[lug] Do CD-TWs suck?

[Daniel Webb]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 03:05:33PM -0600, Sean Reifschneider wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 04:24:45PM -0600, Daniel Webb wrote:
> >always just bought whatever's on sale, but I'm not a very demanding user.
> >I've seen plenty of those discount CDs go bad, but I just burn another one.
> 
> Sure, if you're just using them as floppies, you're probably fine.  A cheap
> CD is probably more reliable than a cheap floppy, based on my experience
> over the last year.  Boy do I hate floppies.  :-)

I hear you.  I rarely early-adopt *anything* (I'm still using Thinkpad 600Es
and just got my first cellphone and DVD player a few months ago), but I was
one of the first people to buy a CD-R burner when they came out.  I *hate*
floppies.  I don't think any technology product ever caused me more more
stress, excepting maybe Windows 3.1.