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topazFrom two conversations I have recently had, with dear friends who shall remain nameless (unless they choose to identify themselves):
1. This gentleman has eight external disks, ranging in size from 500GB to 800GB each, daisy-chained to his iMac. He has a collection of 80,000 photos and probably almost as many MP3s, many of which in turn were encoded from vinyl LPs in his collection. His primary hobby is borrowing DVDs from the library and ripping them to disk so he can put them on his iPod Classic, which has a screen about 2" diagonal.
One of the disks in his chain had recently failed, so we were having a conversation about how best to back up his data and keep track of it.
I asked him, "How much storage do you have there?"
He stopped. He thought. He counted on his fingers.
Finally he said, "Six terabytes. Five? Maybe five. Six."
N.B.: what I am saying here is that he lost track of how many terabytes he had.
2. From an IRC conversation with another otherwise fine fellow:
There is an inverse relationship between the power of consumer technology and the sensible uses to which it is put.
(N.B. #2: I am not exempting myself from this law. Not for a moment.)
1. This gentleman has eight external disks, ranging in size from 500GB to 800GB each, daisy-chained to his iMac. He has a collection of 80,000 photos and probably almost as many MP3s, many of which in turn were encoded from vinyl LPs in his collection. His primary hobby is borrowing DVDs from the library and ripping them to disk so he can put them on his iPod Classic, which has a screen about 2" diagonal.
One of the disks in his chain had recently failed, so we were having a conversation about how best to back up his data and keep track of it.
I asked him, "How much storage do you have there?"
He stopped. He thought. He counted on his fingers.
Finally he said, "Six terabytes. Five? Maybe five. Six."
N.B.: what I am saying here is that he lost track of how many terabytes he had.
2. From an IRC conversation with another otherwise fine fellow:
at home with a head cold. What a perfect time to hook up the new hackable-to-region-free dvd player so that I can watch "Jerry Springer the Opera" in all its region 2 glory.I propose a new law of society and technology:
There is an inverse relationship between the power of consumer technology and the sensible uses to which it is put.
(N.B. #2: I am not exempting myself from this law. Not for a moment.)
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Date: 2009-03-26 08:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-26 08:18 pm (UTC)Currently visible as the jabber status message of a coworker who will remain nameless:
"What do you call 100TB of free disk space? An emergency low disk condition."
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Date: 2009-03-27 03:54 pm (UTC)But are you strangely intrigued?
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