Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 10th Sep 2003 03:36 UTC
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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Mark Gruber:
Nonetheless, it's absurd to use nmap or ssh because the movie is supposed to happen centuries in the future, not today
That scene was set in a simulation of the late '90s, so use of a late-'90s exploit would make sense. You can't run REBOL in a Commodore 64 emulator...
Those who have watched The Time Machine were surprised to see that 900,000 from now, some people will still be able to speak english with a New York accent. Gosh, in reality, we can't even speak languages that are 5,000 years old !
We don't have 5000-year-old audible recordings of spoken language either, while they did. They also had a telepath pulling the language out of a live New Yorker's head. The only other english speaker had a mild British accent - don't ask me to explain that