 bokambaChengdu RocksPremium
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Falls Church, VA | On a "Paperless society" and weblogs The whole "paperless office" concept completely backfired. People now print more stuff, but with less need. Every stupid web page or email that someone prints out needlessly is an example of such waste.
It's a little shocking to think that all the world's weblogs could fit on one of today's large hard drives. 81GB is not much! |
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| Yes, but how much if it is duplicate data? If you count all of the MP3 music collections people aquired when the getting was good, you probably can account for 50% of the data they are forecasting as redundant.
People that need these 100+ gig drives are doing so because they have music and video stored on them. Most home users don't have large databases on their PC's, and even if they did they don't require the kind of space music and video does. |
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bokambaChengdu RocksPremium
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Falls Church, VA | That's completely irrelevant to my post. |
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bmn? ? ?Premium,ExMod 2003-06
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hiatus | reply to bokamba
said by bokamba:
It's a little shocking to think that all the world's weblogs could fit on one of today's large hard drives. 81GB is not much!
Considering most of it is text, I'm not surprised. It takes about a thousand characters to make a kilobyte and a million to make a megabyte. Even if you wrote a fifty page term paper, you are no where NEAR one million characters.
Now if someone did an entirely image/photo based blog, you would certainly be looking at a totally difference situation.
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 OmegaDisplaced OhioanPremium
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Cheyenne, WY | reply to bokamba
said by bokamba:
The whole "paperless office" concept completely backfired. People now print more stuff, but with less need. Every stupid web page or email that someone prints out needlessly is an example of such waste.
It's a little shocking to think that all the world's weblogs could fit on one of today's large hard drives. 81GB is not much!
It is all text though. Hardly any pictures. Remember too that they are short enteries. But I also thought the number was a bit low, considering how much blogs are out there.
I would like to see livejournal come out and say "thats funny, because we have 100GB on our server".
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bokambaChengdu RocksPremium
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Falls Church, VA | reply to bmn
You're right, of course. 7 bits per ASCII character. The average comes out to about 28KB per weblog, which does seem a bit small. It just was surprising to me that millions of people's entries could all fit easily on a single computer. |
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bmn? ? ?Premium,ExMod 2003-06
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hiatus | said by bokamba:
The average comes out to about 28KB per weblog, which does seem a bit small.
Not only is that the size of some people's web logs, its also the IQ level at which they seem to write. 
I've seen web log entries where they said "All was well today" or "I don't feel like making an entry" or "I'm happy." When there's no substance, of course they will be small. 
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Orchard Park, NY | reply to bokamba
I always laugh when I send a file to someone at work and the first thing they do is print it out. |
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bokambaChengdu RocksPremium
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Falls Church, VA | There are many cases where a hard copy is worth the paper, but usually it's a waste. I don't print much at all, in order to save on ink and paper. |
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