Everything needs to play the CD is on the drive. The audio is decided by the drive. And as someone else noted, all you need is power and headphones on many drives. The drive is the player. The PC is just the controller.

Pretty sure you don't have to rewrite it (explicitly), since part of the driver's function is to detect weakly charged sectors and rewrite them automatically.

Pretty much every CD drive is also a CD player. GP is right.

Where are all the open source examples of 5x-10x productivity gains? Can you point out a single one?

Cause if all these massive gains are only coming from closed source projects, then they are pretty much 100% lies or figments in the imagination of the devs.

We could set Amazon on fire...

Would be trivial in any language (such as C++) with operator overloading.

Due to advancements in technology, your monthly usage bill will now be based on AI vibes.

Correct. It's piracy. It's right there in the name.

It is on Fandango (neé Vudu) and I believe Apple. But those are independent platforms, and at least in Vudu's case, streaming was their entire reason for existing. The Playstation X is a transient platform, never intended to be in operation more than a decade later. Sony's not going to pay for perpetual license when they plan to obsolete the entire platform ever 8 years.

So, you're saying that even after I pointed it out, you still don't understand the mathematical problem?

That's a hilarious argument coming from someone who didn't understand the mathematical problem in the first place.

I live in California and haven't experienced a power outage in decades.

Not good at math, huh? You seem to be missing the point.

No. But did you just take this conversation so seriously that you're tracking down the commenters for behavior you find distasteful?

Now THAT's fucking sad, loser.

Right? Pretty sure Europe has experienced more major power outages than the U.S. since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine...