The hole makes it go faster!
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I was given a webcam and when I went to install the drivers I noticed something funny about the CD.
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Knock-off.
How do we play that?
Baseball bat?
I think you throw it like a frisbee.
Ring toss for experts?
Almost like horseshoes.
Do I win a goldfish?
Hide, Fluffy!!
The snack that smiles back?
I was going to buy it an aquariam.
What? And submarine my tidbits!
It’s always good to wash your bits and pieces before serving as a snack.
A littoral bite to eat?
A semen-al part of a daily diet.
what the fuсk are you people talking about!!1!??/?
*kills himself*
*Tries to toss across Ms B’s post*
ShamWow Alert
*sirens wail*
It’s not how it looks! Really!
*Tries to pitch-back comment*
Are you sure you don’t want to just throw in the towel now?
Never! This thread is my pet project.
*buys Marius’ project a chew toy*
Thanks Judy!
*Gives a rousing fling*
That CD has some serious hang ups
*poke*
:[
*Ahem
*holds out hand*
*slips 20 under bra strap*
It was worth it.
Well I suppose the arm bone is connected to the shoulder bone…..It’ll do!
*squeeze*
The shoulder bone is connected to the back bone.
*anatomical squeeze*
*escapulars*
*admires ucipital mapillary*
Aorta be blushing!
That’s just femoral vein.
Sorry, it’s my nature to try to ex-spleen everything.
Haem just going to give up now!
Another thread sacrum to boredom.
Not as boring as my carpal this morning. *sigh* I was really looking for something a little more humerus.
We Ulna what that is like! *sigh
At least you did not get into a rectum.
That disc is off the hook!
…..and in the bin!
That will hamper their sales.
It is not a bin!
The same company is also trying to market a new CD coat rack holder
As long as it doesn’t look like…well…nevermind.
Oooh…danglies…
*takes back Nerf balls*
*huffs off*
So nice, they had to punch it twice.
For when one hole is not enough.
you have commitment problems don’t you
No, I have been committed only once, but the doctor said I was sane enough to leave.
So that’s what happened to you!! There I was, drooling and looking out the window, ALL ALONE!! I miss your balls.
I’ll make sure you get a turn.
*tickletackle*
Franks!!
Awe nut’s.
Don’t mention it.
*squeeze*
I thought you weren’t supposed to punch the driver?
*punches the chauffeur instead*
That better?
As long as you screamed “Hack!” at the same time.
If you have a chauffeur you’re allowed to punch him. He gets payed for it so he’ll just have to suck it up.
*replaces male-chauvinist-pig him and he with politically correct him/her and he/she*
*flees from angry mob*
So we poke?
:[
*poke*
*tickle*
*giggle*
*squeeze*
I pinch?
*twitch*
*prods*
*Spurs*
*nudges*
*winks*
*dinks*
*thinks*
ow ow ow ow!!
*clinks*
*kinks*
I have them. Anybody want to help me get un-kinky?
Only after your pay.
:[
I left my credit card in a fountain somewhere…
My roflcopter goes soi soi soi.
space saving win
They’re getting a little carried away with the anti-piracy methods.
*appears in full regalia*
Yaaaaaarrrrrrrr!
*tries to get parrot to join in*
*offers teh parrot a cracker*
*tries to sail the seven seas*
*can’t open the jar*
*Offers cracker*
*crackers up*
*chips in*
My friends parrot liked to say, “You’re a Crackhead!!” She’d do it all day long.
“who’s a crackhead? Sasha’s a crackhead. Crackhead. Shut up Shasta!! Crackhead.”
*sigh* Good parrot.
You don’t need to call me names, white is good enough
This still could work if the data is only on the inner part of the CD- that’s the case if it contains a low amount of data.
Exactly what I was thinking.
I concur – definitely a fail fail…
I can’t believe only 4 people have figured that out so far. CD could still work. It’s probably a promo in which case very little data would be on there, so the hole has no effect.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Buzzkills all over today, huh.
*rolls over*
*opens one eye drowsily*
Whu?
Believing that there is very little data on the CD is an assumption. You don’t know. So the situation as it stands is, FAIL!!!
Well, it’s a driver for a webcam, so yeah, not a lot of data.
The situation as it stands is indeed that we do not know. Assuming it is a fail is a big godd*mn fail.
And buzzkill? What buzz?
Believing that there is more than a little data on the CD is an assumption. You don’t know either.
Would have no effect…
…except for shattering when spun inside your computer at speed and leaving your CD drive knackered and full of shards of broken CD!
CDs need to be fairly well balanced due to the speeds at which modern CD-ROM drives run, else horrid things can (and DO) happen.
[link contains one reference]
^ This ^
My first thought “That would still work if it only contains a driver”.
My second thought “But only in a single speed CD drive”
Yup. That hole might as well be intentional.
