They are conveniently called U-Specs and are currently in the process of being manufactured on a mass produced scale for as cheap as a dollar or two (or not more than a few dollars), i.e. cheap enough to be actually usuable by people who cannot afford custom made prescription glasses.

The principle is very simple as well, based on the work by Nobelprize winner Alvarez: slide two specially shaped lenses over each other (by means of a slider) and achieve any focus in a wide range of a few diopters.

And for a nice video demonstration (the one from TFA sucks) check out the official Layar website: http://www.layar.eu/

Netbeans [1] and Eclipse [2] provide a fully functional C++ Integrated Development environment - and work on Windows too. Sure they might not work for *everyone* but they might both very well be on par with Dev-C++ and you know they are continuously extending the functionality of both projects. If you tried it in the past, it might be worth checking it out again:

[1] http://www.netbeans.org/features/cpp/
[2] http://www.eclipse.org/cdt/

I assume you are from the US, or Canada perhaps?

Note that: 6 * 2687kWh/year = 16122 kWh/year

The US average electricity consumption (2005) is 12796 kWh (source) so you could do with about 5 Montana Wind Mills (assuming your place of residence is as windy as Zeeland).

An average Dutch resident (of let's say Zeeland) uses only 6638 kWh / year (source) , which means that 3 Windmills should be enough.

The irony of moving your weeds to the Netherlands ...

They are divided only in the magnitude of the effects, i.e. 1.6m or 60cm rise of the sea level before 2050, not about the global warming issue in itself, as is often suggested by people such as yourself.

Mod parent up, a valid point. I mean if you compare this to the Minix kernel (on which the Linux kernel is very loosely based, or inspired if you will), it has only 4000 lines of code. 4000 vs 6.4 million!