ShadowDragon1 Wrote: iGame3D Wrote:"Reindeer Flotilla" was his password, not a code. If they put real code on screen it most likely would have been Assembly language, and that would have been even weirder. "The System" of the electronic world connects all electronic equipment on earth everywhere, not just the Encom computer or a single network of any kind. Apparently from the book's description, "The System" would also include every floating satellite as well... " I agree. That's how I viewed things as well. The Programs are beings of energy, made up of energy (electrons perhaps) that exist in a microcosmic, digital dimension. So I see no problem with Sark, being conveyed via transport (energy transference) to the light Cycles game that is the light cycle arcade game in Flynn's Arcade; even though it just plugged into the wall with a power cable and not hooked up to ARPANet or not directly wired to be connected to Encom's main server/Computer system.

It just occurred to me; if the MCP could beam a human being into the digital world, surely he could transfer a program through a powercord. Any agree/disagree? I swear, if you say that Sark couldn't be transferred through the power cord because it was just a power cord, and yet accept that a human was beamed into the system, then your priorities are out of order (Aimed at no one in general)

To quote the movie

" a little disorientation during transport, it'll all come back to you" or some such.

Here's from the script

MCP:
I hope you've enjoyed being a command
program, Sark. I wonder how you'll like
working in a pocket calculator... maybe
one of those watches that plays "Happy
Birthday" to its User once a year.


Gives you an idea of just how connected and extensive "the System" is.
If it was electronic in nature, the MCP had access to it.
Theoretically all programs did, they just didn't have the instructions to bother going beyond their particular machine, and surely few programmers would be inclined to even imagine how extensive "the System" was.

As illustrated in the post above, if you teach a programmer or system admin "this is the only way a network works", the vast majority will accept that and not even imagine their could be a way to hack around it.

Ah here's also from the script, this was supposed to be in the intro, where now there is just music and title effects.

"As astonishing advances in computer
science are made, artificial intelligence
programs are being designed to assist
us in every area of life.
In a world-wide network of electronics,
they travel through miles of circuitry
at the speed of light. We created them to
calculate and research, to help us design
and heal and think. With all that they can
do, are they only electrical impulses...
or are they a new form of life?"