That one seems to me to be more of a creative license thing, so it’s a feature not a bug. It makes it easier for the audience to think of Joshua as its own character. Plus, we always see its text, right? So they stay true to the reality of it (such as it is), but they employ the voice even when he’s not at his house as a convention for characterization.
It’s not having the voice that @Jeff_Lichtman is objecting to. It’s having the voice, when Broderick isn’t near the speaker that the voice should be coming out of.
Right, that’s what makes it a creative license.
Ah. That is a puzzle.
In Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (2002), the latter is built as an “anti-Godzilla superweapon” run by tiny DNA computers which conveniently warn “Out of Control” and “Not Enough” (power) on monitors when such events occur.
It would have been amusing if the first time WOPR spoke in the war room, one of the workers there had said “Oh my God, WOPR’s hijacked the PA system!”
But did it really? Spinning wheels in movies will often appear to slow down, stand still, or reverse direction. Maybe it was just turning in one direction all along.
He was treated by a doctor, who was unable to remove the bullet. Presumably they x-rayed him from every angle. I don’t find it implausible that MI6 was able to access the medical records and make a 3D image.
Enhance, enhance more. Then we can get a clear image of the real killer, reflected in the eyeball of the victim right before they were killed.
Most security cameras have awful detail and quality. But people have an expectaion that if we just enhance the picture that we can tell if the stamp on an envelope is a Forever stamp and when it was postmarked.
When you are using a computer, it projects readable text onto the skin of your face.
Except they are tracking the movement of the bullet through his brain with the doctor explaining that, “The bullet will kill him, but he’ll grow stronger every day until the day he dies.” He is basically described as an unstoppable supervillain which is why it is so disappointing that he doesn’t actually do anything very impressive in the rest of the film. I guess this is why MI-6 stopped issuing 7.65mm PPKs to agents up until Quantum of Solace when they inexplicably started again arming their agents with this purse gun.
I know I always work best when I have a 500W projector glaring in my eyes.
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Hackers always notify their victims by animated demon images laughing loudly through the speakers, instead of, you know, just taking the customer credit card numbers or undercover agent names quietly, with no one the wiser. Nice of them
IIRC, in the book, it was “Joshua5”, which is slightly less bad.
Indeed…
Also in any terminal-like environment, text responses such as error messages appear one character at a time, accompanied by little chattery beeps
That always reminds me of when people would turn on the “key clack” switch on 3270 dumb terminals and it would sound like a room of people with mechanical typewriters. Was somebody missing this from their computing experience?
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I never understood the attraction of the IBM M style noisy keyboard. But knockoffs with the noisy switches are still sold today in decent number to various self-defined leet sorta folks.
I know you know what these are, but some folks might not: Model M keyboard - Wikipedia
Of all the annoying things in ID4, the fact that the virus worked is not one of them. Apple OS was based on the alien tech from the scout ship. We probably even improved it, which is why the virus worked so well.
They’ve never been defeated. They’ve probably never even been challenged. They don’t lock their doors because there’s no reason to.
The 3270 terminal was even worse; it actually had an electromechanical ‘clacker’ that would make a sound every time a key made a connection. When it was turned off it was only about as loud as a Selectric but with the clacker on it sounded like someone was smacking a tap hammer against an anvil every time.
I actually like the tactile feel of mechanical keyboards but I opt for ‘brown’ switches, although in practice I mostly use low profile chicklet or scissor type keyboards as it is really annoying to listen someone banging away (even quietly) on their keyboard while on calls.
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It worked fine, but, yes, downloading, compiling, and installing every single update of the kernel or of a utility was a PITA. However, there were absolutely Linux distributions available, including X Windows by the way, by 1992.
I stand corrected, then. I only started with Linux (Slack, and then Red Hat) in 1996. But that would have to be a pretty advanced kid to be installing Linux on their home computer circa 1993, and it wouldn’t look anything like IRIX. I give the film props for actually getting a technical detail correct (within so many other copious errors) but I recall thinking at the time, “How could she possibly know IRIX?”
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