... because most managers never written a line of code, or CEOs who are programmers who did not take management/business courses and have no interest in business matters, except vital ones. It is general lack of education in US, because if high costs, and you will see it in most industries as well. Computer development, requiring a lot of thinking, exposes idiocies of modern world, lack of education in general populus being one of them.
Shirt making facility will staff blue collar workers, where there is no requirements to be intelligent/smart. So many problems there are hidden and not exposed, by indifference.
One art is being lost over last 10 years is art of drawing a line, over which you will not step over, dollar rules! but I digress.
Developers do alot of mental lifting, so there are different 'paths' I take, planning day ahead: 1. continuing programming:
a. get out of bed and start coding, working at home, 1-2.5 hrs after starting, have breakfast, but only eggs and bread, something hearty, avoid meat.
b. get up, run, have hot/cold shower, have a glass of juice, dress casual, but make a point of wearing coordinated pieces - dressy stuff. While commuting figure out my plan for the day. Get to work, start programming right away, do not have music or anything on. Maximum - a glass of water. Having desk tidy, helps. 2. planning projects - it does not matter how you show up for work, just get there, doodle on the paper until business type will figure out the requirements. 3. Deathmarch - cold showers(every 1hr), very very plain food, avoid caffeine, until necessary... but by then you should take a nap anyway, getup take cold shower continue coding. minimal distractions. Make sure to have alot of good sleep before weeks of deathmarch.
The company obviously had some technical difficulties to acknowlege, that they have experienced with one factory they had. Clearly this corporate benemoth, rather than admitting technical incompetence would gnaw off one of its own limbs, that in fact was producing excellent hardware! I see things like that every day in corporations, where they will go through different controtions like that, so they would look better on the paper to investors. Come on, these people were making some of the best drives in the industry. They have built a second rate factory in hungary that was cranking out shitty drives. So what? All other factories are making great drives, I have two, one failed on me, it had "Made in Hungary" thing, now two are made in Singapore or something, and they work very well. This is exactly kind of idiotism one would expect from IT company, but revised IBM? balh.
I think there is too much power and money concentrated over the holding a broadcast spectrum. We have to run ahead of competition and install as many of IPv6 routers as possible, hopefully converting internet, to have multicast. Multicast will allow *anyone* to have a radiostation, and few even a video station, at flat cost. Running smashing your head against the wall is not the best way to use yourhead, perhaps, run around the wall, remove supporting beams and it will fall by itself. I think cause of bandwidth to be shared by companies is a lost cause...
> 4) I know it's not a cure-all. It's a necessary first step, though.
no it is postponing the inevitable. I want my multicast dammit! I want to have power of billion dollar broadcast stations in my home. Haven't we paid enough for that technology to work properly?
Solution is IPv6, it offers many features that would put stop to many iditotic nightmares IPv4 brings to life, like spoofed ips, no multicast, address space. Underlying idea of the internet is dead because internet has evolved into something much too large for specifications written almost 30 years ago. enough said - it will not come - pipes are never replaced, even if they add led to the water. What makes me think that routers will be replaced...
In czar russia there were forbidden books, about political thought. There was police that was monitoring political groups, basically thought police. If some was found reading an illegal book, the punishment would range from beating to life imprisonment in siberia. While two countries are not same, and should not really be compated, if we defocus, we would see strikingly similar pattern here, where government builds up legal power behind itself to control citizens with whatever force required to do anything needed. Remember it got this bad because we did not fight every case, sum of which has eroded public freedoms of individual citizens. I think it is too late, we should fight for our rights anyway, but it is all careening towards loud, poisonous stinky explosion that will fracture social infrastructure and trust in government. It is already edges closer and closer with "borderless" war and unlimited control in the white house, underhanded dealing of Mr Bush and his friends(namely Enron?)...
