5 things Hollywood thinks computers can do.
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Not very on topic, but hey, it's a Dilbert cartoon! http://www.csus.edu/indiv/l/legorretal/160_Spring_2006_05_Dilbert_on_requirements_gathering.jpg[^]
Cheers, Vıkram.
"if abusing me makes you a credible then i better give u the chance which didnt get in real" - Adnan Siddiqi.
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Trollslayer wrote:
"#2.A Computer Might Become Self-Aware At Any Moment" Let's start with the users.
It's more likely that a computer will become sentient.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
It's more likely that a computer will become sentient.
I can't do that, Dave ...
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I watched swordfish the other night. That was rather absurd in the computer use department. One guy was shown the login screen for a US government organisation, (which for a start had cool animations and said in big letters 128-bit encryption, which I thought was a bit unlikely!), then, with no warning or chance to prep, had a gun put to his head and was told he had 60 seconds to hack in. Surprise surprise, he did it. (Oh, and there was a woman doing non-kid-sister-safe things to him all through the scene)
Simon
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But didn't the zooming in thing work in 'Blade Runner'? ;P
Jeremy Props to the family: New Dawn Engineering
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Yeah, and there was similar situation in another episode. After they zoomed image to 2000000% and re-rendered it, they found silhouette of a man standing in the window (the original image covered both sides of a river with at least 20 buildings on it), then they map it to 3D image of man's face and searched the database (matter of seconds), needless to say they succeeded. I was like OMG WTF! Luckily there were no object near me that could harm my TV set :doh:
Mladen Jankovic wrote:
Yeah, and there was similar situation in another episode. After they zoomed image to 2000000% and re-rendered it, they found silhouette of a man standing in the window (the original image covered both sides of a river with at least 20 buildings on it), then they map it to 3D image of man's face and searched the database (matter of seconds), needless to say they succeeded. I was like OMG WTF! Luckily there were no object near me that could harm my TV set
Don't blame the writers for abuse of computer technology...blame them for abuse of PERIPHERAL technology. After all, it's not the computer that's the issue...it's the CAMERA. Who is going to be using HD CCD image capture devices on a commercial security camera? Heck, I don't think any camera outside of military satellite cameras can pull the resolution they regularly expect on shows like CSI, Law and Order, etc. BUT...if they were using such cameras, then we would be able to do this - the US military does it on a regular basis (they've had the ability to resolve objects as small as two feet from orbit for quite some time).
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Trollslayer wrote:
"#2.A Computer Might Become Self-Aware At Any Moment" Let's start with the users.
It's more likely that a computer will become sentient.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
It's more likely that a computer will become sentient.
If computers become sentient, does that mean Earth will finally support intelligent life? :laugh:
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Then there are the little things, like progress bars for things that are instantaneous. (As though it takes longer to transfer a hundred million dollars than ten.) Oh, and hacking moment also presupposes that the target of their machinations are systems NOT designed and run by idiots, like, for example, Bank of America.
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
Joe Woodbury wrote:
Then there are the little things, like progress bars for things that are instantaneous. (As though it takes longer to transfer a hundred million dollars than ten.)
Now, that's explainable depending on the security protocols and on system load (no one shows the ten million actually going faster, do they?) ;-)
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Not very on topic, but hey, it's a Dilbert cartoon! http://www.csus.edu/indiv/l/legorretal/160_Spring_2006_05_Dilbert_on_requirements_gathering.jpg[^]
Cheers, Vıkram.
"if abusing me makes you a credible then i better give u the chance which didnt get in real" - Adnan Siddiqi.
Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:
Not very on topic, but hey, it's a Dilbert cartoon! http://www.csus.edu/indiv/l/legorretal/160\_Spring\_2006\_05\_Dilbert\_on\_requirements\_gathering.jpg\[^\]
LMAO...this cartoon is posted on at least one cubicle wall here, and has been since I've been employed.
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Joe Woodbury wrote:
Then there are the little things, like progress bars for things that are instantaneous. (As though it takes longer to transfer a hundred million dollars than ten.)
Now, that's explainable depending on the security protocols and on system load (no one shows the ten million actually going faster, do they?) ;-)
cpkilekofp wrote:
no one shows the ten million actually going faster, do they?
Slower. And the worse movies will have the person interrupt the transfer and say something dumb like "looks like they only got a million of it."
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
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cpkilekofp wrote:
no one shows the ten million actually going faster, do they?
Slower. And the worse movies will have the person interrupt the transfer and say something dumb like "looks like they only got a million of it."
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
Joe Woodbury wrote:
Slower. And the worse movies will have the person interrupt the transfer and say something dumb like "looks like they only got a million of it."
:omg: :wtf: now that is TRULY dumb. But then, to paraphrase H. L. Mencken, no one will ever go wrong by overestimating the stupidity of movie writers.
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Cyon111 wrote:
Well actually the computer is a logical device,
Well, thanks for that flash of the bleeding obvious. You know, after over 30 years in the game, I never knew this. There was me thinking it was all magic and random hoodoo. :rolleyes:
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
There was me thinking it was all magic and random hoodoo.
Not magic or random hoodoo! Magic smoke! (when you see the smoke escape, it don't work no more :-D ) Come on people! Get it right!
T-Mac-Oz "When I'm ruler of the universe ... I'm working on it, I'm working on it. I'm just as frustrated as you are. It turns out to be a non-trivial problem." - Linus Torvalds
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