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Old 06-20-2007, 05:49 AM   #1 (permalink)
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So, this is an instant message convo me and a friend just had, thought I'd share it with you all:

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[11:12] My Friend: I need to slow down
[11:12] Me: O_o
[11:13] My Friend: I've just used 30 gig's of storage space on music
[11:13] Me: Meh, that's what you have me for.
[11:14] My Friend: YES!! I can delete my 30 gigs and make you sing me the song I want to hear?
[11:14] Me: Yes. Or I can supply you with all of your storage needs.
[11:14] My Friend: like a filing cabinet?
[11:15] Me: Yes
[11:15] Me: You can print off all of your data in binary and save in it a cabinet
[11:16] My Friend: weak
[11:16] My Friend: how much does that hold?
[11:16] Me: Does what?
[11:16] Me: A cabinet?
[11:16] My Friend: fo sho
[11:16] My Friend: is there like 60 gigs?
[11:16] Me: Lemme calculate
[11:17] My Friend: are you serious?
[11:17] Me: Yes
[11:17] My Friend: do it.
[11:18] Me: Well, we can say that the average song is 4MB
[11:18] My Friend: agreed
[11:18] My Friend: unless it's a Skillet song..cause their like 7, 8MB
[11:19] Me: 4MB = 33554432 bits
[11:20] Me: One bit would be a 1 or 0
[11:20] My Friend: DUDE
[11:20] My Friend: I just finished my 30.5 GB file of 277 hip hop albums
[11:20] Me: One printed page hold approx 6460 characters
[11:22] Me: So one song would take 5194 pages
[11:22] My Friend: so..for time's sake..we're looking at about a .4 gig file cabinet
[11:23] Me: Doubtful
[11:24] Me: Average paper is 24lb/ream or .0048" per sheet
[11:26] Me: So, we're looking at about 25" of space needed for one song
[11:27] Me: Looking at my file cabinet of average thickness, I would say that one drawer is about 18" deep
[11:28] Me: And the average file cabinet has 4 drawers
[11:28] Me: So we're talking 72" of space
[11:29] Me: Or 2.89 songs per cabinet
[11:29] Me: So one cabinet holds about 11.55MB of space
[11:30] My Friend: lol, holy ****
[11:30] Me: Or, about .01128GB
[11:30] Me: Satisfied?
[11:31] My Friend: what if I wanted 30 seconds of the songs
[11:32] Me: Well, you'd have to put in some tabs
[11:32] Me: that way you could just flip to your favorite part of the song
[11:33] My Friend: good call
Rough and dirty calculations, but I think I got them all right.

By the way, this is supposed to be humorous. That means no hate'n.
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Old 06-20-2007, 06:19 AM   #2 (permalink)
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You have too much time on your hands. But interesting nonetheless.
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Old 06-20-2007, 06:46 AM   #3 (permalink)
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That is very good. And very funny!
Nice work thank you, found it very interesting.
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Old 06-20-2007, 07:08 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Haha I put "So one cabinet holds about 11.55MB of space" into my sig.

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Old 06-20-2007, 07:18 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Hmm...Another way to show my clients the efficiency of UPGRADED computers


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ROFL, is funny.

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Old 06-20-2007, 08:44 PM   #7 (permalink)
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hahahaha, thats great. but seriously dude, take up another hobby, you have a lot of free time.
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Old 06-21-2007, 12:46 AM   #8 (permalink)
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wow. just wow.
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What if you used a smaller text size and a condensed font?
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Old 06-21-2007, 05:07 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Well then it would be hard to read and that wouldn't be any good. No one wants to squint their eyes while listening to music.
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