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<blockquote data-quote="technologist" data-source="post: 57810" data-attributes="member: 4134"><p>Well, the reason it "just happens" (on any platform) is because of an error in the code. The programmer(s) who wrote it screwed up. Maybe the software tried to access a bit of memory that was off limits, or maybe it kept looping when it should have stopped, or maybe it should have taken one branch but instead it took another.</p><p></p><p>All software has bugs. Some programs have more than others, and some are more serious than others. Some companies (<em>Ahem</em>) tend to produce software of lower quality than others. OS X can't fix the bugs that programmers create, but it tends to limit their impact fairly well; ie, one bad program doesn't bring down the whole computer.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="technologist, post: 57810, member: 4134"] Well, the reason it "just happens" (on any platform) is because of an error in the code. The programmer(s) who wrote it screwed up. Maybe the software tried to access a bit of memory that was off limits, or maybe it kept looping when it should have stopped, or maybe it should have taken one branch but instead it took another. All software has bugs. Some programs have more than others, and some are more serious than others. Some companies ([i]Ahem[/i]) tend to produce software of lower quality than others. OS X can't fix the bugs that programmers create, but it tends to limit their impact fairly well; ie, one bad program doesn't bring down the whole computer. [/QUOTE]
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