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- OpticalLiam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I'd like to add:
Any image, not matter how small or distorted can be zoomed in to any level and then ENHANCED! - ricodued, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4And I also completely agree with the "Magnify that image sixty times... okay enhance it so I can see that guys face who is, from the image's perspective, six hundred yards away... alright now X-Ray him and look for a broken pinky nail... YES! That's our guy"
Every time I see that in the movies and TV shows I want to jump through the screen and punch them in the face. - aggrazel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Terrabytes worth of data fit on one floppy disk (or CD if its a newer movie) ... but it can all be copied in a few seconds.
- blackjack75, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2My favorite was a (joyful) german cop series. Not sure if it was the dreaded Derrick. In one episode they went to a basement where a young hacker was trying to penetrate some server with a weird interface displaying numbers.
Turns out this interface was actually ProTracker on Amiga. For those who don't know, this is a music composition application. - G-RaZoR, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2in the shows CSI, all of there computers seem to have a black OS, that is extremely High Tech... On the latest CSI:NY episode, an agent took an iMac, and connected it to a windows computer (assuming that because of 4 big DELL monitors), and instantly had results.
- grahamcase, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I think someone should make that 3 hour hacker movie. A real computer movie - it would be funny and boring all at the same time.
But the movie has to have some sort of plot. And like, the computer users are complaining about access times, and talking ***** about windows, and then talking smack about apple fanboys. then they get on their pcs that triboot windows, linux and osx86 and try to print some stuff, but run out of ink, or paper, or whatever.
Then they get sued by apple and microsoft for pirating windows and osx86. Their blogs get taken off line, but they continue to wreak web havok by posting on forums, and on irc chats, which eventually make them infamous through bash.org.
at the end, the whole world knows who they are, and the movie ends with Alex and Kevin talking about them on Diggnation... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Why do they make so much noise in the movies? The GUI wooshes, clicks and beeps as it changes images, resizes them or change screens.
- Drahknon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My favorite: when the thing someone wants to find comes up (after several meaninful beeps) with a message that says "X Found!"
- graemee, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3"uploading virus to alien mother ship"
That's because aliens use Macs. Everyone knows successful overloards use Windoze - stox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Either a Jacob's Ladder or a Van Der Graff Generator is absolutely necessary for the operation of new, experimental computers (especially when built by brilliant scientists), although in real life, these devices do absolutely nothing."
I am going to have to call them on this one. At the beginning of the Beam Line at Fermilab is a place affectionately known as the B-Movie room. There you will see equipment that looks like giant Van De Graff generators. You will find similar equipment at other accelerators. Not common, but there are places these devices have a real purpose. - generalleoff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1They forgot that connecting a computer to a Barbi doll while wearing a bra on your head changes the laws of physics and creates a hot chick that can do whatever she wants.
- vincentb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Corollary: (size of data to be transfered / data rate) IS ALWAYS GREATER THAN (time before the bad guy breaks in).
- OpticalLiam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You can use a computer with out ever using the mouse, you just bash the keyboard quickly and you can do anything.
- ubermusiq, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Also guys, dont forget, that actually coding a virus is totally not needed. Most laptops have a library of viruses that are ready to use out of the box. And thank to the new VirusConvert Firefox plugin you can convert your puny earth viruses into martian attack fleet destroying super-viruses.
- Philipp_Lenssen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Also, whenever you download a file from the enemy computer, you can see a map showing the transporation lines, animated and laid over the continents, with some buzzing/ beeping sound in the background. And there will be some kind of countdown showing when the enemy computer will interrupt the transfer...
- manfesto, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I remember seeing "Anti-Trust," and there was this scene towards the end where the guy burns just about everything important on two CDs in a matter of seconds - with the exact same usb iomega zipCD 4x4x6 drive I had at home that took twenty minutes to burn a music CD.
That was more a personal insult than anything on this list. - maloney_633, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2uploading virus to alien mother ship
- xamox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If anyone has ever played Metal Gear Solid 2 it's sweet because at one point you have to hack a computer. It runs linux, and then it scans for security flaws, then does a buffere overflow and you get root. I thought it was badass when I played the game and came across this.
- superal1394, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1No one mentioned this: Laptops in movies seem to have infinate battery life untill it is critical to the plot for the laptop to magically die.
Oh! Computers always seem to use a dark user interface.
