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So while perusing CNN during a long build, I found this article about bad tech based movies. Being a certified nerd, I have a good hardy chuckle at bad tech movies and was wondering if anyone could add to the list.
Now I know Transformers isn’t a tech movie but there was a line which sticks in my craw. When the way-too-hot-and-young-for-a-signal-intelligence-nerd Austrailian girl says,
“..we need to stop looking at Fourier transfers and start thinking about Quantum mechanics..”
ARRRRRRRH – it’s a Fourier transform not a transfer!
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Maybe she was talking about the fact that in the time-domain, the output for a unit-sample input is known as the system’s unit-sample response, and is denoted by
h(N). Combining the frequency-domain and time-domain interpretations of a linear, shift-invariant system’s unit-sample response, we have that and the transfer function are Fourier transform pairs in terms of the discrete-time Fourier transform. If The DTFT of the unit sample equals a constant (equaling 1). In this case, the FOURIER TRANSFORM OF THE OUTPUT EQUALS THE TRANSFER FUNCTION!
meh, I missed some stuff and can’t edit my comment…
Did you copy that from a book?
after “we have that” should be h(N).
and no.
@Dacunha
*head asplodes*
The Fourier Transform of a linear time-invariant system’s impulse response (response to a unit impulse input) is known as the frequency response. A general function that maps inputs to outputs is a transfer function. So while a frequency response is one type of transfer function, one referring to a Fourier Transfer should be mushroom slapped across the face and given a multiplication table to fill out and then cut themselves with.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go write a Visual Basic program to conjugate my IP router with a SQL database so I can download my USB hashtables.
Also, I LOVED the quote from a critic speaking to “The Net”:
“If you don’t want your parents or grandparents on the Web, have them watch this movie and they’ll be terrified,”
Another good line a remember is from a classic thriller called Fair Game starring Cindy Crawford and William Baldwin. While being chased by the KGB bad guys, Detective Max Kirkpatrick realizes the reason they have been tracked so easy was because of their technical prowess,
“That’s why their fake ids were so good, they must have done them with computers….”
Yeah, I have no idea what any of that crap really means, I just googled fourier transfer. And cut and pasted some crap to try and keep McCrappy alive.
“You could sit at home, and do like absolutely nothing, and your name goes through like 17 computers a day. 1984? Yeah right, man. That’s a typo. Orwell is here now. He’s livin’ large. We have no names, man. No names. We are nameless!”
“This is our world now. The world of the electron and the switch; the beauty of the baud. We exist without nationality, skin color, or religious bias. You wage wars, murder, cheat, lie to us and try to make us believe it’s for our own good, yet we’re the criminals. Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto.” Huh? Right? Manifesto? “You may stop me, but you can’t stop us all.”
“Zero Cool? Crashed fifteen hundred and seven computers in one day? Biggest crash in history!”