How dumb does Hollywood think we are..? Really!!?
I just saw the movie... Man... WTF was that..?
Anyone who's even the slightest well-versed about computer, and especially programmers, know that more than half of that graphical sh!t is'nt plausible / necesseary.
And what's with the realtime camera-tracking..? I mean the amount of CPU / RAM that it would take ANY supercomputer to recognice, even a face (And match it to a person (As paranoid as R.I.P.L.Y seems to be)) would be so incredibly massive it's just soo dumb it's impossible! Not to mention, after "recognicing" the face, 'she' (R.I.P.L.Y) masters lip-read.
Also, the time it would take, "if" she could recognice faces, to sort out all the people walking / driving by the cameras - It's just so damn lame! We're talking multi-core, multi- R.I.S.C- processors here with terrabytes of ram, all operating with insane bus- speeds. Then the hundreds, upon hundreds of cameras there must be 'out there', since every other one of those had a three digit number, and realtime- scanning them. Ok for a pre-designated area and non-populated areas (For the sake of recognition) it may work, but not with accuracy.
Today a computer may recognice a face, but that's from very near, so screw the old analogue crappy-ass-cameras with poor resolution (Which btw, the image looked very sharp in the movie! A flaw!).
Controlling trafic lights - Iiiiiii don't think so. They should be on a separate grid. Please feel free to correct me on this, I have no idea how it really works, but it's highly unlikely though...
Oh, there's so damn much that went so wrong with this movie.
I which I could have been one consultant and most of it wouldn't have happened!
Naa, off to bed here.. C ya...
"-For crying out loud..." *Jack O'Neill - Stargate SG1*