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Designing the Computer UIs In Movies
xandroid points out an NPR interview with Mark Coleran, who
"...designs the fancy-but-fake graphics that flash across computers in the movies. He has worked on a laundry list of blockbusters: The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Ultimatum, Children of Men, Mission Impossible III, and many more. He says a lot of the inspiration for computer screens comes from video games." The main point of these fake movie UIs is different than that of real UIs: to tell a story very quickly, not to reveal and enable function.
Does he also make those fancy monitors that project what is on the screen out into the room and onto any passing dinosaur?
If Slashdot were chemistry it would look like this:Cadaverine
All these fake OS in various movies, from Wargames to Jurassic Park to Star Trek, and beyond, are all powered by Ninnle Linux. It's so flexible, it can be made to look like any other OS, not to mention something completely different. Ninnle is the way of the future!
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I imagine how tough if would be to make a scene interesting if they showed Kevin Mitnik typing into a korn shell.
"Yep, It's actually an in-joke for nerds like me"
"What does it say?!"
"It tells me when someone can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality."
A bullet may have your name on it but splash damage is addressed "To whom it may concern."
Everything in a movie is just a "crutch" to keep the story going forward.
Well for those movies that have stories. In some everything is a "crutch" to enable them to show off pretty CGI, and in others everything is a "crutch" to enable to show off various body parts of the cast.
My sister took a photo of a bald eagle with her cellphone. She mailed it to me and asked if I could "enhance it" for her.
If she hadn't told me what it was I'd have had no idea what I was even looking at. Damn you CSI. Damn you.
It's a UNIX system! I know this!
you make some good points, but occasionally, they go to far into the realm of weird and outrageous computer interfaces. *cough*swordfish*cough*
a friend of mine tried typing the way they did in swordfish. Jammed all his fingers in about 10 seconds.
I've decided to Diversify my Holdings. I've divided my cash between my left and right pockets, instead of all in one.
ENHANCE the number plate!
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I still wanna sue movies for giving me unremovable fantasies about 3-breasted green babes.
Table-ized A.I.
You boned that one, pal. Any decent brother would have known what to do...
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You should have found a similar perspective eagle picture online, 'enhanced' it with GIMP/PS to make it as close as possible to what she shot, and send it back at a minimum 1024 res and high color, thereby perpetuating the myth that you are indeed a Computer God.
Kids these days, can't see opportunity even when it's smacking 'em in the face...
"...there are some things that can beat smartness and foresight. Awkwardness and stupidity can." ~ Mark Twain
I got Mrs u38cg to try that. Turns out it doesn't help you crack passwords much.
[FUCK BETA]
Indeed. Canada + US == entire world.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.