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Subject: Re: battery plasmoid and remaining time..
From: "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date: 2009-05-17 18:22:30
Message-ID: 200905171222.30640.aseigo () kde ! org
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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."
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Aaron J. Seigo
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