Seriously, who designs these things?
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May 13th, 2012 at 1:50 pm
#Julia
May 13th, 2012 at 1:59 pm
This guy: http://xkcd.com/612/
May 13th, 2012 at 2:01 pm
Windows developers.
I’ll bet that sucker’s been sitting like that for about 10 minutes, too.
I had one in a Mac app, designed by a different Windows dev., that said “Time remaining: About 2023406814 hours”. (So, what? 231 thousand years or so? So I’ve got a bit of time to kill?) Not even God knows what metrics they use to calculate those figures.
May 13th, 2012 at 3:45 pm
That’s a interface for an installer that was designed in 2002(ish). It’s ten years old.
Now, I will admit, it didn’t work too hot back then either…
May 13th, 2012 at 4:26 pm
“Supposedly” that is one of the things that gets fixed in Win8.
But since MS seems to get every OTHER OS right, and Win7 seems to work well, I’ll have to wait until Win9 to find out.
May 13th, 2012 at 4:31 pm
Hush now, don’t get angry.
Here, this will calm you down
May 13th, 2012 at 6:42 pm
Gonna go out on a limb here and say “not Apple”. 🙂
May 13th, 2012 at 8:38 pm
“Time remaining, 0 seconds”
I like it when it goes up to 99% then takes 4-5 longer than than it took to get to 99% to finish that last 1%.
May 13th, 2012 at 10:46 pm
Few years ago. Hewlett Packard, $2,300.00. Norton antivirus crashed the hard drive. We were able to go online to HP to reload the software. 36 hours.
May 13th, 2012 at 11:22 pm
Its very hard to predict when an operation will be done. As long as it moves, people think its moving along at a better pace.
Its all a psychological ploy to keep you from shutting it down early because you think it isnt working.
May 14th, 2012 at 12:29 am
When it crashes without installing, you should feel some comfort from the knowledge that 98.7% or so downloaded and installed before it all went down the drain.
May 14th, 2012 at 12:43 am
Well, nk, Norton makes the crappiest software outside of Microsoft proper. Which makes sense since Peter Norton was a pretty crappy programmer himself (happen to knew him before his crap hit big). I hope you never loaded that crap back on.
May 14th, 2012 at 8:45 am
Nope. Deleted. My brother had to go into root to wipe it. Installed McAffee for me. (In the process making my touchpad too sensitive for a clumsy old man.) 😉
May 14th, 2012 at 10:30 am
AJD: After playing with the Win8 consumer preview for a bit, I’d have to say that it’s probably Microsoft’s biggest mistake since Windows ME. Sure, it seems to run pretty quick, but the Metro interface on a real computer is the big ball of fail of big balls of fail.
May 14th, 2012 at 10:00 pm
In IE9 today, I was downloading a file and watched it report a download speed of 0 bytes per second… while incrementing the number of meg downloaded… until it was over twice the size the file was supposed to be… at which point I stopped it. This was an internal company website too….
May 14th, 2012 at 10:02 pm
nk, I’ve been using Avast! antivirus for 5 years now without an issue on any of my home systems. Highly recommended.