No they already have provided search adapters for federal systems, to and from there databases, so don't buy any book of questionable content online, or in large chain stores. While before it was laughable, now I would suggest you to make wearing a tin hat a regular habit. 2c. =)
Matrox is coming with new dual head card with load of features. It might have been demonstrated on GDC, but when their computer froze up, they covered the screen. It might have been GeForce, but hey. Matrox might have something up their sleeve, being in backwaters of 3d they might have something cool soon. 2c
there's a whimper of understanding of freedom of the free software in general public, mainly because they are not software writers. Most are gui users and have not had a fortune to create something that works, and completely their own creation. They have not had this baby, that they wanted to grow and better, by others contributing to it. Rather, there is plenty of *USERS* (in all negative senses of the word) who don't share the primodal creationist love that RMS and many of the software writers. Perhaps if RMS was to relate code to children in every step, he might recall some positive associations from *USERS*, about Free software(not only GPL). As it stands many people are illeterate now, even more are computer illeterate. Of this computer illeterate group there are small group that can use computers that is rather small. In the core there are wizards of Unix administration, programming and other talent who huddle around these opensource creations warming their hearts, before coming out to cold business world of stamping out software that will be forgotten before they even leave the company, and if it has fortune to live on, most will not see innards of it, as it will be stamped with ristrictive licence, protected by multiple layers of NDA.
What free software needs is more educated people, edified as some of my friends call, ourselfves, who are have insight into alot of software and we care deeply about the way we do things. As we do put alot of effort in doing this we like to share. RMS comments will definetly will sink in dark on uncouth masses, but it will live on amongst few of us, who want to pass on the love for deep understanding of computer related things.
Its interesting, looking at the debate going on about culture and how many corporations own it. How people here threaten to vote for anti-RIAA politians. However falling quality of entertainment, is only side effect of what is going on in North America. It is a decline of corporate culture. Corporations of the past( and short present ) have ridden on waves of promises to higher riches and more choice for everyone, while basics that were driving them neglected basic ethics, rights for the name of the dollar.
I admit I despise what US has become. Why? US in its early years was a anti-corporate republic where companies too large were broken, for their power was too corrupting and would draw unscrupilous individuals. As years went, laws were masked, shaved, until the state they are in now: providing for safety of rich, vowing freedom of individuals for rights of corporations that apparently are necessary for happy life of US. But life is not happy. Employee's rights are being curbed at every possibility. Privacy is only a dream, and those who speak out against government wether fair or not are to be feared pronounced terrorists. Your senators will tell you what you want to hear, and as soon as they are up there, they will turn the back on you, and turn their friendly face to corporate bidders to take your rights away. Many americans did not even finish school, let alone have secondary degree. How do you expect them to understand that copyright mumbo - jumbo. What they look for is another tax break, daycare for their kids, maybe government loan to start their business. Admit it, computer literate compose a tiny fraction of voting population, so you will not really be heard. Those who put copyright into their election campaign promises are to be misunderstood... Remember is is unamerican to be anticorporate, and those who are not with us are against us. So you will be stuck with Mr Bush for another term, because of campaign reform, and other nice ways son of exCIA(most evil agency) director. CIA is known to pull coups in other countries. How america is any different? Well enough of that. Keep these small communities glowing, maybe someday it will become a wildfire.
Oh and copy all CDs you get, or give the CDs you buy to your friends to copy, whatever. Go to concerts of bands that you like, buy t-shirts and other stuff - thats the only way to help artists. I repeat, do not buy CDs, if you do, make sure to hand out 10 copies of them to other people. Or less. Get other people to do same. Time to make RIAA HURT.
Quality of the MP3s is not great. Even CD themselves are not that quite high fidelity media, but DVD audio is. I guess if you have boombox, 1$ a song is fine, I'd opt for a CD.
Well the starting to regulate internet like that, is troublesome, and will effectively kill the internet. What I am for, is for innovative technical solutions, not tardy government legislation that suppose to "influence" spammers. Spammers are least ethical people on the net, often do everything to hide traces of their origin, but product that is hosted somewhere offshore, so your little hands cannot touch, but with credit card. Regulating internet with stomp out innovation, the primodal drive behind internet's *REAL* innovations(forget about one-click). I am not sure why./ is so happy about it.
this guy is heretic and is proposing conspiracy theory that computers are not useful. Truth is that most software is not useful, not computers. And until programmers themselves get to listen to people and people *really* listen to programmers/power users. Such tools can be made in a flash if there was an agreement to use a single tool/interface standard. Yes we can replace paper, given we have thousands of simple customized programs for user types and integrated archival search system. But that is not possible under current conditions, because of politics. Yes there will resistance on multitude of levels to use of new stuff. Web pads can be created using many readily available processors.
Because of the reality of technology, it is new and radical - there will be new ways of using technology, many may not be used to it, like were not used to using telephone, but those hurdles will be overcome, and many people will user virtual offices.
