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Re: [ARSCLIST] Format conundrum



All you need to do is be sure the future can read the ones and zeros punched
into the stone.

Steve Smolian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven C. Barr" <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Format conundrum


----- Original Message -----
From: "steven austin" <stevena@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Exactly.

Steven Austin

-----Original Message-----
From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List
on 1/13/05 5:34 AM, Karl Miller at lyaa071@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>
> On one overhead I have a picture of some
> hieroglyphs, which I labeled, "This is your information." The other is
a
> picture of the Rosetta stone, labeled, "This is your application." My
> point being, neither are written in stone and how both are mutually
> dependant.
>
> Karl
>
This is a little out of my field but weren't they both actually written
in
stone and that's why they lasted so long?
Tom
Interestingly enough, the old cliche, "written in stone," no longer has
a meaning of permanence in reality! Many historians and genaeologists
research old tombstones to establish things like dates and places of
death...and their research is seriously frustrated by the increasing
number of 19th century tombstones that have litterally dissolved into
illegibility due to pollution and acid rain!

So...if you ARE writing something in stone...use a good quality of
stone (like granite) and make sure your carving is good and deep!
Steven C. Barr


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