Vote against the existance of - 100%
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I have had it with 100% ! What am I talking about? I am talking about progress bars, loading sequences or anything that shows a percentage of something (software related) that ever attempts to display the "100%". Why ? Because I've burnt a CD and i was happy when i saw the 100% on the progress bar. And then it failed.. Because I've installed software (waiting for at least half an hour) and had to wait another (put your own extreme long time here) to finish after the 100%... For instance, buffering streaming videos never shows 100%, it just plays. I like that. So, if any of you are thinking of making progress bars, put a little *99 and do not, i repeat, do not for the love of god, multiply by 100. Add that little 1 as a last line of code, right before that progress bar disappears (if you will). p.s. i know I'm crazy (haha i didn't capitalize my 'i')
Ericos Georgiades
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I have had it with 100% ! What am I talking about? I am talking about progress bars, loading sequences or anything that shows a percentage of something (software related) that ever attempts to display the "100%". Why ? Because I've burnt a CD and i was happy when i saw the 100% on the progress bar. And then it failed.. Because I've installed software (waiting for at least half an hour) and had to wait another (put your own extreme long time here) to finish after the 100%... For instance, buffering streaming videos never shows 100%, it just plays. I like that. So, if any of you are thinking of making progress bars, put a little *99 and do not, i repeat, do not for the love of god, multiply by 100. Add that little 1 as a last line of code, right before that progress bar disappears (if you will). p.s. i know I'm crazy (haha i didn't capitalize my 'i')
Ericos Georgiades
ad3z wrote:
i know I'm crazy
100% certifiably crazy. But I'm sure there's room to grow. :) Marc
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I have had it with 100% ! What am I talking about? I am talking about progress bars, loading sequences or anything that shows a percentage of something (software related) that ever attempts to display the "100%". Why ? Because I've burnt a CD and i was happy when i saw the 100% on the progress bar. And then it failed.. Because I've installed software (waiting for at least half an hour) and had to wait another (put your own extreme long time here) to finish after the 100%... For instance, buffering streaming videos never shows 100%, it just plays. I like that. So, if any of you are thinking of making progress bars, put a little *99 and do not, i repeat, do not for the love of god, multiply by 100. Add that little 1 as a last line of code, right before that progress bar disappears (if you will). p.s. i know I'm crazy (haha i didn't capitalize my 'i')
Ericos Georgiades
Will you really feel better when the progress bar goes from 0 to 99% in 3 seconds, then 40 seconds later it goes to 100%? ;)
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I have had it with 100% ! What am I talking about? I am talking about progress bars, loading sequences or anything that shows a percentage of something (software related) that ever attempts to display the "100%". Why ? Because I've burnt a CD and i was happy when i saw the 100% on the progress bar. And then it failed.. Because I've installed software (waiting for at least half an hour) and had to wait another (put your own extreme long time here) to finish after the 100%... For instance, buffering streaming videos never shows 100%, it just plays. I like that. So, if any of you are thinking of making progress bars, put a little *99 and do not, i repeat, do not for the love of god, multiply by 100. Add that little 1 as a last line of code, right before that progress bar disappears (if you will). p.s. i know I'm crazy (haha i didn't capitalize my 'i')
Ericos Georgiades
ad3z wrote:
Because I've burnt a CD and i was happy when i saw the 100% on the progress bar. And then it failed.. Because I've installed software (waiting for at least half an hour) and had to wait another (put your own extreme long time here) to finish after the 100%...
It's more fun when it goes up to 5430% or something.
"Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony. " - Morpheus
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I have had it with 100% ! What am I talking about? I am talking about progress bars, loading sequences or anything that shows a percentage of something (software related) that ever attempts to display the "100%". Why ? Because I've burnt a CD and i was happy when i saw the 100% on the progress bar. And then it failed.. Because I've installed software (waiting for at least half an hour) and had to wait another (put your own extreme long time here) to finish after the 100%... For instance, buffering streaming videos never shows 100%, it just plays. I like that. So, if any of you are thinking of making progress bars, put a little *99 and do not, i repeat, do not for the love of god, multiply by 100. Add that little 1 as a last line of code, right before that progress bar disappears (if you will). p.s. i know I'm crazy (haha i didn't capitalize my 'i')
Ericos Georgiades
Would you prefer a stoplight instead? Red....Green, wait no, yellow... ... GREEN!
Found on Bash.org [erno] hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is.
