Verily I say unto thee, that The Ghost In The Machine spake thusly:
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, [H]omer <spam@xxxxxxx> wrote on Thu, 01
> Nov 2007 06:07:05 +0000 <b17ov4-ghc.ln1@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>> 72651 / 365 = 199 *YEARS* approx.
>>
>> Let's look at transfer rate...
>>
>> 430 / 199 = 2 MB/year transfer rate approx.
>>
>> MB/s value = 430 / (72651 * 365 * 24 * 60 * 60) = 1.876809755e-10
Oops ... ^^^
>> .0000000001876809755 megabytes = 0.000196797767 bytes
MB/s value = 430 / (72651 * 24 * 60 * 60) = 6.850355607e-8
0.000000068504 megabytes = 0.0718316503 bytes
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###### Vista Network Transfer Rate ######
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###### *0.0718* *bytes* per second ######
###### 430MB will take 200 *YEARS* ######
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> Gotta hand it to those Microsoft engineers, though, ensuring that we
> can report remaining time of more than a day on item copies that can
> apparently take more than a day, never mind whether they can actually
> calculate the time remaining properly or not. I'm not sure which of
> these three "features" is the most bizarre.
This isn't new to Windows either. Over the years I've seen many
instances of progress bars that indicated totally unrealistic ETAs.
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K.
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