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Gmail Users Get A Storage Boost [updated]
Faies writes "As reported by ZDNet: Not to be outdone by Lycos, Google just upped its 1,000 megabyte accounts to 1,000,000 MB. I just recently checked my inbox, and the number at the bottom confirms this. "You are currently using 12 MB (0%) of your 1000000 MB." That's more than my hard drive...and plus, Google clearly wants to hold the title of being best, so who knows what will happen if someone else tries to compete with a terabyte." Now how much would you pay? Update: 05/19 13:34 GMT by T : Several comments to this thread indicate that the listed mailbox size limit has returned to the previous 1GB level, so this apparent change may be nothing more than the result of a misplaced decimal point.
Looks like just one more reason to get top dollar when I auction my account ;)
mwahahahaha!!!
my mouth is open but theres no sound. just proves that its not only in space that no one can hear you scream...
1000000megs.. I wonder what age I'll be when I have that much storage space on my computer.
Time to uuencode my disk images and backup to Gmail!
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...it's just the binary representation of the size of your inbox
Gmail, here I come!
M.
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Numismatica
Nobody really expects a terrabyte of storage do they?
They do now.
#!/usr/bin/english
999998000 MB
If religous zealots don't believe in Evolution, then why are they so worried about bird flu?
If they ever get around to offering a googol of bytes for your mailbox, then maybe someone will have a reason to sue!
Wake me up when we get one petabyte storage for free.
What can you do with that much email space. Loose every important message you ever get.
All those people who save forwars will use Gmail.
Evolution or ID?
as Slashdot has said before, the LaCie BiggerDisk is a device with 1 TB of storage. You can buy it for $1100.
Hey, multiply that by the number of GMail accounts, and divide by the number of shares in Google... and you might get something close to Google's IPO price! Im a genius!
Well, they have to store the Spanish Inquisition somewhere.
Overrated / Underrated : Moderation
... It appears that Google is offering an upgrade to their User Interface!
This is Incredible! I've never seen anything like it! How are they doing this!? It's seems so convincing and life-like!!
(walking head-first into large, heavy object)
Oops! Sorry. It seems to be a real tree.
Years later, a doctor will tell me that I have an I.Q. of 48, and am what some people call "mentally retarded".
It never hurts to read the actual article.
you must be new here...
I saw it on Slashdot, it must be true!
Lucky man ! So you don't have a whole population of parasits at work, spending most of their time forwarding (and even designing for the brightest ones) unfunny powerpoint documents to their whole addressbook ?
Or perhaps you are The True Geek and have no friends. I feel your pain buddy.
How will Google deal with the massive amount of bandwidth that they must need for this? I bet they'll be deleting all of the unused accounts, just so those unused accounts dont suck up bandwitdh.
The real reason for this much email space is for the next version of Office - so that users can attach a Word document.
I for one welcome our new [insert main topic] overlords.
As soon as google goes public and has several buhzillion dollars *free money* handed to them, they would theoretically be in a postion to own their own hardware production facilities. They could have their own server, ram, chip, harddrive facilities. Heck, they might be able to start owning chunks of the fat pipes all over for that matter.
they would then be known as GOOGZILLA!
This move to offer TB worth of storage just helps them get investor mindshare, make more loot when they go public.
Ta heck with "desktop" dominance and monopoly, they could conceivably become an "internet" monopoly.
What's it worth to "own" the information on the internet to a big degree, and to be able to access it and index it faster than anyone? What's it worth to private business and to various governments, what would they pay for that information?
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Glonoinha the MebiByte Slayer
Look at his UID then look at yours. You're both new here.
Ah, you're the reason they switched back, then? :-)
Money for nothing, pix for free
First it was the Initech accounting scam, now Google and GMail.
When will the smooth gangsta realize that messing up some mundane detail always results in catastrophic failure?
We have secretly replaced these Slashdot mods' sense of humor with a rusty nail. Let's see if they notice!!
You know you're obsessed with /. when you take this offer :)
Gmail/Karma swap
My dog ate my sig
"It never hurts to read the actual article."
Can't, Google's Slashdottted.
"Derp de derp."
To get the 1GB account you will need to cough up 3.49GBP a month.
If the account only holds 1GB then what are they doing with the remaining 2.49GB/ a month?
Not being satisfied with this insecure method, I make sure that I ROT13 encrypt my emails twice just in case.
Want to improve your Karma? Instead of "Post Anonymously", try the "Post Humously" option.
The problem is that the moment you comment on the newness factor, someone else with a lower UID responds to you. Just watch....
You need to restart your computer. Hold down the Power button for several seconds or press the Restart button.
--I refute you. ;-)
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Michael Bolton: Shit! I always do that. I always mess up some mundane detail.
Slagheap
First against the wall when the revolution comes
I wonder if I can send my hard drive as an attachment.
Indeed, I further refute you!
It was recently discovered that research causes cancer in rats.
Um...I believe you have my terabyte?
Just check out the google cach-- .. er.. oh ya. never mind.
I can just imagine Hotmail and Yahoo executives having a heart attack on that little mistake. :)
I've been here so long my ID is binary.
No, that username's already taken. ;-)
Ha! And I refute you. ( are we getting silly yet? )
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