December 4, 2013 at 2:43 pm
Gary Varga (12/4/2013)
I disagree so this may make me a valuable source of late 80s/early 90s UK indie music...
Indie yes. Stock, Aitkin and Waterman not so much.
December 27, 2016 at 6:47 am
What a great article, even though it is years old. I have some thinking to do about my pictures.
December 27, 2016 at 2:28 pm
December 27, 2016 at 3:08 pm
If you want to insure that your family photos are passed down forever to your grand children, then consider DNA digital data storage. It's a special gift that will always be with them. Even in the event of a disaster where your family line is cut short, the data can be still be persisted indefinitely, so long as their remains are held in cold, dry and dark conditions.
.. On August 16, 2012, the journal Science published research by George Church and colleagues at Harvard University, in which DNA was encoded with digital information that included an HTML draft of a 53,400 word book written by the lead researcher, eleven JPG images and one JavaScript program. Multiple copies for redundancy were added and 5.5 petabits can be stored in each cubic millimeter of DNA.[4] The researchers used a simple code where bits were mapped one-to-one with bases, which had the shortcoming that it led to long runs of the same base, the sequencing of which is error-prone. This research result showed that besides its other functions, DNA can also be another type of storage medium such as hard drives and magnetic tapes...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_digital_data_storage
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho
December 27, 2016 at 3:15 pm
The BBC used to reuse tapes because the media used to cost a fortune. Every now and again someone finds a copy of an ancient TV program hidden in their shed.
The problem is that if a medium is reactive enough to record it is reactive enough to degrade. There is a stone cross on the Shropshire/Wales border that originally held a list of historic kings. If it hadn't eroded over time it would give us a clue as to whether King Arthur was Owain Ddantgwyn or a composite character.
In terms of historic loss of photographs I would not mourne the passing of the non-art form known as the selfie
December 27, 2016 at 3:30 pm
David.Poole (12/27/2016)
The BBC used to reuse tapes because the media used to cost a fortune. Every now and again someone finds a copy of an ancient TV program hidden in their shed.The problem is that if a medium is reactive enough to record it is reactive enough to degrade. There is a stone cross on the Shropshire/Wales border that originally held a list of historic kings. If it hadn't eroded over time it would give us a clue as to whether King Arthur was Owain Ddantgwyn or a composite character.
In terms of historic loss of photographs I would not mourne the passing of the non-art form known as the selfie
All the photos I have of my grandparents show them posing in their best Sunday clothes.
However, fifty years in the future, folks will stumble across their Millennial grandma's selfies snapped in front of the bathroom mirror back in 2016. I'm sure they'll get a few laughs out of that.
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho
January 4, 2017 at 7:23 am
David.Poole (12/27/2016)
...In terms of historic loss of photographs I would not mourne the passing of the non-art form known as the selfie
Especially those with filters.
Gaz
-- Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen...they're everywhere!!!
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