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minus-squareBarbecue Cowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up75·5 months agoI know it’s the point of the meme, but converting ‘Eiffel Towers’ into a unit of measure that can hold text, images and video… My brain is just stuck on it.
minus-squareMnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up37·5 months agoI presume it would be the height of the stack if you printed everything out on paper and put the videos on… Tape? Disc?
minus-squareBarbecue Cowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30·5 months agoVideo is where my mind breaks. Print out the individual frames?
minus-squaresnoons@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down1·5 months agoThat’s probably what it is. That’s usually what cops (ACAB) mean when they say stuff like ten gajillion images.
minus-squareBerengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·5 months agoBack in the early 90s tv Presenters and teachers used to talk about computer discs in terms of how many phone books you could store on them. For example: “This “multimedia pc” has a massive 340 mb hard drive, which can hold as much information as 500 phone books!” It’s probably an attempt to do something similar.
I know it’s the point of the meme, but converting ‘Eiffel Towers’ into a unit of measure that can hold text, images and video… My brain is just stuck on it.
I presume it would be the height of the stack if you printed everything out on paper and put the videos on… Tape? Disc?
Video is where my mind breaks. Print out the individual frames?
That’s probably what it is. That’s usually what cops (ACAB) mean when they say stuff like ten gajillion images.
Back in the early 90s tv Presenters and teachers used to talk about computer discs in terms of how many phone books you could store on them.
For example: “This “multimedia pc” has a massive 340 mb hard drive, which can hold as much information as 500 phone books!”
It’s probably an attempt to do something similar.
Additional paper?