Saturday, October 18th, 2008
I know that writers are not usually techies and so might struggle getting the terminology right. But surely they could at least consult somebody before using techno-speak in TV programs. In what possible way could this line ever make sense?
“I’ll create a GUI interface using Visual Basic, see if I can track an IP address.”
Check it out for yourself CSI:New York Clip
October 18th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Maybe it was meant to be a techno-code phrase meaning, I’ll throw together something quick and dirty that will allow us to track where this came from.
But still, “create a GUI interface”?
“using Visual Basic”?
What, they don’t already have a FORTRAN program running constantly that could have caught this message and tracked the IP immediately upon receiving it (then printed it out on their dot-matrix printer)?
October 18th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
I really like it when people have no idea about what their talking especially when in comes to IT (software and hardware).
Two days ago there was a live TV show where the presenter was so angry at the notebook his station provided and he was trying to access gmail but all he got was http://www.g0a563.c6m and 5 minutes later he got an SMS telling him to press the NumLock in the upper right corner. I laughed 5 minutes.