Posted on 05/14/2002 7:48:28 AM PDT by Grig
Next time you're at the store, read a container of bleach, paint thinnner, etc. You'll see that the warning labels are much stronger than "Not Suitable For Human Consumption" -- and these are for products that everybody with a speck of common sense knows are poisonous. The warning on a so-called "compact disc" that fails to adhere to the book standard would need to be even stronger, since the damage they can do isn't (yet) a matter of common knowledge.
Sony might* escape a reaming in the courts if it placed a prominent warning on both the packaging and the disc itself stating something like "PLACING THIS DISC INTO A COMPUTER DISC DRIVE MAY DAMAGE YOUR COMPUTER EQUIPMENT". Of course, then people would be too afraid to buy it.
*Though in a world where you can sue because you spilled hot coffee on yourself, I wouldn't rely too heavily on it.
They find the line distant up to two centimeters from the outside edge. Draw now with the pin a tangential line, which covers the dividing line accurately, into which outside range project, but does not affect the last audio TRACK. A sticking tire helps as ruler.
Try the result out. If it did not fold, the line covers either the dividing line not completely or lies over the last audio trace - here geht's around tenths of a millimeter. Then you wipe away to the pro copying bars with a damp speed and correct after.
To pose an analogy, if I sold a brand of soda that would explode like a grenade if shaken and then opened, I'd expect huge civil and criminal liability once people started getting blown up. A warning label that said "Do Not Shake Before Opening" would not get me off the hook, because people would quite reasonablye assume that I was referring to the well-known tendency of soda to spurt out and make a mess under those conditions, and would have received no real warning of the actual risk.
LOL!! Point taken! There is, however, a difference between inserting toast and inserting a CD that will toast your machine!
Seriously, Whether you are warned or not, the CD inserted should not damage the machine it is inserted in. Your child might not understand that inserting it will damage the computer, and since it is the right size, shape, color, and fits right nice in the tray. I liken it to placing a button on your machine that has a big WARNING label on it that says not to press, or it will bring physical damage to your machine.
Sooner or later, someone will press it. I have seen it.
So why put in your computer in the first place? Its not like you weren't warned! Hot buttered toast if inserted into the CD tray will screw up the computer too.... Also its not a good idea to water your plants over the keyboard ...
From a human engineering point of view, a CD tray is designed to hold, well, CD's, and not hot buttered toast. It is human nature that, if the CD fits, they'll stick it in without reading the warning label. For this reason, your keyboard connector has a substantially different design than the power cable.
It seems to me that Sony should be getting ready for a class-action lawsuit. A competent human engineering person (not I, who just took one class) could have a field day with the decision to design a product that is (at best) negligently damaging, and (at worst) intentionally damaging.
Yes, from a computer point of view, SONY designed a product that may look like a CD, but as all the attributes of hot buttered toast when it comes to the computer. It is NOT a CD.
Sticking warning labels are probably as useful as "WARNING: Surgeon General has determined that smoking ... ". Why on earth anyone would want to put it in their computer is beyond me.
I resent this trend that exhonerates the consumer from everything and rewards stupidity. It only means that prices go up to pay for this nonsense.
I would suspect that any record company would have the same attitude if someone called them and said "this CD won't play in my CD player." However, given Sony's dismal track record on customer support, I doubt this would be the case.
Ditto for anyone who owns a Mac. (I am s-o-o-o tired of Mac owners' self righteous sense of superiority.)
And that's precisely why they will get in trouble, and why they will deserve it. Tort law (traditional tort law, not the modern lawsuit lottery) does not allow you to evade responsibility with "Simon Says" games.
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