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I have had it with 100% ! What am I talking about? I am talking about progress bars, loading sequences or anything that shows a percentage of something (software related) that ever attempts to display the "100%". Why ? Because I've burnt a CD and i was happy when i saw the 100% on the progress bar. And then it failed.. Because I've installed software (waiting for at least half an hour) and had to wait another (put your own extreme long time here) to finish after the 100%... For instance, buffering streaming videos never shows 100%, it just plays. I like that. So, if any of you are thinking of making progress bars, put a little *99 and do not, i repeat, do not for the love of god, multiply by 100. Add that little 1 as a last line of code, right before that progress bar disappears (if you will). p.s. i know I'm crazy (haha i didn't capitalize my 'i')
Ericos Georgiades
Well it's got me re-thinking, and i don't like 99% either. It invokes too much stress. And I get enough stress by watching Prison Break as it is. Then again, I could create a vicious loop hole, where by I destroy the existence of 100%, which would cause the next victim to be 99%.. and so forth until installations will declare themselves to be instantaneous and yet take forever. Microsoft has a good solution. I love how (i.e.) installing service packs takes a good time to reach 50%, then shoots off in a split second to the 100% :D So final conclusion is: secretly change all my future installations to finish at 50% but don't tell me about it. Also if you have time, change all my clocks in my house and watch to 15 minutes later .. and also don't tell me. But wait maybe you already have .. So my watch would endlessly be turned back until I lose an entire day! Solution - stop writing.
Ericos Georgiades
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I have had it with 100% ! What am I talking about? I am talking about progress bars, loading sequences or anything that shows a percentage of something (software related) that ever attempts to display the "100%". Why ? Because I've burnt a CD and i was happy when i saw the 100% on the progress bar. And then it failed.. Because I've installed software (waiting for at least half an hour) and had to wait another (put your own extreme long time here) to finish after the 100%... For instance, buffering streaming videos never shows 100%, it just plays. I like that. So, if any of you are thinking of making progress bars, put a little *99 and do not, i repeat, do not for the love of god, multiply by 100. Add that little 1 as a last line of code, right before that progress bar disappears (if you will). p.s. i know I'm crazy (haha i didn't capitalize my 'i')
Ericos Georgiades
I have a screenshot of a progress bar (Aol file upload) that went to 149% It's funny now, wasn't so much at the time.
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I have a screenshot of a progress bar (Aol file upload) that went to 149% It's funny now, wasn't so much at the time.
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I have had it with 100% ! What am I talking about? I am talking about progress bars, loading sequences or anything that shows a percentage of something (software related) that ever attempts to display the "100%". Why ? Because I've burnt a CD and i was happy when i saw the 100% on the progress bar. And then it failed.. Because I've installed software (waiting for at least half an hour) and had to wait another (put your own extreme long time here) to finish after the 100%... For instance, buffering streaming videos never shows 100%, it just plays. I like that. So, if any of you are thinking of making progress bars, put a little *99 and do not, i repeat, do not for the love of god, multiply by 100. Add that little 1 as a last line of code, right before that progress bar disappears (if you will). p.s. i know I'm crazy (haha i didn't capitalize my 'i')
Ericos Georgiades
ad3z wrote:
I have had it with 100% !
you are 110% right! you logic is 125% reasonable! but I think the issue is between 100% "done" and 100% correct are two completely different concepts as far as the burn issue. :) I do not update to 100% until it is physically and completely done, but then I still do verification, which starts over with 0-100% on some things. :)
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Would you prefer a stoplight instead? Red....Green, wait no, yellow... ... GREEN!
Found on Bash.org [erno] hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is.
Steve McLenithan wrote:
Red....Green, wait no, yellow... ... GREEN!
rainbow color change.... red... orange... yellow... green.... right now I am only orange finished with my work this week.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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ad3z wrote:
I have had it with 100% !
you are 110% right! you logic is 125% reasonable! but I think the issue is between 100% "done" and 100% correct are two completely different concepts as far as the burn issue. :) I do not update to 100% until it is physically and completely done, but then I still do verification, which starts over with 0-100% on some things. :)
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
that's fine. cause you know that there's another progress bar coming up. it's when you don't know. that's when it p***es me off. there you are, happy - doodling, enjoying the lovely walls of the mental institution you've been put in, and there's more than 1 progress bar! not cool.
Ericos Georgiades