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The Hollywood operating system, or Hollywood OS, refers to any fictional computer operating system clichéd in films and television.

The name itself is a misnomer, as the term actually references computer hardware, operating systems, internetworking and various applications ancillary to computers.

These Hollywood computer systems usually share common functions with real operating systems, but tend to be able to perform these functions at faster speeds with a more aesthetic graphical user interface (GUI), and are exceptionally more functional than today's software.

Functionality
For instance, a Hollywood OS may be able to download extremely large files in mere seconds, display error messages in large, flashing red text, interface with any computer, whether terrestrial or alien (as in ), and allow any user to intrude into extremely secure government computers with ease. They also tend to have sound effects unnecessarily accompanying every event, no matter how trivial.

Plot device behavior
* Some versions do not make use of a computer mouse, with virtually everything being done by keyboard or alternative input device.
* These systems will often either shut down, substantially slow down, and/or stop performing necessary functions as a plot device.
* The system can also do tasks that are virtually impossible (at least without the aid of advanced artificial intelligence), such as the ability to zoom in on any detail of a photograph to an excessive resolution (as in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Las Vegas).

The interface often utilizes flying or scrolling numbers or other characters when a character accesses a large quantity of information (see The Matrix and Hackers). The interface may also contain parts of different real life operating systems on one system.

For example, in Office Space the predominant GUI which is shown looks like Apple's System 7; however, when the main character goes to shut down his computer, a command prompt is clearly visible which is not a part of the Mac OS but instead more commonly associated with Microsoft's MS-DOS and Windows operating systems.

Text displayed on the screen is often unusually big. In many films they project the image from the screen onto the face of the actor (as in Jurassic Park), this is impossible in reality because the image would have no way to be focussed and normal computer monitors are simply not bright enough.

Reasons for inaccuracies


Like many aspects of film and television, computer operating systems often need to be enhanced or exaggerated in order to fit in with the plot or be effective as a key device in the telling of the story. For these reasons, the portrayal of computers is often seen as inaccurate by computer experts, but a factor not noticed or ignored by the majority of film goers.

Many films, for example, portray bank funds being transferred by computer. A common device is to enhance the dramatic effect by showing a screen counting up (or down) the value of a particular transaction, as it happens in real time as if the value is being transferred one dollar at a time. In reality, this would never happen.

*Visibility: Televisions have lower resolution than computer monitors, so a computer screen showing realistic sized fonts would be difficult to read on a cinema or television screen.
*Entertainment: The output from computers is often quite uninteresting, whereas movies are for entertainment purposes. For example, a program to compare fingerprints might not have a graphical interface at all, but only output the number of features which match on two fingerprints. To make this process interesting, two different color fingerprints can be rotated and scaled to match and then superimposed on one another.
*Time savings: Waiting for programs to run and downloads to occur takes time, which is quite limited in movies. They could show the time changing on a clock to indicate that time has passed, but even that would take some time. Instead, they just speed most operations up dramatically.
*Explanation: In many cases, depictions of computing activity is more blatant and "in your face" than the real life equivalent. For instance, a big popup appears stating "Destroying All Data" alongside a visualization of the data being destroyed, leaving no doubt in the viewer's mind as to what action is taking place. The real-world equivalent might be a simple command-line exchange, not easily comprehensible for most viewers.
*Actors: Many actors would be unable to type commands or other text accurately while giving their performance to the camera. In most cases the actual computer will display the text that the script calls for no matter what keys the actor presses. This accounts for the notable fact that most computer users depicted in film and TV seem to be able to type surprisingly quickly and accurately.
*Video synchronization: Real computer screens typically refresh at between 60 to 80 frames per second. Television cameras scan the scene at 50 or 60 frames per second and movie cameras only take a picture 24 times per second. It is likely that such rates would cause annoying flickering in the final production -- so the images shown by computers are often added in post-production. Furthermore, the bright lighting used on the set of a movie or TV production may 'wash out' the relatively dim image on the computer screen. Such a 'wash out' might make it impossible for the actor to use a real computer in any meaningful manner.

Personal Taxonomy (c. July, 2005) is a concept for organization of private information or an application of ontology. Personal Taxonomy as a subject is in the midst of shaping the information of individuals, before they attain the state colloquially known as "the technological singularity preceding the development of the transhuman self."

Personal Taxonomy Application of Information Defined
To breakdown individual pieces of information structure using causality, dates and events for filing of historical artifacts associated with the self. Then crossing over to sweep data related to the self from multiple axes of measurement. The thorough combination of elemental axial views may be used to develop the taxonomic boundaries. Extents of range though are also limited by the individual application of tools available or skills embodied via the actualization learned then translated.

Date Based Information
Currently coding and ranking is the main emphasis with year precedent ahead of month and day.

Discovery
Epiphany and self actualization still is best with date and rank, but removed to its own notebook of sorts. Blogging may in the future have added meta data to unveil these events affecting a psyche with subsequent conveyance to others.

Event Based Information
Upon date and rank completion, identification by type of event with divisions between self actualization for autobiography cites to relationships or social occasions.

Geography
Geographic location combined with date, mode, rank and

The Gardenia (known colloquially as Gardies or "Gardi's") is a takeaway restaurant near Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. The shop, located on Rose Crescent, is well known to most students at the University of Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin University. The owner, Vasilis Anastasiou, covers the walls with pictures of student-customers.

Menu

The menu comprises mainly traditional Greek dishes such as souvlaki and Dolma, but also items like chips or pizza.

Lease Renewal

In 2003, the landlords, Gonville and Caius College, announced that after the restaurant's lease, due to expire in 2005, ran out it would not be renewed and student accommodation would be built in its place. The student newspaper Varsity launched a campaign to 'Save Gardies'. A petition sponsored by the newspaper received more than 8000 signatures including those of MP Michael Portillo and comedian Stephen Fry. The college decided to allow Gardies to stay until 2011. The decision inspired not only widespread jollity but also Gardi's: The Opera, a comic musical which premiered at the Fitzpatrick Hall Theatre, , on 9th November 2005, running for four nights. The opera was performed twice more the following summer, at the Cambridge Union, on the 17th and 18th June 2006.