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Computer Crash Reactions Examined

Posted by timothy on from the tim-just-swears-a-lot-and-shoots-things dept.

dankinit writes "MSNBC has an amusing story about research showing how people react to computer crashes and losing data. Among the numbers, 7% of those surveyed hit the computer, 13% yell at first, and another 13% try to "sweet-talk" their computer. The article also has results from a study done at the Univ. of Maryland. In that study, "One restaurant manager who was so upset with his laptop that he threw it into deep fryer. That destroyed the laptop ... and deep fryer, too.""

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  1. Crash? by markmcb · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What's that? I run OS X. :-)

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  2. Re:This should be a poll by rco3 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yeah, isn't that funny? All those Mac and Linux fanboys acting like their systems don't crash every day? I mean, come on! We all know those guys are just pretending that they don't have BSODs, just like the rest of us.

    It's not as if it's possible for an operating system to be MORE stable than Windows XP, right?

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