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edwardgeorge
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[ot/pedantry]Discussion Expectations at P5
« on: May 30th, 2003, 1:02pm » |
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I noticed the url format for the bulletin boards...
Individual threads are identified with a board name and a ten digit number.
Wow! that means for each board there is a possible 10000000000 threads which (rounding up the number of members to 400) is an average of 25million threads started each per board.
Wow, that's extensibility!
Imagine the server space required for that much information.
But then again people did use to ask why anyone would need more than 64k ram
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Ed, Suppose, Nottingham, UK
http://www.suppose.co.uk
http://ed.suppose.co.uk
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benelek
 
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Re: [ot/pedantry]Discussion Expectations at P5
« Reply #1 on: Jun 1st, 2003, 2:36am » |
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haha, now that i think about it, i can remember getting this 20gb disk and wondering how i was ever going to be able to fill it up.
interestingly, the largest amounts of space allocated for storage on my disk are mp3/mpg, photoshop/image files, and microsoft software (including windows).
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edwardgeorge
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Re: [ot/pedantry]Discussion Expectations at P5
« Reply #2 on: Jun 3rd, 2003, 3:07pm » |
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Yeah, i remember getting a half gig harddrive for my amiga, i thought i was the daddy!
i never filled it up.
Its bizarre to think that then hard-drives where once smaller than a CD's capacity. It seems perverse by todays economies. but then we didn't have rewritable cds then, or a half-gig of memory.
Wow, my amigas hard-drive was the sime size as my ram now.
Aaah, nostalgia.
Quote:| interestingly, the largest amounts of space allocated for storage on my disk are mp3/mpg, photoshop/image files |
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Yeah, when i was at college I had photoshop files that took up several gigs.
I refused to flatten the layers.
I believed in preversing all the process of their creation.
I had to flatten them eventually.
Now, In order to preserve the process of my work, i store all changes chronologically in this data-structury-thing called 'time'.
If I ever want to revert to something, no-matter how long ago, i simply have to...errr...travel back in time.
It's wonderfully space efficiently; done with a file for now: delete it, tell your colleagues it's filed it under 'ten-minutes ago'.
Wondering further off-topic... ho-hum!
Pure displacement activities whilst everyone's out of the office.
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Ed, Suppose, Nottingham, UK
http://www.suppose.co.uk
http://ed.suppose.co.uk
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arielm
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Re: [ot/pedantry]Discussion Expectations at P5
« Reply #3 on: Jun 3rd, 2003, 3:46pm » |
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on Jun 3rd, 2003, 3:07pm, edwardgeorge wrote:I refused to flatten the layers.
I believed in preversing all the process of their creation.
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Now, In order to preserve the process of my work, i store all changes chronologically in this data-structury-thing called 'time'.
If I ever want to revert to something, no-matter how long ago, i simply have to...errr...travel back in time.
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nice concept
i have this vague project of building a new Operating System called CHRONOLOG (where everything is recorded, including recording... hello self-reflection) which could enable this sort of things (even without travelling in time), just by playing with a deck interface (with play, unplay, rewind, etc. buttons)
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Ariel Malka | www.chronotext.org
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