Ray Arnold is supposed to be a computer programmer, right?
So, there a reason why Ray Arnold a computer code programmer or whatever couldnt figure out the computer and security problems caused by Nedry?
It's explained in the book better. Nedry and his programmers designed and programmed the Park's entire computer and security system. Ray Arnold was not part of Nedry's team. There's also the fact that Nedry put in a kind of bug into the system that screwed it up. That's why Arnold could not fix it and why they had to turn off the power and thereby reboot the system Nedry intentionally screwed up.
share"There's also the fact that Nedry put in a kind of bug into the system that screwed it up."
Nedry never screwed anything up, he deliberately wrote code to temporarily suspend the security systems long enough for him to both enter the genetic material lab and get the samples to put into the Barbasol can and to escape to the dock. Basically, Nedry compromised the systems to throw everything in the park into chaos while he could get away, but left the most dangerous dinosaurs safely secured at all costs.
"That's why Arnold could not fix it and why they had to turn off the power and thereby reboot the system Nedry intentionally screwed up."
That was a fatal mistake. By shutting off the power, ALL of the fences INCLUDING the Velociraptors' were turned off, allowing them to escape. That's why, later on, when the gamekeeper sees this, he comments in a scared voice that even Nedry "knew not to mess with the Raptor fences."
It's possible that if Nedry had escaped the island with the genetic samples, he would've communicated the password to bypass his hack to Arnold via radio and return the park to normal, but it was not to be. Hence, the chaos we see in the movie.
Sorry. I hadn't listened to my audiobook of it in a while. The movie doesn't exactly show what you just said. It shows him hit a button on the computer that says execute so you don't know what exactly he is doing.
shareAh, I remember more now. He was also synchronising the stopwatch on his watch at the same time he clicked on the Execute button, the computer of which also had a stopwatch app which started when he clicked Execute, so he could disable the locks and cameras on the genetics lab just long enough to get in and get out, at just the right time.
I can only guess he'd been planning the heist for weeks, writing the code, etc.
"Nedry compromised the systems to throw everything in the park into chaos while he could get away, but left the most dangerous dinosaurs safely secured at all costs."
That's not true, he disabled The T-Rex fence, which is where the action begins.
Thanks for the correction, it's been a long time since I've seen the movie.