more musings on Sandro's defns of info resources Sandro Hawke wrote: > But it doesn't contain *only* information. > Information Resources are > things which can be entirely and completely encoded as bits and then > transmitted over a network. > They can be copied, perfectly. A resource can be conceptually infinite and still an info resource. e.g. a web page that returns <html lang="??"> <head></head> <body></body> </html> where ?? is filled in with the user's preferred language from content negotiation. > They can be > serialized. Ditto. (Also note say a site that returns a web page about today's weather) Jeremy -- Hewlett-Packard Limited registered Office: Cain Road, Bracknell, Berks RG12 1HN Registered No: 690597 EnglandReceived on Tuesday, 24 July 2007 17:18:57 UTC
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