A new way to stop digital decay

The Economist ^ | September 15, 2005 | Economist Staff

[Old Professer]

And their checks will still bounce.

[Old Professer]

Entropic undercurrents.

[Old Professer]

As long as you aren't picky about spelling.

[Old Professer]

The horse was a temporal character in the mind of the chronicler and in no position to comment; there are many more days to catalogue and so much else to do.

[Old Professer]

In a post-human world that will be of great comfort, but man is nothing if he is not the sum of his frailties.

[Old Professer]

Pure assumption, paper has over two hundred years of a head start as you post.

[Old Professer]

There's no luggage compartment on a lifeboat.

[Old Professer]

Torricelli sucked too much mercury and all the fishes ate his remains so where does that leave us?

[clyde asbury]

bump

[A. Pole]

CDs, if kept at a good temperature, humidity, and kept away from light, will last several hundred years.

How do you know it?

[RockyMtnMan]

There is a lower tech method to preservation.

[steve-b]

CDs, if kept at a good temperature, humidity, and kept away from light, will last several hundred years.

Anybody done a test reading on a 17th-century CD?

[B4Ranch]

what in the world is this "series," "hugh," "moose," "cheese," "AYBABTU," or "Hillary's hideous curdlike cellulite thighs"?
"My name is Ozymandius, king of kings,"
"Look on my beebers, ye mighty, and be stuned."


After spendng too many hours and waay too much in public funds it will be finally determined that this was 'phonetics spoken by a deranged conservative group'.