And finally, they can open a browser and instantly be were they wanted to go - mrgone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1IN THE FUTURE, all starship controls will be highly functional dumb terminals connected to a massive, unimaginably powerful central computer, HOWEVER all of these terminals will be rigged to explode at the slightest hint of damage to the exterior of the vessel, causing egregious bodily harm to the operator.
- adeas, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"Terrabytes worth of data fit on one floppy disk (or CD if its a newer movie) ... but it can all be copied in a few seconds."
In Boiler Room "We need you to back up your whole hard disk to a floppy". It takes him a whole 15 seconds! And it says "Copying Hard Drisk to Floppy" on screen, wtf? - paintist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It only takes 1 mouse click to find the most vague newspaper articles.
- fonebone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1And you can always control traffic lights remotely, to cause big accidents, just as you rob that bank.
- CoRruPt-, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I love it when hackers just use the keyboard to hack. Ala Swordfish. They press random keys at 100KPM and instantly cracks whatever they wish.
- HiddenForce, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2...(And users typing these long commands NEVER make typographical errors.)
- Muzztein, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1weird command lines like
"if x=@1111.234"
to start a program that hack into your own system
(clear a present danger)
and of course every hacker get horny with the computer and say:
"yes!!! come on baby give it to me.. yes yes yes"
WTF? - Superc00kie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Nobody uses a mainstream OS in the movies. Every computer has a highly advanced graphical interface with lots and lots of animations. Instead of just displaying 'message sent' when sending an email, you get a long complicated animation of your message being put in an envelope and being sent (Mission Impossible)
Hackers have some sort of Jedi powers that allows them to crack 256-bit encryption by just looking at the message. They can't explain how they do it, they just 'see' it. - chojin808, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1yeah cause its a movie,some are just cheesy about it but those movies you shouldnt be watching in the first place. i dont think anyone really wants to watch some dude rocking a kernel for 3 hours...you can also make a woman by hooking up your computer and a car battery to a barbie doll.
- perseon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Most computers, no matter how small, are able to produce reality-defying three-dimensional, active animation, photo-realistic graphics, with little or no detailed input from the user."
I also want to add that the characters are always the fastest typers in the world. In fact, they type just as fast as they read. - skipjacker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Someone, much smarter than I told me that in any movie or TV show, you have to allow the authors/screen writers time compression. Would you really want to sit and watch a second hand move on a clock cursor for 5 minutes while thousands of files are searched, or hundreds of gigs loaded. I reject all of the examples which can easily be explained by time compression. Think of it as poetic license in a temporal medium.
As for the last one about War Games. That was kinda of the whole point of the movie, that a backdoor in the software allowed some kid with an analog modem in his bedroom to launch ICBMs. If you don't suspend disbelief in the premise why bother watching.
And while I'm on the subject of disbelief, it's kinda funny that you'll believe that we've conquered interstellar travel without thinking twice about it but don't think humans could use a keyboard with no labels. It's like Archie Bunker watching Alien and being incredulous that they allow a chick to go on a ship full of men instead of the fact that an alien life-form is able to survive in vacuum. - tkalfaoglu, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0My friend pointed out another glaring omission on my list:
All computer users are nerds, and they all eat donuts, are fat, wear thick glasses, and they wear suspenders! - tkalfaoglu, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0This is a great compilation :) Here are a few more that I can think of:
1) Big, beeping LED countdown on all bombs,
2) Bank computers that just display NAME: so you can find out all about that person by entering their name,
3) All police computers display suspect's picture on all searches,
4) A blurry, ill-lit security camera picture is enough to identify anyone (Las Vegas)
5) 1-inch fonts on all computer displays,
6) Characters that appear in 1-second intervals on the screen, usually while beeping.
7) Alarm systems all use visible light laser beams so thieves can avoid them. - pHr34kY, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0And while I'm on the subject of disbelief, it's kinda funny that you'll believe that we've conquered interstellar travel without thinking twice about it but don't think humans could use a keyboard with no labels.
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I can! I spraypainted a keyboard black once (okay, I watched 'Hackers' too many times)
I could do it with ease, except my fingers got all black and sticky. - dgath, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's sad that one of my favorite shows, has some of the most unbelieveable technology. In 24, the GUIs are either super duper hi tech and really cool looking, or it looks like something out of 1995 PC game. One season they have sattalite video they can aim and zoom to follow suspects speeding away... the next season the sattalite is a 1 frame per second camera where they have trouble tracking something moving 5 mph. I also liked how the infrared on it can detect humans inside of building, and their heat signiture is just a solid red blob.
