That Looks Futuristic
RSSI’ll be posting some more screenshots soon (I have a few movies in mind), but here’s a video quickie. It barely even counts; finding this stuff in “CSI” and “Numb3rs” is like shooting fish in a fucking barrel. There’s piles of it on YouTube if you really enjoy wanting to smash your head through the nearest solid object.
In this case, browsing to an “IPp4 address” [sic] prints out bits of the iPhone Developers Cookbook.
Future Rating: 3/10. +1 for future mathematics that allows 32-bit values to go up to 275, not 255, +1 for text that prints onscreen as you watch, -2 for lack of animated line tracking IPp4 address between continents.
Our GPS tracker has gone offline. We’d better scroll through these stacks and iterators quickly to find what the problem is.
Future Rating: 6/10 Even in the future people wouldn’t pick that font.
Need your holographic device from some ancient underground civilization to look more diagram-y? Simply stick in a copy of the London Underground map, that’ll do it. Better make sure to flip it along one axis, though. Otherwise somebody might recognize it.
Future Rating: 7/10
