This is why I stopped watching Numb3rs.
Nov. 12th, 2009 06:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cerealjoeActually no, I stopped watching Numb3rs when they use the Lagrange Theorem in a completely impossible way after having presented it wrong. But this little presentation of IRC just takes the cake, it's like playing spot the 129847329742 errors.
I think everyone knows about my love for IRC, one of the greatest things ever provided by Finland to the rest of the world. The person who wrote that presentation of IRC for the show clearly has never been on an IRC channel... or he's only been on one called #teentalk but even there I bet they don't use "leet speak".
It's as much a hacker place as the playground on Lauttasaari is. No really! Actually lots of people chat with their co-workers on IRC here. The uni actually provides us with Unix machines with irssi installed on them so that we can use IRC through SSH. Oh wait, does it count as hacker stuff because you actually have to use command lines instead of clicking places? There are some awesome channels though, the #eurovision one is great when the ESC time comes. Then there are those where I talk with people I will see in the evening anyway. It makes life that bit just more interesting at work.
So end of the story: why can't those damned shows try to present less stuff but with greater accuracy? They thrive on the ignorance of people and that just irks me to no end. Like CSI and their DNA testing done in a blink of an eye (alright, so not really blink of an eye but six hours? come on!) and their magic databases where they have stored all the info about everything.
I think everyone knows about my love for IRC, one of the greatest things ever provided by Finland to the rest of the world. The person who wrote that presentation of IRC for the show clearly has never been on an IRC channel... or he's only been on one called #teentalk but even there I bet they don't use "leet speak".
It's as much a hacker place as the playground on Lauttasaari is. No really! Actually lots of people chat with their co-workers on IRC here. The uni actually provides us with Unix machines with irssi installed on them so that we can use IRC through SSH. Oh wait, does it count as hacker stuff because you actually have to use command lines instead of clicking places? There are some awesome channels though, the #eurovision one is great when the ESC time comes. Then there are those where I talk with people I will see in the evening anyway. It makes life that bit just more interesting at work.
So end of the story: why can't those damned shows try to present less stuff but with greater accuracy? They thrive on the ignorance of people and that just irks me to no end. Like CSI and their DNA testing done in a blink of an eye (alright, so not really blink of an eye but six hours? come on!) and their magic databases where they have stored all the info about everything.
