Re: database systems and organizational intelligence

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"Alfredo Novoa" <alfredo_at_ncs.es> wrote in message news:40bb0c79.2128760_at_news.wanadoo.es...
> On Mon, 31 May 2004 13:11:22 +0300, "x" <x-false_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >You are storing and retrieving "data", but the computer is storing and
> >retrieving "code" :-)
>
> No! the computer is representing data in a physical device.
>
> Storing and retrieving are lose words because nothing is stored nor
> retrieved. Data can't be stored because it is not a physical object.

Data (actually the representation) is lost or transformed (transcoded ?) then :-)

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