Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That maybe so. But, everything around that bit of information has been changing. Every time I open that file something happens, for better or for worse. The hardware and software are constantly changing, contributing their confluent shock waves to the files. The files have been moved to three computers, each with a different OS. I'm glad for your certitude, because I suspect that's all that will be left over time. S. Dimitrov On Jan 9, 2005, at 5:17 PM, Brian Reid wrote: > Bits don't change or decay. What is 10010111001010101110010 today will > be that forever. So if your digital images are decayed, it's not > because the files have changed. It's because some aspect of the > processing that you did to the files has changed. > >> I treat my digital files as ephemeral, hence disposable. > > Whereas I know that my digital files will outlast every other > possession that I have, and will be the primary legacy that I leave to > yet-unborn progeny. Bits are forever. The medium on which the bits are > recorded might not be forever, but that is a separate problem. > > My film and prints and books and letters will rot away in a few > hundred years. My digital files are forever. > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > Slobodan Dimitrov Photography