On World of Warcraft and data requirements.

So, I don't play WoW, but I know a lot of you do.

The new patch today, I hear, is 500MB.
Going to 7.5 million subscribers.
For a total of 3.75 PETABYTES of bandwidth consumed.

harald387 and I were saying that that's really not a number we can put a useful meaning to, so I did some math: Assuming standard writable DVDs, that's 800,000 of them. In slim jewel cases, that's about 37 cubic meters - a single container-ship container full nearly to the brim of them. I'm having trouble finding exact cargo volume[1] capacities of 18-wheelers, but I suspect they're close to the same.

So it's as much bandwidth consumed as a TRACTOR TRAILER FULL OF DVDs.

I'm impressed.

(Also: a little less than 1/3 of a C-130 full.)

[1]: Cargo weight? Easy. Cargo volume? Not so much.

Stolen wholesale from fengi

A Graphic Summary Of Various Aspects
Of The Report By The Iraq Study Group

Part One: Findings



Part Two: Analysis



Part Three: Conclusions


All this is taken straight from fengi. The original is here

17 years.

Geneviève Bergeron
Hélène Colgan
Nathalie Croteau
Barbara Daigneault
Anne-Marie Edward
Maud Haviernick
Maryse Laganière
Maryse Leclair
Anne-Marie Lemay
Sonia Pelletier
Michèle Richard
Annie St-Arneault
Annie Turcotte
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz

(no subject)