| "The Net" and similar films would have you believe that most GUIs consist
| primarlily of a progress bar slowly filling from left to right. (Actually,
| looking at Windows, that's not too far off the mark.)
Actually, the Net showed what could have been a Blackbox terminal with
programming and other apps. One of the complaints about the movie was that
it was too techie for non-computer people. That means maybe they showed
computers a bit more like they really are.
| - Good Guy hacks into Bad Guys' mainframe from his laptop.
| - Good Guy starts stealing ultra secret file/data/virus/whatever.
| - Ubiquitous progress bar starts slowly growing from left to right.
| - Bad Guys discover the break-in and activate countermeasures.
| - Progress bar shrinks back to the left of the screen.
Classic !!
jm
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Jonathon McKitrick -- jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org
If you can't learn to do something well,
learn to enjoy doing it poorly.
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