How much of modern life is spent watching progress bars?
I know I will spend a lot of time today doing just that as I have 12 Flash
files to upload for my work and they are on average 15Mb. As well as
uploading and downloading from the Internet I have spent many hours
waiting for new software to download to Mac’s when I worked in a tech
support role. I remember rooms full of Mac +’s with SCSI hard disks.
Setting up a master system, copying to one hard drive then two, four
etc… All the time more and more progress bars slowly moving.
If I was planning on being buried when I die then I would be tempted to
request a completed progress bar on my head stone, but I plan to be
cremated so there is not much point.
Maybe you should have a ‘Life Progress Bar’ so you know how much time you have left?
It would take the surprise out death, you could plan better, you would save
money by not buying expensive insurance you won’t benefit from. Then
again knowing how inaccurate most progress bars are I think it would
add more confusion.
Okay three files uploaded, on to the next 
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2 responses so far ↓
1 jEN // Mar 20, 2007 at 12:43 pm
You’ve just reminded me to update to 10.4.9
2 Nan // Mar 22, 2007 at 10:23 pm
I truly hate progress bars… Just take the time you need and stop stressing me by reminding me how much time I wasted so far. The windows time remaining is completely obscure and a compulsive liar!