*tries to resist the urge to use the industrial hole punch*
Did he die-cut?
*Runslikeheck*
*trips*
*pokes*
That one was free!
k@, you gave Marius a free poke? Hmmm.. no wonder he’s grinning so big.
:[
The real FAIL is that this sane comment is only the 8th comment, but is 2/3 down the page.
Of course, lets hope that your CD drive doesn’t spin too fast, or there could be shrapnel problems.
There are a lot of people who post here who’s CD drive doesn’t spin too fast, if you know what I mean.
Dang! Ruined it with the “who’s”
Actually, considering the content of the comment, I think that fit right in.
You are absolutely correct – little data = OK, more data = KO. But the CD is imbalanced, which is not good for the drive’s mechanism. So in a way, it is a fail.
Reminds me of the time AOL packaged floppies with refrigerator magnets attached.
They were so cool looking they thought people would want to display them somehow?
By then, that’s all they were good for.
(For the kiddies who wouldn’t remember – floppies were what data came on a long, long time ago. If you put a magnet next to a floppy disk, you’d scramble or erase the data. Tossing a magnet in with your AOL floppy wasn’t the brightest move.)
The boring thing is that the cd will still work. Data is burned from the middle of the cd and out towards the edges. If it dosent contain more data then what can be placed before the second hole it will run smothly with no problems.
*yawn*
You’re right. That is the boring thing.
Why didn’t we think of that?
We think?
You do have a point…
Two good points make a line of thought.
We make lines?
I thought we were curvier.
Well I try to be straight, when possible.
<– has more curves than a mountian road. Likes it like that.
I bet that leads to some hard driving.
I wish. I guess my speed limit is too low for that.
Slow and steady wins the race.
unless you’re talking about ejaculation.. in which case.. speedier the better..
right?
*sniffs*
*sneezes*
I hope not!
‘cause white lines blow away?
’specially when I am about, I am allergic.
*Needles*
I hope your hypoallergenic.
OMG! I’m allergic too. Think it’s the only thing I AM allergic to.
♪Because you’re mine, I walk the line♫
♪ These days were lit by lines of sharp white. . . ♪
Like those business card CDs, or the Star shaped ones
But why go through the trouble of punching a hole into a disk rather then the plastic cover
for SCIENCE
True, but it’s going to make a sound like an angry beehive when it spins up in your CD/DVD drive.
Yes, but only because there are invisible bees in the plastic slipcase.
Part of the CD spec is very good tolerance of and compensation for rotational imbalances. Rubber mounted spindles and things like that, because CDs can be quite badly balanced anyway just from manufacturing flaws – most CDs aren’t actually properly round, and it’s a lot cheaper to make the drives compensate than to produce trillions of perfectly round CDs. A 52x CD drive can be doing 25,000 RPM, and at those kinds of speeds having too many 1s or 0s in one section would be enough to unbalance it. Like me. I only meant to post the first line, and some weirdo wrote the rest. I don’t know him.
So why is it that two 1’s together weigh 3 times as much as a single 1 anyways?
When you burn 1s and 0s into a CD, you’re actually making an indentation in the plastic layer of the cd. The reader shines a laser through the plastic layer which reflects against the foil layer and for every so many microns there is a different angle of refraction due to an indentation, a corresponding number of 1s or 0s is read. However, during the burning process, it can be assumed that the plastic layer is thinner where the “bumps” are either due to redistribution of carbon molecules, or their full fledged oxidation (burning off). The result is a “lightening” of the bump area. Causing an almost infinitesimal unbalance in the disc itself.
Wow, actually someone who knows the details!
This is not funny you guys. This person clearly has a mental disability.
I think we found Michaelcj5’s stalker.
You’ll never take me alive!!!
Well, considering that we can’t get a firm grip on ya, we keep slipping, I think you’re safe.
It’s always better with butter…
……or baconlube?
*makes a note*
*replaces KY*
The whole state?
Um…
Hey!! Look over there, Tennessee is topped with butter.
*scrams*
OH ME!
Oh……. klahoma?
Is there aNY way we can stop this nonsense?
This is something up with which I shall not pUT!
COol cool!
I’m not listening . . . LA LA LA LA!
HA! You’re funny!
Mind if I butt IN?
This anagram won’t work, FL AI, damn it.
WA? WY not?
Just boW Very low, Marius.
*readies E.T. finger*
*Phones home to complain to MA OR PA*
I Always watch myself arouND Judy…the finger is evil…
How does the rating system work? If 5 thumbs down is a good thing, then how did this failed fail get so many?
♪♫ Because it’s funny! ♪♫
*tries to apply logic*
*fails*
*applies fuzzy logic*
*adds sequence*
*stands back to admire work*
Perfect!
