Nothing like being prepared

Platapus · 09-07-18, 02:28 PM

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I had to look it up. A Zetabyte is One Trillion Gigabytes.

It is a funny coincidence that a zetabyte of porn is one sextillion bytes.

Catfish · 09-07-18, 02:30 PM

Download more ram!
https://downloadmoreram.com/

STEED · 09-07-18, 03:16 PM

He must have heck of a right hook.

em2nought · 09-07-18, 04:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by STEED

He must have heck of a right hook.

Suddenly, I understand my golf game.

Sean C · 09-07-18, 08:22 PM

I'm confused. Why is this a headline? Is downloading all the porn illegal?

...asking for a friend.

Buddahaid · 09-07-18, 09:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by em2nought

Suddenly, I understand my golf game.

I think you may be using an illegal putter. I'm reporting this to the officials......

Jimbuna · 09-08-18, 05:25 AM

What's God got to do with porn?

Platapus · 09-08-18, 06:34 AM

God's name is mentioned quite often during porno movies...

A friend told me about that.

Jimbuna · 09-08-18, 07:05 AM

A girlfriend or a boyfriend

Platapus · 09-08-18, 07:08 AM

In case anyone is wondering, yes this is a fake headline.

But it does make one think about how hard it is to imagine such large amounts of data. While porn probably does take up most of the Internets Tubes, the massive numbers of non-porn data that we are producing can boggle the mind.

The fastest data transfer rate achieved to date is 1.25 Terabit per second from an experiment from University College London in 2016. That is 156 Gigabytes per second. That's a bit (megabit?) faster than what consumers can get.

Just for funnies, Lets assume that this individual in the fake headline had the UCL data capability. How long would it take to download 13 Zetabytes of anything?

One Zetabyte is one Trillion Gigabytes.

To download 13 Zetabytes using the UCL capability will take 83,333,333,333.3 seconds. That would be 2642.4 years.

How about cost of storage?

I think that cloud storage is running about $0.01 per gigabyte. Just for fun, lets go with that figure.

13,000,000,000,000 @ @0.01 per gigabyte is $130,000,000,000

I am not sure how many clouds would have multiple zetabyte storage capacity. Perhaps it would be a cloud of clouds.... of clouds?

I don't think that this gentleman would be saving all that much money downloading instead of just paying the current rates for porn, which are approximately zero.... so my friend tells me.

A fun thought experiment, but as the amounts of data being produced and transmitted keeps increasing, these figures won't be so absurd in the future.

Yikes.

I remember when DEC came out with the first consumer hard disk drive. It contained 5 megabytes! At the time, I thought that no individual would ever need 5 megabytes of storage. Perhaps only the biggest corporations. 5 megabytes? There would be no way any individual would ever be able to have 5 megabytes of data to store.

I was mistaken.

Platapus · 09-08-18, 07:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Buddahaid

I think you may be using an illegal putter. I'm reporting this to the officials......

Sir, We have had complaints about you holding your niblick while out in public.

vienna · 09-10-18, 01:43 PM

"Heh, heh...He said 'lick'... heh, heh,!!"

<O>

09-07-18, 02:28 PM	#1
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 18,936 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	Nothing like being prepared From Florida (where else) https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrac...et_neutrality/ I had to look it up. A Zetabyte is One Trillion Gigabytes. It is a funny coincidence that a zetabyte of porn is one sextillion bytes. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

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STEED Lucky Jack Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Down Town UK Posts: 27,695 Downloads: 89 Uploads: 48	He must have heck of a right hook. __________________ Dr Who rest in peace 1963-2017. To borrow Davros saying...I NAME YOU CHIBNALL THE DESTROYER OF DR WHO YOU KILLED IT!

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09-08-18, 05:25 AM	#7
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,102 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	What's God got to do with porn? __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)

09-08-18, 06:34 AM	#8
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 18,936 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	God's name is mentioned quite often during porno movies... A friend told me about that. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

09-08-18, 07:05 AM	#9
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,102 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	A girlfriend or a boyfriend __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)

09-08-18, 07:08 AM	#10
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 18,936 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	In case anyone is wondering, yes this is a fake headline. But it does make one think about how hard it is to imagine such large amounts of data. While porn probably does take up most of the Internets Tubes, the massive numbers of non-porn data that we are producing can boggle the mind. The fastest data transfer rate achieved to date is 1.25 Terabit per second from an experiment from University College London in 2016. That is 156 Gigabytes per second. That's a bit (megabit?) faster than what consumers can get. Just for funnies, Lets assume that this individual in the fake headline had the UCL data capability. How long would it take to download 13 Zetabytes of anything? One Zetabyte is one Trillion Gigabytes. To download 13 Zetabytes using the UCL capability will take 83,333,333,333.3 seconds. That would be 2642.4 years. How about cost of storage? I think that cloud storage is running about $0.01 per gigabyte. Just for fun, lets go with that figure. 13,000,000,000,000 @ @0.01 per gigabyte is $130,000,000,000 I am not sure how many clouds would have multiple zetabyte storage capacity. Perhaps it would be a cloud of clouds.... of clouds? I don't think that this gentleman would be saving all that much money downloading instead of just paying the current rates for porn, which are approximately zero.... so my friend tells me. A fun thought experiment, but as the amounts of data being produced and transmitted keeps increasing, these figures won't be so absurd in the future. Yikes. I remember when DEC came out with the first consumer hard disk drive. It contained 5 megabytes! At the time, I thought that no individual would ever need 5 megabytes of storage. Perhaps only the biggest corporations. 5 megabytes? There would be no way any individual would ever be able to have 5 megabytes of data to store. I was mistaken. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

09-10-18, 01:43 PM	#12
vienna Navy Seal Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Anywhere but the here & now... Posts: 7,498 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	"Heh, heh...He said 'lick'... heh, heh,!!" <O> __________________ __________________________________________________ __