why does scrolling text on a monitor make beeping noises in movies/TV?

[ShawnD1]

In the movies, why do they ALWAYS cock their gun to show they mean business?

Soo... they were pointing at the target with an uncocked gun beforehand?

Normally I throw guns at people but sometimes I shoot at them when I'm serious.

 

[Zeze]

I saw a movie the other day where someone made a comment about turning the safety off...on a Glock...and the guy hit the slide release.

x.x

What's that horrid movie with Steven Segal.. was it Exit Wound?

He faces off a helicopter with a rifleman only using a glock. I know automatic glocks exist, but the movie clearly shows him firing burst shots but the dubbing plays a full-on auto.

Of course that took down the helicopter and the dude wielding an M-15.

 

[Zeze]

When I was a kid, this left an impression helicopters were made of tin foils and didn't understand why anybody would ride them. They were more dangerous than a helium blimp.

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

In the movies, why do they ALWAYS cock their gun to show they mean business?

Soo... they were pointing at the target with an uncocked gun beforehand?

double action??????

 

[Ichinisan]

When I was a kid, this left an impression helicopters were made of tin foils and didn't understand why anybody would ride them. They were more dangerous than a helium blimp.

WIN!! :thumbsup:

 

[JulesMaximus]

double action??????

What bothers me is when they pull the slide back to chamber a round. So, you were pointing an unloaded weapon at the guy before? Double action doesn't load a bullet into the chamber, it just cocks and fires the gun. You either have the slide locked open when you insert a loaded magazine and release the slide lock which chambers a round or you pull the slide back after inserting a full magazine to chamber a round. If you have a round chambered and you pulled the slide back again like they show people doing ALL THE TIME in the movies you would see an unfired bullet get kicked out of the ejection port and another would be chambered, giving you one less round in your magazine.

You either have a round chambered or you don't. You don't draw an unloaded weapon, point it at someone and then rack the slide to chamber a round for emphasis in real life. Only a complete dumbass would do something that stupid.

 

[TheNinja]

Ya, I love that about silencers on guns. They always have a gun with a silenced pistol that can shoot and kill a guy in the next room and nobody hears it. And the guys always make that high pitched laser-like sound.

 

[CZroe]

Serious answer:

Think back. Even Star Trek and other older scifi had mechanical tabulation sounds going anytime the computer was even THINKING about doing something. Even Blade Runner did this with his image enhancer machine.

Now, when the computer in ST would return answers, it did it one word at a time while it noisily processed the next word of the answer (wouldn't it get the answer first before forming a sentence?). People noticed that it increased suspense. The beeping is just the continuation of that. It's also why these things print out one character at a time.

I remember LOLing when the ST crew pulled up an electronic document on their screen and it had a form with names typed in on blank lines. What purpose did the lines serve on an electronic document?

 

[Jeff7]

Why do they put silencers on a revolver in movies? Why do they have guns that you can fire 20-30 rounds without reloading that only hold 8 or 10 rounds in real life?

Or why do bullets in movies ricochet almost every single time?

BANG! Pshewwwwwww!


Stargate Atlantis was fun in that respect. Rodney's tablet beeped with every keypress and action. Or he was running a battle simulation, and it said "Simulation Running.......Simulation Failed."
If only ANSYS was so simple to use.
(Who knows though, they're using a computer system that's hundreds of thousands of years ahead of our tech, maybe that's what it'll turn into. )

When I was a kid, this left an impression helicopters were made of tin foils and didn't understand why anybody would ride them. They were more dangerous than a helium blimp.

(Hydrogen is the flammable one.)