Ok, what is it with people who write about technical subjects that they think they have to use ridiculous analogies?
"if this were a pile of paper it would grow three miles taller every second"?? Yes, and if this was a goat it would have a thousand young. WTF. This was a Google blog post, not some story-for-the-terminally-stupid from The Daily Show ferchrissakes. The author even measures storage capacity in the universally used miles-of-iPods.
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"if this were a pile of paper it would grow three miles taller every second"?? Yes, and if this was a goat it would have a thousand young. WTF. This was a Google blog post, not some story-for-the-terminally-stupid from The Daily Show ferchrissakes. The author even measures storage capacity in the universally used miles-of-iPods.
What is the sound of one vein popping?
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The author even measures storage capacity in the universally used miles-of-iPods
What's that in Libraries of Congress per fortnight?
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Hey, at least they didn't resort to Libraries Of Congress Per Month.
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There is clearly one easily accessible way to describe 100 petabytes of data.
'The same information content as half a pint of sperm.'
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Thanks, I really need to think of the Great Old Ones [wikipedia.org] when I search for product reviews. :(