Ask Slashdot: Worst Computer Scene In TV or Movies? 1200
Cuban Devil writes "Yesterday I rented a copy of The Social Network. I won't comment on the story, but the Zuckerberg character's narrated performance on hacking Harvard servers made me wonder: what's the worst computer-related acting performance ever? I leave here my vote: Independence Day, when I had to see Mr. Goldblum upload a virus, using a Mac, when it did not connect even to an ethernet network, compromising the entire alien fleet. What other major technological gaffes have you seen?"
Agree (Score:2, Informative)
Hackers... (Score:4, Informative)
"It's a P6 chip ... RISC architecture is gonna change everything".
GUI Interface in visual basic! (Score:2, Informative)
This. [youtube.com]
Spew forth as many technical-sounding terms as possible to confuse the average person and make them think you know what you're talking about!
Re:Jurassic Park (Score:5, Informative)
Except that it actually WAS a UNIX system, SGI IRIX to be exact. And it was a real file browser as well. [wikipedia.org]
WarGames 2: The Dead Code (Score:5, Informative)
Yes, this movie exists. [imdb.com] And yes, it's godawful beyond belief.
Here's a review [blakeyrat.com] I wrote about the movie when it came out. But, really, every detail is awful-- not just the computer scenes, but every scene is brimming from top to bottom with WTF. It also doesn't help that they couldn't get any characters from the original, except WOPR (if you count that.)
Re:Jurassic Park (Score:5, Informative)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn
FSN (File System Navigator), was a real application made by SGI for 3D viewing of file systems. That really is a real gui layer, and you can get a clone of it for linux called FSV at http://fsv.sourceforge.net/ [sourceforge.net]
Re:The scene from 24 (Score:2, Informative)
Star Wars (Score:4, Informative)
Re:NCIS (Score:4, Informative)
Furthermore, I read that doing all the tests they do for even one case, would take weeks even *if* they could afford it. One tech mentioned that to even rent some of the equipment required for a few of the tests would exceed their annual budget.
Re:Jurassic Park (Score:5, Informative)
how does knowing that a system is running Unix enable one to understand the complex control software running a dinosaur park?
man parkcontrols
?
Re:This begs the question... (Score:2, Informative)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question [wikipedia.org]
Re:Jurassic Park (Score:2, Informative)
Not quite. FSV is the open-source clone that came out after the movie. FSN is the original that appeared in the movie. It was released in 1992.
http://web.archive.org/web/19991113223434/http://www.sgi.com/fun/freeware/3d_navigator.html [archive.org]