Standards work until the devil appears in the details · Proposed air date:
A question about unreadable recordable discs leads from the importance of closing a session to a larger point about compatibility. Dr. Dave remembers an era with four or five competing operating systems and agrees that standardization made ordinary purchases easier, yet even something as simple as a disc session shows how small details can still defeat seamlessness.
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Proposed recording date: 2005-09-17. The exact broadcast date may differ.
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