Some of the dialogue in the original Star Wars made me wince when I first heard it, and still does.
“WE found an old Rebel base, but we estimate that it has been deserted for some time.”
No, no, no. If you estimate something, you’re putting a number on it – “we estimate it has been deserted for over a year,” or something. Or you could say “It has been deserted for some time.” (although Moff Tarking ought to then yell at you for not providing an estimate).
“Obi Wan Kenobi? I don’t think he exists anymore.”
You don’t talk about people existing (except to complain about a do-nothing – “he just exists”) “I don’t think he’s alive anymore.” Or, more simply “I think he died.”
The Obi doesn’t exist line was deliberate and not ridiculous as Obi was clearly alive since he was the one who said it. He meant the dashing Jedi Knight, Obi Wan, no longer existed. There was only the wandering shell of a man left.
I’m sorry but that is not a ridiculous line. That is Dalton summing up a profound philosophical concept in a terse one liner on account of being both a philosopher and a bad ass action hero.
A GUI interface would be of no use in tracking an IP address, although it could be used to display the information once you have it. Plus, normally one would be more likely to say “trace an IP address” but I guess they could have misspoke because tracing an IP address may be useful for tracking someone.
Co-worker: That’s my water
Worker 1: I am so sorry I thought thats was where I sat mine down.
Co-worker: (laughing) Its cool I don’t care. You don’t have any disgusting mouth sores?
Worker 1: (covers mouth in embarrassment) You want to look? (opens mouth and tilts head back)
Co-worker: I can see you don’t. Thats why I don’t care.
In addition to being useless, creating a GUI would be a pretty time-consuming process. I haven’t watched the episode of that show, but from the clip it sounds like they were trying to track down a killer “in real time”. Taking a bunch of time to create a pretty graphical interface while the killer is out there killing people is not the best use of time and resources.
Also, GUI interface is redundant. GUI = graphical user interface. I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone in the IT field say “GUI interface”.
If you have the bad guy’s IP address, you take a couple seconds online to look up the ISP that owns that address. Then, if you’re the cops, you probably contact the ISP and ask them who had the IP address at the time the bad stuff was going on. Writing your own interface at that point is nonsensical.
GUI = Graphic User Interface, that is, any part of a program which presents information to the user in a hopefully-pretty way.
The bank’s “ATM machines” have “GUI interfaces”, so do Microsoft Excel or Whatsapp. Knowing that a program has pics doesn’t tell us anything about its function.
I truly believe the writers are trolling the audience with this line. However, Two Idiots, One Keyboard still remains the standard-bearer for computer idiocy.
