Another sighting! by Fx.Dr · 2006-09-28 02:18 · Score: 3, Funny

And if you squint really hard you can see Elvis in the background.
Noticed something from last season of Deadwood by Anonymous Coward · 2006-09-28 02:34 · Score: 1, Funny

Did you notice that Hearst's abacus was running an early build of Slackware?
And in several months... by Anonymous Coward · 2006-09-28 02:43 · Score: 2, Funny

... we'll see the news:

"Last night's episode of NBC's drama 'Heroes' scored surprisingly high in the Hopeless Geeks demographic, according to Nielsen Media Research."
Re:KDE - Another reason .. by NinjaFarmer · 2006-09-28 03:36 · Score: 2, Funny

By making it look "techy", it gets featured on Slashdot! Seriously,it has helped spread the show.

I know, I downloaded it on Bit Torrent ad free already!
Camera scene by MobyDisk · 2006-09-28 03:50 · Score: 5, Funny

The real news here is that someone got a USB camera working with KDE.
Re:Another X-Men Ripoff? by kalirion · 2006-09-28 05:14 · Score: 4, Funny

If you want to go back, X-men "ripped it off" from Darwin.

Yup, because Darwin was all about random mutations resulting in awesome super powers.
Who says it's a new computer by gdesignrr · 2006-09-28 07:54 · Score: 2, Funny

Maybe his computer is an Apple II