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What IS the point in...
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Mon May 07, 2007 7:49 amby superhydroyeast
"Progress" bars that keep resetting themselves?! The Windows Live Messenger troubleshooting thing has one, and it just keeps going back to the beginning. The bar isn't going to TELL you how much is done, in fact, it's not going to tell you ANYTHING, apart from the fact that it's progressing, in which surely a flickering "Progressing" light would be sufficient.
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Mon May 07, 2007 8:30 amby fragility
agreed!!
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Mon May 07, 2007 8:34 amby Intoc
The same thing happens in CCleaner. Great app, but that annoys the hell out of me.
I think it must be because the application doesn't actually know how far along it is, so it can't give a percentage.
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Mon May 07, 2007 8:45 amby fragility
On the subejct of percentages..it's even worse when it gives you a percentage or time that is completely innaccurate!!
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Mon May 07, 2007 9:31 amby Blazingmonga
It amuses you while you wait! It makes you feel like the program is actually doing something and making progress, when in reality the little electronic beasty-kins that make your computer go round and round are probably out the back having a fag. The illusion that everything is working well!
Trust me, if there was no endlessly refilling blue bar then you would have smashed your head off the desk repeatedly instead of watching the screen.
Yaarp.
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Mon May 07, 2007 10:29 amby Biert
Computers can't count. The "Estimated Time Remaining" things are always off.
Progress bars are, besides for showing progress, also a form of "activity feedback" to the user. As long as it's moving, you can tell things are happening. As soon as it stops moving, it's time to kill (the process of course). Humans have trouble with non-feedback things. When pushing a button, we want a "click" and a light to go on.
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Mon May 07, 2007 11:25 amby Blazingmonga
Intoc wrote:The same thing happens in CCleaner. Great app, but that annoys the hell out of me.
Co-ink-a-dink-ally I just used this very program and that blue bar also annoyed the hell out of me. Doh!
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Mon May 07, 2007 12:35 pmby Archetype
*looks at his Mac and smiles*
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Mon May 07, 2007 12:46 pmby djskrimp
Archetype wrote:*looks at his Mac and smiles*
You're Keeker's new best friend. She keeps chiding me to get a Mac.
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Mon May 07, 2007 12:51 pmby gozu
*kicks mac across room screaming* my mate has one and he's the smuggest bastard in the world till i ask him to play some games...
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Mon May 07, 2007 1:04 pmby superhydroyeast
gozu wrote:*kicks mac across room screaming* my mate has one and he's the smuggest bastard in the world till i ask him to play some games...
haha xD
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Mon May 07, 2007 1:57 pmby Biert
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Mon May 07, 2007 2:34 pmby Das Schuetzenfest
Biert wrote:Computers can't count.
How does the clock in my lower right corner work then?
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Mon May 07, 2007 3:02 pmby Archetype
Das Schuetzenfest wrote:Biert wrote:Computers can't count.
How does the clock in my lower right corner work then?
Magic!
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Mon May 07, 2007 3:02 pmby Josiah Tobin
I'd say Battery Gnomes, myself.
