____/ The Ghost In The Machine on Thursday 01 November 2007 14:18 : \____
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, [H]omer
> <spam@xxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 06:07:05 +0000
> <b17ov4-ghc.ln1@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>>
>>> PIC:
>>>
>>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/17046638@N08/1809660485/
>>>
>>> "I am sick of Microsoft and now use Ubuntu Linux. This is one of the
>>> million reasons i switched."
>>
>> "48434 days and 10 hours *remaining*", at approx. 33% done, to copy a
>> whopping 430MB over the network!!!
>>
>> Holy molasses, Batman.
>>
>> Let's see...
>>
>> Be generous, and discount the 10 hours.
>>
>> (48434 / 2) * 3 = 72651 *days* in total, to copy 430MB.
>>
>> Ignoring leap years...
>>
>> 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 MB/s
>>
>> .0000000001876809755 megabytes = 0.000196797767 bytes
>>
>> #########################################
>> ###### Vista Network Transfer Rate ######
>> #########################################
>> ###### *0.0002* *bytes* per second ######
>> ###### 430MB will take 200 *YEARS* ######
>> #########################################
>>
>>> [Tongue in Cheek]
>>
>> Jaw on floor.
>>
>
> I suspect someone really screwed up an unsigned computation.
> 48434 * 86400 + 10*3600
> = 4184733600 .
> 2^32 = 4294967296 .
>
> Granted, the difference of these two values doesn't make
> much sense either -- it can be expressed as almost
> 3 1/2 years.
>
> 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.
>
Did you really mean "features"? Or was it fee churns? Or afeatures
(anti-features)?
Anti-Features
,----[ Quote ]
| DRM and trusted/treacherous computing systems are, in many ways, an extreme
| example of anti-features.
|
| [...]
|
| Unfortunately for the companies and individuals trying to push anti-features,
| users increasingly often have alternatives in free software. Similar to
| Mozilla's pop-up blocking feature, RAW was low-hanging fruit for the free
| software developers working on CHDK. The absence of similar anti-features
| form some of the the easiest victories for free software. It does not cost
| free software developers anything to avoid anti-features. In many cases,
| doing nothing is exactly what users want.
`----
http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/antifeatures
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~~ Best of wishes
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