Shouting At Your Computer Doesn't Help

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Shouting At Your Computer Doesn't Help

Myth Busted: Shouting at your computer doesn't improve its performance, just helps your temper.


We've all been there. Whether it's due to those blue shells(NSFW) [http://xkcd.com/290/] or not, we've all screamed obscenities at our computer. But Brendan Gregg from Sun's Fishworks team decided to see what effect, if any, shouting at your computer would have on its performance. He also decided to film it. Why? For science!

What happened? A massive lag spike - enough to take a normal operation from 152 ms up to 1.7 seconds. A jump of over 1000%.

So shouting at your computer just makes it nervous. Perhaps next time you should try a fine wine and Belgian chocolates to improve its disposition.

Source: Engadget [http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/02/video-shouting-at-disk-drive-causes-high-latency-low-morale/]

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[Puppeteer Putin]

Damn. So it doesn't help.... damn science, it's a emotional release.

 

[Fightgarr]

My computer has a mic. It can totally hear me. It will therefore help.

 

[Bluntknife]

Lol was there anyone thinking yelling at your computer helped before Myth Busters got ahold of that.
...wait, I've met people who did think you needed to plug a computer into the wall to make it work.

 

[Flap Jack452]

my life has been a lie...

 

[USSR]

Oh, then my computer is special. It fears me. It fears the terror of my deadly system restores. *evil laugh*

 

[SiliconKnight]

They need to test that on a computer with lower self-esteem, mabey that's the problem

 

[John Stalvern]

I always thought my little bastard locked up more when it pissed me off.

 

[Aardvark]

I find voodoo works best. A Goat Blood Sacrifice to appease the Machine Gods improves a computer's disposition immeasurably.

 

[TheBluesader]

I used to yell at my computer. Then one day one of the fans started roaring like a jet engine, so now I can't hear myself even when I'm yelling AT myself.

Machines, man. One day they shall rule us all. Then who'll be yelling at whom?

Well, probably still us at them. But by then our cries shall only be screams of pain, echoing off their unfeeling metallic exoskeletons.

The Animatrix was awesome.

 

[AnGeL.SLayer]

Alright, now onto kicking things!


^_^

 

[reaper_2k9]

i refuse to believe that, I will stand firmly by the fact the louder I shout at my pc and the harder i hit it with a stick it will run faster and smoother.

 

[mokes310]

You may think it doesn't help, but my computer FEARS ME! Er, wait, perhaps it's the other way around?

 

[dead_beat_slacker]

Alright, now onto kicking things!


^_^

I used to have a saying about kicking things to make'em work. One day a friend of mine got mad at his pc for always locking up on him and deiced to kick it and it started working normally again. He called me the same day and told me that I was right, kicking things does actually work.

 

[Sensenmann]

Never shouted at my pc ^^...

 

[AnGeL.SLayer]

Alright, now onto kicking things!


^_^

I used to have a saying about kicking things to make'em work. One day a friend of mine got mad at his pc for always locking up on him and deiced to kick it and it started working normally again. He called me the same day and told me that I was right, kicking things does actually work.

Haha thats highly amusing. Threating to turn my computer into a blender always seems to do the trick as well. I recommend trying it, though it isnt as good as good old fashioned physical force.

^_^