POLL: How much do slow machines piss you off?

[StageLeft]

I can't deny it any longer, delays in machinery just drive me up the fvcking wall, it is true!

Whether it's a computer taking too long doing God knows whatever it's doing, to my garage door taking too long to open/close, even to the 30-40 second delay in CFLs warming up or the 1.5 second delay of the florescent light in my bedroom closet before it has any light at all I just truly cannot stand waiting for machines to do anything!

 

[Exterous]

It depends on the situation and my mood. Sometimes I don't care at all. Other times it really really pisses me off

(As I type I am waiting for a server app to respond. Doesn't bother me since there is no hurry at this time)

 

[StageLeft]

The worst, regardless of mood, is when a browser window locks for any reason, like it won't scroll or whatever because the HD is busy doing something. Worst by far!

 

[AMCRambler]

Slow computer performance gets on my nerves. Particularly browsing the web on my old Thinkpad T21. It's an 800 mhz proc and does most web pages just fine. However there are some bloated flash/java/.net webpages out there that will just slow it to a stop. I get pissed at the stupid ass web page, not my laptop. Internet pages as they exist today are so bloated and inefficiently coded it pisses me off. Once broadband became the norm, it was like all of a sudden it was ok to not give a crap how much bandwidth and cpu your page took to run.

 

[BassBomb]

it would depend on what it is

for example, toasting takes way too long for me i cant stand that

 

[Rubycon]

Quite a lot.

As far as heating things an induction heater takes care of that!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7DBS2Is0ws&

 

[Arcadio]

Some cable boxes and dvr's are painfully slow to react to remote control commands.... It's very stressful.

 

[StageLeft]

Some cable boxes and dvr's are painfully slow to react to remote control commands.... It's very stressful.

I made an entire thread on that last week, in fact, my experiences with a Scientific Atlanta box

 

[SphinxnihpS]

I'm not too happy with my dishwasher lately. She's getting painfully slow and dishes are starting to pile up.

 

[SearchMaster]

My work computer was like a quad Xeon (each quad-core), 3GHz with 8GB RAM, etc. and was so freaking painfully slow I wanted to throw it out the window. They replaced it recently with similar specs but it's so much better.

Your OP reminds me of Homer Simpson standing in front of the microwave lamenting, "Isn't there ANYTHING faster than a microwave?????"

 

[ViviTheMage]

I hate slow computers...a LOT.

 

[StageLeft]

My work computer was like a quad Xeon (each quad-core), 3GHz with 8GB RAM, etc. and was so freaking painfully slow I wanted to throw it out the window. They replaced it recently with similar specs but it's so much better.

Your OP reminds me of Homer Simpson standing in front of the microwave lamenting, "Isn't there ANYTHING faster than a microwave?????"

I can hardly believe that before microwaves people even bothered breathing. Reheating a cup of coffee? Sorry, you can't! I mean DAMN. That food is too cold? Let's wait 5 minutes for the oven to heat up and another 15 to warm it up, wth.

You want popcorn? Let's get some oil in a pot and in 15 minutes I'll have some for you.

 

[Kev]

You all need to watch this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LkusicUL2s

 

[Kev]

"It's going to SPACE. Can you give it a second to get back from space?!?!?"

 

[timosyy]

I was reinstalling my dad's wireless adapter -- needed to grab the password for my network. Went to sister's computer to pull up the router page, Firefox was taking too long to load so I ran upstairs to my laptop and did it there instead.

Probably took longer than it would have if I just stayed.

 

[StageLeft]

You all need to watch this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LkusicUL2s

Haha that's funny. It's like crack. Give me a little and I need more.

But this thread isn't about what should be. It's about what is.

 

[runzwithsizorz]

it would depend on what it is

for example, toasting takes way too long for me i cant stand that

Solution; place bread on gas stoves' burner, turn burner on full, wait 10 seconds, BEHOLD! your bread is now toast.

 

[StageLeft]

I was reinstalling my dad's wireless adapter -- needed to grab the password for my network. Went to sister's computer to pull up the router page, Firefox was taking too long to load so I ran upstairs to my laptop and did it there instead.

Probably took longer than it would have if I just stayed.

Would you rather spend 15 minutes driving back roads or 11 sitting in bumper to bumper traffic? Me, back roads every time.

 

[evident]

i have a core 2 duo T7200, 4GB of ram, and an quadro gfx card running windows xp. you'd think my computer would be fast to boot right? WRONG. my work piles on tons of malware and garbage on my computer that i can't remove, not to mention links to network locations that no longer exist that i can't remove since i don't have admin privleges, the thing takes 30 minutes to load in the morning and is a crawl when i bring up any program due to mcassee's on access scan and scan32 always running in the fracking background. grrr

 

[StageLeft]

i have a core 2 duo T7200, 4GB of ram, and an quadro gfx card running windows xp. you'd think my computer would be fast to boot right? WRONG. my work piles on tons of malware and garbage on my computer that i can't remove, not to mention links to network locations that no longer exist that i can't remove since i don't have admin privleges, the thing takes 30 minutes to load in the morning and is a crawl when i bring up any program due to mcassee's on access scan and scan32 always running in the fracking background. grrr

I am an admin on my box and mcshield still won't let me fvcking stop it. This is why at home I never have nor will I ever run any kind of regular scanning software.

 

[MotionMan]

This thread was made for this part of my current sig:

“We are part of a society that stands in front of the microwave and yells ‘COME ON, ALREADY!’.”

MotionMan

 

[randay]

not at all. all machines are slow when compared to a faster machine.

 

[dullard]

For me, it really is the ratio of (time that it actually takes) / (time it normally takes). If that ratio goes much above 1.0 then I'm unhappy.

For example, computers usually take 30 seconds to boot. I don't ever mind waiting 30 seconds. Heck, even 40 seconds doesn't bother me at all. But, if I then use a computer that takes 3 minutes to boot, it bothers me a lot.

The worst for me is when I urgently need to get something done and I have to sign up for something online. They then want you to reply with a code that they email you to authenticate your email address. Why does this always take 2+ hours to receive these emails? There is nothing slow on my end (gmail). Why do companies get these registrations and then sit and wait for 2+ hours to email them out? Not all companies do this, but I'd say at least 50% of things I've signed up for do that. All I can do is sit in frustration reloading the page hoping to get the email.

 

[Rubycon]

I miss the wait of powering on tube rigs. The loud CLICK as the power is turned on, nice hum through the speaker, the crackle as the volume knob is turned up then the audio gets increasingly louder as the tubes warm up!

 

[Miramonti]

Up the wall, tear eyeballs out, break stuff

Leads in the voting. :biggrin: