If I'm limited to 17th century technology then I guess my other solution is
out too.
Compressor: Drop Wikipedia into a black hole
Decompressor: Read Wikipedia out of the hawking radiation
Ahh well.
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:24 PM, Tim Starling wrote:
> Brian wrote:
> > Wouldn't the most cost eff
Brian wrote:
> Wouldn't the most cost effective solution to be to first fund research in
> compression so fewer bits have to be etched out?
> In that case these guys are already on the job: http://prize.hutter1.net/
The obvious reply to that is that the Rosetta project aims to make an
archive read
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:02 AM, Tim Starling wrote:
> Samuel Klein wrote:
>> They wouldn't take up proportionally more space in etching than they
>> do on screen. So an extra 10-20% overall. They would probably make
>> the process a bit more expensive, but still to this scale. an
>> illustrate
Wouldn't the most cost effective solution to be to first fund research in
compression so fewer bits have to be etched out?
In that case these guys are already on the job: http://prize.hutter1.net/
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Tim Starling wrote:
> Samuel Klein wrote:
> > They wouldn't take up
Samuel Klein wrote:
> They wouldn't take up proportionally more space in etching than they
> do on screen. So an extra 10-20% overall. They would probably make
> the process a bit more expensive, but still to this scale. an
> illustrated encyclo may well be worth twice as much.
>
> Let's see wh
My technology/power of community inspired opinion is that we don't need to
worry about that problem right now. We could recreate all the content in
short order were all the datacenters simultaneously struck by asteroids, and
more feasible long-term storage solutions will present themselves in the
n
They wouldn't take up proportionally more space in etching than they
do on screen. So an extra 10-20% overall. They would probably make
the process a bit more expensive, but still to this scale. an
illustrated encyclo may well be worth twice as much.
Let's see what the Rosetta folks have to say
2009/5/5 Samuel Klein :
> I'm splitting off a separate thread about long-term archiving. The
> original thread is important enough not to derail it.
>
> This is a big topic, and also one that has been addressed in many
> different bodies of planning and literature. The Long Now foundation
> has c
I'm splitting off a separate thread about long-term archiving. The
original thread is important enough not to derail it.
This is a big topic, and also one that has been addressed in many
different bodies of planning and literature. The Long Now foundation
has considered a 10,000-year library pro
2009/5/5 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen :
> Heh, that reminds me of a fresh Finnish patented method of
> "printing" on concrete, and the freshly built archival building
> in Hämeenlinna. Here is a bit of detail of the wall of the building.
> see if it reminds you of anything familiar to us all?
> http://4.
Nikola Smolenski wrote:
>
> For a really long term, a cooperation with some brickworks, where a brick
> printer would be introductd in the brick producing process, so that Wikipedia
> (and other important works) would be printed on every brick produced. We know
> that Sumerian tablets have laste
2009/5/4 Nikola Smolenski :
> It seems to me that you are joking, but I was seriously thinking about
> cooperating with the Long Now project on long term preservation of Wikipedia.
No joke, I thing the long term preservation of knowledge is a very worthy cause.
> Printing Wikipedia on acid-free p
Дана Sunday 03 May 2009 14:28:00 Thomas Dalton написа:
> 2009/5/3 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen :
> > Besides the off-planet complete database-backup I envisioned,
> > another intriguing conceit would be to start on the process
> > of transcribing wikipedia onto vellum with non-corrosive and
> > persistent
2009/5/4 Thomas de Souza Buckup :
> 4. Sustainability. The goal of this Working Group will be to make sure the
> Wikimedia movement can reach its vision in a sustainable way. It could
> answer important sub-group questions like:
> *How to sustain Wikimedia services and data across any major situati
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 3:04 AM, Florence Devouard wrote:
> Hold on Robert.
>
> Michael provided us with the "wish" of the board.
After so many years they get my thanks simply by calling attention to
this as an issue of concern. I realize there is still more to do, but
this increases my confiden
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Michael Snow wrote:
> Because of this, we ask the Wikimedia staff to take appropriate steps to
> register and protect the Wikimedia marks, develop a set of policies and
> practices, and develop a strategy to allow uses by the chapters and
> community for activitie
Robert Rohde wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Florence Devouard wrote:
>> Michael Snow wrote:
>>> This is the statement on trademarks mentioned earlier. It both states
>>> the approach we want the Wikimedia Foundation to take and directs the
>>> staff to carry it out. It basically sums up
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