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From: "Boris Liberman"
Subject: Re: OT: How do you store your precious moments for posterity?
Godfrey, you're being slightly wrong here... Consider this. Find a task
which you cannot possibly do. For me it would be fixing my own car on my
own. Find another person who can do it easily. For me it would be one of
my best friends who is car mechanic by profession. Consider now that him
and someone else is talking about fixing cars and you're watching... Shall
I go on?
Like Tim keeps saying in his signature (with slight modification of my
own) - "Never underestimate the power of stupidity".
In my line of work I've found that great many people that say that they
know how to operate a (Windows based) computer cannot understand the
concept of unzipping a zip file content to a given directory. They are
still very competent otherwise.
For the great unwashed, it is also a matter of complacency and lack of
interest.
I predict that an entire generation of pictures will mostly be lost because
the computer is not archiving friendly.
William Robb
