What I mean is, what are somthings you have heard people say that make you want to facepalm so hard you get battlewounds.

1. When I got my nspire-cx, I was playing Doom and a kid asked me if it could play XBox 360 games and if I was playing Halo
2. Nearly everybody in my school calls anybodies laptop a dinosaur if it's not a netbook/ultra-portable or a mac
3. I was working on a Doom mod once during free time in English class (CP english -.-), a kid said "OH GUYS, PIEXIL'S HACKING" 
4. Everyday, people ask if I sill "Hack"  :'(

Also,
I have the crt-off animation on my phone, and people in my math class get so amazed when they see it, don't know why.
Also, sorry if this is the wrong section :$

I'm just amazed that it's the year 2012, and there is still people on this planet that do not know how to use a computer.  Sure, if you're like 65 or older, then you're excused, but anything before that there is no excuse as to why you have yet to acquire "computer usage 101" skills considering that almost EVERYTHING now-a-days involves some type of computer.  Granted my household didn't own a computer until 1996-1997 when IBM's were still popular as hell, and Windows 95 was still around until Windows 98 was the latest thing being pushed into the hi-tech world shortly after... but even still, my mom handed me a Nintendo controller when I was 2 years old... combine that with the ancient macintosh computers that required those BIG-ASS black floppy discs to run any kind of program that my elementary school had when I was in the 2nd grade, I was still SOMEWHAT familiar with technology as a whole.

True Story: From 2008-2010 I used to work for a medical billing company, which used those REALLY ancient computers that were just a black screen with orange/green text, and their printers (I kid you not) were those old noisy ones that took FOREVER to print a document and required that special paper you had to align with the printer with the little stubs to slide in the little holes on both sides of the paper.  Only the managers had windows based computers, except for one computer in the front of the office which was used mostly by me, the mailroom lady, and this one clerical chick.  Would you believe that god forbid if one of the ladies that were glued to the old black & orange/green computers had to use the new windows computer up front, I had to actually stand in back of them and direct them on where to go?  Not to mention the questions were just baffling...

Lady: CHRIS, WHATS THIS ON THE SCREEN?!?!
Me: Those are icons... you click them and they open programs
Lady: CHRIS, HOW DO I GET TO THE FOLDER THE BOSS TOLD ME TO GO TO?!?!
Me: See that folder on the desktop?  Double click that, and there ya go
Lady: CHRIS, HOW DO I LOG OFF?!?!

I'm convinced that people now-a-days have become so lazy that they could care less about learning about anything computer/technology related.  In fact, I strongly believe that that is the reason why Windows 7 was created in the first place.  After all, why do anything on YOUR computer when the computer can do it for you?  Seriously, it's bad when I have to go into command prompt, type in "net user administrator /active:yes", and then delete the default account, just so I don't have to see the computer go "YOU ARE ABOUT TO OPEN THIS PROGRAM!!  ARE YOU SURE YOU WANNA DO THIS???  WAIT, IT MIGHT NOT BE SAFE!!!  ARE YOU POSITIVE YOU WANNA DO THIS?!?!  PLEASE RE THINK THIS!!!  ARE YOU ABSOLUTELY SURE YOU WANT TO DO THIS?!?!"

I'm just amazed that it's the year 2012, and there is still people on this planet that do not know how to use a computer.  Sure, if you're like 65 or older, then you're excused, but anything before that there is no excuse as to why you have yet to acquire "computer usage 101" skills considering that almost EVERYTHING now-a-days involves some type of computer.  Granted my household didn't own a computer until 1996-1997 when IBM's were still popular as hell, and Windows 95 was still around until Windows 98 was the latest thing being pushed into the hi-tech world shortly after... but even still, my mom handed me a Nintendo controller when I was 2 years old... combine that with the ancient macintosh computers that required those BIG-ASS black floppy discs to run any kind of program that my elementary school had when I was in the 2nd grade, I was still SOMEWHAT familiar with technology as a whole.

