World's information consumption: 9,570,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes per year
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[QUOTE=Maucer;29033075]"640K is more memory than anyone will ever need"
-Bill Gates[/QUOTE]
he never actually said this
[QUOTE=Lazor;29036848]he never actually said this[/QUOTE]
Indeed. It was 64K and he meant something quite different.
Also one does not simply consume information.
Why is the title describing bytes? It'd make more sense to use a commonly known unit like terabyte. You could of course use the best fit unit, but most people don't know beyond tera.
[QUOTE=Pepin;29037083]Why is the title describing bytes? It'd make more sense to use a commonly known unit like terabyte. You could of course use the best fit unit, but most people don't know beyond tera.[/QUOTE]
To make it look bigger.
[QUOTE=AzzyMaster;29037118]To make it look bigger.[/QUOTE]
For simple minded people to think "WOAH THAT'S A BIG NUMBER", in order to increase the WOAH factor of this article.
I think 9,570,000,000 terabytes looks larger than 9,570,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes because terabyte is more relatable. Most people know that a byte is small and even a large number of bytes don't really add up to a lot of space. We all know how much data we could fit into a terabyte, but most people really don't have that great of a grasp on bytes. A large string with the unit of byte doesn't mean as much as a long string with a unit that means something. Maybe I'm taking this discussion into another direction, so I'll stop.
man this bytes!
[QUOTE=Trogdon;29038388]man this bytes![/QUOTE]
just like that last pun
That's like, what, somewhere around 8500 terabytes?
Can't be arsed to find a calculator.
9,569,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes of this were consumed by porn users.
[QUOTE=scotland1;29032682]No because nobody could ever use that much storage.[/QUOTE]
My universe simulator needs that much every year just to calculate Earth's information consumption in 2010.
[QUOTE=Gmod_Fan77;29049025]9,569,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes of this were consumed by porn users.[/QUOTE]
Wow original post. Do you write your own material?
Wow that's a lot of porn.
[editline]8th April 2011[/editline]
Fucking original. 9.75 billion terrabytes, whoa baby.
[QUOTE=The DooD;29058284]Wow that's a lot of porn.
[editline]8th April 2011[/editline]
Fucking original. 9.75 billion terrabytes, whoa baby.[/QUOTE]
Not [url=http://www.facepunch.com]fucking incredible[/url].
[url]http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=9%2C570%2C000%2C000%2C000%2C000%2C000%2C000[/url]
[quote=Wulframalpha]
Number names:
* Full name
[B]9 sextillion ...[/B][/quote]
IT [B]IS[/B] PORN!
[QUOTE=scotland1;29032682]No because nobody could ever use that much storage.[/QUOTE]
You naive fool
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