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- gnarlee, on 07/08/2008, -15/+654I say Google should give Viacom 5,280,000,000 single-spaced typewritten pages of data.
- RATM4EVER, on 07/08/2008, -4/+278Seems possible. Imagine how many .bmp's your brain is storing and has stored over the years. All the low quality .jpg's that represent your unfamiliar relatives...all the .gif's that you keep in your "spank bank" etc...
I'd imagine if you were to remove all those, you'd fit all those .doc's - chewbacca77, on 07/08/2008, -9/+225"the capacity of a human being’s functional memory is estimated to be 1.25 terabytes..." That's ridiculous. Trying to translate from a human's memory to bits is absurd. That's like saying 5 apples = 4.3 oranges.
- THES0URCE, on 07/08/2008, -1/+17712TB is equivalent to
2,457,600 average 192 kpbs mp3's, or
3,510,857 Pictures from an 8 megapixel camera, or
17,554 700mb avi movies.
Just to put it into perspective - ShempRider, on 07/08/2008, -3/+178The average Digger's porn collection would also be a good metric.
- kingfoot, on 07/08/2008, -0/+154in wingdings is my vote.
- bharless3329, on 07/08/2008, -7/+148So, 9.6 human brains could memorize 5.28 billion typewritten pages of information? Did I understand the chart? I don't think I could memorize 500.
- wiirdo, on 07/08/2008, -2/+139Microsoft + Telescope = Microscope? Oh wait, they can't trademark that.
- drunkenoaf, on 07/08/2008, -2/+118Why does 9.6 brains look like 4 brains?
- biznatch11, on 07/08/2008, -2/+117Actually, 5 apples = 4.7 oranges. Your calculator has to be to "FC" (Fruit Conversion) mode to calculate this properly.
- bixby1, on 07/08/2008, -7/+121I've just been given perspective on how impossible it would be for anybody go sift through 12 terabytes of information... sifting not possible in this lifetime.
- jaredcat, on 07/08/2008, -1/+110I don't understand these units. How many Libraries of Congress per Volkswagen Beetle is that?
- billbugger, on 07/08/2008, -0/+109and scrambled, like they dropped it in the hallway or something.
- greeniemeani, on 07/08/2008, -3/+107All the frontpage submissions MrBabyMan has made.
- megamod, on 07/08/2008, -1/+103i keep most of my images in .png...it's lossless
- bosssmiley, on 07/08/2008, -1/+96They'll just use Google search on it to find the information they need. ;-)
- rebotfc, on 07/08/2008, -0/+95In Brush Script MT font.
- ElbertF, on 07/08/2008, -0/+90I say they should give 'm 9.6 human brains.
- Renian, on 07/08/2008, -2/+88But how much porn is it?
- ousthouse, on 07/08/2008, -0/+82that was more insightful than the chart
- engarak, on 07/08/2008, -0/+69Do we even have enough trees available?
- ph3rny, on 07/08/2008, -0/+68I recently had to wipe my mind of all media and audio for fear of copyright infringement.
- jspegele, on 07/08/2008, -2/+69my brain does not recognize the bmp format
- inactive, on 07/08/2008, -3/+67Viacom is too ***** greedy. Once a video with an excess of copyrighted content gets too popular, it gets thrown away anyways. How much money is this losing them that they have to be such asses about it?
- tkcom, on 07/08/2008, -1/+589.6 brains can only feed a zombie for a day.
- Thoric, on 07/08/2008, -2/+56If your movies are over 600 Gigabytes, yes.
- hotpuck6, on 07/08/2008, -0/+52***** it,
you guys are being way too practical.
12 terabytes of info, loaded onto 8,333,333,334 3.5" floppies.
Have fun with that one Viacom. - B3N3, on 07/08/2008, -0/+51If not, they can just keep reprinting them all on the same page.
- drunkenoaf, on 07/08/2008, -2/+49Thank you. You must be the only person in the tech section of Digg today that actually uses the critical thinking part of their brain when they see "scientific" data.
- billbugger, on 07/08/2008, -1/+481/10000000000000000000000000000000000 available online.
- inactive, on 07/08/2008, -1/+45caps
- joebaloney, on 07/09/2008, -1/+44Too late, I already tagged you as being offensive.
- langdonalger, on 07/08/2008, -1/+43there are other brains behind those.
- Jwoey, on 07/08/2008, -0/+42same reason 2615 looks like 5 i guess.
- hartley, on 07/08/2008, -0/+41According to Mead, a 4x4x8 core of wood can produce around 90,000 sheets of paper.
That equals out to over 55.5k trees. - WELLDOITLIVE, on 07/08/2008, -0/+40Depends on the strength of the Yen and the phase of the moon.
- Firehed, on 07/08/2008, -0/+39Preferably from the Viacom execs.
'course, they would probably need about 25 to match the intended capacity. - DeadFox1, on 07/08/2008, -0/+38They should really try to true-scale the y-axis for a better idea of the difference.
- Firehed, on 07/08/2008, -0/+37or one really, really good porno.
- ApokalypseNow, on 07/08/2008, -0/+35Telesoft is taken, too.
- rabidg00se, on 07/09/2008, -0/+3412 terabytes
- Tanouki, on 07/08/2008, -0/+33about 1.21 jigawatts per 88 mph for the Beetle Deluxe
- scy1192, on 07/09/2008, -0/+33INSERT DISK 1 / 7,284,003,221
READING DISK
CANNOT READ DISK
ABORT,RETRY,FAIL? - feoren, on 07/09/2008, -0/+33You don't want a resolution THAT good.
- n4tune8, on 07/08/2008, -1/+33Imagine all those songs you can hum, some of which you actually know the lyrics to. From childhood to present, that's a lot of MP3's!!!
- forevernomad, on 07/08/2008, -0/+32but teach him how to breed and he can feed himself for a lifetime.
- t0x2c, on 07/08/2008, -2/+34Did they say the data had to be unencrypted, or in that matter, accessible?
- feliks2, on 07/08/2008, -5/+36No, your not saying that, the article is saying that.
- gurudrew, on 07/08/2008, -0/+30Both taken. A motel chain and a medical supply company
- darkane, on 07/08/2008, -18/+44Buried for 'do' instead of 'does'.
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