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   From: thetruemelissa@gmail.com   
      
   Verily, in article <10o25bg$h5u2$1@dont-email.me>, did atropos@mac.com   
   deliver unto us this message:   
   >   
   > On Mar 1, 2026 at 7:42:33 AM PST, "The True Melissa"   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   > > Verily, in article <179267364.794071571.311223.anim8rfsk-   
   > > cox.net@news.easynews.com>, did anim8rfsk@cox.net deliver unto us this   
   > > message:   
   > >>  When she says that, on screen, you can actually see   
   > >>  the interface running QuickTime movies.   
   > >>   
   > >   
   > > I've read that the screen contents have to be pasted in later, since   
   > > glare would prevent them from being filmed. In the early days, when few   
   > > people knew anything about computers, they pulled some real boners. I   
   > > recall laughter in 1995 because some show had pasted a Mac desktop onto   
   > > the screen of an IBM.   
   >   
   > I've always laughed at Hollywood's obsession with inserting bleeps and bloops   
   > into every scene where someone's working on a computer to let us know the   
   > computer is "thinking".   
      
   One of my favorite things is the way that TV and movie pictures have   
   infinite resolution. "Zoom and enhance. Again. Again, again, again."   
   Then, instead of a realistic blur, we somehow read the writing on a   
   scrap of paper. Computers are magic!   
      
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