From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Aug 8 5:10:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from fling.sanbi.ac.za (fling.sanbi.ac.za [196.38.142.119]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6636137B643 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 05:10:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wjv@cityip.co.za) Received: from johann by fling.sanbi.ac.za with local (Exim 3.13 #4) id 13M8Cf-000ABY-00; Tue, 08 Aug 2000 14:09:53 +0200 Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 14:09:53 +0200 From: Johann Visagie To: chat@freebsd.org Cc: j mckitrick Subject: Re: computer systems in movies Message-ID: <20000808140953.K61246@fling.sanbi.ac.za> References: <20000807214856.A9892@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000807224826.A10527@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i 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 +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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