Well, not to bash my fellow hackers or anything, but I sort of suspect a lot of us hackers are actually more anal-retentive and nit-picky with regards to what goes on in the movies than an expert in another field would be at seeing their livelihood turned into a live action cartoon.
For example, true story, when "True Lies" came out the local mob of BBS geeks myself included went out to see it. Of course we got a chuckle that the bad guys were running Windows (those wacky middle-eastern terrorist types...) but a few of us with keen ears were also paying attention during the interrogation scene, in which there was a PC which was repeatedly doing its boot up memory test, (the monitor was not visible on-screen) and asserted that the system had 16MB of memory. You just don't see that kind of psychotic attention to detail in much anyone other than the geeks.
"What is needed is some research, done in the field..." Actually, it's being done, as part of an ongoing research project to improve the realism of computers in movies, the major film studios have contracted the fine journalists at MTV to do a little field research. I believe the results will be available any time soon.:P' Ja ne, ---GEC
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Well, not to bash my fellow hackers or anything, but I sort of suspect a lot of us hackers are actually more anal-retentive and nit-picky with regards to what goes on in the movies than an expert in another field would be at seeing their livelihood turned into a live action cartoon.
For example, true story, when "True Lies" came out the local mob of BBS geeks myself included went out to see it. Of course we got a chuckle that the bad guys were running Windows (those wacky middle-eastern terrorist types...) but a few of us with keen ears were also paying attention during the interrogation scene, in which there was a PC which was repeatedly doing its boot up memory test, (the monitor was not visible on-screen) and asserted that the system had 16MB of memory. You just don't see that kind of psychotic attention to detail in much anyone other than the geeks.
Ja ne,
----GEC
"What is needed is some research, done in the field..." Actually, it's being done, as part of an ongoing research project to improve the realism of computers in movies, the major film studios have contracted the fine journalists at MTV to do a little field research. I believe the results will be available any time soon. :P' Ja ne, ---GEC