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 <[email protected]> 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. > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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