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A Life of Comfort and Ease (Under Appreciated Modern Conveniances)
Masterpiece:
Digital preservation is not as easy as you might think.
Jace:
--- Quote from: Gareth on 24 Jul 2013, 11:43 ---Our families' photos from 50 years ago are faded, sepia tinted, old.
Our photos, in 50 years time, will look exactly the same, because they are lumps of 1s and 0s.
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Wow you had pictures in only 1080p? How archaic
J:
--- Quote from: Redball on 24 Jul 2013, 05:34 ---
--- Quote from: J on 24 Jul 2013, 02:12 ---i am now about 12,000 miles away from where i wrote my previous post.
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On this sphere, you can't get much farther away than that.
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er, sorry. added an extra zero there.
Carl-E:
We have tons of pictures on floppies from an old Sony Mavica camera.
I have no working machine that can read floppies anymore.
Except the camera...
Papersatan:
--- Quote from: Masterpiece on 24 Jul 2013, 13:19 ---Digital preservation is not as easy as you might think.
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--- Quote from: Carl-E on 24 Jul 2013, 07:18 ---On a lighter note; all these medical advances have taken away most of the natural human population control.
There's no medical cure for outstripping our resources. Something's going to catch up with us down the road...
Plague, anyone?
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Birth control.
--- Quote from: Masterpiece on 24 Jul 2013, 13:19 ---Digital preservation is not as easy as you might think.
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This. Physical photographs can last decades with nothing but cool dry air. Your great aunt Mildred could have put 100 photos in a box in a closet and when she dies and you clean out her house, chances are they will still have photos on them.
If I left 100 photos on a CD rom, or a zip drive, or on my Myspace.... good luck ever seeing them again.
Digital preservation requires much more planning, both for the maintenance of the physical object holding the data, and the upgrading up formats.
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