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ST:TNG was so guilty of this...
[Picture shows about a third of a woman's face]
Data: "The computer can extrapolate the rest of the face."
Riker: "Do it"
[The rest of the face appears, picture-perfect, including the hair style and non-symmetrical features]
Not too bad of an episode, otherwise...
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Which episode was this?
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About 48 hours.
You have 2.
Ok then. Here.
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That kind of makes sense though, most mainframes haven't been patched in 30 years.
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...is that complex operations, which would take days or weeks to program, are performed in seconds.
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Don't you love how all the big scenes where the bad guys (or sometimes the good guys) are trying to brute-force the password (probably a pass code for launching nuclear missiles), you see all the combinations flashing on the screen, and one by one, each digit or letter locks in? If any given password they tried is wrong, how can they possibly know they've got part of it right? What on earth kind of security system out there tells you, "Wrong password, try again...but hey, here's a hint to help you break in and take over our system: you've got the first 5 characters correct."
Moreover, if you remember each of these scenes, every time another letter or number is filled in, the rest of the positions are flashing wildly from letter to letter...but the problem there aren't really very many characters to try. If there is some way to know for each character position whether the value there is correct, any time you move on to the next position all you have to do is try every single possible letter, digit, or symbol, an operation that would be near-instantaneous, just a few hundred or thousand possible values. But instead it sits there cycling for 5 minutes or so, until the next position locks in as correct. So even accepting the above movie inaccuracy regarding the way any sane security system would work, the portrayal still doesn't make sense, because each position would be solved in a fraction of a second.
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Not to mention the system not locking you out after 3 tries.
Psychosis at 10
Film at 11
Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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this is the best ever survey question....  
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 It's Hollywood OS! 
What else would ya expect?
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Is it me, or is every movie coder since Sandra Bullock in The Net capable of typing hundreds of lines of code per minute, while still having time to chug a can of Diet Coke every fifteen seconds? If someone can point me to the typing school they all use, I'd appreciate it...
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Can't be real eh?...they're not combing through CodeProject for samples or Googling 
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How massively over bright is the VDU screen ?
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This pole is one day early for April Fools day. Everybody knows that all the things listed in the selections are trivial for any decent computer professional. Why is everybody being so modest?
Hogan
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And wish that computers would actually do that! The Windows "barf" sound when an error occurs is awful. Microsoft should talk to Hollywood. Obviously though, these things should be able to be turned off, but they do sound like fun (pun intended.)
Marc
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I'm with you. I sorta miss the audible click per key (I don't mean the mechanical keyboard), the amber screen and blinking bar cursor.
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mikepwilson wrote: the amber screen and blinking bar cursor.
I remember when I bought an amber monitor. Oooh, it was sooo cool. And the CGA card displayed different shades!
Marc
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I had one of those...with my AMD 286 processor! Could never compile anything right cuz it wasn't totally compatible with the Intel...
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Ah, 320x200. 40x24 text.
How the heck I ever worked with that I have no idea.
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mikepwilson wrote: How the heck I ever worked with that I have no idea.
It was a dramatic improvement to the teletype and punch cards, both of which I've worked on.
Besides, my first real development system was a Commodore Business Machine (80 x 25) and I wrote my own extenders (that Skyles Electric Works[^] sold) to provide full screen editing, automatic code scrolling when cursor-ing up/down, etc. I did all my development on that and had a sweet little utility that ported the assembled code to the C-64. By the time I started using a PC, it was all 80x25 there too.
Marc
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yep. I remember getting "the 80 column card" for the Apple ][ and being blown away.
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"Chole, intercept the diagonals and get me a vector into the plane's flight management system!" I'm trying to explain to my wife that this is NOT what a programmer does. This is not what anyone does.
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Best line in the 24's hacking is when Jack says: "Get me the socket", and it solves almost every communication related issues.
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The disk is encrypted, give me 20 minutes!
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Who else noticed that?
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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