To a point.
It might also depend on the OS and or development anology.
On windows anyway I seem to get sever sounding messages from my antivius
program like WARNING: (insirt URL here) has caused a fetal error on fire
fox from (cookie type here). Wich when I looked it up just ment that the
Fire fox crashed-so maybe if aplication crashes the it might be the
equivilant of making a wrong turn and needing to do a different direction.
What about if someone is doing something creative? or stuff that uses a lot
of processing power? I've thought that if my computer could talk about then
it might say: hold on I need to think about (fill in whats going on) a bit
I'll get back to you in a second.
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Jochen Fromm j...@cas-group.net wrote:
Nick once asked the list how a computer
perceives and experiences itself. The
answer is of course it does not do this.
Usually. But if a computer would be able to feel, then it would probably
perceive error messages as painful.
Error messages are a bit like pain, because
they indicate that something has gone wrong. They are not pleasant, but if
they are missing (as for example in Javascript)
it can be even worse, because you don't know what is wrong and why.
In this sense, warnings are like little itchings, errors are like weak pain
and fatal errors are like heavy pain.
A computer with a fatal system error
like kernel panic or blue screen of death can considered as dead.
What do you think, does this analogy
make sense? For a distributed system of computers, for instance a whole
datacenter, the worst thing that can
happen is an increasing number of fatal system errors, for example
computers
with kernel panic. In such a system
the loss of computer power and machines would be painful.
-J.
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