Most people are not interested in technology, they just want it to make things easier. But it won't, it will just put efficency on a new level. It will make us smarter, if we invest into learning basic blocks on computer technology. Change is hard, and is often met with fear and hostility on many levels. It will take some time to rid ourselves of paper.
Cold fusion was practically proven to exist, unlike anti-gravity. Hysteria surrounding cold fusion is generated by people who get grants on doing multibillion dollar research on hotfusion. Many know here cold fusion, but let me reiterate advantages of it. It is clean, uses water with few non-toxic low cost additives, it scales. It is very very clean and cheap. Contrary to that, hot fusion reactors, if there will be any working ones built, would be works of art, as they have to keep trillion or particlulates contained in a magnetic field. Hot fusion is based on controlling most volatile and unstable matter with not physical, but magnetic barriers. It is isanely difficult to do, for all we know it may be a hoax. There is no real single point solution for hot fusion. It requires us to push all the sciences to the limits and there is not defined way to make it work.
The controvetial duo of scientists who went public with their research were FORCED to go public because competing hot fusion scientists were to loose some money on research, and would look silly if what they were doing could be replicated in safe, cheap way, using most widely available matter on earth!
So please keep the facts straight - cold fusion was replicated in laboratories. But being barred from research in "respectable" sciences community, cold fusion often used a reference to quasilogical, crackpot science.
As for peer-review journals - those are reviewed by people who compete for research funds, many of whom depend strictly on funds raise for their living expenses. Don't you think there is a conflict of interest?
I am disheartened with science community so far, how it became a money consuming maching that induces incremental gains on scientific knowlege and never really approves real breakthrough ideas.
Moves like that won market for microsoft, in early days when most people did not know internet, and there were to hub sites for news. Now it is becoming quite sickening to even think of microsoft. Whats next? Contract killers to make competition more equal for microsoft, that is when microsoft is MORE equal? Looks like beginnings of war between to giants. Business people at Sony will not take that.
I can't stand hype, and thats what this article does. It polarizes the two sides of potential conflict. Yes the drives from hugarian factory failed. Yes these drives get very HOT. So, get some spacing and have a cooling system in place, or at least some sort of air flow maintanace. I have on 60GXP from Singapore(?) and & 75GXP. I spaced them properly, and placed holes where they are located, so that powersupply fan would pull air around them. I never had any problems yet!
IBM excellent drives, if they be more understanding to the issue, it would be great, but making people hate great product, instead of instructing them how to work around the problem, that most other drives have is to say the least is counter productive. But then thats what reading slashdot is all about anyway...
It seems XP is taking over masses of programmers that love to code. Rational is for pseudo programmers and managerial types who have weak analytical thinking and often like to fall back onto diagrams. UML is no slouch, but it is often used to conceal ignorance and laziness to undestand technical underpinnings of a system. UML is good, but as many things it is often misused.
Rational software not one I would use, but it should work considering all developers are on the same page. Tools should be used to get understanding of system being built, not building system like lego toys, slapping a schedule on imlpementation and stilling back and relaxing. Revisions to diagrams are often painful, because you often have to explain just basic things, and gut feelings to managers who do not care, and can't understand what you really mean. Often enegery is spent on changing diagrams around and talking to pseudo programmers, than implementing quality code. Any methodology can be great, but only if management believs it in, keeps everyone on same page and makes process a development and understanding tool, rather than programmer control tool - which often happens.
I suggest using bitkepper or CVS in combination with automatic documentation generators(Doxygen?).
Hahhahaha.... Oracle support? Whats that? Have you *EVER* tried getting technical help from oracle? Nevermind software choice support by oracle is expensive and useless. Corporate level support is how executives buy themselves some rest, while grinding developers into the dust, because of lack of any support.
and how is that Audio industry gets its bids on to Video media. Maybe they should tax video tapes as well. Tapes known to make excellent replicas of CD recordings.
except army was to be shipped in wooden boats across the ocean, now all you have to do is declare opreation a terrorsit act against RIAA and reasonable cause will follow for use of nuclear weapons. Open source developers will be called "axis of evil" and be jailed immediately.
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... because most managers never written a line of code, or CEOs who are programmers who did not take management/business courses and have no interest in business matters, except vital ones. It is general lack of education in US, because if high costs, and you will see it in most industries as well. Computer development, requiring a lot of thinking, exposes idiocies of modern world, lack of education in general populus being one of them.
