On 08/10/2010 00:42, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Thursday, October 07, 2010 16:39:15 Tomek Sowiński wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem
It's a classic problem in computer science. Essentially what it comes down to is
that you can't determine when - or even if - a program will halt until it
actually has. It's why stuff like file transfer dialogs can never be totally
accurate. And best, you can estimate how long a file transfer will take based on
the current progress, but you can't _know_ when it will complete.
O_o
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Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer