Items tagged with Gangnam Style
An online music video with a catchy tune and words that you probably can't understand has racked up so many views that it burned up YouTube's hit counter, no joke. That's right, not even YouTube could handle the number of views that Psy's "Gangnam Style" video has received since it was first posted in 2012. We were all so innocent and naive back then that no one predicted the video would go on to amass 2.15 billion views, especially in such a relatively short period of time. But it did. It turns out that YouTube's video counter was never designed to spin like an overclocked fan on a hot summer day. Or to be more technical, it wasn't programmed to count past the maximum positive value for a 32-bit...
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Just because you're the largest, most dominant chip maker in the world doesn't mean you can't cut loose and have a little fun in every once awhile. And hey, nobody ever accused Intel of not having a sense of humor. The Santa Clara chip maker also isn't immune to the occasional Internet craze, the latest being the "Gangnam Style" video that's sweeping through cyberspace. For the two or three of you who never heard of it, Gangnam Style is a single put out by Korean rapper PSY. As of this writing, the quirky and oddly entertaining video has amassed over 325 million views on YouTube, qualifying it as the most watched Korean pop video on the video sharing site. Here it is: You're welcome for that...
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