Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 15:19:19 -0500, George Lottermoser
<george@imagist.com> wrote:
> dnygr7/14/04
>
> >will my 2014 computer be able to read my files from 2004.
>
> Files? probably. Disks? no.
Gee - the files are the tricky part.
> >our digital files be obsolete before long?
>
> Define files.
> .tif has some life left.
it's not lossy and has lots of science uses - good for quite a while
> .eps seems to have life
lousy for image storage
> .jpg seems to be changing
jpg is a standard, it's evolving and there are fights over
patents for jpg files
but this one seems safe.
how do you see this changing?
> .raw - propriatary and dangerous
absolutely true
> .pdf has a few years yet
> etc.
>
> >Will our storage devices be
> >dependable over the long haul?
>
> Already not dependable. I just lost an 80gig drive (second one lost).
> My average on CDrom read writes 1 out of 20 fail.
boy - do you buy from Dell or something? Hard drive failure is rare
for quality components.
Adam