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Re:Eric Schmidt’s "5 Exabytes" Quote is a Load of Crap by turboneat on Monday February 07, 2011 @12:49PM (#2189882)
To me, the difference between "23 exabytes every 7 days" and "5 exabytes every 3 days" is pretty irrelevant.

I think a better quote would be "By 2003, mankind had generated a shitload of information. Now we generate a shitload every day."

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Re:Eric Schmidt’s "5 Exabytes" Quote is a Load of Crap by burgerbrain on Monday February 07, 2011 @12:55PM (#2189901)
Exactly, the entire point of the quote was to get across the absurd magnitude of growth that we're seeing in a way that anybody can understand.

If you care enough about numbers and can figure out how to say it more accurately... more power to you I guess? Doesn't change the effectiveness of the quote though.

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Re:Eric Schmidt’s "5 Exabytes" Quote is a Load of Crap by anonymous246 on Monday February 07, 2011 @02:31PM (#2190282)
Using shitload as a unit of data: sarcasm or serious?
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Re:Eric Schmidt’s "5 Exabytes" Quote is a Load of Crap by burgerbrain on Monday February 07, 2011 @02:38PM (#2190315)
It's not a unit, it's a magnitude or count. Used in similar situations as "a lot". It's neither 'sarcastic' nor 'serious', but rather 'casual'.
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