For me, it's not the number of vulnerabilities and never was. I, like most other people, used IE because it was preinstalled. I was lazy and figured "a browser's a browser". Only once I started using other browsers did I realize:
1. There is no reason a browser should lock your operating system.
2. There is no reason a browser should mysteriously slow down your computer.
3. There is no reason a browser should purposefully make it difficult to change some settings.
It's like the Messenger service that Microsoft seems DETERMINED to re-enable on my computer every time I update / patch.
I know what settings I want, and the browser that lets me use those settings with a minimum of issues is the one I'll use. This isn't loyalty. It's a user-friendly program that doesn't pretend to believe it knows what I want better than I do.
Simply blocking the IP doesn't fix the problem, and is on the same level as them blocking searches engines and sensoring US web sites.
Bot engines etc etc, if you stop it one place it will simply spring up in another.
Filtering ala google PRIOR to it hitting the consumer is the real key. That and corporate involvement - when it really begins to cost them money we'll see an improvement.
Wow. Just, wow.
Teams, companies, and countries stay on top by REFUSING to let other people do it "better" than them.
The minute someone gains a technical advantage in any field, be it R&D, production efficiency, etc, they can use that advantage to continue extending the lead to make it almost insurmountable.
As far as I can tell from your post, you'd be perfectly happy to let other countries develop and use new techonology decades before the US, and allow their companies to stop our in innovaction and new product.
That's a self-defeating and self-destructive viewpoint at best. I'd wager you don't do much competing.
Isn't part of the allure of smaller systems handling the specifically to get away from large dedicated systems that aren't nearly as reliable?
By now, google should have taught the world something - distributed computing with small cheap specced systems that can each be swapped with multiple redundancy is the way to offer both uptime, speed, and be cost effective.
It's nearly identical to the "lean" manufacturing techniques pioneered by the Japanese. Small cells that can increase or decrease output based on the amount of workers (systems) that are working that day. Very flexible.
After all, it's a COMPUTER.... do you really want it dedicated to just email, or can we use it for other tasks in the downtime.
Users don't "demand" anything. They ask for things. Then the programmers prioritize and implement those features over some period of time.
Suggesting someone is "demanding" something immediately injects an element of fear into the article, and infers that open source has some impending disaster should they not immediately meeting those "demands". Of course, an article like this will be followed up in a couple months with another describing how Linux is descending into obscurity by not meeting customers needs and "demands".
I've worked an a few open source projects. The common denominator among those projects is that people WANT to work on them. It's fun, it's usually non-committal, there are no "drop dead" timelines, etc.
>>why the home is a better work environment than
>>the office
>>and how bottom up ideas are better than top down
This just isn't how the "real world" works. Over half the people in the US aren't particularly happy to go to work every day. Projects ARE handed down and down "top down" because that's how customers specify them.
>>or Firefox, but about the forces that produced
Yeah, ok. Groups of people working for free on fun projects. So you think industry is going to learn that we should all work for free? Because they certainly can't make work fun.
Basically, this is the Open Source World's version of coporate double speak.
Hey, you've got DRM on your DVD's and MOST people barely notice it.
Except of course when they reach the FBI warning and can't fast forward past it. And as much as my wife bitched about the annoyance of having 8-10 tracks prior to the movie, she's come to accept it because.... EVERY DVD has it.
So down the road, when we're force to buy a new monitor with our new computer, well, we won't think much more about it than we do when we get a new phone with our cell plan.
The only way this is going to fail is if the companies can't hack out a good standard. If it becomes too much of a hassle, THEN it will fail. If my new monitor won't work on a different computer that's also new, or if I'm severely limited by monitor choice, that MIGHT make enough of a difference for me to choose another alternative. But I doubt it.
It will be buggy, non-compatible, and create all sorts of issues. What will the result be?
Coporate customers will have to buy new monitors with expensive features to do things legitimately. The casual user will be so annoyed and pissed that he won't bother trying to watch video etc etc over the computer - which is exactly what these companies WANT.
Just like the targetted lawsuits by the RIAA scare the casual thieves away, this will do the same (or make it so incredibly annoying) that they will leave this arena as well.
