Re:Why is the UK still printing its laws on vellum?
by jsprogrammer on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @02:23PM
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Storage space gets cheaper and more voluminous by the day. Everything can be kept and tomorrow you can keep even more.
Re:Why is the UK still printing its laws on vellum?
by rtkwe on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @03:06PM
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It's not free though so every company with data makes decisions about what is worth saving. Sure the costs are always falling but you have to pay (at best) today's prices to store today's data.
Re:Why is the UK still printing its laws on vellum?
by tptacek on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @04:41PM
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Non-sequitur. The point of the thread is that it's not at all clear that reliable long-term storage is getting cheaper by the day.
Re:Why is the UK still printing its laws on vellum?
by jsprogrammer on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @06:05PM
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Define 'reliable long-term'.
Roll-over to new tech is safe. The content of discussion is inherently reliable due to its digital nature.
Keeping multiple copies is necessary practice and the long-time trend is that the next copy you produce has no greater cost than the previous copy (if you wait years, it will be significantly cheaper).
50 years ago and all those letters that were burnt or composted because no one bothered to keep the sentimental letters of soldiers in a world war.
20 years later and all those millions of photos that were on Flickr but no one bothered to upgrade.
100 years later and all those GPS logs from taxi cabs that were logged by firms are lost as no one thought they would be interesting or useful.
600 years later and these floppy disks with meeting minutes on them about an early internet organization are lost but might well be worth more than they are now.