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>> Well, considering all this, I have a vast collection of CDs and my dad
>> has a comparable collection of DVDs, and they all work absolutely
>> flawlessly.
>
> Try a child of your own or a grandchild.
...?
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> Well, considering all this, I have a vast collection of CDs and my dad
>>> has a comparable collection of DVDs, and they all work absolutely
>>> flawlessly.
>>
>> Try a child of your own or a grandchild.
>
> ...?
Children scratch CDs?
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Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospam com> 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.
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>>>> Well, considering all this, I have a vast collection of CDs and my dad
>>>> has a comparable collection of DVDs, and they all work absolutely
>>>> flawlessly.
>>> Try a child of your own or a grandchild.
>> ...?
>
> Children scratch CDs?
Oh, right.
Well, if you have children around, you just have to accept that anything
remotely valuable *will* be destroyed, and there is nothing you can do
about it. I've seen plenty of VHS tapes destroyed by children - and
they're are armour-plated!
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>> 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.
Interestingly, all the floppies I own have gradually stopped working.
Almost every single one of them now regularly has bad sectors or
suddenly shows up as "not formatted". I guess because they're so old now...
And yet, I have CDs purchased in the time before you could purchase 3.5
disks in shops. And they're still in mint condition. (But then, they're
optical, not magnetic, so...)
As I said note... What the **** do they make the actual disk out of?
Because man, it's unbreakable! They should make shopping bags out of
that stuff!!
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On 29-5-2009 21:18, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>>> Well, considering all this, I have a vast collection of CDs and my dad
>>>> has a comparable collection of DVDs, and they all work absolutely
>>>> flawlessly.
>>> Try a child of your own or a grandchild.
>> ...?
>
> Children scratch CDs?
Yip, scratch them, sit on them, smear stuff on it (that you sometimes
can remove easily and sometimes not).
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Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Interestingly, all the floppies I own have gradually stopped working.
> Almost every single one of them now regularly has bad sectors or
> suddenly shows up as "not formatted". I guess because they're so old now...
I think that's because they are a magnetic storage media, which
degrades over time. Optical media has the advantage that it doesn't
degrade. If it only was as protected as the 3.5-inch floppies, they
would be almost perfect...
> As I said note... What the **** do they make the actual disk out of?
> Because man, it's unbreakable! They should make shopping bags out of
> that stuff!!
They aren't unbreakable. At least DVD-R's aren't. Bend them enough and
they will shatter into a hundred tiny (razor-sharp) pieces.
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>> Children scratch CDs?
>
> Yip, scratch them, sit on them, smear stuff on it (that you sometimes
> can remove easily and sometimes not).
Eat them?
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>> Interestingly, all the floppies I own have gradually stopped working.
>> Almost every single one of them now regularly has bad sectors or
>> suddenly shows up as "not formatted". I guess because they're so old now...
>
> I think that's because they are a magnetic storage media, which
> degrades over time. Optical media has the advantage that it doesn't
> degrade. If it only was as protected as the 3.5-inch floppies, they
> would be almost perfect...
I've seen drives that accept CDs in a "caddy". Never very popular though.
>> As I said note... What the **** do they make the actual disk out of?
>> Because man, it's unbreakable! They should make shopping bags out of
>> that stuff!!
>
> They aren't unbreakable. At least DVD-R's aren't. Bend them enough and
> they will shatter into a hundred tiny (razor-sharp) pieces.
No no - the floppy plastic bit inside a floppy disk. Seriously, I don't
know what kind of plastic it is, but... well *you* try ripping one!! o_O
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On 29-5-2009 23:34, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> Children scratch CDs?
>>
>> Yip, scratch them, sit on them, smear stuff on it (that you sometimes
>> can remove easily and sometimes not).
>
> Eat them?
>
That I never saw.
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