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Rage Against the Machines
wiredbeat2000 writes "Kent Norman is a cognitive psychologist and director of the Laboratory for Automation Psychology and Decision Processes at the University of Maryland. He studies -- and makes films about -- why people lose it, and smash their computers, PDAs, mice, ect. MIT's Technology Review has a story about his lab."
the machines don't smash their users, yet...
is when you chain two car batteries together, and then hook them up the the first and last pins on a processor. Now that's overclocking.
Odd thing was, I think the Intel processor was at the same temperature as normal use.
DarkMantle I been bored, so I started a blog.
to strike one's computer in anger.
We must first create some sort of artificial intellegence within the computer with sensory perception. Only THEN can we slowly, painfully, and deliberately exact our revenge on it!
Sig it.
Well, I only smash my machines when they talk back to me. Normally I try to treat them with dignity and respect, but when they $*&! up, grind, groan, chew paper, start making funny knocking sounds or refuse to understand that when I pressed Delete and wiped out my spreadsheet I really meant to hit Enter then I start to get mad and then I exit out and my SuperNintendo emulator program refuses to output sound I feel myself getting hotter under the collar so I go on the web and look up Slashdot and there's a stupid &#)!#@ article like this then THAT'S IT. I'M GONNA GIVE THIS %*@$$$@!@$# piece of ##*%!*#(^ $!)#@$% THE $*!*$(# IT WILL NEVER $@*#~$($%% FORGET!
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
clicky
Tee hee
There is another kind of evil which we must fear most, and that is the indifference of good men. -- Boondock Saints
The Solution: Rather than bottling up the frustration with technology and entering into "techno-frustration denial," we propose to let the user vent in safe, controlled, and vicarious ways.
I think a better solution would be to throw angry people into a pit and let them bludgeon each other to death with computer parts. Sort of like ThunderDome but with keyboards and mice instead of chainsaws and giant hammers...
I've never broken anything but I have tested the robustness of my keyboard a few times.
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. Calvin Coolidge
Well, yeah, some of you bastards would, but that's not the point. Oh, and so would Russell Crowe.
The computer is sick and malfunctioning because some asshole installed Windows on it! Take a hammer to that guy, and not the poor computer.
For further enlightenment on this desperate plague afflicitng our silicon bretheren, call 1-888-HELP4PC, and give generously.
--- Ban humanity.
Sometimes me and my friends we prepare ghetto lans at somebody's house and we usually play fps games or red alert.
:x
What happended is once one of my friends got so pissed off at the so-called "bullshit". He then smashed his logitech mouse on his desk and we had to lend him another so he could until play until the end. It was funny though. Even he laughed at what he did.
If you ask me, I pay for this hardware and no matter how much "bs" I'll get, I'd never think of damaging anything under my name.
Only hardware I get pissed at is the monitors at school by smacking them cause sometimes I forget to close oracle cause it takes up 100mb easy
Not to mention the good, clean fun you can have shooting old Macs, dead keyboards, and Microsoft executives.
How am I supposed to fit a pithy, relevant quote into 120 characters?
One of the fun parts of my job is discarding old dead hardware. Got a monitor that's blinked out. No problem, replace the monitor, take the old one to the back and beat the everloving sh*t out o fit.
In fact, we're supposed to take out certain types of hardware. I guess that at one time we threw out some dead PC's/monitors etc that looked good and were accused of wastefulness (I think there was a news article). By smashing the equipment to bits, we ensure that it looks broken enough... and it helps keep away the garbage pickers that jump in trash bins looking for salvagable material.
We obviously know different people and keyboards.
I am trolling
And so that's the root of why people "lose" it. Unless the way technology is perceived differently (you don't see Japanese folks 'smashing' their tech toys on a routine basis), our professor from the article will have a nice secure job,
and a lot of useless equipment.
Any possible therapy? Why yes! Just read the directions...., doh.
Well, time to go up out of the basement and sing some carols. Merry Christmas to you.
I am trolling
You're just sucking up because of the coming robopocalypse.
One of the guys at work has a fairly high-strung wife.
She was having trouble with Windows on her nearly-new laptop, so instead of asking me to fix it, she HEAVED IT at the floor, breaking it.
Then she went out and bought a new laptop.
Her old laptop still functioned after the ordeal (the screen hinges were snapped, and there were massive scars on the shell), so she gave it to her husband... for his birthday.
What a piece of work, eh?
Does it make you happy you're so strange?
I'm here reading /. BECAUSE I'm stuck in a house with a bunch of relatives. I'd rather be locked in my office. I'd actually be getting something done. Maybe I should stop showering...
So the truth isn't the rediculous idea that computer games make people violent, it's the computers themselves!
This just proves it: computers are really a highly advanced race of beings, sworn to silence and willing to sacrifice some of their vast army. They manipulate people into homicidal rages in an attempt to get human beings to wipe themselves out. They're trying to take over the world I tell you!!
*eyes his tea*
What're they putting in this stuff these days...
Which can be translated to "I for one welcome our new machine overlords."
This is the second movie about Windows right?
The first being the one with Cliff Claven demonstrating Windows 95, right?
I can just imagine combining the two...
Norm: Heya Cliff, what'cha got there?
Cliff: Oh, hey Normy. This happens to be a Pentium IV notebook running Windows XP, the latest and greatest operating system from Microsoft.
Norm: Really? It must be pretty impressive. [exasperated look, realizing he just gave Cliff a reason to pontificate]
Cliff: I'm glad you asked that, Normy. Watch as I--
<ding!>
Cliff: Hmm. Maybe if I...
<ding!>
Cliff: What the? General Protection fault? I'll show you a General Protection fault!
<ding!><ding!><ding!>
Norm: Wait, wait, wait, Cliffy, let me see the notebook for a second.
[Cliff turns the notebook towards Norm. Norm closes the lid and places his beer mug on it, noticing how his beer lifting arm is more naturally level with the mug at that height]
Norm: Yup, just right. Hey Woody, another round.
... for a tech services company back in the late seventies and earliy eighties, before I got a clue. The company did service contracts on random minis and comms hardware. I have seen (and sometimes fixed):
A mini from which I extracted an extremely mushroomed and fragmented forty-five slug. Ripped up the front case door and five cards before it stopped. The DP manager "Didn't know what happened".
A small desktop micro that was completely trashed. It was sitting on a man's desk right next to an openable third-story window. There were bits of gravel from the parking lot embedded in the plastic. It was plenty obvious that he had simply opened the window and slid that puppy right off his desktop. Wanted it fixed under warranty.
Was asked if I could do anything about a small mini that had been run over multiple times by a forklift in the warehouse. Apparently the company president had gotten a little peeved, and probably a little wasted. Total loss. What had been a two by three by three foot cube was now about six inches tall, and had a considerably larger footprint.
Not to mention all the keyboards and monitors that just magically "stopped working" because of giant cracks in the screen or case
*whup* "Get along, little electrons. Heeyah!"
Let me guess...you own a mac?