Shirt making facility will staff blue collar workers, where there is no requirements to be intelligent/smart. So many problems there are hidden and not exposed, by indifference.
One art is being lost over last 10 years is art of drawing a line, over which you will not step over, dollar rules!
but I digress.
Developers do alot of mental lifting, so there are different 'paths' I take, planning day ahead: ... but by then you should take a nap anyway, getup take cold shower continue coding. minimal distractions. Make sure to have alot of good sleep before weeks of deathmarch.
1. continuing programming:
a. get out of bed and start coding, working at home, 1-2.5 hrs after starting, have breakfast, but only eggs and bread, something hearty, avoid meat.
b. get up, run, have hot/cold shower, have a glass of juice, dress casual, but make a point of wearing coordinated pieces - dressy stuff. While commuting figure out my plan for the day. Get to work, start programming right away, do not have music or anything on. Maximum - a glass of water. Having desk tidy, helps.
2. planning projects - it does not matter how you show up for work, just get there, doodle on the paper until business type will figure out the requirements.
3. Deathmarch - cold showers(every 1hr), very very plain food, avoid caffeine, until necessary
2c.
The company obviously had some technical difficulties to acknowlege, that they have experienced with one factory they had. Clearly this corporate benemoth, rather than admitting technical incompetence would gnaw off one of its own limbs, that in fact was producing excellent hardware! I see things like that every day in corporations, where they will go through different controtions like that, so they would look better on the paper to investors.
Come on, these people were making some of the best drives in the industry. They have built a second rate factory in hungary that was cranking out shitty drives. So what? All other factories are making great drives, I have two, one failed on me, it had "Made in Hungary" thing, now two are made in Singapore or something, and they work very well. This is exactly kind of idiotism one would expect from IT company, but revised IBM?
balh.
I think there is too much power and money concentrated over the holding a broadcast spectrum. We have to run ahead of competition and install as many of IPv6 routers as possible, hopefully converting internet, to have multicast.
Multicast will allow *anyone* to have a radiostation, and few even a video station, at flat cost.
Running smashing your head against the wall is not the best way to use yourhead, perhaps, run around the wall, remove supporting beams and it will fall by itself. I think cause of bandwidth to be shared by companies is a lost cause...
> 4) I know it's not a cure-all. It's a necessary first step, though.
no it is postponing the inevitable. I want my multicast dammit! I want to have power of billion dollar broadcast stations in my home. Haven't we paid enough for that technology to work properly?
Solution is IPv6, it offers many features that would put stop to many iditotic nightmares IPv4 brings to life, like spoofed ips, no multicast, address space. Underlying idea of the internet is dead because internet has evolved into something much too large for specifications written almost 30 years ago.
enough said - it will not come - pipes are never replaced, even if they add led to the water. What makes me think that routers will be replaced...
In czar russia there were forbidden books, about political thought. There was police that was monitoring political groups, basically thought police. If some was found reading an illegal book, the punishment would range from beating to life imprisonment in siberia. While two countries are not same, and should not really be compated, if we defocus, we would see strikingly similar pattern here, where government builds up legal power behind itself to control citizens with whatever force required to do anything needed. ...
Remember it got this bad because we did not fight every case, sum of which has eroded public freedoms of individual citizens. I think it is too late, we should fight for our rights anyway, but it is all careening towards loud, poisonous stinky explosion that will fracture social infrastructure and trust in government. It is already edges closer and closer with "borderless" war and unlimited control in the white house, underhanded dealing of Mr Bush and his friends(namely Enron?)
No they already have provided search adapters for federal systems, to and from there databases, so don't buy any book of questionable content online, or in large chain stores. While before it was laughable, now I would suggest you to make wearing a tin hat a regular habit.
2c.
=)
Matrox is coming with new dual head card with load of features. It might have been demonstrated on GDC, but when their computer froze up, they covered the screen. It might have been GeForce, but hey. Matrox might have something up their sleeve, being in backwaters of 3d they might have something cool soon.
