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The girl with the ANSI tattoo

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Re: The girl with the ANSI tattoo

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Post by sp332 »

pyre wrote: post #26
wpietri wrote: post #17

Please nobody let Hollywood see this blog. Somebody's going to say, "Man, we went to all that trouble to make it look realistic. But it doesn't work. Fuck it. Bring back the guy who did the interfaces for Jurassic Park. And the guy who writes Wesley Crusher's dialog." --- Update: I love that my comment mocking excess nitpicking now has triggered triple-redundant nitpicking.

> interfaces for Jurassic Park Replace Jurassic Park with "Operation Swordfish" or "Hackers," and you might be on to something. Especially since the Jurassic Park interface was a real program that actually existed.

Swordfish was really funny to me because Hugh Jackman had the "kinetics" of a hard night of hacking exactly right, while he's typing at that ridiculous interface.

Re: The girl with the ANSI tattoo

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Post by scott_s »

waterlesscloud wrote: post #24
ralfd wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We recognize when movies dumb computer stuff down, but the truth is they do it always! Imagine sitting beside a big horse nerd and every time a horse is on the screen and makes this typical horse noise they would comment "the horse didn't make the sound" or white walkers are killing the night watch behind the wall and "this horse is not really frightened but relaxed and listens curiously" or every time there is a mig…

I have a friend who is a competitive target shooter, and he's always complaining that the shell casings are the wrong size during shootouts. Of course now he's got me doing it too...

Movies always abuse the gun-cocking sound, and/or have characters cock (or pump, for shotguns) the guns at inappropriate times because it looks cool.

Re: The girl with the ANSI tattoo

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Post by sofal »

sophacles wrote: post #15

I really don't understand why people need to nitpick stuff like this. I mean, it's a movie -- the point is to tell a story not impart technical knowledge. Yeah, the query someone came up with on the fly isn't perfect, we get it, but in reality, this happens at the sql command line all the freaking time, it's a one-off, who cares? And yeah, the returned results are a bit incorrect for the query, but given that a bunch…

I really don't understand why people need to nitpick humorous little blog posts like this. I mean, it's a joke -- the point is to have some fun picking apart the technical details of a movie that clearly went above and beyond in that aspect compared to other movies. That goes without saying. It's just faux pedantry; it's all in good fun.

Re: The girl with the ANSI tattoo

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Post by aptwebapps »

sophacles wrote: post #15

I really don't understand why people need to nitpick stuff like this. I mean, it's a movie -- the point is to tell a story not impart technical knowledge. Yeah, the query someone came up with on the fly isn't perfect, we get it, but in reality, this happens at the sql command line all the freaking time, it's a one-off, who cares? And yeah, the returned results are a bit incorrect for the query, but given that a bunch…

Never seen the movie but my take away from the article was that I was really impressed they went as far as they did. The author of the article is just having fun, not criticizing it really.

Re: The girl with the ANSI tattoo

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Post by koide »

Akram wrote: post #37

The author could have done something useful instead of this.

Likewise. At least I cracked a huge grin reading it, especially at this golden paragraph: "Immediately moviegoers will notice that this can't be Oracle SQL - obviously the AS keyword is not valid for table aliases. In fact as we pull back for a thrilling query results listing we see the mysql prompt and giveaway use [dbname] connect syntax and over-elaborate box drawing."

Re: The girl with the ANSI tattoo

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Post by idleloops »

shiven wrote: post #18

Wow! Only on HN could one expect people picking apart SQL from movie screenshots and then discussing the minutiae of that code! Not that I have any problem with it. However, it surprises me no end how inward-looking, tech-navel-gazing, nerd-o-maniac this can appear to an outsider looking this way :-)

Oh surely that's what they'd expect.

Re: The girl with the ANSI tattoo

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Post by drbawb »

lloeki wrote: post #11
klez wrote: post #4

I'm happy that, finally, people are not shoving 'movie-os' in computer scenes anymore. The first time I saw real stuff in movies was in Antitrust, then in Tron: Legacy and finally here.

I have noticed across the years since 2000: - a bunch of nmap appearances (notably Die Hard 4 and the Bourne Ultimatum, also one of the Matrix movies) - some default OpenBox with XTerms in a few series - KDE quite a number of times too - SSH, bash and Unix FS exploration (cd, ls -l and its output, find, grep) at times In fact it's sad that so much of the computer scenes are bad, but I've seen enough actually good att…

Y'know the 3D filesystem in Jurassic Park was a real program too, and it was based on a UNIX system.

(I think it's a file explorer for an old SGI box; which makes sense as SGI was commonly used in the production of movies.)

Re: The girl with the ANSI tattoo

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Post by shrikant »

jwdunne wrote: post #27
sophacles wrote: post #15

I really don't understand why people need to nitpick stuff like this. I mean, it's a movie -- the point is to tell a story not impart technical knowledge. Yeah, the query someone came up with on the fly isn't perfect, we get it, but in reality, this happens at the sql command line all the freaking time, it's a one-off, who cares? And yeah, the returned results are a bit incorrect for the query, but given that a bunch…

I don't see this as nitpicking really. I definitely don't see it as negative. Sure there is a bit of nitpicking but the author seems to have laid down some genuine comments about the movie on top of it. To be fairly honest, if I noticed something like this I'd crack a big grin and I'd wanna share it, like I just cracked a big grin whilst reading the post. I think, overall, this a compliment to the detail in the movie…

> I remember one totally shocking clip where a guy was 'hacking' and you could plainly see it was Windows Media Player.

This is not made up, folks. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DURk7VQhW-k

Re: The girl with the ANSI tattoo

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Post by shrikant »

klez wrote: post #4

I'm happy that, finally, people are not shoving 'movie-os' in computer scenes anymore. The first time I saw real stuff in movies was in Antitrust, then in Tron: Legacy and finally here.

The overall premise was a little over the top, but WarGames (the older one) got some of the detail correct. In 1983, no less, so it's replete with dial-up sounds and everything!
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