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A thought while waiting for an interminable software upgrade to install

By William M. Hartnett on Nov 23, 2007 in oddities, whinging

What is the logic of the “time remaining” bar in software installation windows? I’ve been staring at “Time remaining: 3 minutes” for exactly 11 minutes while waiting for a software update to install. It is literally impossible to overestimate how immensely annoying I find this. Now it’s counting down individual seconds from 45, except each “second” is taking roughly 15 actual seconds.

Stupid Friday work day between Thanksgiving and the weekend …

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