[filmscanners] Re: No more Kodak CD-R's

["Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com>]

Julian writes:

> OK, but we were discussing reliability of
> media, yes?

With respect to digitally-recorded images, yes.  Not executables.

> I do programming, so much of my work product
> is executables.

When and if you do photography, most of your work product will be image
files.  Film scanners are of little use for computer programming.

> Maybe perfect in your world, or your experience.
> Bit errors happen occasionally in my world, inspite
> of CRC, parity checks, and other error correction
> technologies.

If you are aware of the bit errors, then presumably they were caught.

While errors occasionally occur, I have never seen any software, anywhere,
fail as a result of an undetected single-bit errors in media.

> My bod has a few congenital defects, some of
> which are soon going to cause me some big medical
> and dental bills.  But maybe those bit errors
> (err, mutations) also caused my uniquely perverse
> political and artistic tendencies...  ;-)

What leads you to believe that they are bit errors?  Most congenital defects
are not the result of replication errors.

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