The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I am looking at it from the point of view of a harried user, which I am, and I believe that I am much more like the typical non-technical harried user than I am like the people who smoothly operate everything.
The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers.
A hacker is someone who uses a combination of high-tech cybertools and social engineering to gain illicit access to someone else's data.
If I have a bunch of computer lingo that I have no idea what I'm speaking about, I really need to know what I'm talking about.
People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.
Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.
The character of the computer whiz is not one that would normally be associated with me.
Managerial and professional people hadn't really used computers, hadn't sat down at keyboards, until personal computers. Personal computers have a totally different feel.
It was used for decades to describe talented computer enthusiasts, people whose skill at using computers to solve technical problems and puzzles was - and is - respected and admired by others possessing similar technical skills.
Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?