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H.Brydon wrote: Nope. "All I want for Christmas is Yu"
"Yu" sounds 'bout right, during her time in Vegas she scared a lot of the USA folks away, OTOH there really are hell of a lot more Chinese than before. (No accounting for taste with that lot.)
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This is a reaally baaah'd thread.
We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.
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This is what one of our iMacs has been saying about the Sierra install for the past 30 mins.
I always find it puzzling that showing an estimation of remaining time is so difficult.
[Edit: 1hr later it's now saying "40 seconds remaining". 1 hour later...]
cheers
Chris Maunder
modified 22-Dec-16 11:45am.
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Obligatory XKCD: Estimation[^]
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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It looks more like a Quest for Glory, or a King's Quest!
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Caeser III is on sale on Steam! Although for me to install it I think was only a few seconds.
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They copied that from Windows . . .
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Chris Maunder wrote: I always find it puzzling that showing an estimation of remaining time is so difficult.
Go ahead and implement one somewhere on CP. I double-dog dare ya. I'm sure 12M registered users will never complain it's inaccurate.
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Shhhsh! This is a secret!
There really aren't 12 Million + users.
That counter was made by the same people who made the time-remaining estimator.
Now don't tell anyone!
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Well at least it's never going up, then back down, then back up again by a few millions...
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Easy: it would always say "Real Soon Now" until it actually finished, then it would say "almost done". Just in case.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Did you use the same time estimation algorithm to estimate how long the site would be down for just now? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Of course not - that'd be silly and inaccurate.
We use the well-tested Random.Next method, of course.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Reminds me of the old mainframe days when if something was expected to take a while to install or run, the programmer would display: "Sit back, this will take a while."
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Quote: I always find it puzzling that showing an estimation of remaining time is so difficult.
I do not: my time estimations for completing projects are, well, 'a bit inaccurate'.
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or a few bits... but who's counting right? 
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Exactly! 
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That's what it's said on the Maunder catching up with Mick for a beer clock, for the past 9 years or so.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Beer O' Clock? When I met him a few months ago, he mentioned you guys were due to meet for a decaf low-fat soy milk latte.
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Maybe they are football minutes.
Still sounds better than SharePoint. You get the ubiquitous "This should not take long." message with no estimate. When you see this message, it means you have plenty of time to get a cup of coffee. ![Java | [Coffee]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
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FYI[^]
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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... famous reality distortion field at work!
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Is it (or you) under acceleration, and this is just a relativity issue?
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Learning from MS, are they?
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