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Jonny Newman wrote: does anyone use windows in hollywood? I read somewhere where it was noticed that Windows was primarily used by the bad guys in a TV show or movie, and the good guys used a Mac. Unfortunately I dont remember where I saw this, but the author went to lengths to research his theory. Apparently there was a TV show where the good guys all used a Mac, except one. The author of this article thought this seemed suspicous, and sure enough, a few weeks later the Windows user turned out to be a bad guy. I wonder if script writers all use Macs?
I've found (unscientifically) that Macs are popular in movies whereas Windows seems to be popular on television shows. In legally blonde, the main character is shown using a brightly colored iBook during a class for the desired effect that she is different from the other black-laptop using students in the class. I've noticed quite alot of Windows XP on television shows this year. And if you watch CNN, they seem to have quite a few boxes in the background running Windows 2000, while the machines besides the anchors all seem to be WinXP. Drew Carey seems to have an XP box on his desk, and Gates was on Frasier recently etc etc. ASP.NET can never fail as working with it is like fitting bras to supermodels - it's one pleasure after the next - David Wulff
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I've found (unscientifically) that Macs are popular in movies whereas Windows seems to be popular on television shows. In legally blonde, the main character is shown using a brightly colored iBook during a class for the desired effect that she is different from the other black-laptop using students in the class. I've noticed quite alot of Windows XP on television shows this year. And if you watch CNN, they seem to have quite a few boxes in the background running Windows 2000, while the machines besides the anchors all seem to be WinXP. Drew Carey seems to have an XP box on his desk, and Gates was on Frasier recently etc etc. ASP.NET can never fail as working with it is like fitting bras to supermodels - it's one pleasure after the next - David Wulff
Senkwe Chanda wrote: Drew Carey seems to have an XP box on his desk, and Gates was on Frasier recently etc etc.
Senkwe, 1. On Drew Carey do you notice that Mimi (The big colourful one) uses an iMac while the rest of the cast seems to have a PC. (Mind you Drews PC always seems to have some sort of screenshot of ClarisWorks or something similar) 2. Is that Bill Gates on Frasier ?... When was this ?... Does anybody know when we might see this in Australia or has it has already been on and I have to wait for a repeat? I *love* Frasier it has to be one of the funniest shows on TV!!!
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Senkwe Chanda wrote: Drew Carey seems to have an XP box on his desk, and Gates was on Frasier recently etc etc.
Senkwe, 1. On Drew Carey do you notice that Mimi (The big colourful one) uses an iMac while the rest of the cast seems to have a PC. (Mind you Drews PC always seems to have some sort of screenshot of ClarisWorks or something similar) 2. Is that Bill Gates on Frasier ?... When was this ?... Does anybody know when we might see this in Australia or has it has already been on and I have to wait for a repeat? I *love* Frasier it has to be one of the funniest shows on TV!!!
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Chris Ormerod wrote: On Drew Carey do you notice that Mimi (The big colourful one) uses an iMac while the rest of the cast seems to have a PC. Yeah, I noticed that! Kinda makes sense in a way (judging by her wardrobe) I always thought Drews was an XP box set to the deep blue desktop. Chris Ormerod wrote: Is that Bill Gates on Frasier Yep, he was being interviewed in person by Frasier on his radio show. The joke was that when people started calling in to talk about XP, Gates literally took over the show, causing Frasier to leave the room calling him an "egotistical windbag", hehe. I'm not sure what season we're watching in South Africa but it appears to be quite a recent one. ASP.NET can never fail as working with it is like fitting bras to supermodels - it's one pleasure after the next - David Wulff
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Is there any one out there who now if there are some educational movies about programming or history of programming for download or stream? /Jarek It has recently been discovered that research causes cancer in rats.
What do you want to patch today?Here in Britain we have a few late-night programmes about software development. None actually delve into code, but they are still very interesting. You might have something similar to our "Open University" over there.
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Chris Ormerod wrote: On Drew Carey do you notice that Mimi (The big colourful one) uses an iMac while the rest of the cast seems to have a PC. Yeah, I noticed that! Kinda makes sense in a way (judging by her wardrobe) I always thought Drews was an XP box set to the deep blue desktop. Chris Ormerod wrote: Is that Bill Gates on Frasier Yep, he was being interviewed in person by Frasier on his radio show. The joke was that when people started calling in to talk about XP, Gates literally took over the show, causing Frasier to leave the room calling him an "egotistical windbag", hehe. I'm not sure what season we're watching in South Africa but it appears to be quite a recent one. ASP.NET can never fail as working with it is like fitting bras to supermodels - it's one pleasure after the next - David Wulff
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Here in Britain we have a few late-night programmes about software development. None actually delve into code, but they are still very interesting. You might have something similar to our "Open University" over there.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/lzone/results.shtml?it_all[^] There was one on last night about safety-critical software, looking after nuclear missiles. :cool: I have no idea why Alexi Sayle was the narrator though.
