What is your new word for the day?

[Dave McClung]

I learned a new word today -- "petaflop." I know that a "flop" is an experiment that has failed. Why should I trust a computer that is described as a "Petaflop Machine?" The new computer at the University of Iowa is supposed to be the first computer to prosess a thousand trillion floating point operations per second, a petaflop.

[Randy Wise]

I learned a new word today -- "petaflop." I know that a "flop" is an experiment that has failed. Why should I trust a computer that is described as a "Petaflop Machine?" The new computer at the University of Iowa is supposed to be the first computer to prosess a thousand trillion floating point operations per second, a petaflop.

Along the same lines in regard to storage sizes:

I remember in years past when you spoke to the iT guys about 1 gig drives and using terms like surfing the web many looked on us as if we spoke a foreign language. Now many of those terms are well known and used by many. (common place)

I wonder what the common size drive will be 20 years from now? Assuming they still use HD's.

Processor or Virtual Storage Disk Storage
· 1 Bit = Binary Digit
· 8 Bits = 1 Byte
· 1024 Bytes = 1 Kilobyte
· 1024 Kilobytes = 1 Megabyte
· 1024 Megabytes = 1 Gigabyte
· 1024 Gigabytes = 1 Terabyte
· 1024 Terabytes = 1 Petabyte
· 1024 Petabytes = 1 Exabyte
· 1024 Exabytes = 1 Zettabyte
· 1024 Zettabytes = 1 Yottabyte
· 1024 Yottabytes = 1 Brontobyte
· 1024 Brontobytes = 1 Geopbyte

· 1 Bit = Binary Digit
· 8 Bits = 1 Byte
· 1000 Bytes = 1 Kilobyte
· 1000 Kilobytes = 1 Megabyte
· 1000 Megabytes = 1 Gigabyte
· 1000 Gigabytes = 1 Terabyte
· 1000 Terabytes = 1 Petabyte
· 1000 Petabytes = 1 Exabyte
· 1000 Exabytes = 1 Zettabyte
· 1000 Zettabytes = 1 Yottabyte
· 1000 Yottabytes = 1 Brontobyte
· 1000 Brontobytes = 1 Geopbyte

[Chuck Wilkes]

Along the same lines in regard to storage sizes:

I remember in years past when you spoke to the iT guys about 1 gig drives and using terms like surfing the web many looked on us as if we spoke a foreign language. Now many of those terms are well known and used by many. (common place)

I wonder what the common size drive will be 20 years from now? Assuming they still use HD's.

Processor or Virtual Storage Disk Storage
· 1 Bit = Binary Digit
· 8 Bits = 1 Byte
· 1024 Bytes = 1 Kilobyte
· 1024 Kilobytes = 1 Megabyte
· 1024 Megabytes = 1 Gigabyte
· 1024 Gigabytes = 1 Terabyte
· 1024 Terabytes = 1 Petabyte
· 1024 Petabytes = 1 Exabyte
· 1024 Exabytes = 1 Zettabyte
· 1024 Zettabytes = 1 Yottabyte
· 1024 Yottabytes = 1 Brontobyte
· 1024 Brontobytes = 1 Geopbyte

· 1 Bit = Binary Digit
· 8 Bits = 1 Byte
· 1000 Bytes = 1 Kilobyte
· 1000 Kilobytes = 1 Megabyte
· 1000 Megabytes = 1 Gigabyte
· 1000 Gigabytes = 1 Terabyte
· 1000 Terabytes = 1 Petabyte
· 1000 Petabytes = 1 Exabyte
· 1000 Exabytes = 1 Zettabyte
· 1000 Zettabytes = 1 Yottabyte
· 1000 Yottabytes = 1 Brontobyte
· 1000 Brontobytes = 1 Geopbyte

It's all a little hard to get your head around, but it seems to be working. My only problem is being reminded of all the money I spent on technology that become obsolete quickly...like the $7,500 I spent in 1984 for a 40MB hard drive for my law firm. I just got a 2GB stick the other day for $29. I could sure use that $7,500!

Chuck

[Randy Wise]

It's all a little hard to get your head around, but it seems to be working. My only problem is being reminded of all the money I spent on technology that become obsolete quickly...like the $7,500 I spent in 1984 for a 40MB hard drive for my law firm. I just got a 2GB stick the other day for $29. I could sure use that $7,500!

Chuck

Thats true, but you can use that to your advantage. Lets say you want to purchase Apple products and you see the relative high costs that Apple charges for its products. You can then reason that current Apple products are a lot less then the amount you spent on past PC products. Purchase Justified!:smilies1722:

Randy