What your computer does while you wait

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33 points·damagednoob··4 comments

Did anybody notice the youtube style comment?:

WHAT A WASTE OF TIME AND INTERNET SPACE. WHY NOT REPORT ON THE GOOD THAT OUR TROOPS ARE DOING IN IRAQ? WHERE ARE THE GOOD STORIES?? OUR FREEDOM FIGHTERS HAVE OCCOMPLISHED SO MUCH IN THE LAST FEW YEARS, AND THE LIBERAL INTERNET IGNORES THEM, JUST LIKE THEY IGNORE GOD AND THE TEN COMMANDMENTS!!!

IF YOU MUST HATE THE TROOPS FROM YOUR LIBERAL IDEOLOGY, WHY NOT AT LEAST TALK ABOUT JESUS? I SAW NO REFERENCES TO JESUS ON YOUR WEBSITE!! WHY NO BIBLE PASSAGES AT LEAST?? THESE MEN ARE DYING FOR YOUR FREEDOM TO SIT AROUND AND TYPE USELESS CRAP, AND ALL YOU CAN DO IS DEFICATE ON THEIR IMAGE AND THE SAVIOR FOR WHOM THEY ARE WORKING.

YOU ARE JUST ANOTHER LIBERAL TERRORIST. HOPEFULLY THIS ECONOMY WILL CLEAN UP THE INTERNET AND GET RID OF WEBSITES LIKE THIS. ENJOY HOMELESSNESS, APOSTATE.

WTF is it?

youtube style comment heh :) comments are another area where youtube is a pioneer.

Honestly, I was hoping for a joke or a comic. Sigh.

I was glad it was not. As much fun as a "lolcomputerz" would have been, I found a nice comparison of the speeds that things happen in my computer, all normalized to MB/s to be quite informative. It was helpful to see all of the proportions all at once.

I particularly like the analogy that if getting something from memory is like a minute long trip down the hall to get a candy bar, getting from the disk takes more than a year. Nicely done.

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