Re: Live Free or Die Hard Computers

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Onsokumaru wrote:
"Malke" <notreally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23kXuI1cSIHA.5136@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
HagarTheHorrible wrote:
True. But what I need to find out is in the movie's opening sequences, what type of computer was Justin Long using - a PC or a Mac.
It was a *movie* computer. The kind that shows "Virus Uploading" with a progress bar. The kind that has a lot more blinkenlights than real computers. The kind that goes "boop, boop" every time you press a key. The kind of computer that lives in a world where *all* the financial data in the *entire* United States is being kept in one place (no originals on any hard drives) and will be downloaded onto (cue Scary Music!) AN EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE!!! Oh noes!


and they can zoom in and get a perfectly clear close up picture from a fuzzy super low rez security camera picture, and ever database search flashes the results onscreen - lol.

Yes! You mentioned one of my "favorite" movie computer things - they can get a clear picture of whatever by magically enlarging it with their Mad Skilz Technical Stuff even though the data doesn't exist! My son watches "CSI" and they do this a lot. There are quite a few sites listing the differences between computers in the movies and in Real Life. Here's one of them:

http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article09-127

And to actually answer the OP's original question, Justin Long's computer was probably supposed to be running some form of *nix. No self-respecting hacker would be running Windows *or* OS X. ;-) I saw the movie twice, once in the theater and once just recently at home (Netflix). You certainly could get a "look" like that with various terminal windows being open.

Cheers,


Malke
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