Re: database systems and organizational intelligence

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"mAsterdam" <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org> wrote in message news:40bb694a$0$34762$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl...
> x wrote:
>
> > mAsterdam wrote:
> >>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.
>
> Ah the context - now I also know what
> I meant again :-)
>
> I fail to see what (when quoted in context) is unclear about it.
> But you didn't ask, either. Thank you anyway for quoting it in context.

Actually I asked (sort of) , but you replied it means *program usable presentation* if I remember :-)

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