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I'm in IT. It gets comical.
I had to walk out of Hackers in the theater.
"Whoah... he has a 9600 baud modem!"
(when 28,800 was commonplace and 33,600 was coming).
hackers is maybe not the most accurate with the technology but it gets the culture dead right
RISC architecture is gonna change everything.
I'm still hopeful...
I mean, imagine the world without ARM.
Pretty sure it's comical for most people, don't need that much knowledge to see how fake it often is.
*clickety clickety clack
"I'm in."
Unfortunately they can't all be as accurate as NCIS.
I like to imagine Gibbs just unplugged the monitor.
Haha I'll bet! What's one of your favourites?
All of it. All of it is wrong.
They did a pretty good job (not perfect though) on Mr. Robot and the Millenial trilogy.
Person of Interest did pretty well too.
Some actors actually know how to type now, but I imagine with cell phones being people's sole exposure to computers... We are going to get actors mashing keys again soon
At the end of "Stand By Me", my uncle was a typing double for Richard Dreyfuss because apparently he could not type.
https://youtu.be/l7r-R61W1DQ
Damn, I still can't watch that clip without feeling weird when River Phoenix disappears.
Ha! Good point
personally a big fan of
[typing complete gibberish on multiple keyboards at once, followed by the immortal line:] "I'm in."
I've seen C++ code being used as log output
Haha even I know that's bullshit
Real time firewall battles.
Hacking a missile in flight might be a tad funnier. (season finale of the worst season of Arrow)
How can there be a worst season of Arrow?