Well, I get it even if it seems foolish at first blush -- it's all about the user experience. --dawn
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Charlie Noah <cwn...@comcast.net> wrote: > Hi Laura and Dawn, > > This reminds me of a program I wrote about 20 years ago for a multilevel > marketing company. Its job was to audit a seller's downline, which in many > cases ran into thousands or tens of thousands of transactions. For some > larger sellers it ran for several minutes. The users insisted on seeing > what progress it was making, and settled on a whirly-gig. I explained that > it would only slow the process down, but they didn't care. They were quite > willing to sacrifice speed for a stupid little character twirling around. > Go figure... > > Regards, > Charlie Noah > > > On 05-01-2012 6:41 PM, Dawn Wolthuis wrote: > >> Good story, Laura! >> >> We are figuring out where we need animated gifs in a web app to indicate >> something is happening. They seem mostly unnecessary (with test data, >> which, granted, might be the reason they seem unnecessary at this point), >> so we are erring on the side of keeping them out, rather than putting them >> in. >> --dawn >> >> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Laura Hirsh<la...@lhirsh.org> wrote: >> >> Just an interesting piece of history that folks might find amusing. Back >>> in >>> the day, Ultimate had a development project to speed up the basic >>> compiler. >>> Everyone was really anticipating the performance improvements. >>> >>> However, when the new compiler was timed and tested, it didn't produce >>> the >>> expected speed improvements and the developers couldn't find the cause. >>> >>> At the time, Ultimate displayed one asterisk as each line of code was >>> compiled. After much investigation, one of the developers thought to >>> remove >>> the display of the *, and the compiler flew! It was truly amazing - so >>> much >>> so that we didn't think the program compiled at all. >>> >>> The new compiler was finally released as one * for each 10 lines of code. >>> :) >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: >>> u2-users-bounces@listserver.**u2ug.org<u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org> >>> [mailto:u2-users-bounces@**listserver.u2ug.org<u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org>] >>> On Behalf Of Wjhonson >>> Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 6:24 PM >>> To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org >>> Subject: Re: [U2] READU vs READ >>> >>> >>> Computers keep getting faster, and databases keep getting larger. So as >>> a >>> "refinement" you could say, display something if a second or more has >>> passed, and don't display anything if it hasn't. >>> >>> We used to use MOD 100, which was fine 20 years ago. Now it spins by so >>> fast you cant read it. >>> >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: dennis bartlett<dqbartl...@gmail.com> >>> To: U2 Users >>> List<u2-users@listserver.u2ug.**org<u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org> >>> > >>> Sent: Tue, May 1, 2012 3:16 pm >>> Subject: Re: [U2] READU vs READ >>> >>> >>> I think you complicating things ... Troy has it right: >>> Sure files could be resized, and code re-engineered, and all these good >>> hing >>> do help, but I reduced a process scanning 20 million records from 12 ays >>> to >>> 2 days just taking out the CRT to screen informing the user of rogress >>> (or >>> lack of progress.) on such a large number I'd set the interval to around >>> 20000, so that the ode as below sits at n,count += 1 f rem(count,20000) >>> then >>> CRT n.count:' / ' : tot.count >>> nd >>> On 1 May 2012 11:03, Buss, Troy (Contractor, Logitek Systems)< >>> roy.b...@nordsonasymtek.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Good point... For progress indications, I tend to do the following on >>>> the >>>> >>> mass updates: >>> >>> N.COUNT += 1 >>> IF REM(COUNT, 1000) ELSE CRT "+": >>> >>> >>> ______________________________**________________ >>> 2-Users mailing list >>> 2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org >>> ttp://listserver.u2ug.org/**mailman/listinfo/u2-users<http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users> >>> >>> ______________________________**_________________ >>> U2-Users mailing list >>> U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org >>> http://listserver.u2ug.org/**mailman/listinfo/u2-users<http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users> >>> >>> ______________________________**_________________ >>> U2-Users mailing list >>> U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org >>> http://listserver.u2ug.org/**mailman/listinfo/u2-users<http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users> >>> >>> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ > U2-Users mailing list > U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org > http://listserver.u2ug.org/**mailman/listinfo/u2-users<http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users> > -- Dawn M. Wolthuis Take and give some delight today _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
