12th April 2007, 10:30 PM
But you see there's no real reason that spinning a disk would "wear it out". Certainly it wouldn't result in scratch marks unless there's some problem inside the CD reader.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)