Re: Developer Don'ts: Nonsense Progess Bars

Stephen Poley <sbpoleySpicedHamTrap@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:7ip6021bsro6jemn423b3n4rkftfbk34pk@xxxxxxx:

On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 13:21:51 -0600, "David W. Fenton"
<XXXusenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If you thought the Windows "copying files" progress bar was tupid
(as it will say "3 minutes remaining" then "6 hours" then "15
seconds" and so forth), I've got an even worse one.

<snip a sensible post with which I thoroughly agree>

Many years ago, on an IBM system, I met a progress bar (actually
successive lines on a console) which ran:

2 minutes remaining ...
1 minutes remaining ...
0 minutes remaining ...
-1 minutes remaining ...

Were you by chance travelling faster than the speed of light at the
time?

Oh, wait, that wouldn't have done it. . . .

I do think I wouldn't worry about users of my application who
happened to be travelling at the speed of light.

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