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28 Jul 2024 20:22:55 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Gibberish  
From: Francois Labreque
Date: 5 Nov 2012 13:44:38
Message: <50980916$1@news.povray.org>


>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU
>>
>> I believe the phrase is "epic fail".
>>
>> But then, I guess I'm one of a small band of elite experts, and the
>> general populous doesn't know this...
>
> Exactly.  Grandma wouldn't know this makes no sense at all, and most
> people prefer to see a 10 year old girl "flying" over a wireframe mesh
> of the Jurassic Park building to get to the building they're in and lock
> the doors before the raptors get in than to see Trinity use bash to
> exploit a buffer overflow in ssh v1.0 and hack into the Matrix.
>
> Whle we're on the topic of Epic Fails, as it pertains to computers in
> movies, Goldeneye is really bad for it.  The least of which is the
> persavise IBM product placement through out the movie.  "e-Mail" that
> looks like some sort of kiddie chat with cartoon avatars, viruses that
> make rack modems fizz with sparks, and IBM product placement in the
> least likely places (watch for the OS/2 Warp boot screens all over the
> course of the movie!)

And I did an epic fail of my own editing that message!

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