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People Feel Loyalty To Computers

Posted by timothy on from the cognitive-dissonance-overcompensation dept.

stoobthealien writes "According to BBC News researchers have discovered that people have loyalty to specific computers because of a tendancy to associate "human attributes to them" - and I thought it was just me that speaks to my PC...."

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  1. Unrequited love by rueger · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sadly our computers seem less inclined to share that love...

    "Open the pod bay door HAL...."

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    1. Re:Unrequited love by Simonetta · · Score: 5, Funny

      If she would be willing to open the pod bay door more often, then I'd be happy to activate her more often.

  2. Wow by sydb · · Score: 5, Funny

    This could lead to an over dependence on electronically-generated news and information.

    Ground breaking stuff for slashdot.

    next! <hits CTRL-R>

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  3. The real secret by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    People given the option of a range of PCs tended to have favourites, with some even prepared to wait in line to use a particular machine.

    Now we know which one had the hidden stash of pr0n!

  4. Computers and Fashion by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    All I know is, my computer has a much better fashion sense than this guy from Penn State...

    (plaid on plaid! I mean einstein could do it, but that ain't exactly the same!)

  5. Don't piss them off.... by ThrudTheBarbarian · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't anthropomorphize computers. They hate it when you do that.

  6. Re:Loyalty to machines by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    Automobiles are like dogs. They let us down sometimes, they misbehave at inconvenient moments, and we're sometimes angry at them for being a nuisance. But for the most part they're loyal to us. And we love them more than the neighbor's even if the neighbor's is prettier.

    Computers are like cats. They're cute when they're brand new and purring along. After six months you realize they're useless and plotting to kill you. You want to kick the stupid thing out the window.

  7. Re:This is a suprise? by Snork+Asaurus · · Score: 5, Funny
    People feel irrational loyalty to operating systems too.

    In the case of Windows, it's more likely to be Stockholm Syndrome than loyalty.

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  8. Re:People like sitting in the same place by BarryJacobsen · · Score: 5, Funny

    The human does this, naturally.

    And the human speak the English in the person of the third.

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  9. my computers love me by SanityInAnarchy · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have Linux on all my computers, and they are all very obediant -- not because I've beaten them into submission, but because we are very intimate with one another. They know the darkest websites I visit, and I know their most hackish source code.

    This is what happens when you start giving them names:

    My desktop is called "Morpheus", and my laptop is called "Trinity". My fileserver is "Tank", and my router is "Ninja". I have had a healthy dose of male bonding with all but Trinity, who is the sexiest little notebook I've ever seen. Every now and then, I compile kernels for a little male bonding, or get down and dirty with Trinity's video drivers.

    The only other computer in this house is called "Dad", which is dual-boot Windows/Linux, and I have a more love/hate relationship with it. Dad is like a Jeckyll and Hyde, and will change with a single reboot from the nicest gentleman to the sickest, most twisted machine.

    But really, if your computers don't love you, have you considered that it's because you don't treat them right?

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