Path: ...!news.nobody.at!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Tahitian pearl Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: This post has nothing to do with video games Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2025 06:05:21 -0600 Organization: Pieces o eight Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <2mearjh9sag87b82ooaric74dfh0hok93q@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net ej32sAH/VUd3yuuu2NZmZAbk1RCkzwS0INsvShCeqGPD0TzWYc Cancel-Lock: sha1:TfMk0FOnotA48KzXTKHY2ogn6Bs= sha256:oZ3JLe9RNTzrbSUUf1T/Bc0I4+A/vEeeN2YcniL/QGs= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.20 In-Reply-To: <2mearjh9sag87b82ooaric74dfh0hok93q@4ax.com> Bytes: 1484 Spalls Hurgenson wrote: > It's the fact that I know own a storage device capable of holding more > data than I EVER owned in the first twenty years of owning > computers... and it's smaller than my finger nail. Not true. You'll find that the segmentation means that if you store a 10 kB text file from your 20 yrs it will occupy 1 MB on the fancy new drive. You are making the mistake of imagining improvement all across the board. -- No heebies, creepies or hallucinogenics It's the height of paranoia Male, white, mid-to-late thirties