I also love CTU's ability in 24 to send anything anywhere, to someone's PDA.
Great show, and I annoy my friends when I laugh out loud at these events as they totally believe it.
Another great scene was in one of the Jack Ryan movies (Patriot Games?) where there are two guys, on two computers, in two different rooms. Unknowingly to one guy, the other (Jack Ryan) is spying on his computer, reading files, etc... Finally bad guy picks up on this and opens the file Jack Ryan is reading on a seperate computer, and deletes it, then boom, it vanishes from Jack's monitor. As if there isn't a thing called RAM back in those days.
Props to The Matrix though for realistic hacking scenes (Trinity hacking the power plant).
Gees.... How can you guys forget the Jack Ryan movies. Ya know... - osbjmg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0My personal favorite is when someone takes an image and zooms in almost infinitely, somehow the pixels keep resolving to a higher resolution at each zoom level.
A corollary to that one is the (Schwarzenegger?) movie where someone takes a satellite and zooms in on a girl on the beach. I'm pretty sure we don't have directional zoomimg cameras in space. While we have plenty of image satellites, and they are movable, I think the whole damn thing would move and not just zoom in and move the lens. - distrbnce, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ha! I came to comments to add what the very first commenter added.
I HATE THAT!!! WHY DOESN'T PHOTOSHOP HAVE THAT ABILITY! - morsu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0have you guys ever noticed in Office Space when the guy is trying to leave the office early and he is saving stuff on some computer that looks like mac but exits out to a DOS prompt? I always thought that was funny
- CaptSnuffy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That wacky 3D user environment in Jurassic park is for real:
http://www.sgi.com/fun/freeware/3d_navigator.html - godmode, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0For some reason more people use Macs than PCs in movies/TV.
- Trjn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I remember this dodgy little "hacker" show called Jake 2.0 where I guy could hack a machine just by looking at it. . . there was some explanation for this, but meh, not the point of this.
I saw one show and of course, I don't think they aired more than 2 episodes at a decent timeslot because it was such obvious *****, but there was this one point where the FBI or whatever law enforcement agency they all worked for raided a hackers house, and the hacker was wiping his hard drive, as you do when the feds are busting in.
Of course, the good guys get there before anything major was lost, so the system was recoverable, small problem? It was password protected, and passwords don't exist on the computer they exist in the user's head.
A guy who can do ANYTHING to a computer with a little head movement cannot get into something password protected because the password isn't kept on the machine?
Oh, and the OS these people used looked very nice, completely useless, extremely simple, and most importantly, completely incapable of doing anything beyond what the plot required at that time.
Got to love it, seems like the people knew of mebbe two or three computer terms (I remember hearing the main character bitching about how he made more money defragging hdds than doing what he does now) and trying to make a show based on it.
Absolutely brilliant.
At least I know that my computer is safe from superhackers if they don't personally contact me, because they can't ever get beyond my password. - jervana, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0MISSING FROM LIST:
Computer explodes into giant balls of flames (Die Hard).
Remember that one? Cmon, it was the best part of the movie. - tarun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Old but still funny!
- blhack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nobody is going to read this....but hey...My favorite is how computers just SLOWLY turn off (see I, Robot) when you start yanking ***** out....the computer just SLOWLY starts talking more slowly etc etc....in reality you would just pull something and it would go
*poof*
on that note, often in computer movies servers are out in the open. WTF! server rooms biotches locks...they will keep will smith the hell out of ther! - locohozt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Artistic License"... Enough said.
- striker1211, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The utlimate:
The original macintosh had a 32-bit color scheme and can be upgraded to todays speeds.
(See Flubber (the new one), Whatever It Takes and i think even Hackers) - lokai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0As ridiculous as the entries in the linked list are, they all make a great deal of sense. Movie directors are concerned only about getting their story across to viewers. It would not make sense to employ realism when it comes to computers, therefore requiring a viewer to know about computers in order to understand the plot.
- republicoftexas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Funny stuff!
Dugg - buckaroo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Favorite Hacker Character: Boris Grishenko in the James Bond film "Goldeneye".
He would twirl a pen with one hand, and furiously type with the other.. Then he'd break into something and say "I am invincible!" - plumeria, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Dugg simply because of all the great comments. :o)
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