*QED*
*flicks Bic*
*sways back and forth with flame in the air*
Soooooooo pretty.
Didn’t you see the ink stains on the table?! HALARITY! That stuff never comes out
Just ask Monica Lewinski.
Yeah I bet they’re storing the table in their wardrobe … just in case.
News just in: “I did not have horizontal relations with that tabletop”, claims President.
es de ser inútil!!!
The hole may not affect the data, but it would be unstable in the drive (one side is slightly heavier than the other) it would definitely void your warranty.
That is actually pretty cool. Now you can hang this CD anywhere!
This is fake. It’s a piece of cardboard. I hate fake Fails…
~Yes. You often see clear or see through cardboard~
♪I can see clearly now that the Eddie is gone.♫
The 80s called, they want their shape discs back.
Ohhhhh coloured vinyl, I had almost forgotten.
Hey!
Did it work ?
Data may still work if there’s not that much on the disk…. your drive might even be able to compensate for the funky balance issues…
But… I have to wonder about the efficiency fail. Was it really easier to punch a hole through a disk in such a manner that it doesn’t crack it rather than just make the plastic wrapping a half an inch bigger?
If there was porn on that CD I’d find a way to play it.
You need to get out more Finster71. There’s a hole world for you to experience out there.
Two holes are better than one cup.
Not a big deal. Driver install packages don’t take much disk space and the CD reads from the inside out.
Lots of room on the CD before it reaches the hole.
I’ve seen rectangular CD-ROMs about the size of credit cards. If the data doesn’t take up the whole disc, there’s not really any reason for it to be a full-sized, solid circle.
Reminds me of the holes you cut in C64 floppy disks to make them double-sided.
Ah, memories of storage.
HA!
this could be a WIN. if the data does not go beyond the space where the hole is, then this is a great idea for hanging the CD from a shelf…
THANK YOU! Would someone please change it?!
There a toons of CDs with holes or with different shapes than a perfect disc and all of them work just fine. This is it not a fail at all.
looks like photoshopped….
hahahahahaahahahahahahahahahaha
You FAIL at FAILING, what about those “original” CD’s with just 100 mb of info?
-by unDave™
someone got drunk i gues XD
It’s an aerodynamic hole… boosts the spinning speed… and the recording, too… up to 104x
But I need one that will record at levels of OVA 9000!!!
How many holes do I need to add for that?
The CD probably works fine. This isn’t a fail.
That does not render a cd unusable. It just limits the capacity, and drivers usually don’t take up that much space. I say FAIL denied.
photoshop? or is this real…. the world shall never no
You dorks. It’s a photochop.
a) There is no way to manufacture a CD that way.
b) You would spend a lot of Rupees getting the packaging folks to line up the holes properly rather than just dropping in the disk.
c) nothing stopping the disk from rotating in shipment and voiding all the hard work of your assembly folks.
d) the extra hole is not center of the envelope, or the disk, thereby eliminating the possibility that machines created this monstrosity
e) there is no way to do this without machines
f) therefore, the comments are the only fail.
How else do you expect them to hang it on the shelf?
Unlike a vinyl record, CDs are written from the inside toward the outside. If the amount of data on the CD isn’t too much, it still might be perfectly usable.
I’d try it out first in a CD-ROM drive you don’t care about. That hole might throw it out of balance to the point where it wobbles around and comes off the spindle, trashing both the disc and the drive it’s in.
burp!
This isn’t funny at all. That CD is perfectly usable.
This isn’t funny at all. That CD is perfectly usable.
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This is fake! There’s no hole in that CD. Its a small piece of cardboard on top of it. You’ve been fooled by the color of the table.
this is fake and gay
Title: Simpson’s reference WIN.
CD CARNAGE!!! One hole in a CD = TOTAL FAIL!!! (Rendered Useless.)
You’re all failures.
First, it’s not fake. I’ve seen similar things before, mainly as driver discs for cheap-ass hardware.
Second, it’s not cardboard. You can very clearly see the reflection off the plastic and the grain of the wood below it.
Third — and this is the kicker — THIS CD WILL STILL WORK. CDs are read from the inside-out; that is, from the hub towards the edge. Since this disc is clearly some kind of driver, there’s very little data on it. Based on the position of the hole there’s easily enough physical space for about 100MB of data before the drive encounters that hole. No driver takes up that much space so, yeah, this CD will work.
TIP: When you post a fail, MAKE SURE IT’S A FAIL.
It’s true, this CD could work, any unused storage space on a CD translates to a useless plastic rim around the edge that you can do whatever you want with. Evidence? Those mini CDs that are about 1/2 the diameter of a regular CD, I’m sure you’ve all seen them somewhere…
This CD isn’t technically a fail, it’s just retarded-looking.
that is a piece of cardboard on a same colored table?
what the hell are you talking about666