That was my first thought when I saw the title. More ever -- if your industrial application is killing you, does it help that it apologizes in a soothing tone of voice?
I suppose it might: It might help prevent panic. I seem to recall there's been a lot of research into alarms and warnings in (fighter) jets when stalling, calling for eject etc -- to prevent the pilot from panicking, yet being promptly informed of the situation (as far as the system can "know" what is happening) and then be able to take correct action.
On another note, I recently went looking for the source code for the Dalvik VM, hoping to play with it under (desktop) linux, and found this very helpful link to the sourcecode on Google code:
https://android.googlesource.com/?p=platform/dalvik.git;a%3Dtree
"410. That’s an error.
The requested URL was not found on this server. That’s
all we know." [Picture of sad, broken robot]
Extremely annoying. I don't know if it would've helped much if it was worded differently. I guess the "that's all we know" is really annoying in this case, as the link is from Googles own Dalvik/Android wiki-page[1], so (somewhat unfairly) associating the Google team behind Android with the Google code logo/team -- it is obvious that that is not "all we know" (we, being Google in this case).
For others interested in Dalvik, I did find a couple of useful links:
