Greg, At last a tangible view at theology, if backing up storage system is important to retrieval to store information to try and keep up with the advance of technology, then subsequently there must be an original. Like humans there are many different computers, and computer languages or computer programs are not perfect, then what's lost in translation?
If the human brain is sometimes described are a computer, something that processes information, then how would we describe God. Remember not who, I said what, something tangible? Take Care Paul Johnson ARMIDALE NSW Carer Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Crawford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Tom Pardy'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'insights-l'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 10:58 PM Subject: RE: RE A Computer Question > >OK, so this is not particularly theological . . . but neither am I! :) > > Maybe not theological, but back-up storage is definitely part of church > business. Our local computer shop proprietor, himself a committed Christian, has > a saying, "God helps those who backup!" > > Over the years the backup options have been many. My old Iomega Zip drive still > sits under the desk and 100 Meg media still fill up drawers. However, CD-ROMS > and in the future DVD-Rs seem far more efficient. > > As our Church Treasurer and I returned from a meeting the other night he was > telling me how he uses a USB external HD for back-up of records, including > church records. He keeps the device in another part of the house to minimise > risk of loss. > > In my own case, I also wish to provide backup for my astronomical imaging. I may > take hundreds of digital images per night, each of 520kbs in size. If in the > future I ever have to redo data measurement, the images can be kept on CD-ROMS. > > However I sometimes wonder whether the advance of technology will render a > format obsolete and place data beyond retrieval. > > - Greg > > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > - You are subscribed to the mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the message body 'unsubscribe insights-l' (ell, not one (1)) > See: http://nsw.uca.org.au/insights-l-information.htm > ------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------ - You are subscribed to the mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the message body 'unsubscribe insights-l' (ell, not one (1)) See: http://nsw.uca.org.au/insights-l-information.htm ------------------------------------------------------
