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xander · Postby **xander** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 2:18 am

Maybe I'm just getting old...

My first computer didn't have a hard drive. It had two 5.25" floppy drives. A 100 KB file was large. It wasn't until 1999 that I even had a computer that was capable of storing a file as large as 100 MB (that was the year that I got a new computer with a 3 GB HD, replacing the 12 year old machine with a 20 MB drive). Even then, when your total storage capacity is only 3 GB, 100 MB seems like a lot.

On the other hand, take a serious look at the files on your drive. How many of them really exceed 100 MB? I don't know about you, but the primary purpose of my computer is to allow me to get work done. I produce a lot of files, most of which are under 1 MB---in fact, most of them can be measured in single digit kilobytes. My music library is populated primarily by files that are less than 10 MB in size. The only kinds of files that I can imagine that would be larger than 100 MB would be installation archives (like the one linked above) and movies. As these files are an order of magnitude larger than anything else on the drive, and make up a small percentage of the total number of files, it seems fair to call them monsters. They are an anomaly, rather than the norm.

xander

Xocrates · Postby **Xocrates** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 2:27 am

That's the thing isn't it? A 100 MB file is large. A 100 MB Download, in this day and age, isn't.

Cooper42 · Postby **Cooper42** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 4:40 am

100MB is large for a single file and is a large amount to download in one go.

What are you lot downloading?

Seitaro · Postby **Seitaro** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 5:30 am

Cooper42 wrote:What are you lot downloading?

Well ask yourself, what are the biggest files on the internet usually? :roll:

And I'll say that a file does 'feel' bigger if it's going to take a long ass time to download. I torrent a lot so a 100mb file can take 5 minutes as oppose to 15 - 25 minutes if you tried to pull it right off a server.

xander · Postby **xander** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 3:53 pm

Seitaro wrote:
Cooper42 wrote:What are you lot downloading?

Well ask yourself, what are the biggest files on the internet usually? :roll:

Ah! That must be the difference! I'm married, and can have sex whenever I want. I don't need porn. :P

xander

Mas Tnega · Postby **Mas Tnega** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 5:25 pm

Even during lunchtime?

Cooper42 · Postby **Cooper42** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 5:31 pm

Only after she's made the lunch.

Because she's a WOMAN and therefore should be in the KITCHEN preparing FOOD for MEN. UNLESS she is having SEX.

See what I did there?

Yrael · Postby **Yrael** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 6:58 pm

Actually, I use them because I'm French, not because I'm showing off. ^^ (And we use only bits & octets so I was indeed talking about the 8bits in a octet).

But you're right, main topic is the game, and I've got to go and try it out.

Mas Tnega · Postby **Mas Tnega** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 7:56 pm

Cooper42 wrote:Only after she's made the lunch.

Because she's a WOMAN and therefore should be in the KITCHEN preparing FOOD for MEN. UNLESS she is having SEX.

See what I did there?

Unfortunately not. Your efforts to hammer the point home as hard as possible has denied me my sight.

Jordy... · Postby **Jordy...** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 8:02 pm

I don't see what you did there Cooper, but I do totally agree with you.

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