William Robb wrote:
----- Original Message ----- 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
Just like the entire generation that was lost because people stuffed
them under the bed in shoe boxes.
-Adam
