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Subject: Fw: 25 Interesting Things That You Learn About Computers In The 
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Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 01:25:54 +0300
From: "Makis Marketos" <papeitis at hotmail.com>
To: "Giorgos Veloudos" <gveloudos at hotmail.com>,        "Makis Aswnitis" 
<asonitisforever at hotmail.com>,        "Grigoris Dimokrassas" 
<egns2 at hotmail.com>,        "Yannis Mourelatos" 
<planeswalker22 at hotmail.com>,        "Nikos Kouremenos" 
<nkour at rainbow.cs.unipi.gr>,        "Aristomenis" 
<Aristomenis at rainbow.cs.unipi.gr>,        "Apostolis Xardalias" 
<p99085 at rainbow.cs.unipi.gr>,        "Angelos Marketos" 
<agelaros at yahoo.com>,        "Maria Kalabrou" 
<lernaia_ydra at hotmail.com>,        "Ptuxiakoi" <stdis at unipi.gr>

 > >25 Interesting Things That You Learn About Computers In The Movies...
 > >   1.. Word processors never display a cursor.
 > >   2.. You never have to use the spacebar when typing long sentences.
 > >   3.. All monitors display 2 inch high letters.
 > >   4.. High-tech computers, such as those used by NASA, the CIA, or some
such governmental institution, have easy-to-understand graphical interfaces.
 > >   5.. Those that don't will have incredibly powerful text-based command
shells that can correctly understand and execute commands typed in plain
English.
 > >   6.. Corollary: You can gain access to any information you want by
simply typing "ACCESS ALL OF THE SECRET FILES" on any keyboard.
 > >   7.. Likewise, you can infect a computer with a destructive virus by
simply typing "UPLOAD VIRUS." Viruses cause temperatures in computers just
like they do in humans. After a while, smoke billows out of disk drives and
monitors.
 > >   8.. All computers are connected. You can access the information 
on the
villain's desktop computer, even if it's turned off.
 > >   9.. Powerful computers beep whenever you press a key or whenever the
screen changes. Some computers also slow down the output on the screen so
that it doesn't go faster than you can read. The *really* advanced ones also
emulate the sound of a dot-matrix printer as the characters come across the
screen.
 > >   10.. All computer panels have thousands of volts and flash pots just
underneath the surface. Malfunctions are indicated by a bright flash, a puff
of smoke, a shower of sparks, and an explosion that forces you backward. See
#7, above)
 > >   11.. People typing away on a computer will turn it off without saving
the data.
 > >   12.. A hacker can get into the most sensitive computer in the world
before intermission and guess the secret password in two tries.
 > >   13.. Any PERMISSION DENIED has an OVERRIDE function.
 > >   14.. Complex calculations and loading of huge amounts of data will be
accomplished in under three seconds. In the movies, modems transmit data at
two gigabytes per second.
 > >   15.. When the power plant/missile site/whatever overheats, all the
control panels will explode, as will the entire building.
 > >   16.. If you display a file on the screen and someone deletes the 
file,
it also disappears from the screen. There are no ways to copy a backup
file - and there are no undelete utilities.
 > >   17.. If a disk has got encrypted files, you are automatically asked
for a password when you try to access it.
 > >   18.. No matter what kind of computer disk it is, it'll be readable by
any system you put it into. All application software is usable by all
computer platforms.
 > >   19.. The more high-tech the equipment, the more buttons it has.
However, everyone must have been highly trained, because the buttons aren't
labelled.
 > >   20.. Most computers, no matter how small, have reality-defying
three-dimensional, real-time, photo-realistic animated graphics capability.
 > >   21.. Laptops, for some strange reason, always seem to have amazing
real-time video phone capabilities and the performance of a CRAY-MP [darn
fast freon-cooled computer that uses enough power to light a small city].
 > >   22.. Whenever a character looks at a VDU [Video Display Unit], the
image is so bright that it projects itself onto his/her face.
 > >   23.. Computers never crash during key, high-intensity activities.
Humans operating computers never make mistakes under stress.
 > >   24.. Programs are fiendishly perfect and never have bugs that slow
down users.
 > >   25.. Any photograph can have minute details pulled out of it. You can
zoom into any picture as far as you want to. For example:
 > >      "What's that fuzzy thing in the corner?"
 > >      "I don't know, let's check."
 > >      "It's the murder weapon!"
 > >      "Let's look under the bed for the killers shoes.
 > >       No, just some comics books (Marvel 1954, very rare).
 > >       Let's check the closet shelves..."
 > >
 > >
 > >
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