gonzalu
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From the Movie Santa Clause 2
What Software is This?
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br0adband
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Something some tech guy with the special effects production department whipped up, more than likely. It's incredibly rare to see anything in movie or TV shows that is actually a real honest to goodness working product in terms of the software you see in use or the GUI those apps display. Aside from a few seconds in "The Matrix" where Trinity is hacking into the power facility's control computers (she even uses nmap which was somewhat impressive as it's an actual real world tool that's quite powerful for what it does) and maybe some episodes of the TV show "Mr. Robot" you'll be hard pressed to find that what you see on a computer screen in some show or movie is hardly representative of the real thing.
I'm not saying that what's displayed in that image on that screen isn't a real thing, however, it just has the "fake" quality to it at least in my opinion. I suppose I've seen waaaaaaaayyyyyy too many movies in my lifetime.
I'm not saying that what's displayed in that image on that screen isn't a real thing, however, it just has the "fake" quality to it at least in my opinion. I suppose I've seen waaaaaaaayyyyyy too many movies in my lifetime.
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One of my other fave pastimes - of course when watching movies or TV shows - is looking for and taking note of just plain old BS when it happens, one example:
In one of the earlier episodes in season one of the series "Arrow" there were scenes featuring the main character's Mother in the back of a limousine talking with her daughter. The Mother could plainly be seen holding an iPhone without any doubt whatsoever, anybody that knows anything about smartphones could easily spot it from a distance and so I knew what she was holding. Of course it beeped to notify her of a text message and voila... suddenly we're staring at a closeup of the phone's screen and it's running Windows Phone.
I mean really, it's lame when it happens but it's funny at the same time. "Arrow" must have a big promotional contract with Microsoft because most every computer device of any kind on that show is either a Windows-based desktop or laptop (a lot of Lenovo AIO desktops in Felicity's lair) or a Surface tablet in every other scene.
But that one with the iPhone that suddenly was running Windows Phone sticks with me, it's just one of those things I suppose.
In one of the earlier episodes in season one of the series "Arrow" there were scenes featuring the main character's Mother in the back of a limousine talking with her daughter. The Mother could plainly be seen holding an iPhone without any doubt whatsoever, anybody that knows anything about smartphones could easily spot it from a distance and so I knew what she was holding. Of course it beeped to notify her of a text message and voila... suddenly we're staring at a closeup of the phone's screen and it's running Windows Phone.
I mean really, it's lame when it happens but it's funny at the same time. "Arrow" must have a big promotional contract with Microsoft because most every computer device of any kind on that show is either a Windows-based desktop or laptop (a lot of Lenovo AIO desktops in Felicity's lair) or a Surface tablet in every other scene.
But that one with the iPhone that suddenly was running Windows Phone sticks with me, it's just one of those things I suppose.
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