I just noticed these two priceless quotes

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Posted by Kromey at 3:00am Jan 11 '10
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Both from MacGyver (who just lost a lot of Coolness Points for these):

"Got an image enhancer that can bitmap?" (Wow. Talk about pulling random tech jargon out of your ass and hoping no one notices - "bitmap" is an image format, i.e. it's a noun, not a verb. You can't "bitmap", you can only do stuff with a bitmap. Also, there's no reason you'd be asking this question in the first place - a bitmap is literally a mapping of all the bits on the screen, and thus if you are looking at the image you are technically looking at the bitmap of the image!)

"Lock-in and enlarge the z-axis." (The z-axis is just an axis - you can't do shit with it, it's merely a frame of reference for the data on the screen! To say nothing of the fact that you are looking at a 2D image - there is no z-axis!)

I still love the 2D surveillance camera footage that suddenly becomes a full 3D model that you can spin around and even see what was behind objects and thus completely impossible for the camera to have seen. Reminds me of these scene I saw in some 80s movie a while back:
Techie dude: "You know, computer image enhancement has come a long ways lately - we can use the computer to see what's behind this guy." Techie dude taps some random keys, and the guy in the foreground of the image suddenly becomes a black silhouette. A few more random taps on the kayboard, and the black silhouette slowly fades away to reveal, in perfect clarity, the entirety of the scene that was behind the guy when the still image was shot!