After watching the movie “Live Free or Die Hard”, the latest Die hard movie, a realization I made years ago was refreshed. The movie contains heavy computer-usage scenes as the entire movie revolves around the hacking of the entire U.S. infrastructure. In all of the computer scenes, a distinct sound can be heard every time the computer does something. That sound is a soft beep. A new window pops up, and it beeps, the user clicks, and it beeps, a window resizes, and it beeps. Everything done on the computer is followed by a beeping sound. How annoying.

Would you use a computer that beeps over and over every single time you do something? What about a computer that, instead of displaying text instantly required it to scroll all across the screen, while beeping of course. Would you use that computer? Probably not. The fact is that ‘Hollywood’ computer scenes consist of nothing more than constant scrolling and beeping, for absolutely no reason. That is enough to drive anyone crazy. The question is why do they do this?