Computer Fixing People

Attacking Steve

Steve was playing Counter-Strike on my computer, so I surprise attacked him with a pillow:

Except with lemon juice and salt.

This depicts work perfectly.

Mmmm... SNAX0rZ

(Click picture to enlarge... the picture... yeah.)

Comics that Apply

I stole these from my sister-in-law's sister. They are comics that you'd expect to find on our cubicles.

Yotta! Yotta! Yotta!

I don't know how much you know about computers, or more importantly data storage, but you should know what a terabyte is by now. If not, you should be ashamed of yourself and immediately ask for forgiveness. If so, continue on with me as we explore the depths of data storage capacity and its mating habits...

How about we start at kilobytes? Kilobytes are small. For example, the picture on the right is about 6 kilobytes. Puny... nothing.

A megabyte... we should all know what those are by now. Your average MP3 is about 4 MB. Getting bigger, but still miniscule compared to the things coming.

Gigabyte should be a household name now since most households have computers in them. Your average computer contains a hard drive that has about 100 GB worth of space on it. Personally, I have a 120 GB hard drive and I'm running low. I am thinking of buying a new 320 GB for my file storing pleasure. Also, the creation of HD DVD (High Definition Digital Video Disc) and the BD (Blu-ray Disc) will help. Both of these items can hold anywhere between 15 GB to 100GB of data.

We are going to start hearing the word terabyte more and more in the near future. 1 TB = approximately 1000 GB, so you can imagine how big that is. If that doesn't help, the books in the U.S. Library of Congress have been said to contain approximately 20 terabytes of text. Note that this may be an underestimation. The next generation of optical discs is called HVD (Holographic Versatile Disc) and they can hold up to 3.9 TB of information. It is my belief that computers will have multi-terabyte hard drives within the next couple decades.

A petabyte has nothing to do with the animal rights organization (thankfully) nor round flat wheat bread. It is only a step up the storage chain. Reportedly, Google has between 1.8 and 5 petabytes of storage. Also, in Star Trek: The Next Generation, the android Data was built with an ultimate storage capacity of 800 quadrillion bits, or approximately 88 petabytes.

We're starting to get into the rediculous stage when we talk about exabytes. As of 2005, exabytes of data are almost never encountered in any practical context. For example, the total amount of printed material in the world is estimated to be around five exabytes. I doubt that we will ever see any type of device hold this amount of data in our lifetime.

Above that is a zettabyte. Although it may sound like a pasta dish, there is nothing that is a zettabyte right now. Once again, this will probably be something that we will barely hear about when we are on our deathbeds.

The highest unit of information known to man right now is the yottabyte. The YB is equal to one septillion bytes. I didn't even know how much one septillion is, but I found out it is 10^24, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. That is absolutely insane.

This is the future and it's approaching one second at a time. In conclusion, for Christmas, I would like a 1 yottabyte hard drive rack plzkthx.

The Answer To My Prayers

Worst Day of Work Ever!

Yeah... that's all.

David Brent Dance in The Office