Thursday, July 10, 2003

My friend Wes reminded me today that the movie SIMONE has major flaws in how and what makes a computer work in the first place.  The main character play by Al Pacino (Who is a brilliant actor despite the incompetent prop department) receives a hard drive from a currier and proceeds to drop it into a PC via a slide out drawer resembling a CD ROM drive.  I do realize that it is possible to have a removable hard drive I have never seen one like this.  The thing is that he simply drops it in and it auto plays like it is some DVD.  The program contained on the drive was very high tech.   Later in the move his daughter saves him from prison by inserting a virus contained on a 5 ¼ inch floppy.  Can you even buy those any more?  Why would a 12 year old be able to restore so much information from one floppy?  Someday the prop department will get a clue.  I hope. 12:05:34 AM    comment []

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