On Thursday 14 May 2009, Chani wrote: > On May 14, 2009 13:25:19 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > On Thursday 14 May 2009, David Nolden wrote: > > > Yes maybe, but to the average user the percentage will be a near > > > useless number. > > > > so people don't find the battery indicator on their cell phone useful? > > ugh, I hate that thing. what the hell does one bar mean? it could mean a > couple of hours or a couple of days,
which is actually the point. you can't figure it out, with your human brain that excels at fuzzy thinking, and you expect a computer to? you're asking for magic to happen. "please predict how many phone calls i'll get in the next 2 hours" <-- that's what it would take to translate "one bar" into "38 minutes left" > sound. which itself seems very vague - is it programmed to tell me it's > dying when there's a few hours left or a few minutes? I never have the if you're talking on it, probably a few minutes. if you don't use it, it might last for quite a while longer. see the problem now? > them. I like numbers). 10% on a 4-hour battery is very different from 10% > on a 1-hour battery, and it's taken me... eight months to properly get that > into my head. your 4 hours battery is my 2 hours batter, or maybe your 1 hour battery is my 2 hour battery. unless it's saturday, and then maybe it's the reverse. > I don't want the computer to > refuse to give me any estimate just because it can't get it right down to > the second :P it that was the scope of the problem, i wouldn't care. it's not the scope of the problem, however. > if it can make a better estimate than I can, then it's > useful. except that instead of not trusting yourself, you now don't trust the computer. > heck, even if it can get the same accuracy as me it's useful, > because I don't want to have to do all that mental math every time I'm > wondering how much time I've got... i think most people tend to just look at it and go "hm. i have 25%. i don't need to worry just yet." -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Software
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