From the inside, I mean. That's not especially addressed in either film (especially T:L).

I mean, what do you figure it looks like in the Grid when, say, a program freezes? Or the whole computer does? Does that program just suddenly go into suspended animation?

For that matter, what's the difference in how a program acts between when it's running and when it's not? Especially if it just tends to run in the background and isn't actively doing something all the time (like your email client, for example).

I wondered about system restores and updates too. Say your program has a glitch so you do a sort of restore on it. What happens with that? (I was wondering because I had a short piece, post-T:L, about what if now-Tron-again and Yori were to meet up... but what if Sam told Alan, who then went in and retrograded Tron's code back to before he became Rinzler-- would he lose every memory past whatever time Alan took him back to? Like, all of a sudden would he be like "Yori, what are we doing here? Where's everyone else?"

And for updates-- like if I need a newer version of Flash player, I download a new version and have to uninstall the old one. That's got to be confusing. Your friends disappear and are replaced with new versions that look and sound the same-- maybe they're a bit more snazzy-- but they haven't a clue who you are.

The more I think about it, the more I think it must be a strange world. I mean, imagine hanging out with my Thunderbird. Every minute, the dude's like "Hang on, gotta go see if there are any new messages for my user." He can't be popular at parties. At any given time, you might be called up to do something for your user. It makes doing much with your downtime hard, if you get used a lot. Some programs have to work all the time (sometimes by function, like the window manager, and sometimes just because they're used more often) while some barely have to do anything, which doesn't seem fair.

What do you figure the internet or a network is like? Is being in your own system like being in your own house, and then you can open your door and head out onto the 'net as if it's a city you're wandering around in? What about cloud computing, thin clients, and shared programs?

And we never truly see Tron in action. How does a security program work? Do you suppose cyberattacks are the equivalent of some guy trying to beat your door down and you try to fortify it and if he gets through, you have to kick his ass? (A thought I've been having because I do have a story about a hacker program, so I need to figure out exactly how she does her job. Like one part where her user sends her to this company to exploit a hole in their security software-- the company has recently installed new software and it doesn't work well in sync with the existing software and leaves a hole. Hacker program goes, is confronted by a couple programs who are going to try to keep her out, but one is the existing software and one the new, and they start arguing, and while they're busy insulting each other, she slips off, and bam, she's in.)

And I've wondered what it looks like on the inside. You move a file around-- does a program go and get a physical file folder? If you have a picture, does it look like a photograph to a program, or would it show up digitally on a screen or whatever? If you had a way to send a message to a program-- "Dear Tron: make sure you check out that weird glitch in Sector 12, okay? Thanks man. -Flynn" -- would they read it digitally on a little screen (like say everyone has an iPad), or would it be like they were holding a paper letter? I've long been unable to figure that one out. It seems so retro to use physical matter like photographs and letters, but it makes a lot of sense, too-- why would they have digital devices in the Grid, like a computer within a computer?

(A lot of this is stuff you might think about eventually if you write fanfic, because sooner or later you'll need to address what the in-story universe is like, and if you want to make it somewhat realistic, then you'll need to work in actual computer situations. Disney probably did a smart thing in T:L when they invented their plotline, because on Flynn's arcade Grid, for the most part programs existed simply to exist, and they spent 20 years without having to perform functions, so they could wander around and go to the clubs and do whatever they wanted without having to be interrupted by real program duties. But in OT-- I mean, what do you suppose it looks like to a user when your programs are all captured and playing videogames in there, when all you want is to type up a document? A lot harder to figure out program life in a working system where they do have to do something besides become dictators and fight dictators and hang out in the club.)order abortion pill abortion pill buy online where to buy abortion pill