BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

On Mar 1, 2026 at 1:23:35 PM PST, "The True Melissa" <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:

Verily, in article <10o25bg$h5u2$1@dont-email.me>, did atropos@mac.com
deliver unto us this message:

On Mar 1, 2026 at 7:42:33 AM PST, "The True Melissa"
<thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:

Verily, in article <179267364.794071571.311223.anim8rfsk-
cox.net@news.easynews.com>, did anim8rfsk@cox.net deliver unto us this >>>> message:

When she says that, on screen, you can actually see
the interface running QuickTime movies.

I've read that the screen contents have to be pasted in later, since
glare would prevent them from being filmed. In the early days, when few >>>> people knew anything about computers, they pulled some real boners. I >>>> recall laughter in 1995 because some show had pasted a Mac desktop onto >>>> the screen of an IBM.

I've always laughed at Hollywood's obsession with inserting bleeps and
bloops
into every scene where someone's working on a computer to let us know the >>> computer is "thinking".

One of my favorite things is the way that TV and movie pictures have
infinite resolution. "Zoom and enhance. Again. Again, again, again."
Then, instead of a realistic blur, we somehow read the writing on a
scrap of paper. Computers are magic!

There was a CSI:HORATIO episode where they managed to read a license plate in the reflection of someone's eyeball off a security cam tape.

The CSI shows are an example of how TV nonsense has a negative influence in the real world. When they were at their height of popularity, real-world juries expected the government to have all those gee-whiz super-duper techniques and equipment to find evidence. They had ridiculous expectations of
the abilities of the police because Hollywood made up nonsense and put it on a
TV show. It was difficult to convince juries that no, it's not really possible
to take video from a low-rez VHS convenience store security tape, blow it up 1000x, and get a reflection of the perp's license plate off the retina of a bum sitting at a bus stop across the street.

I can top that. Las Vegas (the James Caan series) managed to grab a car
mirror reflection of a single sequin on a showgirl’s costume.
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