[Cialug] long term storage

[Thomas Kula]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 12:58:28PM -0500, Colin Burnett wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Thomas Kula<kula at tproa.net> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 


Oh, yeah, that's my entire point, though. Who cares if 200 or
2000 years from now you can read every bit off a storage device
exactly as it was put down on the storage device if you have
no idea what those bits mean, or (to bring interpretation into
it here) if the Future thinks they know what those bits are
supposed to mean but they are off? 


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