2c
there's a whimper of understanding of freedom of the free software in general public, mainly because they are not software writers. Most are gui users and have not had a fortune to create something that works, and completely their own creation. They have not had this baby, that they wanted to grow and better, by others contributing to it. Rather, there is plenty of *USERS* (in all negative senses of the word) who don't share the primodal creationist love that RMS and many of the software writers. Perhaps if RMS was to relate code to children in every step, he might recall some positive associations from *USERS*, about Free software(not only GPL). As it stands many people are illeterate now, even more are computer illeterate. Of this computer illeterate group there are small group that can use computers that is rather small. In the core there are wizards of Unix administration, programming and other talent who huddle around these opensource creations warming their hearts, before coming out to cold business world of stamping out software that will be forgotten before they even leave the company, and if it has fortune to live on, most will not see innards of it, as it will be stamped with ristrictive licence, protected by multiple layers of NDA.
What free software needs is more educated people, edified as some of my friends call, ourselfves, who are have insight into alot of software and we care deeply about the way we do things. As we do put alot of effort in doing this we like to share. RMS comments will definetly will sink in dark on uncouth masses, but it will live on amongst few of us, who want to pass on the love for deep understanding of computer related things.
Its interesting, looking at the debate going on about culture and how many corporations own it. How people here threaten to vote for anti-RIAA politians. However falling quality of entertainment, is only side effect of what is going on in North America. It is a decline of corporate culture. Corporations of the past( and short present ) have ridden on waves of promises to higher riches and more choice for everyone, while basics that were driving them neglected basic ethics, rights for the name of the dollar.
I admit I despise what US has become. Why? US in its early years was a anti-corporate republic where companies too large were broken, for their power was too corrupting and would draw unscrupilous individuals. As years went, laws were masked, shaved, until the state they are in now: providing for safety of rich, vowing freedom of individuals for rights of corporations that apparently are necessary for happy life of US. But life is not happy. Employee's rights are being curbed at every possibility. Privacy is only a dream, and those who speak out against government wether fair or not are to be feared pronounced terrorists.
Your senators will tell you what you want to hear, and as soon as they are up there, they will turn the back on you, and turn their friendly face to corporate bidders to take your rights away.
Many americans did not even finish school, let alone have secondary degree. How do you expect them to understand that copyright mumbo - jumbo. What they look for is another tax break, daycare for their kids, maybe government loan to start their business. Admit it, computer literate compose a tiny fraction of voting population, so you will not really be heard. Those who put copyright into their election campaign promises are to be misunderstood...
Remember is is unamerican to be anticorporate, and those who are not with us are against us. So you will be stuck with Mr Bush for another term, because of campaign reform, and other nice ways son of exCIA(most evil agency) director. CIA is known to pull coups in other countries. How america is any different? Well enough of that.
Keep these small communities glowing, maybe someday it will become a wildfire.
Oh and copy all CDs you get, or give the CDs you buy to your friends to copy, whatever. Go to concerts of bands that you like, buy t-shirts and other stuff - thats the only way to help artists. I repeat, do not buy CDs, if you do, make sure to hand out 10 copies of them to other people. Or less. Get other people to do same.
Time to make RIAA HURT.
Quality of the MP3s is not great. Even CD themselves are not that quite high fidelity media,
but DVD audio is. I guess if you have boombox, 1$ a song is fine, I'd opt for a CD.
Well the starting to regulate internet like that, is troublesome, and will effectively kill the internet. What I am for, is for innovative technical solutions, not tardy government legislation that suppose to "influence" spammers. Spammers are least ethical people on the net, often do everything to hide traces of their origin, but product that is hosted somewhere offshore, so your little hands cannot touch, but with credit card. Regulating internet with stomp out innovation, the primodal drive behind internet's *REAL* innovations(forget about one-click). I am not sure why ./ is so happy about it.
this guy is heretic and is proposing conspiracy theory that computers are not useful. Truth is that most software is not useful, not computers. And until programmers themselves get to listen to people and people *really* listen to programmers/power users. Such tools can be made in a flash if there was an agreement to use a single tool/interface standard. Yes we can replace paper, given we have thousands of simple customized programs for user types and integrated archival search system. But that is not possible under current conditions, because of politics. Yes there will resistance on multitude of levels to use of new stuff. Web pads can be created using many readily available processors.
Because of the reality of technology, it is new and radical - there will be new ways of using technology, many may not be used to it, like were not used to using telephone, but those hurdles will be overcome, and many people will user virtual offices.
Most people are not interested in technology, they just want it to make things easier. But it won't, it will just put efficency on a new level. It will make us smarter, if we invest into learning basic blocks on computer technology. Change is hard, and is often met with fear and hostility on many levels. It will take some time to rid ourselves of paper.
