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10) Something else (give examples ;-)
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So, imagine the following scenario: You're in the middle of playing an exciting match of "Call of Duty 99.5 Part II" and suddenly something
went wrong! The game crashed, your keyboard stopped responding, the
sound went all flakey; it doesn't matter what exactly. What is
important is what's going through your head.
What's the first thing you think when some unexpected catastrophe hits
your PC (you know, after the usual expletives). Something's gone
wrong and it had to be caused by something; what's your go-to
explanation for the problem, the one that your mind immediately jumps
to. I'm not talking about the actual fault; I'm not saying what you
think of after you give the problem some rational thought. I'm saying
the instant cause you assign to an issue the moment it happens.
1) It's the network. Everything is connected to the
web, so some online glitch must be at fault.
2) Drivers! It's always a flakey driver, isn't it?
3) Hardware fault. I knew that LED on the mouse was
looking a bit dim; that probably crashed the PC.
4) That damn update I just installed. Everything seemed
to go okay, but obviously it messed something up.
5) Hackers (and/or viruses). They're always out to
ruin my fun.
6) Bad Programming. Because people just don't know
how to code like they used to in the Good Old Days
7) User error. I knew I shouldn't have pushed the
space-bar that hard. Oh, why am I such a dummy
with computers?
8) Those damn kids. I told them not to mess with my PC,
but they did and now everything is messed up
9) Power fluctuations. A sudden surge in voltage caused an
overload in the framovax, discombobulating the
retro-encabulator. It happens all the time, you know.
10) Something else (give examples ;-)
11) Not applicable, as I am such a computer genius that
my first assumption is always correct
Me, I tend to vacillitate between hardware failure and viruses. It
almost never is either of those two, but if something goes screwy with
my PC, that's immediately where my brain jumps to. Did that dodgy
website I visited yesterday infect me somehow? Is my CPU overheating?
It's gotta be something like that, right?
Then I calm down, inspect the problem and discover - for the millionth
time - no, it was neither of those. It's almost never either of those
two. But the next time a program crashes or my mouse doesn't scroll smoothly? Hackers, almost certainly this time.
So that's today's CRAP poll: tell us all what is your instant, usually illogical and inaccurate go-to boogeyman for computer problems?
Yup, time for another Completely Random And Pointless poll!
So that's today's CRAP poll: tell us all what is your instant, usually illogical and inaccurate go-to boogeyman for computer problems?
So that's today's CRAP poll: tell us all what is your instant, usually >illogical and inaccurate go-to boogeyman for computer problems?
Drivers! It's always a flakey driver, isn't it?
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