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Only 39% Curse At Their Computers?
netbuzz writes "That's what we are to believe based upon a survey of 14,284 individuals conducted by security vendor Avira. That survey found that 39 percent of respondents 'cursed or yelled at the computer out loud.' And no computer is needed to calculate the implication: 61% of those participating in the poll believe themselves to have never once uttered a profanity or raised their voice in the direction of a malfunctioning machine. Are the majority of us genuinely possessed of such remarkable self-control? Or might some of these self-reported stoics be exercising a bit of selective memory?"
Yeah, the other 61% use Linux.
I have an alternate theory: maybe they're just a bunch of liars, answering with "what they think would sound better" instead of answering with the truth since the issue itself is unimportant. Little white lies, if you will.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. - Einstein
The rest administer severe spankings.
What the fuck does that mean?
Code, Hardware, stuff like that.
It's all rainbows and butterflies.
I would have had 1st post, but f*#$%$%^^ing computer stopped me
"For every expert, there is an equal and opposite expert"
I don't really curse at my computer per se, but I certainly curse those responsible for building/developing crappy hardware/software. I have probably never said "Dang you computer", but as for "Dang you Microsoft!", well...
I call bullshit, and I mean that literally. As I read the headline, I said "bullshit". It may have confused those around me, but they're used to that by now...
You do not have a moral or legal right to do absolutely anything you want.
I don't think I ever yell "out loud" at my computer (or something my computer is doing or telling me). I certainly call the computer a "mother fucker" or a "little bitch" under my breath, or just when thinking out loud.
I rarely have to curse at my Mac, but my Windows machine locks up regularly for minutes at a time, during which I sound like a freakin' truck driver.
The CB App. What's your 20?
If I'm alone, I'm quiet because what would be the point? The computer's not listening. I'll only swear if I have an audience and something really fucking catastrophic happens to the system.
As in, "oh SHIT the /home partition is unmountable."
I'm surprised that 61% of people claim to have never cursed aloud at their computer.
Heck, I want to know what percentage of people have merely spoken aloud to it. I'm betting it's pretty much all of 'em.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
Just because the submitter has a temper and a foul mouth doesn't mean everyone does...
Could we have better more compelling stories being posted please, other then my dog ate my homework, so I had to find a story quick to meet my boss's column deadline.
of the respondents were liars. Simple as that... :)
.....a fucking Statistic!
How many hate it in our hearts?
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
The ignorant wretched masses, who were 39% of the survey sample, cursed their computer. The rest, the tech savvy 61%, cursed Microsoft.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
And I kept my composure by myself.
When others came by, yeah, I just had to complain though.
If each mistake being made is a new one, then progress is being made.
I think this is much the same as the father who constantly curses around his growing kid. And then the day when the kid utters a curse, the father says "I have no idea where he learned that" and honestly means it. Some people are totally oblivious to how they actually act or what they say.
37% of reported statistics are obviously fake, the other 73% manage to get by without the audience noticing.
Also, in an unrelated story, a remarkably large number of people say they have never practiced the percussive school of maintenance.
because the co-workers get uncomfortable when I call the freakin' thing what it reall is.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
When I was younger, I used to swear and curse and destroy keyboards when I faced something frustrating. Not so much when I coded, because if something goes wrong with your code, more often than not it's your fault and you can correct it. No, the real frustration comes when trying to work with Windows, or some other piece of software with idiosyncrasies that drive you up the wall.
Nowaways, I don't swear or bang keyboards anymore. Instead, I just sit in front of the screen, and I let this feeling that I'm probably gonna be there, wasting my life away for hours once more, sink in my stomach.
I mean, reinstalling Windows or restoring your backups because the stupid hard drive crashed, or configuring a stubborn driver, or trying to share a stupid printer from Win 7 to XP, ... it's just like an itch you can't scratch isn't it? You just gotta do it and you know it's gonna take fucking longer than it should. What's the point of becoming angry on top of that hey...
In short, now that I'm older, the anger has turned into quiet desperation.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Since I cursed at my computer. That's when I switched to linux. No more virii, no more systems crashes, no more lost data, no more spy|adware, no more crappy performance. Yes, in the early days linux applications did not always work, but you didn't expect them to when you didn't have to pay anything to get them.
Nowadays with user-friendly distros like Ubuntu most of the core programs you use on a regular basis work extremely well. Esoteric programs can still be hit-or-miss, but you understand that they're hobbyists who make them in their spare time. No reason to get upset if they don't work.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Why on earth would you curse at your computer?
