I like some facilities seem to have a huge red digital display whose sole purpose is to countdown catastrophic events.
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I like some facilities seem to have a huge red digital display whose sole purpose is to countdown catastrophic events.
How everything beeps!!!
What is the point in having a hidden microphone or gps tracker placed on a car or in someones house when it has a flashing light and is beeping? And then there is the gps/palm that will track the object that looks something like the image below. It will have a large, red dot that shows where the beacon is, and at the same time it is beeping! What is the point in making the palm beep when it will always be in your hand and when the beeping has no function other than saying " you got the beacon on the screen"? That must be the largest cliche in spy movies. Get rid of all beeping and flashing GPS trackers!
http://images.jr.com/productimages/G...D=150&CVT=JPEG
does anybody knows what file format they use in 24? Everything's green and they have all these fade effects when they load new images etc. Doesn't seem very useful though... :-P And man, those cell phones can upload/download EVERYTHING!
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Originally Posted by ihoss.com
Interesting rant indeed!
and with 30 or so keyboard strokes... please. that pisses me off just about as much as the movie "hackers". Hacking via telephone lines doesn't work, its a direct traceable link that can be instantly cut by the host. baahQuote:
Originally Posted by Visionray
Tomorrow Never Dies was the worse offender with this dude:
http://www.dvdreview.com/assets/imag...ver_Dies_4.JPG
Did anybody see him writing things with his one-handed keyboard? He basically just whacked the palm of his hand onto the keyboard and produced the most perfectly written sentences ever known to man.
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Originally Posted by ihoss.com
not really, it would be done just like a record.
and it was on csi.
Transporter 2....the main character broke into some room with a computer with "the secret files" and downloaded some dude's photo onto his ipod then was in the car driving and called FBI headquarters or whatever and told the guy on the phone "i'm sending you his photo now" and pushed a button on the ipod and the guy receives the secret photo and files through his email.
i was half sleep when i was watching this but damn, thas one helluva ipod...lol.
Some moments to remember:
In "MI:1" - when Ethan Hunt is using the internet (not very common at the time) to find everything he wants just by doing a search for the keyword "Job". Then he finds the email adress to this guy: "max@Job 3:14"
In "Enemy of the State" they use some super haxx program to rotate a video recording even though the camera is filming one area all the time
And of course, CSI is the worst show when it comes to stupid technology... I hate how they always have some super computer program to fix everything they need. (And if the technology isn't stupid enough, the investegators find the evidence so fast. They can see a hair in 20 meters and darkness... (just an example))
mission impossible goofs: http://imdb.com/title/tt0117060/goofs
i love how people get upset by things that ARE NOT REAL!
I like CSI Las Vegas. At least Grissum throws some old tech into the mix.
Personally I like all the fake stuff, gives me something to laugh at...
Not technology related, but the chain of command in movies is crap! Take a standard Star-Trek scene:
Offiser-"They are shooting at us!"
Captain-"evasive manouvers"
Whats the point in asking the captain what to do when you are being shot at? Get away, don't ask someone else what to do!
Well... i don't think anybody is very upset but we think it's stupid. Cause the producers wants to be serious and make realistic movies/shows at the same time as they use all these stupid high tech stuff...Quote:
Originally Posted by silverx2
you have to, you cant just do something without going through the captain unless he says to do what you think is correct. its the same thing on a ship.Quote:
Originally Posted by ihoss.com
They should run it like the CL, all chiefs and no indians.Quote:
Originally Posted by silverx2
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Originally Posted by silverx2
been tried, didn't work.
did a ninja try it? because im pretty sure if a ninja wants something to talk it will make it talk.
that is an interesting observation on a couple levels. on one hand, it does suggest that, as consumers of fiction, the public is getting sophisticated to the point that they take it personal. but, on the other, we're pretty damned spoiled if thats all it takes to upset us.Quote:
Originally Posted by silverx2
Are you really going to criticize unrealistic technology in a Bond movie?Quote:
Originally Posted by asheep_uk
Today? Yeah.
It seems to be a matter of the gap between presentation and possibilty that irks us. In sean connery bond, the tech was waaay out of reach, so who are we to doubt? Currently we are nearing real world counterparts of most of the tech that used to wow us so it requires screenwriters to be less insulting.
We don't complain that warp drive is fake because we simply cant fathom how it works (or would work).
technology in movies is just like sex in pr0n movies....totally unrealistic!
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Originally Posted by argonauta
i know i mean honsetly, what women would want a penis that small. all those porno guys need to grow bigger schlongs.
speak for yourself ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by argonauta
Well... Argonauta's avatar is an image of "The 40 year old virgin" :-P coincidence?Quote:
Originally Posted by argonauta
lmao...
lol....wait a sec! i've done it with this one girl....that time, and hmmm, ehm, it was.....great! yes!Quote:
Originally Posted by MagnusVS
actually..the "ideology" behind it was...he was making a pot on a potters wheel..and engraving (as you said) lines..around and around (while on the wheel)... hence making a record more or less... and they said recordings used to be made in clay & wax...etc..etc.. I actually didnt thnk it was too far fetched.. (Ive seen worse)Quote:
Originally Posted by robbmcaulay
Heck I've had worse,
Ever seen a dictaphone belt?
http://www.recording-history.org/HTM...honographs.htm
I saw that one, it was pathetic. About as bad as seeing a space ship exploding out in weightless space, and all the sparks and pieces fall 'down'.Quote:
Someone told me about an episode where the guy was making a pot on a potters wheel
Nasa should do an experiment where they actually blow something up in space, just to once and for all find out what it really looks like
they have done it, but it wasn't an experiment.Quote:
Originally Posted by ihoss.com
pictures, videos?
Yup, sometime back in the 70's, they blew up some rocket in space, over Maryland, with some sort of dye in it to test what would happen when the solar wind hit it it. Of course, from the ground, you couldn't see anything. Still, in weightlessness, everything should fly off in the direction it first takes and keep going, not arc over towards the floor of the studio they are shooting in. ;)
and apollo 13. I think the soviets have blown a few things up.
I believe bits just fly away. no fire or anything.
To be fair, they seem to have gotten smarter on those though, now they cut away just a second or two after the blow up.
And there was an old western I saw once. Great movie, right up to the shootout between the good guy and the bad guy, on a hill above where a train was stopped. This was supposed to happen back in the 1800's some time, and they aimed the camera at the bad guy, just as they drew, from low down, so you could see sky behind him.
And there, big as day, was a jet contrail going past, just behind his head. :(
This should set the standard
found it at Compfused.com