True Story: From 2008-2010 I used to work for a medical billing company, which used those REALLY ancient computers that were just a black screen with orange/green text, and their printers (I kid you not) were those old noisy ones that took FOREVER to print a document and required that special paper you had to align with the printer with the little stubs to slide in the little holes on both sides of the paper.  Only the managers had windows based computers, except for one computer in the front of the office which was used mostly by me, the mailroom lady, and this one clerical chick.  Would you believe that god forbid if one of the ladies that were glued to the old black & orange/green computers had to use the new windows computer up front, I had to actually stand in back of them and direct them on where to go?  Not to mention the questions were just baffling...

Lady: CHRIS, WHATS THIS ON THE SCREEN?!?!
Me: Those are icons... you click them and they open programs
Lady: CHRIS, HOW DO I GET TO THE FOLDER THE BOSS TOLD ME TO GO TO?!?!
Me: See that folder on the desktop?  Double click that, and there ya go
Lady: CHRIS, HOW DO I LOG OFF?!?!

I'm convinced that people now-a-days have become so lazy that they could care less about learning about anything computer/technology related.  In fact, I strongly believe that that is the reason why Windows 7 was created in the first place.  After all, why do anything on YOUR computer when the computer can do it for you?  Seriously, it's bad when I have to go into command prompt, type in "net user administrator /active:yes", and then delete the default account, just so I don't have to see the computer go "YOU ARE ABOUT TO OPEN THIS PROGRAM!!  ARE YOU SURE YOU WANNA DO THIS???  WAIT, IT MIGHT NOT BE SAFE!!!  ARE YOU POSITIVE YOU WANNA DO THIS?!?!  PLEASE RE THINK THIS!!!  ARE YOU ABSOLUTELY SURE YOU WANT TO DO THIS?!?!"

Well it depends where they live, too, and other factors. For example, in my case, my parents and myself could not afford a computer until 2005 and we got our first computer as a gift in 2004. My mom started using computers regularly in late 2007. As a result, there were big chances we are not tech-savy even in this computer age. While computers are common, they're really expensive (it's hard to find any decent computer under $200 in Canada).

But yeah it's best to point new computer users in the right direction (politely) if they need really basic help, as in telling them to google or search specific stuff to find their answer and teach them how to solve issues themselves. Of course some problems might require assistance but if everyone who needed simple help asked us it would become out of control.

Personally, however, what I really can't stand is when I tell someone to click somewhere and even if I point him where to click with my finger, he still cannot see the thing I am talking about. Are they blind?

Also in some of our case, we will end up being less comfortable with new technologies in a few decades since we did not live with them. Eg I was born in the NES/SNES era, and did not always have the most recent consoles. As a result, when I switched to big 3D shooters I had a lot of troubles getting used to dual joystick controls.

It's best to not be narrow-minded, though, since everyone gotta start somewhere and we need to take in account people who never had the chance to get regular computer access in their early life. They say past 20 or so, it's considerably harder to learn new stuff and then it gets harder and harder for many people. If, for example, you were in a monoparental, poor family, are too old or if you got JustCause or SirCmpwn's parents, then it's almost guaranteed you could not have computer access more than one or two hours a week and that access was very restricted.

Note, however, that there are certain people who asks "stupid" questions who might be trolling, though. (eg the "I accidentally 95 MB of rar files. Is that bad?" type of question) They might actually be tech-savy, but will just act n00bish online for the purpose of wasting people time or making them laugh.

[xkcd=627]this xkcd[/xkcd]

My old programming teacher actually showed that one to the class.  It seemed to work pretty well Actually now that I think about it it was the "Good Code" one, tho she had the support one outside of her door.

Normally I ignore that type of stuff, tbh   On top of that my dad is kind of good at computer stuff so normally I just let him fix things around the house and our school has some half-decent IT people (I say half-decent because the programming teachers +other electives were laid off last year >:| )


Edit: remembered one: I was playing wolfenstein on a 9860gii (well, hacked 9750gii but who at school would know the difference anyway) and some guy walked up and asked if I had Halo on it as well.
Also trying to convince people that programming!=hacking.

Indeed.

I created a textfile with a strange name (i think it was "$log$") in a networkfolder where my sience teacher was looking for something so everyone could see it pop up on his screen and they called me a hacker...