{"id":3162,"date":"2010-05-04T11:21:05","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T15:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/?p=3162"},"modified":"2010-05-04T11:21:10","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T15:21:10","slug":"top-10-things-hollywood-thinks-computers-can-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/top-10-things-hollywood-thinks-computers-can-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 things Hollywood thinks computers can do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The site is slashdoted at the moment&#8230;. &nbsp;So once the fire department is done putting out the flaming wreck of a server, feel free to take a look&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A couple of weeks ago we covered the Top 10 biggest tech flaws in films, this week we&#8217;ve got a kind of sequel (in the best Hollywood tradition), and we&#8217;re looking at the Top 10 myths has about how computers work in the real world. Now we understand the need to &#8216;sex up&#8217; computers, as they&#8217;d otherwise be incredibly boring, but must these stereotypes persist?<\/p>\n<p>10. When systems go wrong, stuff starts to explode<\/p>\n<p>When a computer crashes in real life it&#8217;s often quite annoying, but spectacularly dull to watch. In films, when a computer goes wrong, it&#8217;s very exciting and stuff starts to explode.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.expertreviews.co.uk\/general\/278200\/top-10-things-hollywood-thinks-computers-can-do\">View the rest of the article at Top 10 things Hollywood thinks computers can do<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The site is slashdoted at the moment&#8230;. &nbsp;So once the fire department is done putting out the flaming wreck of a server, feel free to take a look&#8230; A couple of weeks ago we covered the Top 10 biggest tech flaws in films, this week we&#8217;ve got a kind of sequel (in the best Hollywood <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/top-10-things-hollywood-thinks-computers-can-do\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[12,19],"tags":[243],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->