SpiderOak is also a cross platform synchronization and share tool and does everything DropBox does (only a bit better) except that it allows you to sync as many folders on as many computers as you like. And for 100 dollar a year (50 if you're a student) you can get 100GB extra (up to 5 TB).

I am in no way affiliated with SiperOak, just a satisfied user. The only thing I worry about with SpiderOak and Dropbox is what kind of lifespan they have. Will they still be around in 5 - 10 years?

The problem:
(consumer) Wants to listen to whatever song he likes, whenever he likes, on whatever device he has available and as often as he wants (maybe once, maybe hundreds of times), i.e. wants to feel free. For a to him reasonable price (ranging from nothing to the equivalent of a comparable service - say ... being able to call anyone he likes, whenever he likes on whatever device he has available and as often as he wants )maybe once, maybe hundreds of times) or more exactly the price of a phone subscription nowadays.
(industry) Wants to profit as much as possible for every single song, preferably wants people to pay the full-price even if they only ever listen to the song once. Want to control the consumer because they feel more they control results in more purchases.
Or in other words consumer demand and industry supply do not match. Until this is fixed, this remains the root of the problem.

Once that problem has been fixed, *then* you can think about punishments like: if you downloaded 1000 songs a month illegally, then you will have to pick up a subscription that allows you to do that legally for an amount of time proportional to your 'offense'. Sure it will cost you a bit, but you get something for it in return, something you were consuming already before anyways. Once you start paying for it you realize maybe that perhaps you only 'need' 100 songs a month, or 10 or none, and after you have paid your dues you can scale down your subscription again. I honestly believe this is the only way it is ever going to work.

It's not an easy task, for sure: it requires investing in infrastructure (cellular or broadband Internet) or facilities to 'charge' your iPod or other music at a local store or internet cafe, and maybe settling for a lower profit margin and less instantaneous income (as is the case when selling and single or album) because instead the money 'trickles' in. Of course playing your cards right could actually result in increased sales because people consume relatively more (it's easy and relatively cheaper). Rather than paying 50 bucks for 1 album to listen to over and over again, you can listen to to maybe 10.000 songs a month choosing out of an infinite amount of songs available. I know which option I'd pick and actually find reasonable to pay for.

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!