A note to tool engineers.

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A computer is not an AI. It is not a living, breathing, thinking being, has no internal thought processes of it's own that reflect it's mood. Even more to the point, a SCRIPT is not a being. If a script or a program or a computer or an application has a problem, it should NEVER report said problem in the first person, because there is NO first person to make the statement. "Well it adds personability and comfort to the user experience" - Bull. It adds ambiguity, confusion, and makes the whole interaction more surreal. I offer as evidence the error message I just got:

I cannot start the X server (your graphical interface). It is likely that it is not set up correctly. Would you like to view the X server output to diagnose the problem? [Yes] [No]

Don't anthropomorphize computers. They hate that.


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just saying hi...umm...i have been on this site for about three minutes so...yeah...
bye now...

so...what is this place for?...uh...dont mean to sound dumb i just dont get it...is it like xanga?....id like to know more...

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