Consumers will go back to watching purchased DVD's on DRM enabled DVD players that have a common DRM output to a DRM enabled surround sound etc etc. Stand alone components.
And in the end, microsoft will be writing the software for those too.....
Wow. Yet another report from yet another government agency without any real answers. It shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that they danced around the real issues.
Lets be serious, and consider, in english, what's going on.
#1 The "World" (every country that has politicians in the UN) sees an opportunity for power and money by claiming a stake in internet ownership.
#2 The "World" realizes that because the US created, invested, and built the majority of the internet, the US isn't going to voluntarily hand control of it over to someone else. Especially since there's a lot of power and money involved in running the internet.
Here's my solution. Get rid of all domains that do not end in a country suffix..org,.net, etc are gone. If you want www.slashdot.org, then it's gonna be www.slashdot.org.us.
Each country handles managing it's own suffixes, or pays someone else to.
Then, that country has full legal rights to enforce their own laws on their own domains, and easily BLOCK any domains from the subversive US, China etc etc etc.
Why wouldn't it work?
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Or not.
Whatever hardware they own, they can govern themselves. While US companies owns 70-80% of the hardware that makes the internet run, the US will govern our own, thanks very much.
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And in your case, if your parents had been involved, they would have been pushing the administration to move you into more challenging classes. Shame on them if they didn't.
When my school ran out of classes, they agreed to give me credit for community college courses.
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Well, let's be completely truthful here.
If you expect a completely unskilled person to be able to get a job and support a wife and a couple children, your expectations are completely unreasonable.
The problem isn't society or wages - it's that the unskilled person decided to make a series of of very poor decisions and dug themselves a pretty damn big hole.
You can't create a social safety net for stupid people. This goes back to the exact same theory many of the posters mentioned - people who are never allowed to fail will continue to underachieve.
Let the unskilled person who continues to make poor decisions fail. It's not my, nor societies responsibility, to continually provide an escape route to someone who continues to make bad decisions.
I know, that goes against the grain of many people. But rewarding underachievement and stupidity are counterproductive and completely worthless. Afirmative action is a perfect example.
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You don't even have to call it failing. Call it not fully understanding the topic.
The only true failure is not trying.
I agree. I think that it would do many kids a world of good to have someone tell them that they aren't trying hard enough and they can do far better. Then force them to do better.
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Ok. I guess I'm done then. I struggle to believe anyone who can say that parental involvement, divorce, and culture doesn't have a direct affect on education.
Tell me, do the countries that have higher test scores force their parents to pay for elementary and middle school education?
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I understand what you're saying, but that's a shortsighted view in itself. The education system cannot tailor itself to push students to their own level of accomplishment. That has to be up to the parents.
Let's face it, when one teacher has 30 students each hour, the one on one time is about 1 minute per student. Not only do you not get to know them on an individual basis, you certainly never get a chance to push them to their potential.
It has to be the parents. School simply can't do it - not because their not trying but because education is a HUGE job.
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Damn right they're not typical. When the divorce rate reaches 55%, most kids aren't breast fed past 3 months, and parents spend more time worrying about their retirement than a kids education, what do you expect?
Of COURSE they're not typical! We've got a bunch of parents who are more interested in their house's landscaping and whether they're going to be able to get a round of golf in before they "HAVE" to pick up the kids from daycare than we have of the parents who WANT their children to learn.
We have parents who sigh with relief when they drop their kids off in the morning and shudder in fear at the idea of picking them up after work! We have parents who can't put aside their differences and act like adults and make a DECISION to have children in a rational way.
We have people getting married after 3 months of dating and we publicize it and call it "fairytale" and tell everyone they should aspire to it. We show "the bachelor" on TV where ever episode is about who is screwing who - until the end when they get married then divorced a week later.
Hello? Culture? Anyone? Has anyone seen my culture? I seem to have left it at the statue of liberty.
You complain when programming jobs leave the US. But applaud when big bad Microsoft gets raped by foreign lawmakers.
You complain when tech jobs leave the US. But applaud when big bad Intel gets bitch slapped.
You complain when you lose your jobs, but continue to buy your Nissans, Toyotas, Hondas, Subarus et al.
