Estimation

by Jeff

Image meta tag: They could say "the connection is probably lost," but it's more fun to do naive time-averaging to give you hope that if you wait around for 1,163 hours, it will finally finish.

This comic is a hilarious reference to the inaccuracy of Windows to judge how long it will take to complete a task.  It will vault from one extreme to another until it finally tells you that there is "less than a minute remaining" for about 20 minutes.