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making some simple assumptions about the boards here, I've computed a fun number.

Posted by Beryllium (aka grayman) Feb 1 '11, 14:21

Assuming that an ST board could be rendered as a 660x1000 pixel graphic in 32-bit colour, and seeing that there are about 9487 boards at the moment ...

Rendering SlackerTalk's history as a single (uncompressed) bitmap image would create a file about 24GB in size.

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Tiny text in bitmap makes Fuzzy something something... -- nm - Fuzzy Feb 1, 14:34 2
- ...go crazy? -- nm - nubby trebek Feb 1, 14:35 1
  - Don't mind if I do! -- nm - Fuzzy Feb 1, 14:39
We should totally have a party for board number 10,000. -- nm - Loyola Feb 1, 14:26 7
- [deleted] 6
  - Heh. Bery we need a board counter. -- nm - Loyola Feb 1, 14:30 3
    - [deleted]
    - spoiler - nubby trebek Feb 1, 14:35 1
      - shh, its a secret -- nm - tRuMaN thinks the boom! Feb 1, 14:37
  - new-to-them. in actuality, it will be a 1982 ford escort station wagon. yellow. manual transmission. - Beryllium Feb 1, 14:30
  - a Skoda Yeti? -- nm - Danedukenuuk Feb 1, 14:30
Who uses 32bit color? -- nm - lileve Feb 1, 14:25 1
- I was just using it as quick metric. :) -- nm - Beryllium Feb 1, 14:29
You need to get out more often. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 1, 14:24 2
- He's married with a kid. He gets out more than I. -- nm - lileve Feb 1, 14:25 1
  - Even if it's to church to give thanks for his family, he needs to get out more. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 1, 14:27
"You have the right to fun. If you choose not to have fun, fun will be provided for you." -- nm - Qale Feb 1, 14:24
Export it into ebook format and hawk it on here -- nm - con_carne Feb 1, 14:23 6
- "SlackerTalk: The First Five Years" -- nm - nubby trebek Feb 1, 14:25 5
  - sadly there would be an earlier chapter called "tRuMaN the divorce" -- nm - tRuMaN thinks the boom! Feb 1, 14:30 1
    - Needs more ..... pizazz.......... we'll go with Sigh.......Chapter 3. -- nm - ST Book Editor Feb 1, 14:32
  - if you get payed by the word it might be profitable -- nm - Danedukenuuk Feb 1, 14:27 2
    - Sure, but then David would have to partner in -- nm - con_carne Feb 1, 14:28 1
      - Speaking of which, I owe bery some mail from a while back. -- nm - David Feb 1, 14:32
do it. -- nm - znufrii Feb 1, 14:23 6
- because we all have 400" monitors -- nm - zork Feb 1, 14:26 1
  - i know size matters but still...... -- nm - Danedukenuuk Feb 1, 14:27
- or talk to a girl. Either or. -- nm - Reagen Feb 1, 14:25 1
  - I thought you were Nimoy's lovechild, not Shatner's - zork Feb 1, 14:27
- when i have 100Mbit net please not before - Danedukenuuk Feb 1, 14:24
- or, even more fun, make an easter egg that would allow someone to view every thread in the history of ST on a single board.... -- nm - znufrii Feb 1, 14:24
Wow, I was thinking the exact same thing! -- nm - Spawn Feb 1, 14:23
heck as long as it is not more then a disk!!!!!! -- nm - Danedukenuuk Feb 1, 14:22
(___!___) -- nm - oblique Feb 1, 14:22
you know you're a geek, right? -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 1, 14:22

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