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Y2K (Year 2000) |
Stands for "Year 2000." However, this term is more
often used to refer to the "Millenium Bug." This bug
is a little creature that lives inside older
computers. When the year 2000 rolls around, the
little bug will self-destruct, blowing up the
computer it was residing in. The chain of explosions
across the world will be catastrophic, causing
global panamonia and LA riots. Also associated with
Y2K is the end of the world, which is without doubt,
foreshadowed by the dredded Millenium Bug. So, on
January 1, 2000, you'll want to make sure you have
at least a 5 year's supply of food and water,
roughly half a million dollars in cash, and at least
200 acres of land somewhere in Montana. Of course,
it doesn't really matter, considering the world will
have ended anyway. Update: We're past the year 2000
and the world is still going! No Armageddon, no
major computer explosions, no nuclear holocaust,
even no L.A. Riots... Wow, I guess Y2K wasn't really
that bad after all (surprise, surprise). Sorry about
those of you who bought 200 acres of land in
Montana. =) |
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Yahoo! |
Yahoo! is one of the Internet's leading search
engines. It is also the largest Web portal,
providing links to thousands of other websites.
These links include sites from the Yahoo! Directory
as well as news stories that are updated several
times a day. |
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Yobibyte |
A
yobibyte is a unit of data storage that equals 2 to
the 80th power, or 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176
bytes. While a yottabyte can be estimated as 10^24
or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes, a
yobibyte is exactly
1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176 bytes. This is to
avoid the ambiguity associated with the size of
yottabytes. A yobibyte is 1,024 zebibytes and is the
largest unit of measurement. For a list of other
units of measurements, view this Help Center
article. Abbreviation: YiB |
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Yottabyte |
A
yottabyte is 2 to the 80th power, or
1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176 bytes. It can be
estimated as 10 to the 24th power, or
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes. The
yottabyte is the largest unit of measurement for
computer data, consisting of 1,024 zettabytes.
Fortunately for those of us finite beings,
yottabytes are not used very often. The prefix "yotta"
was chosen since it is the second to last letter of
the Greek alphabet. Though it seems more fitting
that "yotta" refers to a "lotta" bytes. For a list
of all the different units of measurements, view
this Help Center article. Abbreviation: YB |
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