[RESOLVED] Movies/TV Computer goofs

[goinpostal]

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Last night on Just Shoot Me, in the big man's office there was an Innoculate IT box - like the box would be in the big man's office. It would be in the trash or in some geeks office.
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I can't name the movies/tv shows but I keep seeing Computer Associates software in the weirdest places like InoculateIT, ArcserveIT
on bookshelves I have probably seen it at least five times. The only reason I notice is I have them on my shelves. Does CA have somesort of weird deal with the movie industry??? It's just weird I would expect to see MS stuff but CA??

Keep your eyes peeled you might catch this.

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[wgbjr]

I remember a scene out of Clear and Present Danger, when Harrison Ford was trying to hack a co-workers computer. If you have seen it, do you remember when the other guy deleted the directory, but the deletion just paused long enough for Harrison Ford to get his printout? It took like 5-10 seconds to delete like 20 text files. Curious.

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[LabRat]

Okay. How about Independence day and uploading a virus to an extra-terrestrial space craft where, presumably, the OS is not of earth origin (neither is the circuitry come to think of it), yet they were able to infect it with a thinkpad?

Maybe IBM has a lot to answer for from their part in advancing technology.......

A side note: Have you noticed all the Sceptre systems in Earth the Final Conflict? www.efc.com

[WinDrivers1]

Computer Associates software is on the main check in desk on ER.

[rfmathis]

I agree Labrat. I've seen it too on Final Conflict. Also remember it from last season on some of the CBS shows (Nash Bridges - I think). They had "COMPAQ" in huge letters in places you don't expect them. Another shameless tie-in, perhaps?

[Larommi]

Originally posted by rfmathis:
I agree Labrat. I've seen it too on Final Conflict. Also remember it from last season on some of the CBS shows (Nash Bridges - I think). They had "COMPAQ" in huge letters in places you don't expect them. Another shameless tie-in, perhaps?

Better yet, when they don't want to use the company name...I remember seeing a Compa in a show once and later their was a BM laptop...gee I wonder what brands they are?


Hey Jallentino, the ones on the old Game Shows are a hoot because of how they play them up. Its funny to hear an announcer say that a 386 is the last computer a family will ever need...LOL



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[NeuromancerIV]

Well in how many shows or commercials do you see everybody using MAC Powerbooks? I can name on both hands the number of times I've run into Powerbooks in the real world...

[Visual72]

I always get a kick out of how fast web sites load. I have a cable modem and wish I could get that out of mine.

[Ugo]

In english class, we were watching King Lear on Beta. They had old commercials on it. There were computer commercials with new "portable" computers that looked like they weiged as much as a current day desktop system with the monitor would. Apple was there with it's commercials "There are some people who use computers, and others who use apples". Alot of it was funny. The commercials were the best part.

[gtiseb]

HACKERS! I hated that movie with a passion! What a stupid load of tripe! sure, the servers i know all have giant room size screens that display a cyberspace environement to control everything ! Or when they are checking out Angelina Jolie's laptop and one guy says "oh it's a P6 chip, 100x faster than a pentium and it has 640 gigbit memory and a t1 connection" I almost pulled an elvis on our t.v. I coulnd't stand to watch the rest. An an evil sysadmin who skates around the corporation. WHATEVER !
(although most Sysadmins are evil :-) )

[NPaladin]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by LabRat:
[B]Okay. How about Independence day and uploading a virus to an extra-terrestrial space craft where, presumably, the OS is not of earth origin (neither is the circuitry come to think of it), yet they were able to infect it with a thinkpad?

Maybe IBM has a lot to answer for from their part in advancing technology.......

Ok, what I'd REALLY like to know, is how did they manage to get MacOS to run on the above-mentioned IBM thinkpad?

(Now trying to figure out if the alien computers used binary or hex, or some other wierd system base, like trinary)


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[NPaladin]

Originally posted by wgbjr:
I remember a scene out of Clear and Present Danger, when Harrison Ford was trying to hack a co-workers computer. If you have seen it, do you remember when the other guy deleted the directory, but the deletion just paused long enough for Harrison Ford to get his printout? It took like 5-10 seconds to delete like 20 text files. Curious.

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Beievable if he was reading them off of a 1 Mbps network drive.


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[NPaladin]

Ok, here's a couple that REALLY get to me. One of them happens to be Superman 3....I mean come ON...isn't what Richard Pryor does to "hack" pushing reality a BIT more than believing a man can fly unassisted? What was the other one.....oh yes. "The Pentagon Wars" starrting Cary Elwes and Kelsey Grammer. It's about the development of the M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle. Part of the movie shows the development stage of the vehicle, and during a sequence in the early 80's, they CLEARLY show a computer in the drafter's office running WIndows 3.1!!! Last I checked, it wasn't QUITE out of beta stage at that time....



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[Rejection Man]

Last nigh in Stargate, the team had supper human abilitys, and at one point sam was writeing a book at a couple of thousand words / minute. The funny part is she wat caomplining about how she had to wait for the keay board buffer to empty becasue she was typing so fast. Any way the computer gos on lading text while she talks for 2 minuets. We all know the keayboard buffer will quit taking imput after its loaded, yets its strange how 3 additional pages came up after she quit typing.

[murphy1]

hey don't you people realize that it is all true and that the film makers are just showing us what the goverments have been hiding from us?
anarchy forever dudes.
or if nothng else, free pIII laptops for all