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To: exDemMom
I have a computer science background. I have never seen a single Hollywood movie that shows computers used in a realistic manner. 99% of the time, the computer talk is pure gibberish.

My biggest pet peeve is showing someone "hacking" or otherwise operating some piece of software and there is no feedback on the monitor (in otherwords, they type but what they are typing doesn't appear on the screen).
350 posted on 11/23/2013 8:56:31 AM PST by fr_freak
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To: fr_freak
My biggest pet peeve is showing someone "hacking" or otherwise operating some piece of software and there is no feedback on the monitor (in otherwords, they type but what they are typing doesn't appear on the screen).

Oh, that actually happens to me all the time. Usually, it's because I didn't click inside the window before I start typing. It drives me nuts because some programs show a blinking cursor whether or not you click in the window.

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That wasn't what you were talking about, was it?

What gets me is that some people think movies are absolutely accurate in their facts. Movies can't get the science right. Movies can't get real place names right. And, knowing that, people still expect the historical facts to be accurate?

371 posted on 11/23/2013 11:15:10 AM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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