"and second how we've completely lost touch with how big things are."
I think the author missed reading his own writing :)
It's about 39000 times, not counting overhead for meta data and end-of-file slack.
It is amazing though, the speed with which the price of storage has come down. 10GHz processors are probably not going to happen, but I really won't be surprised if someone will offer a multiple terabyte solid state drive within a decade.
Not all that long ago I bought a 500 MB conner peripherals hard drive for about 1500$ and I wondered how we would ever fill that thing up...
I think the author missed reading his own writing :)
It's about 39000 times, not counting overhead for meta data and end-of-file slack.
It is amazing though, the speed with which the price of storage has come down. 10GHz processors are probably not going to happen, but I really won't be surprised if someone will offer a multiple terabyte solid state drive within a decade.
Not all that long ago I bought a 500 MB conner peripherals hard drive for about 1500$ and I wondered how we would ever fill that thing up...