You fail to see that US companies don't compete on a level playing field and they haven't in a long time. Do some research. Tariffs, secret corporate agreements (The Japanese are KINGS at thi) payoffs to officials, and the incredibly affect that money and lobbying have in the US are going to wipe our corporations out.
We've already lost the entire electronics market. We're beginning to lose the pharmeceutical industries. The auto industry is dieing. R&D is now being done in other countries.
But don't worry, you'll have more than enough time to complain while you're standing in line to get a welfare check.
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Mechanical Engineers start in the 40's. So do many EE's with a Bachelors. Just how much should a teacher make? I'm sorry, I know quite a few good teachers who absolutely giggle over the money they make. Then, in their free time, they work as real estate agents, etc etc.
Teaching is no more comparitively difficult than being a nurse, EMT, Firefighter, Policeman, etc. And you'll find a teacher makes a good bit more in most cases.
Wow... you mean like in college......
Yeah yeah, sarcasm aside, there's a reason our college education system is among the best in the world..... One often wonders why we can have it in elementary, middle, and high school as well.
The obvious answer is that you have to preserve the kid's egos, because NO ONE can be better than anyone else. Until you turn 18.
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I've got a real issue with people who make statements like this.
My public education was great. I worked hard, learned everything I wanted to, went into college placement classes, finished a year early and then finished college in the major I wanted on scholarships and got the job I wanted.
If our system "sucks" so much, why are there SO many successful people who went through the system?
There's a simple answer. The system is only as good as the people using it. If parents want to throw their kids in daycare, both work full time, and don't take an interest in a childs education, it WILL suck.
Education in the US doesn't suck. Our culture sucks. Geeks and intelligent kids get mocked. Kids who skip grades and push ahead are ostracized not just by their peers but by their peers parents as well.
Parents at home don't push their kids to do their share of work. Parents don't take an active role in their kids education! Why aren't you trying to learn a langauge at home, for fun, with your children? Why aren't you meeting the teachers and getting their year long lesson plan? Why aren't you teaching them on the side?
Why can Indian, Mexican, Chinese, and other cultures come to our country and go through OUR schools, and come out on top?
It isn't the government's job to educate your children. It's yours. I'd wager you've checked your 401k on a more regular basis than you sit down and help your kid with their homework, or even thought about the pace of their learning.
I won't even go into divorce and dual custody, daycare, and parents both working after a kid turns 3 months old. Likewise I won't talk about IQ and breastfeeding, or any of the other issues that plague this country.
Stop being a victim and realize YOU are to blame. Not your kids, or your government.
This is yet another piece of the "Japanese Mystique". Or perhaps I should call it the "American Myth" where everything made somewhere ELSE is better. Of course we can't compete with Italian Wine and Cuisine, German Automobiles, Japanese efficiency, Asian Mathmatical prowess, European langauge expertise, Jewish bankers, or Japanese hybrids.
Ohhhhh that's right. We're competing and winning in ALL those areas. For example, an AMERICAN company designed and supplies the vaunted Japanese hybrid technology.
Do you think anything is "built in Japan" anymore, aside from obscenely priced luxury cars? They get their products from China and Malaysia just as we do.
They are just a WHOLE lot more intelligent about marketing. And this article proves it. Because that's all he's doing. Marketing. Let me paraphrase.
"I am Japanese. My robots are better than yours. My designers are more intelligent than yours. We are in every way a better people than you. Cleaner, more polite, etc. You are Gaijin".
And the clueless American public buys it because, simply, the Japanese understand the worth of the Media. That's why they own such a huge part of it.
The real issue here is the complete destruction of the home-grown game industry. Imagine if such things as sprites, or polygon representations of 3D objects had been patented.
Then, to get the rights to use them, you would have to pay the fees. And of course, for the other game writers to use YOUR innovations, they have to pay your fees.
It will get to the point where only the big countries with cross-patent licensing agreements will afford to be able to program the games.
The little guys will simply NOT be able to afford the licenses to the technology they need to use. It's already halfway there right now.
Boy, if only someone had patented the bubble sort.
