revenge of the photoshoppers
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revenge of the photoshoppers
Mac vs PC
Whoever wins we lose
All your Memory Cards are belong to us
When was the last time that hollywood got serious and only used existing technology?
MacGyver
Hackers was probably the worst for "technology" visuals. They had some high tech servers! Flying around like that looking for the "garbage" file. If the inside of servers looked like that I would become a hacker!
It was still a great movie though.
I get your point on using some technology that doesn't exist to increase the excitement, but it doesn't work anymore. When you see some prisoner/capture terrorist/spy driving away in a stolen car, whats the first thing that comes to mind? Yup, use the cameras along the highway to get a shot of his car. When they computer wizz comes up with that plan, I don't say "oh, thats a neat plan, I would never have thought of that". Instead I say "Duh, thats what everyone does". Then you get the image and you can't see the licence plate and guess what, they use some fancy algorithm to zoom in. Now thats original.
My point is that new technology isn't impressing me anymore. Infact, using old stuff in a new way is more impressive, and thats why shows like MacGyver were so popular. If people learn something new about something they have taken for granted their entire life, then that will impress them. A very good example is conspiracy theories, and that is the reason they are so popular. The DaVinci Code is a good movie not because it reveales information about a fictional character in the story, but because it reveals information about something we all know about.
I think that was an x-files or something, the pot was supposed to have been made while jesus was talking.Quote:
Originally Posted by robbmcaulay
I've always like the way all cars and planes explode whenever they hit anything.
That pot thing is obviously impossible, becasue the pot would harden during the baking (whatever you call it) and would expand and crack. Especially 2000 years would wear off the outer layers.
GPS transmitters are currently about the size of 1/2 inch diameter coin with a little wire hanging out. (I was at a conference and Intel had several of them and showed them moving as they walked around the stage). Said they cost about 8 bucks to make.
There was a quote on the "Worst client stories" about a woman who came into a photography studio and said that her husband had died and all she had was a picture of the side of his head and she needed the photographer to rotate it so she could get a frontal view. Lets just say the rest was about the fight the two people had when the photographer explained it wasn't possible and the woman said she had seen them do it on TV.
24 is the most ridiculous show when it comes to the technology they use.
I love it how when CTU get's a tip on a new suspect, within 3 seconds they have a full graphical powerpoint/flash presentation of the guy up on the big screen, complete with full stats, 3D special effects, and animated background.
Chloe can basically hack into ANY system within 3 seconds. I guess CTU has access to every schematic of every single building in Los Angeles. Oh sure, sometimes she has to break through a " 128 bit encrypted phoenix firewall" which takes an extra 2 seconds, but other than that, it's easy as pie to instantly transfer a video feed from a random warehouse to Chloe's desktop or Jack's 40 million dollar Palm Pilot.
and yet it is the greatest show on TV. It shows what we wish could be accomplished with technologyQuote:
Originally Posted by Visionray
If I remember right, you can't hack a Phoenix, it automatically erases the data if it's accessed :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Visionray
Is that a fact or an opinion?Quote:
and yet it is the greatest show on TV
It's a very good show, but the greatest?
True, however through a secure tunnel in the 384 bit mainframe, Chloe can run a traceroute sub-channel algorithm thereby bypassing the main cryptovariable.Quote:
If I remember right, you can't hack a Phoenix, it automatically erases the data if it's accessed
My opinion is that it is the greatest current TV show. Maybe not the greatest of all time but defintely mine and many others current favorite.Quote:
Originally Posted by Visionray
and yet a crack ho can steal a i.d. card and shut the whole place down.Quote:
Originally Posted by Visionray
That damn pot,
I don't recall the x-files story. I do recall the CSI episode.
If the pot had been glazed then no likelyhood of retrieving an audiio signal
If the pot had been merely baked then an every slight likeyhood that the groove
would have been cut. ...It would have been good for one revolution though and only
if the potters wheel came to a dead stop after the revolution. So yes highly implausable.
I think he was referring to Blade Runner, fakest interpolation ever.Quote:
Originally Posted by gerbick
I never saw the CSI episode but the X-files one was about a wooden bowl, not a fired pot. A fired pieces contracts 7% btw, not expand. If it contracts evenly, it would probably just increase the pitch of the audio extracted.
Chloe has an immense amount of resources at her disposal and is a trained hacker instead of some amature geek. We may not actually have that kind of cross-referencing ability but most of it is at least possible. But since she failed to MAKE A FREAKIN' BACKUP OF THE RECORDING!, she (her character) lost a lot of respect.
Hmm, what bugs me:
People dont say out loud what they are typing into IM's.
I doubt you can blow up a PDA with a memory card.
The future will not see mylar replace paper, paper will go away.
The biggest annoyance is when a movie only shows progress in one area:
If we could download data to our brains, that would mean we've mapped the brain and just as well program ourselves to be genius.
And how the hell are you going to project CNN onto my bathroom mirror yet the newspaper still shows up my doorstep?
While there are some exceptional Sci-Fi movies out now, I have seen maybe 1 where the outside shot of the ship does not make a sub-woofer growling sound as it moves through a vacuum.
That pisses me off so much.
also, why do spaceship engineers, even way into the future, route all wires and steam-pipes along corridors? dont they realize that when the ship takes damage it will cause a lot of wires and sparks to obstruct the walk-ways?
Yet another thing I like about computers in movies: They all cause sparks to fly when they crash! All keyboards will overheat, crackle and smokeo while sparks fly in all directions and maybe the guy who used the computer got electricuted!
Another thing in movies is time; everyone has their watches set to exactly the same time, and everything is precise. When somebody knows that the bomb will go off in 12 hours, they can count down the seconds while they are working on it!