Interesting things that you learn about computers in the movies

08/03/2000 Dr Wingnut Humor Comments Off on Interesting things that you learn about computers in the movies
  1. Any PERMISSION DENIED has an OVERRIDE function.
  2. Complex calculations and loading of huge amounts of data will be accomplished in under three seconds. In the movies, modems transmit data at two gigabytes per second.
  3. When the power plant/missile site/whatever overheats, all the control panels will explode, as will the entire building.
  4. If you display a file on the screen and someone deletes the file, it also disappears from the screen. There are no ways to copy a backup file — and there are no undelete utilities.
  5. If a disk has got encrypted files, you are automatically asked for a password when you try to access it.
  6. No matter what kind of computer disk it is, it'll be readable by any system you put it into. All application software is usable by all computer platforms.
  7. The more high-tech the equipment, the more buttons it has. However, everyone must have been highly trained, because the buttons aren't labeled.
  8. Most computers, no matter how small, have reality-defying three-dimensional, real-time, photo-realistic animated graphics capability.
  9. Laptops, for some strange reason, always seem to have amazing real-time video phone capabilities and the performance of a CRAY.
  10. Whenever a character looks at a terminal, the image is so bright that it projects itself onto his/her face.
  11. Computers never crash during key, high-intensity activities. Humans operating computers never make mistakes under stress.
  12. (From Independence Day) No matter what kind of virus it is, any computer can be infected with it — even an alien spaceship's computer — simply by running a virus upload program on a laptop.