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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?

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?

Movies and TV are the greatest brainwashing machines ever invented. Ask people if what they see on the screen is real, and 100% will say "Of course not" (well, maybe 99%, because there is always that 1%...). But ask them to state facts regarding some thing or another, and I'll be damned if they don't regurgitate what they've seen in a movie, and a lot of people will even quote a movie to prove their point. That's what makes TV and movies so effective - people think they're too smart to be influenced by it, while subconsciously absorbing every single thing they see on the screen as if it is really happening.