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Member 7989122 wrote:
So, today I get 156 617 times the amount of storage space per buck than I got as a student.
And that surprises you how?
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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Consider it an observation, not a surprise.
I am more surprised when considering the cost of Super-8 movie film: I saved my weekly allowances for a year to buy myself a Kodak M14 back in 1968 (NOK 385 then, NOK 3600 or USD 440 today). The 3 min 20 sec film rolls cost NOK 47 then, today that would be NOK 440 after inflation adjustment. That is almost NOK 8000 (or roughly USD 980) per hour.
My suprise lies not in the price itself, but in the filled shelves of Super-8 reels in my childhood - hours and more hours, from vactations, family parties, weekend trips... My mother was not working until much later, my father was rather moderately paid, yet they managed to pay for a new detached house where we moved in the same year as I got my Super-8 camera. How could they possibly affort that? I never knew. I don't think I could have spent that amount of money with a loan about ten times my yearly income, two school age kids and a wife with no income!
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Hmm. I remember paying around $12 for a box of 2,000 blank punch cards in the university book store. At 72(*) useful bytes of data per card, that comes to $87.38 per MB, or about $2,860,000 for 32G (not including the truck(s) and fuel required to move that much data around). (*) Yes, I know cards had 80 columns. Only a demented Philistine would suggest using the numbering columns for data.
I just bought a couple of 32GB sticks for $9.95 each. That's a ratio of about 288,000 to 1. Of course, back then I didn't need to carry around as many cat videos.
Software Zen: delete this;
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It's great reading all these "old guy" stories [as an old guy]. My 2nd favorite story is how it took three of us to carry a 600 MB hard drive up three flights of stairs (the A/C often failed which of course meant the drives would often fail). There's another unit of comparison: let's see, three young men might imply the drives weighed about 150 kg (Someone want to check that for me? They were DEC VAX drives). That's roughly 4 MB/kg 
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On the grounds that it’s the first day back at work, for most of us, and you probably have more pressing things to get on with than the CCC, a nice simple one to get your brain cells back into gear…
Execute and finish - many of us still have one! (8)
modified 2-Jan-18 4:21am.
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Execute HANG
and finish OVER many of us still have one!
HANGOVER
Not I though! 
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Indeed! Nor I....
Harder one next time...!
... back to work... 
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I came into work this morning, and all my AD accounts had expired on 31 December 2017
Of course, I start work an hour before any of the AD people come in.
There are 209 ceiling tiles in my office.
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GenJerDan wrote: There are 209 ceiling tiles in my office.
Count again while AD sync happens. I guess you are off by 21 tiles.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Feel your pain, need to get into the server room to see the results of some stress tests, I have my keys and code to get in the door, but not to get into the server room/barn, plus it raining heavily so I can't get to my desk to waste time Googling random stuff... 
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How long did it take you to write a program to multiply 11 by 19 then?
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I didn't have to. Microsoft did it for me. 
Besides, we're not allowed to have development tools.
No, I take that back. I can have VS, it just doesn't work...can't debug because the executables are "unknown". And WPF won't work at all...as in the solution won't even open.
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Most Valuable Professionals[^]
And I'd like to welcome a few newcomers who I've seen beavering away this year and have their first MVP for it:
@GraGra-33 Graeme_Grant
@arthurratz Arthur V. Ratz
@BryianTan Bryian Tan
@Clifford-Nelson Clifford Nelson
(I'm sure there are others, and special congratulations to them as well, but these are the ones that stuck out in the list to me).
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Thanks! Did not expect this honor.
Graeme
"I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks one time, but I fear the man that has practiced one kick ten thousand times!" - Bruce Lee
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It came as a shock my first time!
Well deserved in your case though - congratulations! 
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Congrats GG
check this this[^] too
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Thanks Karthik...
Hope that you have a good 2018!
Graeme
"I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks one time, but I fear the man that has practiced one kick ten thousand times!" - Bruce Lee
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Certainly looks like it is well deserved. Congratulations.
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Thanks a lot, OriginalGriff for your congratulations and mentioning me as a newbie CodeProject's MVP 2018 in your post.
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You deserved it!
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I read those names and I heard "Grand Rats Tunnelson" in my mind. I need sleep.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Just noticed the badge on my profile too, i am honored to get this, Thanks code project for believing in me.
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Congratulations to all the MVP's.
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