Big iron on the big screen

Post #369,493 by rcareaga 1/9/13 11:21:31 PM Reply	Big iron on the big screen An interesting article here on how computers have been depicted onscreen in recent decades, principally in science fiction flicks: http://unsane.info/t...puters-on-screen/ The whole piece is worth a read, but I commend to your particular attention this screenshot of the self-destruct device from Ridley Scott's 1979 Alien. My, but the set designers were having their little jokes: "aum"? "shakti"? "agaric fly"? (Google "fly agaric," AKA Amanita muscaria). Could they have ever imagined being ratted out like this? http://69.195.124.62...Self-Destruct.png cordially,
Post #369,502 by crazy 1/10/13 4:48:59 AM Reply	The one to the left of fly argaric is simply "trip".
Post #369,521 by rcareaga 1/10/13 3:21:24 PM Reply	I left that one to be discovered Incidentally, I recall that Ridley Scott was at pains to give the spaceship a "lived-in" look, but unless the self-destruct unit has other unenumerated functions (microwave oven? MP3 player?), that keypad looks pretty grimy for a device I'd expect to see only one-time use. cordially,
Post #369,533 by scoenye 1/10/13 8:31:00 PM Reply	Yet the output has remained constant Meaning that whenever the computer produces something to be parsed by the user, from the early days until now, it is a nonsensical stream of gobbledygook. Random snippets of BASIC and C seem to rule the roost.
Post #369,580 by crazy 1/11/13 11:57:14 AM Reply	I'm reading Red Dwarf again. For the 10ish time. I love comparing what tech he predicted vs what showed up for the 100% misses such as little mechanical droids moving pages of "data" around instead of networking.
Post #369,601 by Ashton 1/11/13 6:31:57 PM Reply	One of my fav sources of 'quotes' too.. But especially the er, Existential Conundrum ... and the mechanical Solution of the [not so much Smart-Interstellar Bomb-guy (and he as All-"guy" IMO) --but a "Guy" programmed by Pat Robertson or any other Nut-Fundie du that jour or this one. {{sigh}} yan illustration of the folly of Boolean LogicÂ when attempting to Reason? about homo-sap confusions about the ineffable. I too shall continue to marvel at the apocalyptic-DNA? basic-programming of the human Reptile Brain, and its role in [among Many areas] the continuing disregard of the cacophony of today's Tocsins/Warning-Bells concerning [actually.. Not-concerning] ..the proximate Fate of the Planet VS trivialities like: numbers-in-some banker's storage device, generally believed to represent *Wealth. All those billions of people ... perhaps expiring way-early? because of homo-sap's stark inability to grok to Fullness, Tom Lehrer's magnum-Opus: We Shall All Go Together When We GO ... ... * shades of Marley's Ghost, haunting the pecuniary brain-pans of all Vulture Capitalists--especially Ours. Little Rmoney clones, everywhere. Asshole species. Law above fear, justice above law, mercy above justice, love above all.

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