On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 at 22:09, "Martin v. L?wis" wrote:
Let me try some examples.
Suppose I'm running my applications on a laptop and I don't want the
disk to be spinning continually while I work. I'm willing to take the
risk of data loss in order to extend my battery life.
So when you select "Save" in your application, would you like the data
to be saved, or would you accept that they get lost? If the latter,
what kind of interaction would you perform with your application to
indicate that you *do* want the data to appear on disk?
I accept that if I have told my laptop to only sync to disk every five
minutes (as I have at times done), and it crashes (eg: the battery runs
out), then anything I did during those last five minutes will be lost.
If the disk then spins up more often than I told it to, I get very
annoyed.
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R. David Murray http://www.bitdance.com
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