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.
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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).