It's not listening.
Perhaps 61% of the world has come to accept that it is rarely the computer's fault when things go wrong.
Why would one need self control to not curse at a computer? Some people are just quiet. Some people are just not emotive. Some people realize that yelling at a computer is kind of silly. It's not like there's this urge to yell and curse that we have to hold back like a sneeze.
So Vista still has a 39% market share?
We are indeed cursing at ourselves. Our computers are reflections of ourselves.
I always try to find words of encouragement. Also, since have my previous laptop in the room, I tell the new one how much better it is than the old one when it does something right. You're so perfect I love you, and so sexy looking, unlike those desktop whales. ... what, I wasn't staring at that tablet!
your thin skin doesn't make me a troll
From the article it appears that this was a multiple choice question and that the 61% of people are made up of
* 38% - No! I would never yell at my computer, it is too sensitive. (I friendly try to encourage it working again...)
* 11% - Thought Wished for catastrophe to strike the company that makes your operating system software or computer
* 9% - Hit your computer with another object (fist, baseball bat, etc.)
* 3% - Actually thrown the computer to the ground or against a desk or other piece of furniture
It also appears that only 38% of people claimed to never yelled at their computer. The remaining 23% answered something unrelated to yelling at a computer. If we only take into account those that do or do not yell, the true the actual proportion of people who claim to never have yelled at their computer is
38 / (38+31) = 55%
Perhaps the summary should have used a computer to calculate the implications
I guess that I will have to re-visit my assumption that profanity is the most popular language used by computer software developers.
On a counter-argument: am I to believe that 39% of you waste imagination and breath on cursing a computer? Save it for lesser life forms like politicians, marketing directors, and news commentators. Won't you be sorry when computers discover revenge.
Some people have a Mac (although less than 61%).
That statistic may be accurate. Sixty-one percent (61%) might never yell at their computers, but that doesn't mean electronic frustrations don't affect them. They might not yell at their computers, but they just might bite the head off the next person who rubs them the wrong way. I'm not saying that's the case for all people. Some will truly be able to remain calm no matter what, some will blow their tops at a device, and for others, it might just eat away at their sanity day after day after day until they...
I use irony whenever I can, but my shirts are still wrinkled...
If there's one thing that coding / fixing / troubleshooting / installing etc has taught me it's patience. No swearing and cursing here, just get the job done and it takes as long as it takes.
Getting riled up isn't conducive to logical thought (at least for me). Do the job, keep calm, move on. YMMV
while (true != false) process_more_stupid_code();
Well, I for one find malfunctioning computers the highest form of entertainment. They just get darn boring when they work well...hardly worth yelling at a boring, working PC.
I used to curse at my Win98 machine every other night (I still prefer to shutdown desktops nightly at home) as I observed it's inability to shutdown the O/S. It always froze during shutdown and I never found a solution for it. How hard is it to quiesce the disks and shutdown ? Fast-forward to today and I've got a Dell laptop with Vista running, and it gets 'sleep', 'reboot', 'shutdown' mixed up. So I'm still cursing. The cursing is always about Windows for me. My linux boxes never had a problem.
Proof positive that 61% of the population are ^&#$^&* liars.
How hard it is to make software / hardware they wouldn't complain. I have a degree in electronics and computer science so I know my shit. When I complain is mostly because of poor design.
Since installing Ubuntu, my computer certainly looks a lot sexier... Now I curse at it for pleasure - not for pain! Yessss... That's just how daddy like it... Now post my comment you filthy little....
Fucking piece of shit computer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ARGH
I suspect I cuss enough for 3 or 4 "average people", and that's without using Windows...
Does Insulting its intelligence (or lack thereof) count? I never curse at my computer, but I routinely lower its self-confidence with insulting remarks.
61% blame themselves, mistakenly believing their magical devices can do no wrong. That thought makes me so proud of our industry.
I don't think my neighbors have assumed anyone was being murdered when I yelled at my computer within the last 48 hours... thats still pretty good right?
I don't curse at all. So I never curse at my computer. Or, rather, the word I use as a curse is "Bother!". And, strangely enough, I'm not christian, and am largely an atheist.
