While on movies subject, I couldn't resist dropping this URL :

http://apcmag.com/top-10-worst-movie-tech-moments.htm

My favourite mind numbing moment always was Jeff Goldblum's effortless
inserting of a virus into an Alien OS in 'Independence Day'.
Apple didn't support its own iTunes SW for so long on Mac , but hacking
aliens - hey, no problem !
That should have been #1 IMO...

Note the iconic picture of Oppenheimer (Oppy :-) on the Silicon Graphics
work station in Jurassic Park...

B rgds
Kris

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Perhaps the Compression algorithm actually used real pressure, and could
only contain it for so long! (#10 Johnny mnemonic).

As for #5, not so stupid actually. In 1992 I filed a preliminary patent
for a gestural control device, one of the components of which was a 6DOF
gestural interface for a computer, I created versions on both a PC and
my sun workstation. I tried to get a few games companies interested, and
showed it to a couple of people, and also contacted Microsoft, who
didn't bother to respond. It was quite neat. it even had feedback, a
small resistor, that could heat the casing slightly, so that in games
you could feel your gun overheating, and a solenoid that made it thump.
The idea being if in a VR world you were thrown something you physically
felt yourself catch it. Nobody was interested, and the following year it
lapsed, as I couldn't afford to take it international. By that time I'd
moved on to other things. If I was playing around with 3D at that time
I'm sure others were. It's only Microsoft and Apple that are holding
back development. The demos I created were a fairly simple gunfighter
game, a filing system manager and an office desk, that let you type with
a virtual keyboard, and then lift your virtual letter onto a virtual fax
machine and send it to someone. Oddly enough that was also the last time
I wrote in C as far as i can recall.

Al
m...@virginbroadband.com.au wrote:
> While on movies subject, I couldn't resist dropping this URL :
>
> http://apcmag.com/top-10-worst-movie-tech-moments.htm
>
> My favourite mind numbing moment always was Jeff Goldblum's effortless
> inserting of a virus into an Alien OS in 'Independence Day'.
> Apple didn't support its own iTunes SW for so long on Mac , but hacking
> aliens - hey, no problem !
> That should have been #1 IMO...
>
> Note the iconic picture of Oppenheimer (Oppy :-) on the Silicon Graphics
> work station in Jurassic Park...
>
> B rgds
> Kris
>
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