No double patterning required... just make sure you use name-brand Rubylith and a very sharp knife.

And you wonder why programmers are considered nerds by all the cool kids?

Using a CD-ripper is so 1990s. What you want to do is buy a good quality scanner and scan your CDs using high-resolution mode -- should take about 20 seconds per disk. Then use any of the usual conversion programs to convert the scanned images into whatever audio format you prefer.

For now.

No, the springs magically went away.

Assuming you mean metric ton, the cost of a ton of this petrol would be around 380 times the cost of a gallon of the stuff.

But then the entire Slashdot community would have no incentive not to commit heinous crimes. If all that happened when you got caught was 20 years of free meals, free accommodation and a PC to program all day, how does that differ from the average Slashdotter living in his parents' basement? The idea behind prison is to punish people so others will think twice before committing a crime.

Cable exec makes more money. Cable exec buys new car. Consumer gets to wash that car, earning cash to pay current month's cable bill. Win-win!

Everything I've read from Packt rates 8/10+ in my book.

Money from Packt?

Future generations of digital archeologists are going to discover Slashdot, and they'll infer from reviews here that all of mankind's books were published by Packt Publishing. When you've absolutely, positively got to get your book reviewed on Slashdot, trust no one but Packt Publishing.

You're wrong... 9 out of 10 book reviews posted to Slashdot are related to Packt Publishing.

And that's still better than most Slashdot readers.

Or just fire them now and outsource.

Nonsense. Every single invention in computing came from Apple.