dhill wrote: > Tis true, CD's are not as durable as you think. Don't believe me, > ask disk jockies. CD has been playing fine then suddenly it gets > caught up in "circular redundancy." My son swears that vinyl is > still the choice of true audio purists. All I know is that I have > CD's with Data on them that could once be read but now cannot, and > you can forget about get Norton Utilities to correct the file format > or the corrupted directory. Still, the most reliable way of saving > information is on the big round tapes that you see on TV chugging > along on mainframes, etc..
Couldn't agree more, sometimes no matter how much I take care of a CD it just for some reason goes bad. Heat from the computer perhaps? And the disks itself are supposed to be resistant to the heat the computer generates. Another thing I don't know why they call them COMPACT disks, they're huge! Not compared to records but compared to 3.5 inch disks, Zips even a harddrive! Whatever happened to mini disks (the ones Panasonic claimed would be the storage for the fufture)? Some drives are not even made for those anymore. And I hope nobody says that the size will sacrifice the space cause I wont buy it. In this world today where cameras can be as small as the tip of your finger and computers can sit at your desktop (compared to the 50's when they couldn't fit on your house!) I am sure they can developt a better backup system which can store as much as 20Gigs at the palm of your hand and make it cheap. I don't know what's keeping them. As they say in Sears "the consumer is always right" and as long as the product exist consumers will pay for it. > I am very bitter about early copy > protection on Apple IIe stuff. Kids ruined it in one squabble, and > disk drives go down and ruin disks. The only way your data is safe from physical damage is inside a harddrive and the only way to keep it safe from a drive failure or a crash is removable media. Both not 100% reliable, where are we going to really put our trust into? > Now we have these bimbo, greedy > music companies that are making 1000% profit are talking about copy > protection. And we live under and administration which will side > with them. Whoever voted for him, voted for him, and they get what > they voted for. If you have an important CD, I would sure make an > attempt at copying it. > Dale Sometimes when I am in an unfortunate situation where I loose a CD or such, most of the times I don't go back to the store to buy it, what's the point? That's what vendors want you to do, go back and get it again. I once had to purchase some important CDs which I had lost, however how about the people who copy them, and sell them in the black market? How can they keep those from doing so? or even programs like Napster that gave Mp3s away? (yeah I know is gone but before you know it there'll be a replacement). THose things are still going on and the only thing they know is practically take it on the good people, they make you pay for what others do. They keep making these copyright laws thinking that they're gonna work and they're gonna get more customers, for God's sake! The sad thing about it is that these companies keep getting richer and richer and you keep getting poorer and poorer, sometimes I even wonder why I bother buying anything other than food. If you only had to buy something once for a lifetime like Apple thought it would be when they made the Apple II. The thing is after you buy one computer you've just got to upgrade every 3-4 years anyway, it's not like a phone or a car you buy every 10 years or such. I think people who don't have a computer should stay away from the hassle and headaches, once you start you can't stop. Liliana -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
