Re: Universal Data Format Stores All Human Knowledge

Kenneth Downs <firstinit.lastname_at_lastnameplusfam.net> wrote:

>NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 8, 2004
>
>A consortium of IT industry leaders which includes every one of the biggest
>players has agreed to continue to pursue a system of data storage which
>they believe will meet the needs of all of humanity for the foreseeable
>future. The system in question is not in fact new, having been in use in
>various forms on every computer system that was ever made commercially
>available.
>
>Microsoft's Joe Bleaugh was on hand to speak to reporters, attempting to
>explain the technology in terms that non-technical people could understand.
>"What we see happening," explained Bleaugh, "is a general concept of a
>THING, where somebody says, 'I've got this THING I want to store on the
>computer. Or they say, 'I want to send this THING to my friend in jail in
>Bangkok.' We at Microsoft have been asking, 'How will a person do that?'"

    I am happy to hear that technical language is being kept to a minimum. "object" is just too complicated. After all, there is not a commonly-agreed-on definition of "object".

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Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

Computerese Irregular Verb Conjugation:

     I have preferences.
     You have biases.
     He/She has prejudices.