I think may be less "pain" and more "unpleasantness". Errors and
warnings and such would be like dissonant sounds or clashing colors.
when all is working as it should: music and rainbows. pleasure.
warnings and errors: cacophony and garishness. displeasure.
~~J
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Jo
Reference http://xkcd.com/371/.
If this is true, then many of the computers I own are masochists.
I would raise exception to the 'blue screen = death' comparison, though. I
think one can say that a necessary condition for death is that the
individual stays dead. Of course, this goes into the area o
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
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 som
