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ö no! And FIR- oh, never mind.
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Now where did I leave that 10PB drive?
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Theme Hospital :D
Soooooo good !
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I abandoned all hope a long time ago. About the time I started viewing this site
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5.99 petabyte?
I hope Windows 7 has a less bloated desktop.
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The file name implies that that IS windows 7.
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I'm glad it specifies only 5.99PB. I'd hate to waste my money on a 6PB drive only to have 10TB left over with nothing to use it for.
And anyway 5.99PB should be enough for anyone!
Hey, wait a second... is that a petabyte or a pebibyte? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebibyte
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What, doesn't everybody have a 100 Peta byte hard drive these days? I thought that was standard.
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As you may notice, the ~6PB is to be downloaded to someone's desktop. So, obviously, some granny upgraded to MSIE 8, went to google, and right-clicked save to desktop. She's making a copy of the entire Internet!
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Chinese should also learn Austria is not a city.
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Yeah, it starts with a measly 6PB, but by the time the journaling file system gets done with it, and hands it off to the search indexer thingie, we're looking at 14PB minimum. Now let's hope you don't actually try to open it, because that makes two temporary copies even if you don't change anything.
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Or not.
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Note that it is Austria and not Australia.
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Also note "whooooosh".
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Wow. I could hear the whoosh of that going over your head from here...
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You people give geeks a bad name.
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I originally thought the poor person copying the address down was essentially copying a drawing, much as I would copy down chinese characters, but when you look at it carefully, it was clearly written by someone who had a least a basic idea of english type handwriting. So the box could well have been them being deliberately awkward, or simply having no way of recovering the original character and deciding a rectangle was less confusing than missing it out
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@aka
I'd imagining, that the square was from a font that didn't support that character. It was probably printed/onscreen and then copied by hand. I doubt that the person copying it gave it much thought really.......
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Oh, look! Shiny!
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@aka
I'd imagining, that the square was from a font that didn't support that character. It was probably printed/onscreen and then copied by hand. I doubt that the person copying it gave it much thought really.......
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That'll make 5 ? (or squares, if you do not have quotation marks) into the piggi bank for sustaining prejudices.
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Kibi, mebi etc. were a terrible idea. They're phonetically ugly and sound like very unprofessional. It would be embarrassing to say them.
That's why nobody uses them.
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I'm a little afraid, I don't think he's lying.
CAPTCHA: nulla
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i'm just glad that i don't have to write a chinese address... that would look like 上海 to me
[those boxes with numbers that firefox uses for unicode characters]
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But I bet they'll still say "click the defranglinder checkbox if you want to enable defranglinding" without ever telling you what defranglinding is or why you might or might not want it.
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It's ok to quote XKCD by proxy then?
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Couldn't that have been a Zip bomb?
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So you suffer from ADOS? Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny
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The message clearly says they're trying to copy the desktop to the desktop. Obviously they have a huge hard drive, and this created an infinite recursion loop filling it up.
Nice example. I see two Chinese characters.Admin
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Corrupted zip files are awesome! Kudos to WinZip for correctly handling the Petabyte prefix though... whoever wrote that part of the code was all about future-proofing. anyone want to bet on whether it'll handle Exabytes, Zettabytes, Yottabytes, Xonabytes, Wekabytes, and Vundabytes as well?
... I never even knew the last 3 of those existed as prefixes... http://guymal.com/techCorner/powers.shtml. Who gets naming rights on the one after Vundabytes? Following the backwards-alphabet trend, I think it should be named Uberbytes.
Same here... firefox 3. zbe, maybe your fonts are FUBAR?Admin
I thought I was good at killing rats on Theme Hospital until I saw Christian's prize. The higher I scored was about a measly 98%.
<sigh> That photo brought back a lot of good memories. It was one of the funniest games I ever played. The diseases' explanation, symptoms and treatment sheet was so full of nonsense it was hilarious. Guess I'll have to dig my TH cd now.
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I totally agree... Having different prefixes for binary units is not a bad idea, but those Mebi etc just sound retarded. I will NEVER use them.
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so sorry, no kangaroos in Austria... but skiing is great here ;o)
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Well, duh, obviously it was a box on their screen. The copying of the box is the part that was either being awkward or trying to be helpful. (as opposed to not recognising the missing character).
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No, the file name implies nothing. However, the UI implies that the system is at least Vista. Furthermore, the "Send Feedback" in the dialog title implies that it is a beta/RC version of the OS, which one might then assume to be Windows 7.
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No. the manufacturers don't use them because they'd have to build bigger drives (by some multiple of 1.024) while still having to stick to the same size numbers... very bad for marketing ;o)
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Having an 'ü' in my name, I know the pains of it. Or used to, anyway. Pretty much everything handles it correctly by now. Except for Apple's website. Either it rejects my name right away, or transforms the ü into ü. I don't like Apple.
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As we are talking german umlauts here (i.e. the Ö in the article), this should of course correctly read:
Überbytes
:o) (or Ueberbytes, if you care to avoid the cited font problems...)
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Here's some implication for you:
https://thedailywtf.com/images/200906/errord/Win7ExplorerError.png
PS. Would like to see the subtitles of the M□nti Pyth□n ik den H□lie Gr□ilen on those Chinese folks' computers
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What?
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