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O, Joy of SQL! Ran query to get total hours 'People of the Web' spent watching just TOP-100 most popular YouTube Videos [1], got approx. 4.1 Billion man-hours. To put in perspective: it took 20 years and 100,000 workers to build the Great Pyramid of Khufu, (a.k.a. Cheops Pyramid - re: Herodotus). Assuming average 2,080 hrs/yr results in labor estimate of approx 20 x 100k x 2,080 = 4.16 billion man-hours. So, using this as a unit of labor, watching YouTube-100 equals “1 Cheops”. Kinda philosophical Q: how we will be remembered 3 kilo-years from now? 
References
1. YouTube TOP-100[^]
2. Walk Like an Egyptian | The Bangles[^]
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Reminds me of; King Tut[^] - Steve Martin
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.1 new web site.
I know the voices in my head are not real but damn they come up with some good ideas!
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DrABELL wrote: 1. YouTube TOP-100[^]
and not one single cat video within the top 100! Seriously! What is the internet coming to!?
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Yeah, right!
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Quote: how we will be remembered 3 kilo-years from now?
Easy: We will be remembered as the generation that killed music! 
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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Yep, that's right!
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Good point about present generation. Although the total estimate is not absolutely correct, I'd say. YouTube measures video stats in 'views', it does not mean that you view full video though. For good old Gangnam Style on the top, I stopped this sh*t after 10 seconds, certainly didn't waste 4:13 of time, and hopefully I'm not the only one doing so. So hopefully we wasted only half Cheops Pyramid on average
Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. T.Jefferson
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That's true, but keep in mind that some other folks may have been viewing it a dozen times and still counted like one view per person, so it's just an estimate. Btw, take a look at "approval ratio" for this item (88%), which is not that bad vs Justin Bieber’s “Baby” (2nd one) with that ratio of 39%, i.e. the most unpopular item in entire top-100.
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Not to be picky, but I would guess it would be more like 3,600 hours per year. (slave labor you know)
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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Ja, it could be like that, but who knows what type of Holiday Calendar they were using (Herodotus is kinda silent on this issue )
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Actually not slave labor for the pyramids. More of a seasonal public works project when the Nile was flooded and guys were standing around with nothing to do. We also know they were paid in beer, and were fed lots of beef. The logistics of transporting so many cows and brewing that much beer daily is a more impressive feat than the stonework.
I'm not sure how many holidays they had in the Old Kingdom, but we know of 500+ holidays, some of which went on for 10 days. "Day of Chewing Onions for Bast" and "Day of Chewing Cucumbers for Sekhmet" are a couple of the more unusual ones.
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Okay 500 holidays means double time. 
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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On a serious note, I would agree with Paul: there has been some interesting research on this issue w/conclusion that it was not all slave labor, but to the contrary, kinda highly-qualified workers for their time...
On a separate (non-serious) note: 500+ paid Holidays??? Das ist fantastisch! )
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Of course, this doesn't state how many whips it took to build that pyramid... or how many it would take to get me to watch YouTube continuously...
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I am tired of fighting, so I rather switch.
Anybody old enough to remember that TV add , I think it was about smoking?
Good old times.
Where can I get a "real scoop" on HOW Linux architecture / operation etc differs from WIndowze?
I don't need a lecture how the directories are structured, how to send an e-mail, how to switch desktop and install "space invaders " game etc.
Just HOW it actually works AKA Windoze runs "events loop" - what does Linux do?
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So why is it that every reference to MS's OS has been intentionally misspelt?
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Linux is just an operating system, although it offers full multi-user support which Windows does not. In general structure it is the same as UNIX and provides most of the same functionality. It would be impossible in a forum like this to explain in full detail what it can and cannot do, and much of the information you need will be specific to whatever problems you are trying to solve. At the very basic level you can write 'console' style programs using C/C++ much the same as in Windows. Networking is much the same, although GUI programs use a somewhat different framework.
The best option would be to get hold of an introductory book (Google should find them), and it is more than likely that there will even be some published in Russian.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: Linux is just an operating system, although it offers full multi-user support which Windows does not
Care to elaborate on that?
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I would like to hear his reasoning too.
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Ya, no clue what he's referring to. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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If you are interested just Google for Linux, the information is easy to find.
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I know it is. Justifying your claim is not.
I use both, and I'm not sure how they differ in their multi-user support.
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I have used both professionally, and (as far as I recall) it's reasonably easy to see.
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You keep teasing it but refuse to give examples. There's myself and at least two others in this thread who are also interested in this.
I think your next response, if you decide to make one, will decide whether you're right or not.
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