A CD has a single spiral track of data circling from the inside of the disk to the outside. The fact that the spiral track starts at the center means that the CD can be smaller than 12 centimeters if desired, and in fact there are now plastic baseball cards and business cards that you can put in a CD player. CD business cards hold about 2 megabytes of data before the size and shape of the card cuts off the spiral.
As long as they're rotationally symmetrical, they should spin without any judder.
The data track is a spiral running from the centre outwards. Since the centre portion of the "disc" is the same as a normal CD, the CD reader will be happy.
Obviously the "square" ends of the "disc" can't contain any data because any spiral tracks would include portions of the "disc" which don't exist.
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There is a machine on my network:
firestoneup301+13:34, 0 users,load 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
It's running Debian/Sparc and it's been up continuously for over 300 days.
Debian isn't for beginners. No serious Linux user that I know has ever switched away from Debian, although I have seen several switch to Debian.
I think you'll find it's a spiral, like I said originally.
There is a nice description at http://www.howstuffworks.com/cd1.htm, including the following words:
As long as they're rotationally symmetrical, they should spin without any judder.
The data track is a spiral running from the centre outwards. Since the centre portion of the "disc" is the same as a normal CD, the CD reader will be happy.
Obviously the "square" ends of the "disc" can't contain any data because any spiral tracks would include portions of the "disc" which don't exist.
Programmers see source code. Users see user interfaces.
For every one programmer there are going to be many times that number of users (10000 times?).
Any effort spent on i18n of source code is therefore going to be (say) 10000 times less valuable than effort spent on i18n of UIs.
So to me it looks pretty pointless. A lot of effort for at best a tiny gain. I guess more likely it would simply be counter-productive.
Not forgetting the other trick, as used on A Bug's Life.
Make the first release 4:3 letterbox (even though all players can downmix from 16:9 to 4:3 at play time).
Then re-release it on 16:9 as a "special edition".
Throw in an initial VHS-only release, and you get to say "Look here, new release!" three times. Some punters will even buy it twice.
If I were a shareholder I would demand nothing less.