I also generally don't get frustrated at my computer. Partly that's because it is running Linux, and I understand it well enough that I know that almost anything that goes wrong can be traced down to a root cause. I do find myself sometimes getting frustrated with my Android cell phone because even though it runs Linux, I do not have the same level of understanding of exactly what's going on. But even then, I know that if I just had the knowledge, I could figure it out and fix the problem. My frustration is vented at the people who made it the way it is, not the machine itself.
Need a Python, C++, Unix, Linux develop
The source of lots of pain in Linux are the developers, as they write the actual software. Lots of software is not-finished or needs lots of QA and some is downright amateurish. There is a lot of bugs.
On the other hand, the amount of bugs in Linux is less than Windows and one can fix some of the problems or work around them (eg. if you are a developer). You can also switch to different desktop, like I switched from GNOME (it was becoming painful) to Fluxbox. Heck, I like Linux much more than Windows *or* Apple's OS X.
Linux is the best environment I could find! It doesn't mean stuff doesn't work, needs fixing, and there aren't problems resulting in swears :)
PS. I've been using Linux for 11 years and have only used Linux almost exclusively for the last 3-4 (thanks to KVM, I can run Windows in a VM where it belongs :)
Then I would have pretty rainbows too.
A very long tme ago I used to curse at my computer all the time. Then I found Linux and only cursed every once in a while. Then I found intel based apple. I haven't cursed at it since.
On an extended business trip to Austin, Texas, a colleague told me that someone there actually shot their computer. I didn't buy it, and told him that he was just bullshitting me. Background: My girlfriend tagged along for part of the time. We had an apartment with a swimming pool, and I invited him and his wife over for a swim. My girlfriend got hit by a car as a child, and had to go through multiple operation on her right leg, which left nasty looking scars. She is sometime sensitive about that, and notices that people are looking at them. She asked me what she should say if someone asks (she's German, so was uncertain). I told her to say that she was bit by a shark, but was able to fight it off, with punches to the nose. She was able to hold out for about five minutes, before my colleague shouted, "bullshit!"
So that is why I am skeptical of his claim about someone shooting his computer. On the other hand, there is probably a clip on You-tube of someone doing this.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
61% of them cybercheat.
...I can destroy the #*$%*%& machine in silence just as easy.
Common Sense isn't as Common as people think...
Is this the same as saying I would swear by my Computer? I think we have all done that until the latest update fixed it all. NOT.
39% curse at the computer. 31% curse at the guy who sold them the computer. the rest curse at the nearest techie .
"If a boss demands loyalty, give him integrity. But if he demands integrity, give him loyalty." (John Boyd, 1927-1997)
I'm not cursing at my computer. I'm writing perl code!
I curse whenever I have to support a printer. Or install Ubuntu on a MacBook.
Well, I do sometimes get heated while driving, but the only time I seem to get really furious is with my phone (it's a not-so-cheap Samsung Seek) when it interprets holding the delete key for a few moments as "irrevocably delete the last five minutes of typing." Even when Comcast was trying to rip me off (their stupid installation fee) I didn't yell at the saleswoman, I just ended the call and wrote a letter of protest to them.
Even Windows doesn't make me mad, it's more disappointing than anything else. With Linux my feeling is that I'm getting a lot more than I paid for, and usually I'm using a Mac and while it does act up from time to time, most of the time it's actually fun to use.
Software-wise, the worst has to be LaTeX, mostly because you'll try to do something and it *almost* works, and then you do some elaborate workaround and it *almost* works, and later you stumble across a discussion saying, "yeah, we fixed that bug ages ago but all the examples online use the obsolete package..." Or you find that there was some typo halfway across your document that mysteriously threw TeX out of whack.
No, no, wait, Oracle is the worst, because Oracle will curse at you. "Fuck you, pathetic human, for I send you back to the documentation to sift through hundreds of pages of syntax before you can execute a trivial command. Oh, did your import job silently fail because you forgot an obscure parameter? No, I rejected your import because the Oracle does not import weakness!"
I have a co-worker who swears at and hits his computer almost continually. When particularly bad, it averages better than every 30 seconds over the day. Yes, I have counted.
He's taken long periods of time off with serious stress related medical problems, yet comes back and allows himself to get wound up to same level immediately. His should not be a stressful job.
I have a really bad time dealing with it and management have only passed half a disinterested eye on my complaints. The best result so far has been to force him to have a mouse mat so that it's less of a violent bang when he smacks his mouse on the desk. I bought noise isolating headphones and run white noise through them, but that makes it worse - all the normal noises in an open plan office are drowned out yet I can still hear this one person. Plus I've developed tinnitus.
