Warp wrote:
> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>> Then it's worth being careful with the things you purchase.
> 
>   Compare to the good old 3.5-inch floppies. You could throw them accross
> the room and hit a wall and play football with them, and they would still
> work just fine.
> 
The real irony here is, the "earliest" models of CD technology had a 
"case" you inserted them into, with a sort of latched door, just like 
the 3.5 inch floppy, so the surface was only "visible", and 
"unprotected", while in the machine to read it. Problem is, since they 
could be removed from those things (it was too costly to provide one for 
each) people lost them, then the reader wouldn't work, since there was 
no "tray" to put the disc in, and insert into the reader.

Personally, I think they had the right idea to start with, and went 
stupid, due to cost, minor inconvenient, and the human tendency to 
misplace "critical" parts. If I had a choice, I would use something like 
a slim case, with a door on it, rather than the thing we have now. And, 
except for people that buy those lame "sleeves", which just help scratch 
up the discs over time, most people buy boxes of those things anyway, 
because they stack well, protect the disc, and are not "so much" larger 
than the discs themselves that they care any more. It wouldn't be that 
hard to rig a "door" on one, or some sort, and clip out a bit of the 
center, so it can be mounted on the spin mechanism. Oh, and.. if you get 
one of those rare, "It exploded!", situations, it wouldn't throw shards 
throughout the entire reader. lol

-- 
void main () {

     if version = "Vista" {
       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
   }
   else
     call crash_windows();
}

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