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Jurassic Park - Tablet device on Nedry's desk? (2012)

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Re: Jurassic Park - Tablet device on Nedry's desk? (2012)

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Post by benj111 »

kayfox wrote: post #70
B1FIDO wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean actually the FSV that you refer to is a clone of the SGI IRIX utility, fsn , that was actually depicted on a live computer in the film. SGI was well-known to the film industry, because their IRIX systems were basically the sine qua non of graphics workstations and powerhouses. SGI invested heavily in the graphical capabilities, including 3D rendering, and therefore when the industry graduated from Amigas with…

The page on Wikipedia for fsn was deleted because fsn is "not notable."

Even though it is noted in the fsv wiki page, and so definitionally it is notable...

Re: Jurassic Park - Tablet device on Nedry's desk? (2012)

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Post by dhosek »

bdbdbdb wrote: post #39
guerrilla wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Poor SGI. I used to love their website back in the 90s. It's strange to think that alternative architectures were possible though and could get such a foothold in some industries. The specificity is mind-blowng. Everything is "PC"s today.

Huh, I had no idea sgi was not pc hardware. I just assumed they made PCs with their own OS

I remember that SGI was superfast. I did some on-site work for a company that had an SGI workstation and I had installed TeX on it for a typesetting system I’d developed with them. When I ran the TeX process, it was so fast that the screen did not scroll as it ran, instead it just refreshed with the whole multi-line output. At first I thought something had gone wrong because I was used to waiting a few seconds for the code to run on my PC, but it turned out, no, their machines really were that fast.

Re: Jurassic Park - Tablet device on Nedry's desk? (2012)

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Post by dhosek »

hsbauauvhabzb wrote: post #50
dbushell wrote: post #4

Jurassic Park III (2001) has a 3D printer that’s central to a plot line. I know they have a long history but I remember thinking that was more sci-fi than the dinosaurs.

The latest Jurassic park was more (bad) sci-fi than dinosaurs, and I’m not talking 3d printers. It was terrible.

My local theater does “mystery movies” on select Monday nights where for $6 I can see a before first run movie with the catch that I don’t know what it is before it starts. The last JP movie was one of these last summer and I was so glad I didn’t pay regular price for it. I had hoped it could be good but it turned out to just be a lot of nonsense to the point where I was hoping the dinosaurs would eat all the people.

Re: Jurassic Park - Tablet device on Nedry's desk? (2012)

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Post by dhosek »

bloomingeek wrote: post #19
kilroy123 wrote: post #9

I love Jurassic Park, the movie, because it was so wildly ahead of its time in so many ways. Also, mandatory https://jurassicsystems.com .

Love it, Samuel L and pre-Newman in the same scene! (Well, almost.)

I somehow hadn’t realized until last year that JP (and JFK) were both before Wayne Knight took on the role of Newman. I had the distinct impression when watching the films that I already knew him.

Re: Jurassic Park - Tablet device on Nedry's desk? (2012)

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Post by dhosek »

dehrmann wrote: post #62
raffael_de wrote: post #33

Wayne Knight aka Newman was - as far as I can tell - the most successful regular cast member from Seinfeld with respect to a movie career outside of that show.

Patrick Warburton probably has him beat.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus? (Although looking at her filmography, it turns out that four of the movies I’d seen were where she’s had big roles in were just in the last three years.

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Post by dhosek »

hsbauauvhabzb wrote: post #52
serf wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>The portrayal of AI has held up extraordinarily well too. it's interesting to think that many of our current AIs were trained on our fiction in a weird self-fulfilling strange loop. of course the portrayal aged well, the damn things are using the material as a mimicry source.

Just don’t feed it the terminator movies, or the matrix.

Too late.

Re: Jurassic Park - Tablet device on Nedry's desk? (2012)

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Post by dhosek »

serf wrote: post #18
simonw wrote: post #13

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The movie itself predates the moon landing - it came out in 1968. It's astonishing to watch 2001: A Space Odyssey today and reflect on how well the production design has aged. That movie is coming up on 60 years old now! The portrayal of AI has held up extraordinarily well too.

>The portrayal of AI has held up extraordinarily well too. it's interesting to think that many of our current AIs were trained on our fiction in a weird self-fulfilling strange loop. of course the portrayal aged well, the damn things are using the material as a mimicry source.

I have an unfinished novel I started in 2013 where I wrote a scene which seemed pretty sci-fi at the time but now seems like contemporary agentic AI.

Re: Jurassic Park - Tablet device on Nedry's desk? (2012)

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Post by raffael_de »

dhosek wrote: post #75
dehrmann wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Patrick Warburton probably has him beat.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus? (Although looking at her filmography, it turns out that four of the movies I’d seen were where she’s had big roles in were just in the last three years.

fun fact: her father is billionaire. i guess that predisposes an acting inclined person to take a risk like seinfeld but keeps you from being hungry enough to walk hard.

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Post by venusenvy47 »

jansan wrote: post #15
shlip wrote: post #3

> It's the design mock up from the final presentation to Motorola for the iRadio (name later changed to Envoy). > The head of frogdesign, Hartmut Esslinger met Spielberg on a plane and showed him this mockup. Steven asked if it could be used as a prop in the film, and Hartmut gave it to him.

Wow, Motorola had an iRadio before Apple released their first iPhone? I did not know that.

The weirder phone that they had was the ROKR in 2005. It was a collaboration with Apple and worked with iTunes. People say that it helped Apple get in the phone business, and helped Motorola become even more irrelevant in that space around this time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Rokr_E1

Re: Jurassic Park - Tablet device on Nedry's desk? (2012)

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Post by aa-jv »

guerrilla wrote: post #20
B1FIDO wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean actually the FSV that you refer to is a clone of the SGI IRIX utility, fsn , that was actually depicted on a live computer in the film. SGI was well-known to the film industry, because their IRIX systems were basically the sine qua non of graphics workstations and powerhouses. SGI invested heavily in the graphical capabilities, including 3D rendering, and therefore when the industry graduated from Amigas with…

Poor SGI. I used to love their website back in the 90s. It's strange to think that alternative architectures were possible though and could get such a foothold in some industries. The specificity is mind-blowng. Everything is "PC"s today.

Imagine if they'd made the titanium laptop before Apple, and actually shipped it with Irix .. would have been amazing.
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