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From: Noe Boddie <nobody@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: ATTN SL: You are incurring expenses on my part!!!
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 16:00:10 -0700
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In article <ing58edqukfgme7ibgcauvsaggrqbdtqpr@4ax.com>,
SerpentLord@Evil.Incarn8 says...
>
> On Thu, 7 Mar 2019 19:28:38 -0800, Noe Boddie <nobody@nowhere.com>
> wrote:
>
> >So many great posts from you here and in hairy groups that my pr0n drive
> >is almost full (to be fair it has a 15 year backlog). Fortunately Costco
> >is having a sale on external backup drives, so it's all good. Hehe ;)
> >
> >Interesting factoid. My first hard drive was a... Maxtor? Not sure, all
> >I know is it was 40 MB and cost $650.00 - which really hurt, as a
> >college student. There went 1/5th of my student loan for that year.
> >
> >So, @ $99.00 for a 5 TB drive... in 1981, if I did the math correctly,
> >that much capacity in 40MB Maxtor drives would have cost $81,250,000.
> >
> >Geeezus I am old.
> >
> >NB
>
> Makes me think of the video I was watching last night of which
> would win in a head-to-head matchup, SU-35 vs. F-22. Here:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeqGKSv4jvM
>
> I've taken to halving(size reduction) these big sets I want to
> keep using Irfanview Batch Resize option. I do all my backups to DVD
> too. As long as the sizes are 1920xXXXX or a little bigger I think
> I'll be satisfiied.
> Also I was reading in MaxPC this month of how SSD prices are
> going to continue to fall this year. You can also, fairly reasonably,
> get a 1TB SSD right now.
> We're never going to have enough drive space for our digital
> content. Just recognize that you can't keep it all. Maybe minimizing
> the sizes will come back to bite me in the ass, who knows?
> I sorry for being a pill.
I think newsgroup charter clauses about resizing files are outdated. I
do the same myself. Who needs a 6448x4996 image, honestly? If I want to
see a clit the size of a salad plate... oh right, I DON'T.
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