On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 11:58:31AM +0100, Thomas Beale wrote: > I think that the 'pebbles & nuggets' characterisation is probably > right, although I don't think anyone knows what the balance is,
It isn't even easy to (sometimes not even possible) to know what are the pebbles and what are the nuggets. In fact, pebbles may turn into nuggets. > I think that what will be needed in the future is a way of filtering > out the useless pebbles on the way so to speak. Perhaps when data > were archived onto slower media. I wonder if anyone has seen research > to indicate how far back data might be useful based on specific > morbidities? That probably wouldn't be useful because we don't yet know which morbidities are going to be relevant for a given not-yet-patient. Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346
