Re: database systems and organizational intelligence

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"mAsterdam" <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org> wrote in message news:40bb6264$0$65124$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl...
> x wrote:
>
> > Alfredo Novoa wrote:
> >>x wrote:
> >>
> >>>When you say "physical representation" you mean the electrical signal ?
> >>
> >>Yes or the magnetical signal.
> >>
> >>When you write in a disk you change de magnetization of a metallic
> >>surface. You don't store anything.
> >>
> >>
> >>>How do you call a "program usable presentation" ?
> >>
> >>I don't know what this means.
> >
> > It was mAsterdam term, not mine.
>
> Why do you say this term was mine? What is going on here?

You said:

When you store data some mechanism creates some physical representation that can be transformed back into a user or *program usable presentation* when it is retrieved. I don't see why
acknowledging that the physical representation is not the data itself should force you to change your use of these terms.

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