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Why do movies in the future have transparent monitors? How stupid.

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In the movie Pandorum they shave with fucking lasers. I don't care how far you go into the future, we will never shave with fucking lasers.
 
Are you using Avast? Seems like lately it gives me a lot of false positives, because I get pop-ups for sites that I'm 99.99% sure aren't malicious (wiki.answers.com, for example). I never used to get so many popups with Avast, seems like it just started a few months ago.

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frostedflakes said:
Are you using Avast? Seems like lately it gives me a lot of false positives, because I get pop-ups for sites that I'm 99.99% sure aren't malicious (wiki.answers.com, for example). I never used to get so many popups with Avast, seems like it just started a few months ago.

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Both of us are using Avira AntiVir. I very, very rarely get a popup at all. So i wouldnt say i get lots of false positives
 
frostedflakes said:
Are you using Avast? Seems like lately it gives me a lot of false positives, because I get pop-ups for sites that I'm 99.99% sure aren't malicious (wiki.answers.com, for example). I never used to get so many popups with Avast, seems like it just started a few months ago.

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Avira's AntiVir.

Once every few months, I might click on a link and get a "file has a signature similar to this virus" warning. I don't know if it was an actual infected file, but I don't see them that often.
 
geno said:
Because it makes it 100% easier to compose the shot and avoid going over the shoulder, to over the monitor, back and forth back and forth...plus it's futuristic 😀
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This - they need a not-so-subtle way of saying to the audience, "See? It's totally the future! Really, we mean it! Where else would you find...transparent monitors-onitors-nitors-tors-ors..." *dramatic echo fades off*

From MST3K: Space Mutiny: "Wall-mounted keyboards! It must be...the future!!!"


The interfaces in the 24th-century Star Trek shows were also interesting - all flat-panel. So much for touch-typing. 🙂

(Yes, I know Tuvok once activated a "tactile interface" when he was blinded for a short time; what exactly this did, or why this is evidently not the standard mode, I have no idea.)
 
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loki8481 said:
because movies are about telling a story, not providing realistic technical details.
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ding ding ding.

makes the shot more efficient. tell everything at once, rather than being boring and mundane about it.

I will say, though, that at least in most feature films this is done in a setting that makes "sense:" sci-fi, future, high end tech or intelligence center.

anytime you see this on CSI X, it is laughable...but mostly because every single detail involving forensics technology and capabilty is pure bullshit. funny, b/c forensics is somewhat essential for the reality of these shitty shows, but whatever.
 
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Looks like they've been out for a few years now.... 😀
 
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LCDs have always been transparent. People have taken apart old LCD screens and made projectors out of them. The CRT and LCD pics above aren't. They're faked with a picture taken with a camera and set as the windows background.
 
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