I have to say that some Follywood movies are sincere, if unaccurate, portrayal of 'puter folks. Now take the fun movie hackers (please no groans). It attempts to portray hackers and computer users as skilled, curious people that can offer society a lot of benefits. Of course they spruced up some aspects of computer usage to make it more interesting for non-computer folks. Come on people, for you or I a command line interface can offer us some cool things to see. But that's because we know what we're looking at. Average Joe and Sally don't. Face it, these movies are not generally targeted at us... it's for the majority of the US and world population who are not computer savy. These flicks are trying to tell them about us in a entertaining way. So they take a few liberties on the subject.
- You can have my Mac when you pry it from my cold dead fingers
Better Disney than MicroShaft. Even, though Disney would instill a ton of "mouse" qualities upon my favorite computer, the fact that Disney has oodles of money is the silverlining in the cloud. At least that's what I'm telling myself. (sigh)
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I have to say that some Follywood movies are sincere, if unaccurate, portrayal of 'puter folks. Now take the fun movie hackers (please no groans). It attempts to portray hackers and computer users as skilled, curious people that can offer society a lot of benefits. Of course they spruced up some aspects of computer usage to make it more interesting for non-computer folks. Come on people, for you or I a command line interface can offer us some cool things to see. But that's because we know what we're looking at. Average Joe and Sally don't. Face it, these movies are not generally targeted at us... it's for the majority of the US and world population who are not computer savy. These flicks are trying to tell them about us in a entertaining way. So they take a few liberties on the subject.
- You can have my Mac when you pry it from my cold dead fingers
Better Disney than MicroShaft.
Even, though Disney would instill a ton of "mouse" qualities upon my favorite computer, the fact that Disney has oodles of money is the silverlining in the cloud. At least that's what I'm telling myself.
(sigh)