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Info Glut - Five Exabytes of Data Created in 2002
securitas writes "If you had any doubts that you are overwhelmed by the volume of information in your life, a new Berekley study (PDF) shows that five exabytes of data were created in 2002, twice the 1999 total. That's five million terabytes of data, or 500,000 Libraries of Congress, which works out to about 800 MB of data for each of the 6.3 billion people on the planet. Of note is that 92 percent of the new information was stored on magnetic media, which may create an interesting problem for historians and archaeologists of the future. The study was conducted by University of California-Berkeley's School of Information Management and Systems professors Peter Lyman and Hal Varian. More at CNet, Infoworld, ByteAndSwitch and The Register."
You know, most sane people would FP AC.
I'm 25, I've never had a girlfriend and I have no prospects, should I kill myself? If yes, please offer suggestions on how to do it (I don't have a gun).
I doubt that.
here is the aritcal
I'm the real Sir Haxalot, but I'm facing a bit of a problem at the moment. Some fool/fools came and modded all of my posts down, thus sending me down to terrible karma, and meaning that whenever I try to post I get the following messege:
Due to excessive bad posting from this IP or Subnet, comment posting has temporarily been disabled. If it's you, consider this a chance to sit in the timeout corner. If it's someone else, this is a chance to hunt them down.
So I'm asking for your help. Please mod up all my old posts so I'll be able to post again. Thanks in advance, Sir Haxalot.
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)