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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?"
The rest administer severe spankings.
What the fuck does that mean?
Code, Hardware, stuff like that.
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...
Or maybe some people know the computer wont be fixed by yelling at it. A kick is usually more effective.
Just because the submitter has a temper and a foul mouth doesn't mean everyone does...
I curse at Linux. All. The. Time. Just becasue it is a somewhat more stable and secure OS does make it completely stable and happy. Nor does it prevent hardware problems from manifesting in ways that make you convinced something is screwed up the OS (until you dig deeper). For that matter it doesn't prevent me from making typos or misremembering commands or options that cause the computer to something other than what I intended. Indeed, thanks to the fact that I work far more in Linux than Windows, I probably curse it far more as well.
I don't need a million points of light, just two points of multi-mode fiber and a 10 Gig-E router.
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
Are you *sure*?
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
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.
Yeah, the other 61% use Linux.
So... what, they say 'frak' or 'fsck' instead?
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
I am a military contractor and I work with sailors.
I have access to, and have used, military-grade profanity with regards to:
1. specifications that make no sense whatsoever,
2. hilariously optimistic decisions w.r.t. scheduling or personnel,
3. conflicting instructions that could cause fires, and/or
4. requirements dependent on physics that are not available in this universe.
I also use normal profanity in the middle of conversation because that's what's expected sometimes.
Nevertheless, on my personal time I tend to just reason with the machine.
"Look, it's me. I can get my tools and force you to work or you can just make it easier on the two of us and you can go back to looking at schematics on RoboNet."
It frightens me somewhat that that method works with reasonable reliability. This has even worked on machines that are new to me, which makes me wonder if I have a reputation amongst machines, which in turn makes me wonder if I am medically unstable.
Nevertheless, nothing shuts down my profanity filter faster than working with Linux.
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ECHELON is a government program to find words like bomb, jihad, plutonium, assassinate, and anarchy.
Mac users don't swear at their machines because their mouth is full of Steve Jobs' cock.
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ECHELON is a government program to find words like bomb, jihad, plutonium, assassinate, and anarchy.
The point? Fear.
If the computer does not fear you it will fuck up all over the place. You must let it know, firmly and forcefully, that you are quite capable of bashing it to microscopic bits. I walk into a god damned room at my work and the computers just start fucking working. Because they know... THEY KNOW that it is I, Baron Randolph Rackovitz, who encompasses their doom!
Insanity is the last line of defence for the master diplomat. But you have to lay the groundwork early.
How do you pronounce fsck?
We're talking about Linux users, here. Pronouncing words requires human interaction.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)