[Gllug] OT computers in the movies

[Tim Bateman]

Near the end of Swordfish, when he has to write the code really
quickly (in the bank), there are loads of '//' and '/*'.
I know its good practice, but then your trying to save someone's
life???
hehe

-Tim

On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 06:49:34AM -0400, SteveC wrote:
> Hope everyone has had time to recover from the carnival :-) [or for those 
> in Geneva, you had a nice day at work while we had a bank holiday :-)]
> 
> I saw The Sum Of All Fears the other day, and was surprised to see that
> F16s on a combat run fly above cloud with their navigation lights on.  
> They should obviously have painted "we are here" on the side of the plane,
> maybe trailing one of those air-signs.. Also when encrypting mail, you get
> to see the encrypted chars in a pane below your email as you type...
> fascinating stuff..
> 
> Anyone have better examples of computer fantasy at the movies? I know 
> MacOS made it into Independance Day right? Windows has been in lots of 
> films but what about Linux? :-)
> 
> *apart* from linux rendering the movie, of course...
> 
> have fun,
> 
> SteveC steve at fractalus.com http://www.fractalus.com/steve/
> 
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