Hollywood Programming Cliches
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Here's a fun little rant about the horrible cliches that Hollywood seems to retreat to invariably whenever programs and/or program cracking takes front and center on the big screen. What code DOESN'T do in real life (that it does in the movies)[^] I'm pretty much in agreement with this fellow. These sorts of things can ruin a movie for me. Question: can you provide counterexamples where Hollywood does a 'reasonable' job of it? And now it's back to work. Dan
Be clear about the difference between your role as a programmer and as a tester. The tester in you must be suspicious, uncompromising, hostile, and compulsively obsessed with destroying, utterly destroying, the programmer's software. ----- Boris Beizer
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Here's a fun little rant about the horrible cliches that Hollywood seems to retreat to invariably whenever programs and/or program cracking takes front and center on the big screen. What code DOESN'T do in real life (that it does in the movies)[^] I'm pretty much in agreement with this fellow. These sorts of things can ruin a movie for me. Question: can you provide counterexamples where Hollywood does a 'reasonable' job of it? And now it's back to work. Dan
Be clear about the difference between your role as a programmer and as a tester. The tester in you must be suspicious, uncompromising, hostile, and compulsively obsessed with destroying, utterly destroying, the programmer's software. ----- Boris Beizer
"You don't have permission to access /posts/view/494 on this server." -- modified at 11:48 Thursday 7th December, 2006 Despite the replies below, I still get the same error...
Ðavid Wulff What kind of music to programmers listen to?
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Here's a fun little rant about the horrible cliches that Hollywood seems to retreat to invariably whenever programs and/or program cracking takes front and center on the big screen. What code DOESN'T do in real life (that it does in the movies)[^] I'm pretty much in agreement with this fellow. These sorts of things can ruin a movie for me. Question: can you provide counterexamples where Hollywood does a 'reasonable' job of it? And now it's back to work. Dan
Be clear about the difference between your role as a programmer and as a tester. The tester in you must be suspicious, uncompromising, hostile, and compulsively obsessed with destroying, utterly destroying, the programmer's software. ----- Boris Beizer
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Here's a fun little rant about the horrible cliches that Hollywood seems to retreat to invariably whenever programs and/or program cracking takes front and center on the big screen. What code DOESN'T do in real life (that it does in the movies)[^] I'm pretty much in agreement with this fellow. These sorts of things can ruin a movie for me. Question: can you provide counterexamples where Hollywood does a 'reasonable' job of it? And now it's back to work. Dan
Be clear about the difference between your role as a programmer and as a tester. The tester in you must be suspicious, uncompromising, hostile, and compulsively obsessed with destroying, utterly destroying, the programmer's software. ----- Boris Beizer
Dan McCormick wrote:
Question: can you provide counterexamples where Hollywood does a 'reasonable' job of it?
Well, it is an output niche rather than a true programming issue. You can watch a movie like Independance day, with spectacular special effects and see the military visualization has line drawings, triangles and circles, and think to yourself: "I am watching a big budget feature with computer generated effects, surely the military has gone past this!? They have money, they have push, they would certainly have hollywood style graphics by now!" Except the movie is really closer to the truth. As long as I have been doing military visualization, I have been battling the 2D syndrome. A general walks in sees massive scale 3D imagery, buildings rising out of the ground, planes flying over head, tanks rolling across the ground, even explosions and soon dust and other effects. After complimenting the system the first thing likely to be said is, "can it do standard .... graphics." which minus the meaningless internal buzzword means "can you also draw 2D lines"... :sigh::doh: It's a no-win battle with some, and an automatic win with others. 3D visualization for the military is a niche, no more, I am just happy to try to fill that niche.
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Dan McCormick wrote:
Question: can you provide counterexamples where Hollywood does a 'reasonable' job of it?
Well, it is an output niche rather than a true programming issue. You can watch a movie like Independance day, with spectacular special effects and see the military visualization has line drawings, triangles and circles, and think to yourself: "I am watching a big budget feature with computer generated effects, surely the military has gone past this!? They have money, they have push, they would certainly have hollywood style graphics by now!" Except the movie is really closer to the truth. As long as I have been doing military visualization, I have been battling the 2D syndrome. A general walks in sees massive scale 3D imagery, buildings rising out of the ground, planes flying over head, tanks rolling across the ground, even explosions and soon dust and other effects. After complimenting the system the first thing likely to be said is, "can it do standard .... graphics." which minus the meaningless internal buzzword means "can you also draw 2D lines"... :sigh::doh: It's a no-win battle with some, and an automatic win with others. 3D visualization for the military is a niche, no more, I am just happy to try to fill that niche.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
I always loved the thing (on TV as well as movies), where they query for some criminal suspect (based on ridiculous criteria, of couse, like "Smith, J.") on a green-on-black 25x80 text mode CTR, but when they select a name, the thing suddenly turns into a rotating 3D image (with cool high-tech sound effects to boot) of the guy that can be zoomed infinitely. How do they do that on a monochrome monitor?
Matt Gerrans
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"You don't have permission to access /posts/view/494 on this server." -- modified at 11:48 Thursday 7th December, 2006 Despite the replies below, I still get the same error...
Ðavid Wulff What kind of music to programmers listen to?
Join the Code Project Last.fm group | dwulff
I'm so gangsta I eat cereal without the milkYou're not the only one. :| Only, it doesn't say Verboten. I get the English Forbidden.
Cheers, Vikram.
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You're not the only one. :| Only, it doesn't say Verboten. I get the English Forbidden.
Cheers, Vikram.
"Life isn't fair, and the world is full of unscrupulous characters. There are things worth fighting for, killing for and dying for, but it's a really small list. Chalk it up to experience, let it go, and move on to the next positive experience in your life." - Christopher Duncan.
Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:
I get the English Forbidden
Same for me. Sorry, it's a habit thing. I didn't mean for it to be misleading! :doh:
Ðavid Wulff What kind of music to programmers listen to?
Join the Code Project Last.fm group | dwulff
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Here's a fun little rant about the horrible cliches that Hollywood seems to retreat to invariably whenever programs and/or program cracking takes front and center on the big screen. What code DOESN'T do in real life (that it does in the movies)[^] I'm pretty much in agreement with this fellow. These sorts of things can ruin a movie for me. Question: can you provide counterexamples where Hollywood does a 'reasonable' job of it? And now it's back to work. Dan
Be clear about the difference between your role as a programmer and as a tester. The tester in you must be suspicious, uncompromising, hostile, and compulsively obsessed with destroying, utterly destroying, the programmer's software. ----- Boris Beizer
MovieMistakes[^] (has (or usedto have) a list, too.
Dan McCormick wrote:
Question: can you provide counterexamples where Hollywood does a 'reasonable' job of it?
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Here's a fun little rant about the horrible cliches that Hollywood seems to retreat to invariably whenever programs and/or program cracking takes front and center on the big screen. What code DOESN'T do in real life (that it does in the movies)[^] I'm pretty much in agreement with this fellow. These sorts of things can ruin a movie for me. Question: can you provide counterexamples where Hollywood does a 'reasonable' job of it? And now it's back to work. Dan
Be clear about the difference between your role as a programmer and as a tester. The tester in you must be suspicious, uncompromising, hostile, and compulsively obsessed with destroying, utterly destroying, the programmer's software. ----- Boris Beizer