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To: Meet the New Boss

2 terabytes of data is a towering s**tload of 140-characters-at-a-time messages.

It’s a towering s**tload of 14,000-characters-at-a-time messages.


15 posted on 05/18/2018 9:41:41 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

2 terabytes is a huge amount of text. Did they vacuum up ALL Russian internet traffic?


48 posted on 05/18/2018 10:38:28 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Socialists want YOUR wealth redistributed, never THEIRS!)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Yeah, but they’re using Windoz, so that takes up close to a terabyte just for the O/S, then all the files are in M$ format, which adds another terabyte of extraneous formatting data to the 100 K of actual text material.


71 posted on 05/18/2018 1:46:17 PM PDT by hadit2here ("The urge to save humanity is nearly always a cover for the urge to rule." -- H.L. Mencken)
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