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Is there any one out there who now if there are some educational movies about programming or history of programming for download or stream? /Jarek It has recently been discovered that research causes cancer in rats.
What do you want to patch today?It's not an educational movie, but in "After Hours" by Martin Scorsese, Griffin Dunne is a computer programmer :) (it's one of my favorite movies) -- Looking for a new screen-saver? Try FOYD: http://digilander.iol.it/FOYD
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Well i dont know about actual programming movies plenty of documentaries that have been on discovery channel. There are however plenty about 'Hacking' grrrrrrrr...... :mad: I loath with a passion the movies that 'glamorise' cracking. And yes it is CRACKING not hacking. Stupid press. They take one word that describes a good programmer and turn it around to mean the opposite. :(( Anyway, i did however like Swordfish, but only the gunz blazin' bit of it. :cool: the actual cracking scenes were all hollywood. :zzz: Did you see the bit where the main cracker was building a worm? with all those little module things? Cows B*llocks, thats all it is. Every movie with computers in use their own OSs, does anyone use windows in hollywood? Man, they cant even use managed apps in that :-) Anyway, thats my anger released for today. Have a nice day, Nonny
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"There's a statistical theory that if you gave millions of monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespere. Thanks to the Internet, we know this isn't true."Jonny Newman wrote: the main cracker was building a worm ...somebody's always got to bring race into it, huh?? ;P BW {insert witty/thought-provoking saying here}
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Is there any one out there who now if there are some educational movies about programming or history of programming for download or stream? /Jarek It has recently been discovered that research causes cancer in rats.
What do you want to patch today?Maybe the MSDN and .Net shows will interest you. http://msdn.microsoft.com/theshow[^]
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Is there any one out there who now if there are some educational movies about programming or history of programming for download or stream? /Jarek It has recently been discovered that research causes cancer in rats.
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Well i dont know about actual programming movies plenty of documentaries that have been on discovery channel. There are however plenty about 'Hacking' grrrrrrrr...... :mad: I loath with a passion the movies that 'glamorise' cracking. And yes it is CRACKING not hacking. Stupid press. They take one word that describes a good programmer and turn it around to mean the opposite. :(( Anyway, i did however like Swordfish, but only the gunz blazin' bit of it. :cool: the actual cracking scenes were all hollywood. :zzz: Did you see the bit where the main cracker was building a worm? with all those little module things? Cows B*llocks, thats all it is. Every movie with computers in use their own OSs, does anyone use windows in hollywood? Man, they cant even use managed apps in that :-) Anyway, thats my anger released for today. Have a nice day, Nonny
The Internet, whats that? Is it a car?
"There's a statistical theory that if you gave millions of monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespere. Thanks to the Internet, we know this isn't true."Jonny Newman wrote: Anyway, i did however like Swordfish, I wonder how much Dell paid for the wonderful product placement. Jason Gerard
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Jonny Newman wrote: Anyway, i did however like Swordfish, I wonder how much Dell paid for the wonderful product placement. Jason Gerard
Jason Gerard wrote: Anyway, i did however like Swordfish, I wonder how much Dell paid for the wonderful product placement. Was Dell in Swordfish? :-) I would have believed if you said "Nobel" (considering the amount of explosives used), but Dell?! Shees, displays how much their so-called "Produce Placement" worked on me... It did however got me interested in a couple of SGI's and a bunch of LCD's...
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Jason Gerard wrote: Anyway, i did however like Swordfish, I wonder how much Dell paid for the wonderful product placement. Was Dell in Swordfish? :-) I would have believed if you said "Nobel" (considering the amount of explosives used), but Dell?! Shees, displays how much their so-called "Produce Placement" worked on me... It did however got me interested in a couple of SGI's and a bunch of LCD's...
Mike Nordell wrote: Was Dell in Swordfish? All the laptops were Dells. And all the servers in the back were Dell rackmounts. They even rotated the round Dell logo on some of the laptops so that it was right side up when viewed from the camera (the 60 seconds to crack DoD site with a gun to your head whilst getting a BJ scene). In other places, the Dell logo wasn't rotated (the programming by dancing around and repeatedly hitting the Home row keys while cheering as cubes flew around the screen scene). Jason Gerard
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Mike Nordell wrote: Was Dell in Swordfish? All the laptops were Dells. And all the servers in the back were Dell rackmounts. They even rotated the round Dell logo on some of the laptops so that it was right side up when viewed from the camera (the 60 seconds to crack DoD site with a gun to your head whilst getting a BJ scene). In other places, the Dell logo wasn't rotated (the programming by dancing around and repeatedly hitting the Home row keys while cheering as cubes flew around the screen scene). Jason Gerard
OK. Again, just displays how effective "product placement" is on me. :-) Perhaps a Dell "product placer" would be sad for reading this? :-D