On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Ethan Dicks wrote:
On 6/30/05, Tom Jennings <tomj at wps.com>
wrote:
About 1 hr in, a "computer" is used to
analyze flying saucer
messages. It's a Bush-style (no not our dimwit president, the MIT
guy) diff analyzer! Operating! With plotter!
With a *bogus* plotter - I don't think a real differential analyzer
writes its output in cursive English. ;-) It's an early appearance
of "The Hollywood Operating System".
I think it's called "story telling" :-)
It's not a whole lot worse than 'paperless office' or that
still-repeated canard 'improved productivity' -- what, am I a
factory?!
(Did someone remove the plotter arm link from the DA, and
manipulate it from off-screen? It's still pretty amusing to
watch. :-)
TiVo'd it.
1956 Harryhausen movie. Haven't seen it since I was 12!
Watched that just tonight. We must have been on the same channel.
Ayup!!