Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 22:48:26 +0100 From: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> To: Hubert Yamada <yamada@IfA.Hawaii.Edu> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: computer systems in movies Message-ID: <20000807224826.A10527@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.1000807111543.24477B-100000@galileo>; from yamada@IfA.Hawaii.Edu on Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 11:26:29AM -1000 References: <20000807214856.A9892@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <Pine.SOL.3.96.1000807111543.24477B-100000@galileo>
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On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 11:26:29AM -1000, Hubert Yamada wrote: | I think that we are talking about very custom software written for a very | small community, so the development costs on a per-unit basis is | absolutely huge. In my case, a lot of the software is one of a kind to | control one-of-a-kind hardware, so the software cost is basically the same | as my salary, so nobody wants to spend the money to make it pretty. They | just want it to work -- which is non-trivial, because the hardware often | doesn't perform the way that it is supposed to either. Well, that's too bad. Because the 'software' on Twister, Contact, The Relic, and several other recent movies looks quite cool. It even makes people think Unix might actually be friendly. :) I guess the display on 'The Net' could have been from a real Sun workstation, right? 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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