You are awfully naive. When you will read one of those agreements, your head will be the size of two towers.
p.
Cold fusion was practically proven to exist, unlike anti-gravity.
Hysteria surrounding cold fusion is generated by people who get
grants on doing multibillion dollar research on hotfusion.
Many know here cold fusion, but let me reiterate
advantages of it. It is clean, uses water with few
non-toxic low cost additives, it scales. It is
very very clean and cheap. Contrary to that, hot fusion reactors,
if there will be any working ones built, would be works of art, as they have to keep
trillion or particlulates contained in a magnetic
field. Hot fusion is based on controlling most volatile and unstable matter with not physical,
but magnetic barriers. It is isanely difficult to
do, for all we know it may be a hoax. There is no
real single point solution for hot fusion. It
requires us to push all the sciences to the limits
and there is not defined way to make it work.
The controvetial duo of scientists who went public
with their research were FORCED to go public
because competing hot fusion scientists were to
loose some money on research, and would look silly
if what they were doing could be replicated in
safe, cheap way, using most widely available matter on earth!
So please keep the facts straight - cold fusion was replicated in laboratories. But being barred from research in "respectable" sciences community,
cold fusion often used a reference to quasilogical, crackpot science.
As for peer-review journals - those are reviewed
by people who compete for research funds, many of whom depend strictly on funds raise for their living expenses. Don't you think there is a conflict
of interest?
I am disheartened with science community so far,
how it became a money consuming maching that
induces incremental gains on scientific knowlege
and never really approves real breakthrough ideas.
I think you have forgotten new word in corporate vocabulary: unrealised profits.
Just think about it.
Satan looks like heavenly angel when compared to these borg drones^W employees.
Moves like that won market for microsoft, in early days when most people did not know internet, and there were to hub sites for news. Now it is becoming quite sickening to even think of microsoft. Whats next? Contract killers to make competition more equal for microsoft, that is when microsoft is MORE equal?
Looks like beginnings of war between to giants. Business people at Sony will not take that.
I can't stand hype, and thats what this article does. It polarizes the two sides of potential conflict. Yes the drives from hugarian factory failed. Yes these drives get very HOT. So, get some spacing and have a cooling system in place, or at least some sort of air flow maintanace.
...
I have on 60GXP from Singapore(?) and & 75GXP. I spaced them properly, and placed holes where they are located, so that powersupply fan would pull air around them. I never had any problems yet!
IBM excellent drives, if they be more understanding to the issue, it would be great, but making people hate great product, instead of instructing them how to work around the problem, that most other drives have is to say the least is counter productive. But then thats what reading slashdot is all about anyway
It seems XP is taking over masses of programmers that love to code. Rational is for pseudo programmers and managerial types who have weak analytical thinking and often like to fall back onto diagrams. UML is no slouch, but it is often used to conceal ignorance and laziness to undestand technical underpinnings of a system.
UML is good, but as many things it is often misused.
Rational software not one I would use, but it should work considering all developers are on the same page. Tools should be used to get understanding of system being built, not building system like lego toys, slapping a schedule on imlpementation and stilling back and relaxing.
Revisions to diagrams are often painful, because you often have to explain just basic things, and gut feelings to managers who do not care, and can't understand what you really mean. Often enegery is spent on changing diagrams around and talking to pseudo programmers, than implementing quality code.
Any methodology can be great, but only if management believs it in, keeps everyone on same page and makes process a development and understanding tool, rather than programmer control tool - which often happens.
I suggest using bitkepper or CVS in combination with automatic documentation generators(Doxygen?).
Hahhahaha.... Oracle support? Whats that? Have you *EVER* tried getting technical help from oracle? Nevermind software choice support by oracle is expensive and useless.
Corporate level support is how executives buy themselves some rest, while grinding developers into the dust, because of lack of any support.
Contrary, mandrake is very much redhatish, as it does RPMs, I can install most software I can install on redhat.
and how is that Audio industry gets its bids on to Video media. Maybe they should tax video tapes as well. Tapes known to make excellent replicas of CD recordings.
except army was to be shipped in wooden boats across the ocean, now all you have to do is declare opreation a terrorsit act against RIAA and reasonable cause will follow for use of nuclear weapons. Open source developers will be called "axis of evil" and be jailed immediately.