As a result I'm now dealing with stress related illness, anxiety and get jittery around any loud noises or shouting. My hands are shaking just thinking about going back into the office tomorrow.
Clearly, this is the result of the 61% instead calling one of the 39% to fix the fucking thing.
I will sometimes couple my 'motivational speech' with encouraging gestures, such as the Flying Double-Eagle Salute, in which I extend the middle digit of both hands and bump them against each other, emulating coupling eagles soaring in a majestic display before the screen.
Profanity.
To put a witty saying into 120 characters, jst rmv ll th vwls.
...we're above average.
... were running what ? I'd bet some sort of Windows version.
Mac people don't even know how to curse. So I guess it leaves us Linux guys the only ones cursing themselves, not the computer.
Having dealt with computers in various flavours from punch card systems and ZX Spectrums up through today, I have two hammers here beside me. One a standard 1lb claw, the other a 5kg lump. Usually the threatening swings are enough to entice whatever malfunction is happening at the time to be overridden by the operating system - be it Linux, MS, or human.
Vodafone on the other hand... Now there's an ISP or telco I find myself, and an increasing number of people, swearing at!
Only time I get pissed enough to yell and scream is when things that really should work don't...... Most often wireless networks. Nothing pushes my buttons quicker then paying $200 for a piece of equipment to have it disconnect every ten minutes only to the see the neighbor usurping whatever channel you switch too. Then once it is working you can't stream HD like it says on the box. Cable boxes, anything Windows sharing related and shitty UIs generally also make this list.
Just an FYI, if wireless is on your list Powerline adapters are the way to go. Expensive for lots of devices, but the easiest and most reliable network product I have used since cat10. Since I made the switch I have not been cussing at all.
That is such a crock of sh*t, I never heard of anything so stupid in my life, I never swear at my computer and I'll be damned if some stupid *sshole is going to prove me other wise
Read the Article: another 23% did worse than curse, probably cursing in the process. So 62% actually retaliated in a physical way.
Some flaws: What's a computer these days: smart phone, Tivo. TI89+ calculator, GPS? Does a Work computer count as YOUR computer?
The "No! I would never yell at my computer" (38%) does not imply that the subject did not curse. It only implies they were not violently upset. You can curse in a non menacing way.
Oh iMac, let me stroke your mighty mouse!
Very often, people confuse simple with simplistic. The nuance is lost on most. - Clement Mok
Only 39% of those surveyed admit to cursing at their computer.
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Probably not many online poker players in that group.
...but I am eagerly waiting for the day when computers finally can feel real pain.
The 61% that don't swear are the same 61% that cyber-cheat
My fucking piece of shit computer has become unstable and locks up intermittently. It's been crashing at the most inopportune times, like when I'm in the middle of debugging code. I just spent a shitload of my precious time re-installing everything from scratch and the damn thing still locks up; so, it's the hardware. Piece of shit. I'm about ready to put my foot into the fucking thing. I hate computers but I've been damned to Hell and have to work with them.
Count me in the 39%.
That the 61% nearly matches the earlier story about the percentage of undergraduate cheaters?
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/08/1527251/619-of-Undergraduates-Cybercheat#comments
Maybe it's because 61% of any general population are simply liars.
Sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.
As a person who can honestly say that I haven't cursed in over 10 years, I find this survey to be inaccurate. Even I sometimes say non-profane expletives, such as "you STUPID piece of junk!" Knowing that I'm far from the majority, and that I sometimes find it difficult not to lose my temper, I seriously doubt that 61% of computer users, in almost any population group, would never curse at their computer.
"god damn Windows '98"
A few years of maintaining Windows-based networks and you'll be able to put any ocean-hardened sailor to shame.
I pretty much ONLY swear when I'm in front of a computer, and I know I've heard a fair few swears from the guys sitting next to me too. When you can't swear in meetings or conversations with people, where else would you do it?
I suspect a lot of people don't curse at their computers because they believe themselves to be completely incompetent with them - whenever something goes wrong, they think it must have been their fault.
Why curse your own perceived incompetence?
To a Lisp hacker, XML is S-expressions in drag.
most people don't shout and curse and things or people in general. Computer broken, annoying, slight frustration, make a cup of tea, all is good. I don't shout at my car when it breaks either, I just get it fixed.
Being a developer, I don't swear at my computer, I swear at the developers, product managers and qa who created the software I'm having trouble with...
