@iclim
Yeah , hollywood movies are full of BS, usually based in fiction. Some movie do a good job with facts but most are very bad at matching up with reality. The movie you are referring to I believe is "Simone" and no you cannot get eye cancer from an LCD monitor any more than you can get eye cancer from owning a boat.
Also the "We are only using 30% of the cell." thing is also VERY misleading and intentionally so. The problem is that in a computer there are bottlenecks. Basically part of the computer is operating as fast as it can go and other parts are only running at say 80% of their full potential. These sorts of claims are very silly without more information to base them on.
For instance if the processor of a computer is running at 100% and the memory is only being 10% effectively utilized then how much of the computers power is being used? The answer may not be obvious to some, but suffice it to say a computer is only as fast as its slowest parts.
This example works the other way also, if the processor is 10% in use but the memory is 100% in use then the processor is waiting on the memory and so no matter how much extra oomph it could dish out...it still can't because there is nothing more for it to do.
% claims have been around the computer industry for a long time and they are just as irrelevant now as they always were.
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