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[ysobel]

I love download estimation times, really I do:

Computer: "53 minutes remaining."
Me: *watches an ep of Stargate on iPad*
Computer: "41 minutes remaining."
Me: "WTF?"
Computer: "43... no, sorry, 45 minutes remaining."
Me: *rolls eyes and goes to get more coffee*
Computer: "30 minutes remaining!"
Me: *loads flist*
Computer: "...59 minutes remaining"
Me: "wtfever."
Computer: "26 minutes remaining?"
Me: *posts entry*
Computer: "1 hour 8 minutes remaining."
Me: *rolls eyes and clicks edit entry*
Browser: *does not respond for a while*
Computer: "26 minutes remaining! Hahahaha sucker."
Browser: *loads entry to edit*
Computer: "Still 26 minutes. But I want you to know I am v. disappointed. Enough to make it 30 minutes so there. No, just kidding, 28. No, kidding about kidding, 32."
Me: *eyes save-entry button speculatively*
Computer: "How does 19 minutes sound?"

Comments

[krait]

I'm sure you've seen the XKCD take on this...? :D

[ysobel]

But of course :D I love xkcd so much.

[not_a_sniglet]

And exactly how did you know I was downloading iTunes at this very moment.

*Glances over*ETA: 38 minutes remaining. :P

Your computer is laughing at you.

--D/D

[not_a_sniglet]

Also, if I gave you huge, giant puppy eyes, would you describe the XKCD strip that was linked above? We adore XKCD too but usually can't find anyone to describe them.

[ysobel]

Of course :D


Image of a person in a car, talking on a cell phone: "I'm just outside town, so I should be there in fifteen minutes. ... Actually, it's looking more like six days. ... No, wait, thirty seconds." Caption is: The author of the Windows file copy dialog visits some friends.

(Alt text: "They could say "the connection is probably lost," but it's more fun to do naive time-averaging to give you hope that if you wait around for 1,163 hours, it will finally finish.")