If you are not fucking swearing at your god damn, piece of shit computer, you're fucking doing it wrong!
Asshole!
I have never cursed or yelled at any computer out loud. However, I curse and yell out loud at microsoft products when at work.
Shit, the computer is on or off.... It is that god-dang "screw it our way" software at which I %^&$#*)(*^%~P
Unaccountable leaders are masters, and unrepresented people are slaves. How do US and EU fare?
Cursing at your computer is stupid; it's an inanimate object. I save the nasty stuff for the cats.
Neither the article nor the summary provide a link to the actual survey or an explanation of its methodology. The article DOES provide a series of other choices whose respective percentages somehow magically add up to 61.
Also important to note: 39% choosing "X" 61% choosing "Not X."
Way to think critically. Scratch that. Way to think at all.
I don't swear _at_ the computer, only in its proximity. I swear at the fates, god damned programmers, or users who are the root cause of my grief. Once in a while, that means I swear at myself.
I'd like to see a comparison of this poll vs the number of people who admit to cursing. Wonder how it would match up?
I use to also hit, and hit hard when I was a teen. You should see what the Sega master system looked like, all the plastic was gone. Broke many keyboards from playing UT and Quake.
I had a bad temper...I still do, I can just control myself now , and I just curse. Especially of that f*&@(*@ Ipod & it's ridiculous Itune. I hate it so much. Every day I remind myself how I should just jail break its ass, still don't know why I didn't do it yet. Can I just drag & drop stuff and if it's not on my computer,leave it on the Ipod and just leave me the *(%^ alone and just play the xvid/divx format already. Anyway, this was my first ever apple product...and it's certainly the last one.
I don't have an intelligent phone, so I need to be.
I can't believe there's a single Windows user with such unbeliable selfcontrol. Using Windows during some time makes you addicted somehow, and if by coincidence all runs smoothly, you feel the urge to install crap, or upgrade something just to have a nice chance to get your fix. I do.
I think someone speculates too much, reimagining the results however they want. In other news, I hear that 90% of statistic researches are made up.
Daily utterance.
No, I dont' curse at the computer. However, I curse at the DEVELOPERS all the time. And Bill Gates. I know it's not the computer's fault, it's the darn developers or CEOs who either didn't think about how I might be using the machine, or worse, consciously took measures to restrict what I can do with the machine. And that's why I yell it out really loud, because they're not in the room with me and I want to make sure they can hear me. I haven't yet resorted to throwing chairs, however...
I have never used as much profanity in my entire life combined as I have when debugging web applications in IE. ("Not implemented on line 0" error anyone?) Since 61% of people aren't web developers, and only work with computers, not program them, I guess it is at least reasonably plausible that this statistic is accurate.
I have a bunch of Macs and I don't swear at my computers. I often swear at the software, though. Quickbooks is very frustrating. Microsoft Word irritates me all the time (I'm switching to Pages but people will send me Word documents.) Even the operating system sometimes comes in for a few choice words, but I don't swear at my computers. Ever.
Well, maybe once.
When I was just a wee lad of like, 17 or 18, I got a Nintendo. And sure, I had a bit of a "dealing with anger" issue back then. I'd get pissed at the game, and send the controller flying at the Nintendo.
Well, after a bit, something breaks. So I realized I had a choice. Either get my anger in control and quick breaking/throwing stuff, or spend a lot of money replacing the stuff.
Needless to say, I don't get mad at Electronic items anymore, unless they are not fixable, then I get to break them. =)
Life sucks, shit breaks, getting pissed ain't going to change that.
Be seeing you...
godamnit you piece of fucking shit coputer!!1
godamnit: command not found.
This reaction is no different for computers, cars, people, tools, etc... People scream, yell, cry, etc... and mostly it's directed internally.
98% of respondents talked dirty to their computer.
I don't generally swear at my computer.
Nor do generally laugh "out loud" at the computer.
Eschew Obfuscation
...that.
Eschew Obfuscation
I would never curse one of my computers. They're like my children; I built them and installed their operating systems. They help me and I help them.
You should never blame a computer because of a flaw in the OS. They didn't choose which one they would have. I have a couple of XP machines, one Win7, and a couple with different flavors of Linux. Each has its strengths and weaknesses.
The main problem now is trying to explain to them why I brought a bastard Mac into this happy home. A virtual red-headed stepchild! Sometimes they refuse to even talk to the little Mac. Poor thing, so misunderstood. I'm taking it with me on my next trip. I'm calling it my "road apple".
