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<blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5615061" data-attributes="member: 54877"><p>I'd say the real benefit of dead-tree (or any "technology" that has been around as long as it has) is that the problems are fairly well-understood by the normal user. </p><p> </p><p>This is why my post answered Dannager's last objection, even though she thinks we haven't understood what she is saying. There are <strong>always</strong> ways to get statistically good enough backups, if you fully understand what can go wrong, and are willing to spend the time and effort. </p><p> </p><p>For example, Danny's motherboard failure. I've had strange things like that happen at very inopportune times, too. So if you've got the paper that is going to make you rich for life, you can:</p><p> </p><p>1. Write in long hand while you type - redundant copies.</p><p>2. Print it every time you save, to give you a fallback.</p><p>3. Do typical data backups and store them in other places.</p><p>4. Arrange for a typing service to be on call to retype it if you have last minute issues.</p><p>5. Finish it early and leave multiple copies in the hands of trusted sources.</p><p> </p><p>And so on, and so on. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></p><p> </p><p>People are generally lousy at risk analysis. When it is personal and/or in a realm of technology you don't understand fully, even people (like me) that <strong>know</strong> people are lousy at risk analysis, and try to compensate, and aren't drunk, and are usually cool-headed--still make some bad decisions.</p><p> </p><p>Dead tree is more reliable not because it is inherently more reliable (it isn't, in a lot of ways) but because people understand the fault lines. Fred knows that if he loans a book to Joe, he might not get it back. So he only loans things that he can replace easily enough (with "easily enough" being whatever criteria Fred has, and he probably knows that well, too). He doesn't loan Joe his first edition Charles Dickens "Bleak House"--and then when Joe sheepishly admits 2 years later that he gave it to a girl-friend to impress her--try to defenestrate Joe from his split level ranch, fall out with Joe into the rose bushes, and spend all night in the emergency room. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Crazy Jerome, post: 5615061, member: 54877"] I'd say the real benefit of dead-tree (or any "technology" that has been around as long as it has) is that the problems are fairly well-understood by the normal user. This is why my post answered Dannager's last objection, even though she thinks we haven't understood what she is saying. There are [B]always[/B] ways to get statistically good enough backups, if you fully understand what can go wrong, and are willing to spend the time and effort. For example, Danny's motherboard failure. I've had strange things like that happen at very inopportune times, too. So if you've got the paper that is going to make you rich for life, you can: 1. Write in long hand while you type - redundant copies. 2. Print it every time you save, to give you a fallback. 3. Do typical data backups and store them in other places. 4. Arrange for a typing service to be on call to retype it if you have last minute issues. 5. Finish it early and leave multiple copies in the hands of trusted sources. And so on, and so on. :p People are generally lousy at risk analysis. When it is personal and/or in a realm of technology you don't understand fully, even people (like me) that [B]know[/B] people are lousy at risk analysis, and try to compensate, and aren't drunk, and are usually cool-headed--still make some bad decisions. Dead tree is more reliable not because it is inherently more reliable (it isn't, in a lot of ways) but because people understand the fault lines. Fred knows that if he loans a book to Joe, he might not get it back. So he only loans things that he can replace easily enough (with "easily enough" being whatever criteria Fred has, and he probably knows that well, too). He doesn't loan Joe his first edition Charles Dickens "Bleak House"--and then when Joe sheepishly admits 2 years later that he gave it to a girl-friend to impress her--try to defenestrate Joe from his split level ranch, fall out with Joe into the rose bushes, and spend all night in the emergency room. :lol: [/QUOTE]
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