[Cialug] long term storage

[Colin Burnett]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Thomas Kula<kula at tproa.net> wrote:
>
> Actually, I think that your book example suffers exactly the same
> problems that digital data suffers from today, it's just that books
> have had much longer to become a mature technology.

Absolutely.  There's the maintenance of the storage container and
there's the container itself.  Ignoring the maintenance there's no
real archiving of data.

> I mean, you have to look up now to discover
> that "stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni" means
> "I think a feather in my hat looks stylish" not "I think a feather
> in my hat is now some sort of pasta"

In fairness, you're talking here of interpretation vs. reading.
Analogous to getting an executable off the disc and being able to
execute it.


Colin