Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 13:33:18 +0100 From: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> To: Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: computer systems in movies Message-ID: <20000808133318.C16264@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <20000808140953.K61246@fling.sanbi.ac.za>; from wjv@cityip.co.za on Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 02:09:53PM %2B0200 References: <20000807214856.A9892@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <Pine.SOL.3.96.1000807111543.24477B-100000@galileo> <20000807224826.A10527@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000808140953.K61246@fling.sanbi.ac.za>
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| "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.) Actually, the Net showed what could have been a Blackbox terminal with programming and other apps. One of the complaints about the movie was that it was too techie for non-computer people. That means maybe they showed computers a bit more like they really are. | - 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. Classic !! jm -- ------------------------------------------- Jonathon McKitrick -- jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org If you can't learn to do something well, learn to enjoy doing it poorly. ------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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