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For me, it's not the number of vulnerabilities and never was. I, like most other people, used IE because it was preinstalled. I was lazy and figured "a browser's a browser". Only once I started using other browsers did I realize:
1. There is no reason a browser should lock your operating system.
2. There is no reason a browser should mysteriously slow down your computer.
3. There is no reason a browser should purposefully make it difficult to change some settings.
It's like the Messenger service that Microsoft seems DETERMINED to re-enable on my computer every time I update / patch. I know what settings I want, and the browser that lets me use those settings with a minimum of issues is the one I'll use. This isn't loyalty. It's a user-friendly program that doesn't pretend to believe it knows what I want better than I do.
Simply blocking the IP doesn't fix the problem, and is on the same level as them blocking searches engines and sensoring US web sites. Bot engines etc etc, if you stop it one place it will simply spring up in another. Filtering ala google PRIOR to it hitting the consumer is the real key. That and corporate involvement - when it really begins to cost them money we'll see an improvement.
Wow. Just, wow. Teams, companies, and countries stay on top by REFUSING to let other people do it "better" than them.
The minute someone gains a technical advantage in any field, be it R&D, production efficiency, etc, they can use that advantage to continue extending the lead to make it almost insurmountable.
As far as I can tell from your post, you'd be perfectly happy to let other countries develop and use new techonology decades before the US, and allow their companies to stop our in innovaction and new product.
That's a self-defeating and self-destructive viewpoint at best. I'd wager you don't do much competing.
No, not the post.
Isn't part of the allure of smaller systems handling the specifically to get away from large dedicated systems that aren't nearly as reliable?
By now, google should have taught the world something - distributed computing with small cheap specced systems that can each be swapped with multiple redundancy is the way to offer both uptime, speed, and be cost effective.
It's nearly identical to the "lean" manufacturing techniques pioneered by the Japanese. Small cells that can increase or decrease output based on the amount of workers (systems) that are working that day. Very flexible.
After all, it's a COMPUTER.... do you really want it dedicated to just email, or can we use it for other tasks in the downtime.
Boy, I'm sure a sattelite that large and powerful wouldn't be used for any types of electronic recon... right?
That was clear from the text of their article.
Users don't "demand" anything. They ask for things. Then the programmers prioritize and implement those features over some period of time.
Suggesting someone is "demanding" something immediately injects an element of fear into the article, and infers that open source has some impending disaster should they not immediately meeting those "demands". Of course, an article like this will be followed up in a couple months with another describing how Linux is descending into obscurity by not meeting customers needs and "demands".
It's classic make-news reporting.
I've worked an a few open source projects. The common denominator among those projects is that people WANT to work on them. It's fun, it's usually non-committal, there are no "drop dead" timelines, etc. >>why the home is a better work environment than >>the office >>and how bottom up ideas are better than top down This just isn't how the "real world" works. Over half the people in the US aren't particularly happy to go to work every day. Projects ARE handed down and down "top down" because that's how customers specify them. >>or Firefox, but about the forces that produced Yeah, ok. Groups of people working for free on fun projects. So you think industry is going to learn that we should all work for free? Because they certainly can't make work fun. Basically, this is the Open Source World's version of coporate double speak.
Hey, you've got DRM on your DVD's and MOST people barely notice it.
Except of course when they reach the FBI warning and can't fast forward past it. And as much as my wife bitched about the annoyance of having 8-10 tracks prior to the movie, she's come to accept it because.... EVERY DVD has it.
So down the road, when we're force to buy a new monitor with our new computer, well, we won't think much more about it than we do when we get a new phone with our cell plan.
The only way this is going to fail is if the companies can't hack out a good standard. If it becomes too much of a hassle, THEN it will fail. If my new monitor won't work on a different computer that's also new, or if I'm severely limited by monitor choice, that MIGHT make enough of a difference for me to choose another alternative. But I doubt it.
It will be buggy, non-compatible, and create all sorts of issues. What will the result be? Coporate customers will have to buy new monitors with expensive features to do things legitimately. The casual user will be so annoyed and pissed that he won't bother trying to watch video etc etc over the computer - which is exactly what these companies WANT. Just like the targetted lawsuits by the RIAA scare the casual thieves away, this will do the same (or make it so incredibly annoying) that they will leave this arena as well. Consumers will go back to watching purchased DVD's on DRM enabled DVD players that have a common DRM output to a DRM enabled surround sound etc etc. Stand alone components. And in the end, microsoft will be writing the software for those too.....
