Bryon Daly wrote: > > I'm hoping for the latter, but I fear the former. > A lot of tv/movie sci-fi producers seem to think > that the audience is dumb and won't care about > logical consistency. "Hey, it's all make-believe > anyway - who cares about the details!" > > I think that every sci-fi movie should be required > to have at least one geek/nerd consultant that > would review the script and make them fix all the > dumb things they do/say in the movie. > > For example, he/she would tell them:
> - computer monitors don't project readable text > onto people's faces Also most computer interfaces that get depicted make no sense, and often would hinder usability even though the director thinks they look "cool" Then again, I can also see how they want to avoid making their film accurate enough to be a hacker's training video. > - Jeff Goldblum could not in a day write a > computer virus on his Mac that he could upload to > an alien computer network he knows nothing about > and make it disable the alien ship's shields. Or, conversely, an alien race who would use such a simple operating system on their ships computers that it would be vulnerable to such a virus, they would not also know enough about computer security to be able to hack into our communication satellites and "piggy back" a signal. Hell, just the fact that we have computers should have raised their awareness to the point of implementing some level of password security. > - you cannot take a grainy surveilance camera > video and "zoom in" on a tiny 10x10 pixel smudge > of a face, and end up with a crystal-clear > shapshot of the person. ...And the "zoom in" is also at a slightly different angle or has different lighting. My favorite is the "real-time satellite surveilance" of the action where somehow the camera angle appears to be from a building across the street, instead of directly above. -- Matt _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
