From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: scj@yaccman.com (scj@yaccman.com) Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 10:51:01 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] Make love In-Reply-To: <201508020945.t729jtgF014311@freefriends.org> References: <1438363410.28192.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org> <201508020945.t729jtgF014311@freefriends.org> Message-ID: At least the Unix messages were silent. I remember one Unix clone that programmed sounds of an explosion when the system crashed. Users did NOT find that funny... Last week I was attending a lecture in the Sierras where there was no Internet, taking notes on my iPhone. I had it in airplane mode with "Do not Disturb" on and had Siri configured to talk only when in handsfree mode. Nevertheless, a careless double press of the round button told everyone attending the talk "Siri is unable to find the internet!" I would a preferred a printed "eh?" Steve > Steve Johnson wrote: > >> Nowadays, while I'm happy to have some fun with them, I think throwing >> humor at people who have just screwed up is playing to a tough audience. > > I think you're right. Especially, anyone who's dealing with the nearly > indecipherable messages coming out today's C++ compilers is likely to > be in no mood for snarky messages from his/her tools. > > I recall that these things were much funnier when I was younger (college / > grad school). > > Arnold >