"Ulysses" wrote in message
Okay, I just tried it a few more times and now it works... Internet ghosts?
I know the feeling. When mad at the computer,
I slap the monitor, bang on the keyboard,
stomp the floor and yell at the computer to wake up and listen we all treat our computers like they are human
when I first got a computer (1998, seems like a long time ago now, and like I've always had one) I was writing something about this and someone said there had been a study where they found computers reacted to the moods./feelings of the one using it.
I used to think (and maybe still do) you have to show the computer you know what you're doing, of pretend you do. Like sit down and hit keys and do something, in a confident way. I remember when they first were getting popular (computers) must have been back in the dos days, being at Sears (store) in a room with computers around for people to look at, and a little kid sitting down and hitting keys and bring things up and doing something on one. I also remember when our libray changed from the cardfile system to computer (they called them terminals, set up to look things up) I thought I'd never find anything in the library (by looking it up) again. I'd get stuck and the librarian would come and hit a few keys and bring it up. We have to remember who is the boss (me or this hunk of plastic, cables and circuits)