I don't want to think about how you propose cataloging all the paper data you want kept.
Or about the way you'd ensure the data's backed up.
Or about how you would propagate a change through your enormous cross-indexed mirrored filing cabinets.
Yes, long term storage of electronic data could be a problem, but this is why you review your data storage methods periodically, and ensure you aren't using hard/software that won't be readable in five/ten/fifty years time.
I know that paper certainly was good enough for da Vinci, but also the library at Alexandria - and how did that fare?
Look at DSpace, the mission of which is "To create and establish an electronic system that captures, preserves and communicates the intellectual output of MIT's faculty and researchers."
Each data set (collection) has a handle, suppoosedly longer lasting than URNs. We're talking about long term data storage here.
There's an implementation of it at Cambridge University, and my organisation will be evauluation it as soon as the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server software lands on my desk and I've installed my server.
I've just grabbed SuSE 8.2, slapped the entire dist on my PC and I'm testing installing it over Samba. Yes, I can install exactly what I want, exactly the same as with Debian and (I suspect) any other distro out there. I really like Debian, but my company uses SuSE and I'll admit that it's pretty good... but hard cash is required for the extras that I'll be using.
Really, I have no problem with this!
If you really want to enjoy a movie repeatedly, you can rent/buy the DVD. If you really want to watch an episode of a soap that you might otherwise miss, you can still use a VCR ro record it.
...and let's se the US actually implement the constitution in the way it was intended, not the corporate biased way it is now.
As it happens, the constitution is _not_ a holy work, it's flawed (look at all the amendments), largely because that's the only way everyone would agree to it.
As it happens, Kissenger's violated quite a few US laws, only he's practically untouchable. Thirty-odd years ago some people jokingly wrote a letter to a friend (in hospital, or jail, I can't remember) about having Kissenger (citizen) arrested. The FBI read the letter, and they were picked up on (I think) conspiracy to kidnap him. Nice. Feel free to check up my dodgy recollections, I could be wrong, but I have a horrid feeling I'm roughly correct.
Ah, I have a feeling that he isn't trying to protect the average US citizen, but people like Kissenger. There are quite a few people who'd be quite happy to see him in jail for war crimes, after all. Once this latest US-led atrocity passes I dare say Bush could also face extradition....
I guess this is why the world's so fucked up, there are actually people out there swallowing the bullshit thet the politicians keep feeding us. When will people learn that this war isn't to "protect you". Blix (et al) have repaetedly shot down the US lies.
If you abide by a law 100 times does it make it right to break it 99 times?
Yes, it really is that black and white. I'm not talking about whether or not the law is just, but whether prior compliance with a law makes it alright to disregard the law later.
Well, he might be right that it's a deterrant, but it's a fucking stupid idea. You mate, you have hit the nail right on the head. Prison and a felony tag indelibly stamped on you is not the way to go around improving the situation. Does "community service" exist in the States? In the UK it's used for lower end crimes where a fine or prison may not be appropriate.
After all, the Pres has said that he'd spring from jail (in EU) any US citizen convicted of a crime by the International Court. Now who's respecting the international community? God, this man's hypocrisy makes me want to vomit. Yeah, this is offtopic but what the hell does any of this shit matter anyway?
No, by their logic (and, let's face it - most people's logic) it means they're potentially lost 99 sales (or sales of however many CDs that 99 songs equates to). Their logic's not actually all that unsound, but maybe the premises with which they start are - therein lies the problem.
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I don't want to think about how you propose cataloging all the paper data you want kept.
Or about the way you'd ensure the data's backed up.
Or about how you would propagate a change through your enormous cross-indexed mirrored filing cabinets.
Yes, long term storage of electronic data could be a problem, but this is why you review your data storage methods periodically, and ensure you aren't using hard/software that won't be readable in five/ten/fifty years time.
I know that paper certainly was good enough for da Vinci, but also the library at Alexandria - and how did that fare?
Tom.
Tom.
Look at DSpace, the mission of which is "To create and establish an electronic system that captures, preserves and communicates the intellectual output of MIT's faculty and researchers."
Each data set (collection) has a handle, suppoosedly longer lasting than URNs. We're talking about long term data storage here.
There's an implementation of it at Cambridge University, and my organisation will be evauluation it as soon as the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server software lands on my desk and I've installed my server.
Tom.
Oh, OpenBSD, not NetBSD, my bad.
*ducks*
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Really, I have no problem with this!
If you really want to enjoy a movie repeatedly, you can rent/buy the DVD. If you really want to watch an episode of a soap that you might otherwise miss, you can still use a VCR ro record it.
As it happens, I don't actually have a TV ;-)
Tom.
I just though you'd like to know.
Tom.
Tom.
As it happens, the constitution is _not_ a holy work, it's flawed (look at all the amendments), largely because that's the only way everyone would agree to it.
As it happens, Kissenger's violated quite a few US laws, only he's practically untouchable. Thirty-odd years ago some people jokingly wrote a letter to a friend (in hospital, or jail, I can't remember) about having Kissenger (citizen) arrested. The FBI read the letter, and they were picked up on (I think) conspiracy to kidnap him. Nice. Feel free to check up my dodgy recollections, I could be wrong, but I have a horrid feeling I'm roughly correct.
Tom.
Tom.
Tom.
(Fuck karma).
I guess this is why the world's so fucked up, there are actually people out there swallowing the bullshit thet the politicians keep feeding us. When will people learn that this war isn't to "protect you". Blix (et al) have repaetedly shot down the US lies.
Tom.
If you abide by a law 100 times does it make it right to break it 99 times?
Yes, it really is that black and white. I'm not talking about whether or not the law is just, but whether prior compliance with a law makes it alright to disregard the law later.
Tom.
Tom.
Tom.
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Tom.
The mind boggles.
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Tom.