From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Aug 8 5:33:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBB3837B90D for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 05:33:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #4) id 13M8ZK-0002gg-00; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 13:33:18 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA16710; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 13:33:18 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 13:33:18 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: Johann Visagie Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: computer systems in movies Message-ID: <20000808133318.C16264@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20000807214856.A9892@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000807224826.A10527@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000808140953.K61246@fling.sanbi.ac.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000808140953.K61246@fling.sanbi.ac.za>; from wjv@cityip.co.za on Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 02:09:53PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org | "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