Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 14:09:53 +0200 From: Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za> To: chat@freebsd.org Cc: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> Subject: Re: computer systems in movies Message-ID: <20000808140953.K61246@fling.sanbi.ac.za> In-Reply-To: <20000807224826.A10527@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org on Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 10:48:26PM %2B0100 References: <20000807214856.A9892@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <Pine.SOL.3.96.1000807111543.24477B-100000@galileo> <20000807224826.A10527@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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j mckitrick on 2000-08-07 (Mon) at 22:48:26 +0100: > > I guess the display on 'The Net' could have been from a real Sun > workstation, right? "The Net" and similar films would have you believe that most GUIs consist primarlily of a progress bar slowly filling from left to right. (Actually, looking at Windows, that's not too far off the mark.) Anyway, my favourite bit of Hollywood computer science: In the TV series "La Femme Nikita" (I think that's where I saw it!) there was a scene that went something like this: - Good Guy hacks into Bad Guys' mainframe from his laptop. - Good Guy starts stealing ultra secret file/data/virus/whatever. - Ubiquitous progress bar starts slowly growing from left to right. - Bad Guys discover the break-in and activate countermeasures. - Progress bar shrinks back to the left of the screen. -- V To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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