Wow. Yet another report from yet another government agency without any real answers. It shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that they danced around the real issues. Lets be serious, and consider, in english, what's going on. #1 The "World" (every country that has politicians in the UN) sees an opportunity for power and money by claiming a stake in internet ownership. #2 The "World" realizes that because the US created, invested, and built the majority of the internet, the US isn't going to voluntarily hand control of it over to someone else. Especially since there's a lot of power and money involved in running the internet. Here's my solution. Get rid of all domains that do not end in a country suffix. .org, .net, etc are gone. If you want www.slashdot.org, then it's gonna be www.slashdot.org.us.
Each country handles managing it's own suffixes, or pays someone else to.
Then, that country has full legal rights to enforce their own laws on their own domains, and easily BLOCK any domains from the subversive US, China etc etc etc.
Why wouldn't it work?
Or not. Whatever hardware they own, they can govern themselves. While US companies owns 70-80% of the hardware that makes the internet run, the US will govern our own, thanks very much.
And in your case, if your parents had been involved, they would have been pushing the administration to move you into more challenging classes. Shame on them if they didn't.
When my school ran out of classes, they agreed to give me credit for community college courses.
Well, let's be completely truthful here. If you expect a completely unskilled person to be able to get a job and support a wife and a couple children, your expectations are completely unreasonable. The problem isn't society or wages - it's that the unskilled person decided to make a series of of very poor decisions and dug themselves a pretty damn big hole. You can't create a social safety net for stupid people. This goes back to the exact same theory many of the posters mentioned - people who are never allowed to fail will continue to underachieve. Let the unskilled person who continues to make poor decisions fail. It's not my, nor societies responsibility, to continually provide an escape route to someone who continues to make bad decisions. I know, that goes against the grain of many people. But rewarding underachievement and stupidity are counterproductive and completely worthless. Afirmative action is a perfect example.
You don't even have to call it failing. Call it not fully understanding the topic. The only true failure is not trying. I agree. I think that it would do many kids a world of good to have someone tell them that they aren't trying hard enough and they can do far better. Then force them to do better.
Ok. I guess I'm done then. I struggle to believe anyone who can say that parental involvement, divorce, and culture doesn't have a direct affect on education. Tell me, do the countries that have higher test scores force their parents to pay for elementary and middle school education?
I understand what you're saying, but that's a shortsighted view in itself. The education system cannot tailor itself to push students to their own level of accomplishment. That has to be up to the parents. Let's face it, when one teacher has 30 students each hour, the one on one time is about 1 minute per student. Not only do you not get to know them on an individual basis, you certainly never get a chance to push them to their potential. It has to be the parents. School simply can't do it - not because their not trying but because education is a HUGE job.
Damn right they're not typical. When the divorce rate reaches 55%, most kids aren't breast fed past 3 months, and parents spend more time worrying about their retirement than a kids education, what do you expect? Of COURSE they're not typical! We've got a bunch of parents who are more interested in their house's landscaping and whether they're going to be able to get a round of golf in before they "HAVE" to pick up the kids from daycare than we have of the parents who WANT their children to learn. We have parents who sigh with relief when they drop their kids off in the morning and shudder in fear at the idea of picking them up after work! We have parents who can't put aside their differences and act like adults and make a DECISION to have children in a rational way. We have people getting married after 3 months of dating and we publicize it and call it "fairytale" and tell everyone they should aspire to it. We show "the bachelor" on TV where ever episode is about who is screwing who - until the end when they get married then divorced a week later. Hello? Culture? Anyone? Has anyone seen my culture? I seem to have left it at the statue of liberty.
You complain when programming jobs leave the US. But applaud when big bad Microsoft gets raped by foreign lawmakers. You complain when tech jobs leave the US. But applaud when big bad Intel gets bitch slapped. You complain when you lose your jobs, but continue to buy your Nissans, Toyotas, Hondas, Subarus et al. You fail to see that US companies don't compete on a level playing field and they haven't in a long time. Do some research. Tariffs, secret corporate agreements (The Japanese are KINGS at thi) payoffs to officials, and the incredibly affect that money and lobbying have in the US are going to wipe our corporations out. We've already lost the entire electronics market. We're beginning to lose the pharmeceutical industries. The auto industry is dieing. R&D is now being done in other countries. But don't worry, you'll have more than enough time to complain while you're standing in line to get a welfare check.
