"If it were over a populated area, like Atlanta, it would have basically flattened it," said Gareth Williams, associate director of the International Astronomical Union Minor Planet Center in Boston, Massachusetts.
Why Atlanta, huh? You Bostonians have a problem with us or somethun?!?! Shee-it, I gots neighbors with pickup trucks bigger than that damned rock anyday. Bring it on, we'll haul it off for ya!
When in the past has media been stored on anything BUT "lossy formats."
god knows, wax cylinders of music didn't last very long quality-wise, and neither did vinyl, or tape. So, the "lossyness" you are scared about is nothing compared to the lack of quality and deterioration rate of media that was used even throughout the 20th century.
Shakespeare's work was never in danger of becoming "obsolete" and "unreadable" because it was popular.
Think about it. Pick a very popular recent source of art.. say, the Beatles. How many formats is their work stored in? In how many languages? Really, this is a good argument for Peer-to-Peer media sharing systems. It takes media that society considers important and replicates and archives it all over the world..
Much how popular folk songs have been passed from generation to generation via spoken or sung words, current media is being passed around the globe and stored on everything from hardcopy to harddrives to optical media.
The only information we have to worry about losing is that which is forgotten by the masses.. for it is in danger of not being replicated and passed around.
Quite frankly, too many of us have been directly screwed over by VCs, and would be happy if the tech industry could rebound while stay the hell away from them.
I disagree. I work for a very large fortune 100 company (think transportation and wings). We write most of the software that runs our multi-national infrastructure in house.
All of our inter-application communications and middleware uses XML. It makes it much easier to code new applications without knowing the people who coded the old ones.:-)
I am with most of the community so far on the ho-hum-ness about this guys predictions, but I take exception to the following line by the poster:
Other stuff too, like the return of VCs and IPO frenzies (yawn)
How can you yawn at that idea? Obviously you don't live in work in the real world if you find the idea of the tech industry rebounding and causing hoards of cash to be thrown back into it boring!!!
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Why Atlanta, huh? You Bostonians have a problem with us or somethun?!?! Shee-it, I gots neighbors with pickup trucks bigger than that damned rock anyday. Bring it on, we'll haul it off for ya!
When in the past has media been stored on anything BUT "lossy formats."
god knows, wax cylinders of music didn't last very long quality-wise, and neither did vinyl, or tape. So, the "lossyness" you are scared about is nothing compared to the lack of quality and deterioration rate of media that was used even throughout the 20th century.
Think about it. Pick a very popular recent source of art.. say, the Beatles. How many formats is their work stored in? In how many languages? Really, this is a good argument for Peer-to-Peer media sharing systems. It takes media that society considers important and replicates and archives it all over the world..
Much how popular folk songs have been passed from generation to generation via spoken or sung words, current media is being passed around the globe and stored on everything from hardcopy to harddrives to optical media.
The only information we have to worry about losing is that which is forgotten by the masses.. for it is in danger of not being replicated and passed around.
touche'.
- pm
All of our inter-application communications and middleware uses XML. It makes it much easier to code new applications without knowing the people who coded the old ones. :-)
Other stuff too, like the return of VCs and IPO frenzies (yawn)
How can you yawn at that idea? Obviously you don't live in work in the real world if you find the idea of the tech industry rebounding and causing hoards of cash to be thrown back into it boring!!!