Comment: Re:7 days (Score 1) 129
If you are using firefox it will crash after 3 days.
I still love firefox but it crashes a lot.
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Good point.
On those old 70s-era home computers, they did much the same thing as the Apollo's computer. Instead of getting a readable error, the machine would just hand you a number (?ERROR 42) and then the user was expected to reach for the manual to discover what that meant. Using 1 byte errors instead of long multibyte sentences saved precious ROM space (which was typically 4K or less).
Isn't this what almost every OS, program, protocol, etc does? And now we have GBs of HDD.... Oh, and the BSoD clearly give you clear and detailed explanations...
One good reason why computers can do more work than people is that they never have to stop and answer the phone.