Lea's Three Laws of Downloading

[caddyman]

Good God. It's Wednesday; how did that happen?

Furtle has gone to work leaving me to keep an eye on the Warcrack update she started downloading.

Why is there no equivalent for data downloads of Asimov's three laws of robotics? I suggest Lea's three laws of downloading:

1) All critical downloads will take ten minutes longer than the time available for the download. Unless:
2) If you have an entire day to download fewer than 100 megabytes, the server will hang and will not come online until rule 1) can apply. Unless:
3) If a critical patch takes only the time, or less, to download that is available, it will inevitably be corrupted and require a second attempt, to which rule 1) will apply.

Refinements to these three rules may be made from time to time.

Comments

[ellefurtle.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, was it a pain? You should have just left it if made you late! I was just hoping to get the worst out of the way :)

[ellefurtle.livejournal.com]

See, whilst that is faster, I avoid it. Things happen to me, so it is almost always best if I don't fanny around with the folders :D I am ok with add-ons, but thus far I have left everything else firmly shut!

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Actually it was OK (as far as I know), if a bit slow. It was done by 8.30.

I was just musing about downloads in general!