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Apr 26th, 2003, 05:58 PM
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What Hollywood knows about programming (#7: The Recruit)
Just got in from watching this - an amusing yarn but the bits involving computers were a little far fetched to say the least (in fact, about as bad as anything since the computer virus written for the alien space craft in Independence Day)...
What I learn't about computers from this film:
(1) Whatever OS they use at the CIA, you can get a C++ program to run without first compiling it - oh yeah - and before you've logged in
(2) A laptop with a wireless LAN card works from several miles away.
(3) It takes 1.2 seconds to knock up a reasonable simulation of a CIA webcast application
There's a load more, but I feel a bit nerdy posting this much
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