Coming Soon - Two Million Posts

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Even 1,000 a day would be good...

--A

[aTOMiC]

Well another way of getting there would be recruiting an active membership of say 33,000. With a world population of roughly 7.4 billion that doesn't sound like a lot. The bigger problem we may face in the future is the storage capacity of The Watch. We may not be able to contain 2 million posts.

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Vain should really do something about that...

--A

[aTOMiC]

Vain should really do something about that...

--A

I have a hunch that by the time we reach 2 million posts the storage space required will be so small by today's reckoning that it will be laughable.

Remember 500 megabyte hard drives? I do and they are now all occupying space in land fills and recycling centers. Cloud storage 15 years from now will have such capacities that our current storage will hardly use up a fraction of the amount one will be offered for a "free" account.

No worries.

[wayfriend]

Remember 500 megabyte hard drives?

I remember 10MB hard drives. When they were the new hotness. But that's a different problem.

[aTOMiC]

Remember 500 megabyte hard drives?

I remember 10MB hard drives. When they were the new hotness. But that's a different problem.

I do remember them. I just didn't want to clear off the cobwebs. I was a junior in high school when they were new but I was exposed to them years later. Of course I was removing them from dusty old computers and seeing if I could upgrade to larger drives.


This machine was common around the office when I first began with computers.
The brand new, rockin Gateway 486/33 with 20mb hard drive!

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Haha, my first hard drive was 20Mb.

--A

[aTOMiC]

Haha, my first hard drive was 20Mb.

--A

Time's sure have changed. I have 64Gb on my 3 year old thumb drive.

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Think my first flash drive was 32mb.

Now I have 10 Terabytes of external storage at home.

--A

[aTOMiC]

I have a 2TB external drive and a 1TB drive. Sounds like I need to go shopping to keep up. I don't have enough data to fill up the 3TB I have but that's no reason not to be prepared.

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The more space you get, the more data you will accrue. It's like some weird fact of computer life.

--A

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Bit slow last month, only 1,737 posts. Pick it up guys, or we'll never hit 2 million.

--A

[aTOMiC]

Slackers we are.

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Yes, yes you are.

--A

[aTOMiC]

Bit slow last month, only 1,737 posts. Pick it up guys, or we'll never hit 2 million.

--A

I just looked and our post count for a January is the worst since 2003.

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Shame on you all.

--A

[peter]

A count up? Who ever heard of a count up - it's a countdown not a count up!

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After a relatively active March, looks like we're facing a slow April.

Still 989,799 posts to go before we hit 2 million.

--A

[peter]

Who made the millionth posting the end? (It had to be you Av, didn't it? Anything else would have been unfair! )

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Nah, it was Sorus or WF I think.

--A