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Originally Posted by kazbates
My husband and I both have degrees in Computer Science and have worked in that field. In never fails to cause us immense frustration when our computers (we have 8 in various shapes, sizes, and configurations) act up when we need them the most!!  |
The criticality detector circuit. Originally invented by Xerox for their photocopiers to ensure you took out the fastest (and therefore most expensive) maintenance and support contract, by causing failures and jams at the most critical times possible. Unfortunately it contaminated the work they did at
Xerox PARC, and so migrated into computer software (especially those involving GUIs). And the rest, as they say, involves a lot of inventive use of Anglo-Saxon.