Re: [gardeners] See if you can access this
lepowsky@telerama.com (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Sun, 18 Aug 2002 14:47:09 -0400 (EDT)
Quoting Margaret Lauterbach <melauter@earthlink.net>:
> At 06:30 PM 8/17/02 -0500, you wrote:
> >What are you talking about Margaret? All I get is a page that says I
> can't
> >access it because I am
> >not the album owner. Where does the illegal act come from?
> >
> >George
> You've got me, George. It pops up with its mind-grating stop sign
> periodically on my computer. Margaret
>
>
The illegal message is a bit of computer-ese referring to an error. An "illegal
operation" is one that is not allowed in the rules and syntax of the computer
language that is in use when the error occurs. It refers to the laws of that
particular computer language only. Humans are exempt from those laws; we're
allowed to make errors, being creatures of superior reasoning abilities. :-)
Jeanne in So Calif z9b, who doesn't believe that computers will ever be
intelligent the way humans are, although they might put on a pretty good
imitation from time to time.