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I'm in IT. It gets comical.
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?
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?
personally a big fan of
[typing complete gibberish on multiple keyboards at once, followed by the immortal line:] "I'm in."
Haha even I know that's bullshit
I've seen C++ code being used as log output
All of it. All of it is wrong.
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
They did a pretty good job (not perfect though) on Mr. Robot and the Millenial trilogy.
Person of Interest did pretty well too.
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).
RISC architecture is gonna change everything.
I'm still hopeful...
I mean, imagine the world without ARM.
hackers is maybe not the most accurate with the technology but it gets the culture dead right
*clickety clickety clack
"I'm in."
Pretty sure it's comical for most people, don't need that much knowledge to see how fake it often is.