There are few things that make an IT person more upset than going to a movie and seeing IT as interpreted by the art department. Intrigue movies like spy films or worse films with hacking that have screens where the text scrolls onto the screen with clikety sounds like a sound-accompanied 300 baud modem terminal session. The rage in the threater seat is palpable. It just ruins the film.
Worse are the GUIs that make simple things like composing an email some sort of 3D flipping text editor. And more of that clickety clack crap. And dont get them started voice command systems or robots or pretty much anything with a plug that doesnt realisticaly reflect how things actually work. It's like taking a bomb tech to a movie and watching his eyes roll sarcastically when the person on the other end of the phone tells him to look for a blue wire.
Someone was nice enough to put together a list of pretty much all the films where computers / hacking was involved and rated them as to how realistic they are. Another guy was so annoyed he just made a list of annoyances. On the Annoyances website no less. Thats how serious we are about this stuff.
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