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Re: [ARSCLIST] Further thoughts on the new CLIR report. DVDs
On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Mike Richter wrote:
> 2. Manufacturers of recordable media guesstimated lifetime in centuries,
> not decades.
I can only relate my recollection that suppliers of CDROM products would
limit lifetime to ten years.
> 3. English text - ASCII, ANSI or otherwise represented - is highly
> tolerant of error. Executable code is not. Audio is moderately tolerant
> for most listeners in most cases.
This I do not understand. With each bit being significant for text, how
can text be less subject to error?
Karl