Mechanical Engineers start in the 40's. So do many EE's with a Bachelors. Just how much should a teacher make? I'm sorry, I know quite a few good teachers who absolutely giggle over the money they make. Then, in their free time, they work as real estate agents, etc etc. Teaching is no more comparitively difficult than being a nurse, EMT, Firefighter, Policeman, etc. And you'll find a teacher makes a good bit more in most cases.
Wow... you mean like in college...... Yeah yeah, sarcasm aside, there's a reason our college education system is among the best in the world..... One often wonders why we can have it in elementary, middle, and high school as well. The obvious answer is that you have to preserve the kid's egos, because NO ONE can be better than anyone else. Until you turn 18.
I've got a real issue with people who make statements like this.
My public education was great. I worked hard, learned everything I wanted to, went into college placement classes, finished a year early and then finished college in the major I wanted on scholarships and got the job I wanted.
If our system "sucks" so much, why are there SO many successful people who went through the system?
There's a simple answer. The system is only as good as the people using it. If parents want to throw their kids in daycare, both work full time, and don't take an interest in a childs education, it WILL suck.
Education in the US doesn't suck. Our culture sucks. Geeks and intelligent kids get mocked. Kids who skip grades and push ahead are ostracized not just by their peers but by their peers parents as well.
Parents at home don't push their kids to do their share of work. Parents don't take an active role in their kids education! Why aren't you trying to learn a langauge at home, for fun, with your children? Why aren't you meeting the teachers and getting their year long lesson plan? Why aren't you teaching them on the side?
Why can Indian, Mexican, Chinese, and other cultures come to our country and go through OUR schools, and come out on top?
It isn't the government's job to educate your children. It's yours. I'd wager you've checked your 401k on a more regular basis than you sit down and help your kid with their homework, or even thought about the pace of their learning.
I won't even go into divorce and dual custody, daycare, and parents both working after a kid turns 3 months old. Likewise I won't talk about IQ and breastfeeding, or any of the other issues that plague this country.
Stop being a victim and realize YOU are to blame. Not your kids, or your government.
This is yet another piece of the "Japanese Mystique". Or perhaps I should call it the "American Myth" where everything made somewhere ELSE is better. Of course we can't compete with Italian Wine and Cuisine, German Automobiles, Japanese efficiency, Asian Mathmatical prowess, European langauge expertise, Jewish bankers, or Japanese hybrids. Ohhhhh that's right. We're competing and winning in ALL those areas. For example, an AMERICAN company designed and supplies the vaunted Japanese hybrid technology. Do you think anything is "built in Japan" anymore, aside from obscenely priced luxury cars? They get their products from China and Malaysia just as we do. They are just a WHOLE lot more intelligent about marketing. And this article proves it. Because that's all he's doing. Marketing. Let me paraphrase. "I am Japanese. My robots are better than yours. My designers are more intelligent than yours. We are in every way a better people than you. Cleaner, more polite, etc. You are Gaijin". And the clueless American public buys it because, simply, the Japanese understand the worth of the Media. That's why they own such a huge part of it.
and of course, countries = companies. But hell, it's almost the same thing now-a-days anyway.
The real issue here is the complete destruction of the home-grown game industry. Imagine if such things as sprites, or polygon representations of 3D objects had been patented. Then, to get the rights to use them, you would have to pay the fees. And of course, for the other game writers to use YOUR innovations, they have to pay your fees. It will get to the point where only the big countries with cross-patent licensing agreements will afford to be able to program the games. The little guys will simply NOT be able to afford the licenses to the technology they need to use. It's already halfway there right now. Boy, if only someone had patented the bubble sort.
Eventually, the recording industry will realize that their DRM, lawsuits, and other forms of sharing "prevention" just won't work.
They're going to have to change to a business plan that's different. The online music stores are a good start. More live concerts is another.
CD's are going to finish becoming obsolete in about 30 years as rewritable forms of memory like USB sticks get smaller, contain more, and take over.
They WILL change, or they WILL go out of business.