Talk:Hollywood operating system

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You forgot to mention the drawback: When a virus infects the system, the monitor explodes(!!!) ;-) -Guenther

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There is also a questionable extras casting company by the same name.

POV, possibly defamatory, where's the source, etc... --ettlz 10:30, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 Poking fun at itself 2 Copy C2? 3 Achtung! 4 Download 5 Downright Nonsense

[edit] Poking fun at itself

An episode of the Riptide_(TV_series) had some fun with this soon to become common trope.

The detectives were hired on as "technical consultants" on a private investigator TV show, which had a computer doing things like identifying a hair from a wig simply by holding it up to the monitor. The "geek" character of the 'real' detective team jumped in with a lecture on the real capabilities of computers. At the end of the episode, the 'actors' had become a bad clone of the 'real' detective crew, but at least their computer was working pretty much like a real one of the era.

As for silly sound FX, in the 80's it was common on many TV shows to have a constant and steady beeping noise in the background whenever a computer was onscreen. Apparently it was supposed to be the hard drive seek sound, which was common for many early drives to make, but only when the heads were moving, which created a seemingly random beeping sound.

[edit] Copy C2?

Perhaps we should copy the list of bullet points from the C2 site into the article, so that users could add more. I know I have a few ideas.

• I'm not exactly sure what you are referring to, but copying and pasteing things into wikipedia is against policy --The_stuart 20:34, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Achtung!

This article is starting to become the mess that is List of film clichés by genre.. :(
added {{cleanup-date|May 2006}} and "{{inappropriate tone}}" on top of it.
FiP ^{Как вы думаете?} 15:49, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

I performed a mess of cleanup, but it's still not great. I removed this paragraph in its entirety:

The computer user will start typing frantically on the keyboard, without any kind of feedback on the screen (string of text about to be sent to the system for query), not until he presses Enter, and the whole solution pops up. When pressing any key, at any moment, a user can expect a small beep, which usually inexplicably will deactivate during periods of frequent keypresses.

It's...not well written and contains some redundant information. However, it's not completely contentless, but I didn't know how to rewrite it. ~ Oni Lukos _ct 02:03, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Off the top of my head, i'd say this article could use : clearer examples of the clichés it denounces; some pictures; a short paragraph about "why do film producers use such extravagant and 'flashy' animations on computer screens".

Regarding the picture(s), i was thinking of something along the lines of http://www.estvideo.net/dew/index/2005/08/16/515-on-y-croit-toujours (it's in french, but you'll get the point. )

FiP ^{Как вы думаете?} 09:49, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Download

"the ability to download extremely large files in mere seconds..." Uh, i think i heard about this somewhere. Someone i making a system, that let's you download gigabytes in a few minutes. Any info? RocketMaster 16:27, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

It's fiction and a plot device. It should not be confused with emerging technologies. ~ Oni Lukos _ct 19:18, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, but, it's a real thing. I heard it somewhere. RocketMaster 22:44, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps you're thinking of fiber optic technology? Regardless, Wikipedia talk pages are not a forum and these matters should not be discussed here. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Oni Lukos (talk • contribs) 03:52, 24 December 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Downright Nonsense

How many examples are there of films where what the character does on the computer jut makes no sense? Like the film masterminds where the kid hacks into systems using a doom style game controlled by a joystick--Shadebug 10:02, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Sadly, it's not nonsense. It really exists! This version of Doom lets you do some basic systems administration tasks using the game (and presumably using a joystick). There is also a version of the classic 'Collosal Cave' adventure game that you can use for setting up the Linux kernal. SteveBaker 01:23, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure I've been proven entirely wrong, but certainly you've given me pause for thought--Shadebug 06:37, 12 March 2007 (UTC)