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Title: Preparing to delete immediately
Post by: iMav on Wed, 13 August 2008, 17:57:15
I thought this was funny:

(http://www.uhhh.org/~lherzog/blog-images/preparing-to-delete-immediately.jpg)

:)
Title: Preparing to delete immediately
Post by: itlnstln on Thu, 14 August 2008, 05:48:32
Love it. :D
Title: Preparing to delete immediately
Post by: Eclairz on Thu, 14 August 2008, 08:17:39
apple are slowly moving to a fuzzy style language soon we'll have "deleting soon" instead of estimated time which is always wrong anyway.
Title: Preparing to delete immediately
Post by: xsphat on Thu, 14 August 2008, 10:00:02
I like to see those things when I'm reinstalling the OS:

Estimated time about 104 years
Title: Preparing to delete immediately
Post by: itlnstln on Thu, 14 August 2008, 11:31:53
Quote from: xsphat;7327
I like to see those things when I'm reinstalling the OS:

Estimated time about 104 years


It's even better when it's the opposite:

Estimated time < 5 minutes.  (3 hours later...)
Title: Preparing to delete immediately
Post by: xsphat on Thu, 14 August 2008, 12:38:17
lol
Title: Preparing to delete immediately
Post by: bhtooefr on Thu, 14 August 2008, 17:32:56
And from what I hear, Vista occasionally says that a copy job will take multiple thousand hours, and based on the data rate that it's actually doing (scanning each file for copyrighted content or some crap like that,) that's realistic. :eek:
Title: Preparing to delete immediately
Post by: itlnstln on Fri, 15 August 2008, 05:58:49
Quote from: bhtooefr;7344
And from what I hear, Vista occasionally says that a copy job will take multiple thousand hours, and based on the data rate that it's actually doing (scanning each file for copyrighted content or some crap like that,) that's realistic. :eek:


That is my only true gripe with Vista.  Copying files and extracting .zips takes FOREVER.  The file management system is supposed to be better than XP, though.