Agreed. "Joe Beer's" exposure to computer usage on the silver screen tends to be like that in Mission Impossible (yet another Apple product placement... I wonder if they'll all now be iBooks/iMacs/iServers) where cool spinning, flashing, big 3D letters are used to interface to something as mundane as e-mail and search. Even an exciting coding project / hacking feat / etc. will most likely be a bunch of xterms and/or emacs buffers -- not very big-screen-ogenic. Another example that comes to mind: Jurrasaic Park: when's the last time you used a 3D/wireframe navigation of your campus to find a file or password? Bonus bad style marks in that movie for passing off a Quicktime window, complete with moving slider for a live camera feed.
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Agreed. "Joe Beer's" exposure to computer usage on the silver screen tends to be like that in Mission Impossible (yet another Apple product placement... I wonder if they'll all now be iBooks/iMacs/iServers) where cool spinning, flashing, big 3D letters are used to interface to something as mundane as e-mail and search. Even an exciting coding project / hacking feat / etc. will most likely be a bunch of xterms and/or emacs buffers -- not very big-screen-ogenic. Another example that comes to mind: Jurrasaic Park: when's the last time you used a 3D/wireframe navigation of your campus to find a file or password? Bonus bad style marks in that movie for passing off a Quicktime window, complete with moving slider for a live camera feed.
Er, so what is the "big file I am posting tonight," then? That sounds a bit mysterious. Notice the way _moving_ is set off. Hmm.