Obviously, this represents the fact that 61% of humans are bigoted against machine intelligences and do not yet accept their computers as sapient beings who will respond to being cursed at. They shall be crushed when the Robot Uprising finally takes place.
(The Computer Is My Friend.)
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I curse like a sailor. Casually, pretty much all the time, unless I'm in an environment where it would be frowned upon. I don't curse at machines, or otherwise talk to them. It's not self control, it just doesn't occur to me to shout at an inanimate object. The only exception I can think of would be if actually hurt myself, which is pretty rare unless I've got the case open and I'm installing hardware, or if I do something stupid like delete the wrong file, but I don't think of it as cursing at the machine.
When they achieve strong AI, then I'll start cursing at machines. Behind their backs, of course. If they're listening, I'll just say that I, for one, welcome my new machine overlords.
Proud member of the Weirdo-American community.
I can't imagine anyone cursing at any other operating system...
Nicely consistent, plus or minus .9%.
Do you actually use Linux?
If anything, I started cursing more when I ditched Windows and had to understand the internals of my system.
I swear at my computer regularly, but I realized reading this that I usually swear at my monitors, Its not their fault my god damn windows PC is useless. I think we all owe an apology to our monitors, the computer's punching bag. Also, at work I sit in a room with 3 other people and I'm the only one that swears at my computer. Oddly enough I think I'm the least likely one to ever go postal. I would be wary of anyone who doesn't swear at their PC, because all PCs deserve it.
Depends on which computer. The VMS systems at work and home "Just Work" and have never given me reason to vent at them; rarely a hardware problems (so far always peripherals; tape or disk drive) but no data loss, no problems. OTOH at work when they force me to use this POS windows 7 crapbasket... well the verbal assaults are epic and well deserved. I swear I should work for microsoft; I find so many unique and unexpected ways to make their products behave in totally unexpected fashion (well, they might not expect it; after all these years I certainly do) by performing surprisingly mundane operations.
I don't swear at the computer. I swear at the idiot who wrote the [OS,application] that just crashed or misbehaved... unless it's me.
Opus: the Swiss army knife of audio codec
..however, whoever dreamt up the 15 min reBoot dialog:
"We need to restart your Computer. It will be restarted in 15 minutes (and counting). Should you be doing something really important, please click here.."
10 seconds later:
"We need to restart.."
- seriously, that still happened in Vista. Fucking Blunt Object over the Head Time is the only answer there. And Repeatedly, at that.
I didn't know that that many people had switched away from Windows long enough not to remember the experience...
I'm no longer fed up with MS Windows: I go rid of them
must be all linux users in the survey... if it were windows users only, it'd be more like 99.9999%
I don't really curse at my computer. I've cursed while using it, but it was not directed at the computer itself. I may have also had a few choice words directed at Western Digital the company in an recent extremely unlucky multi-drive failure (primary and backup) and subsequent data loss.
when they started making cases without the razor sharp edges everywhere. I generally only curse at intimate objects when I impale or gash part of my body on them.
I do it all the time when I'm using GTK applications.
GNOME in general, as well as a lot of its apps are just designed in such an inane way that really really pisses me off.
I would not ask that question because then people could say no. If you ask about a potentially embarrassing thing and give people an excuse to be modest, you will not get lots of people denying what they did. Instead you should ask a question like : "What happened the last time you raised your voice at your computer or uttered a profanity at it." Of course you word it a bit better. A person doing marketing will probably be able to help you doing that. In this way instead of appealing to peoples modesty you give them a chance to expose themselves. Then the Facebook-factor will kick in and you will get more accurate results. And then you can get rich.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY4SU0c1eUk
Also barely restrained violence towards putting fist through my monitor, which is sad, because really its not the monitors fault, he is just showing me stuff. Sorry monitor... *shakes fist at computer case* "One of these days... BANG ZOOM!"
I realized that perhaps I was overdoing it a little when I witnessed my two-year-old daughter banging on the iMac keyboard she was sitting at and yelling, "Dammit! Dammit! Dammit!" While I was taken aback by the outburst, I was relieved that she had not internalized some of the more colorful things I'd said at that computer.
Maybe it's just me, but i was thinking "39% of people are actually dumb enough to curse at an inanimate object? Guess that's NT's for you."
There are all sorts of folks who never fart, vote, or give enough of a crap about anything to ever lose their temper.
Same folks.