Petabytes of data at Large Hadron Collider - Sixty Symbols

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[HIRVIism]

Why are both top comments a misspelling of "Crysis"?

[Milosh zelembaba]

3:02 okay lets just zoom in on his face as much as i can

[Manojit Haldar]

Americans are famous for vandalism, aren't they?

[DownFromAbove]

But there's no game named "Crisis", only "Crysis". Would it be proper to call the game "Left 4 Dead" as Left for Dead"? Besides, the Brits don't spell "crisis" as "crysis", anyway.

[tcarpenter1217]

Because we're Americans and we like 'i' better that 'y'; you may also be offended by our spelling of the word color.

[Nickleo9]

Actually it would only be able to store 13 years of fully 2 hour long 1080p videos.

[Sea Wolf]

I bet it could hold enough 1080p movies to watch for the rest of your life and 9001 generations after that withouth pause.

[ElGatoLoco698]

You could store enough 1080p movies in one petabyte of data to watch for the rest of your life without pause.

[ElGatoLoco698]

A petabyte? Dear lord.

[Syphist Prime]

The computing power described here is just another reminder of how far technology has progressed. Just think 10 years back, it's amazing how far we've come.

[benblue3]

It doesn't have a graphics card, so no.

[jrwkc]

software probably written in AWK i'm guessing.