Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 10th Sep 2003 03:36 UTC
Multimedia, AV With the computer market exploding into success the last 20 years more and more movies are featuring people using computers. Being a computer geek myself, I expect a level of "technological reality" for the movies that are not in the realm of "sci-fi", but directors usually are feeding their movies with superficial scenes about computers just for the happy clapping from the computer-illiterate audience.
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by anon on Wed 10th Sep 2003 03:33 UTC

This reminds me of an interesting video whose one little technical mistake (or is it?) sticks in your mind. The problems of being a "sophisticated user" of machines...
http://www.theembassyvfx.com/quicktime/tetra.mov

This Lisp weblog entry talks a little about it, but you should watch the video first to get the full effect, without spoilers.
http://lemonodor.com/archives/000484.html#000484