I cannot believe nobody mentioned FreeFileSync yet (http://sourceforge.net/projects/freefilesync/).
It's a portable-app, and you can create batch jobs..

It's also a great way to get a scholarship to a great university, like MIT (no flaming to other schools, insert your favorite school here that gives need-based scholarships to international students)
From my experience, from the people that I know from Eastern Europe, only those that went to such international Olympiads (math/informatics) managed to get admission to MIT..

In many eastern-european countries, it's more difficult to qualify for this event than the actual tournament..
Kudos to those who participate and to their teachers..
In my time there was no TopCoder, UVA, etc... it wasn't easy to prepare for these.. But now I'm sure it's even more challenging, given the amount of material available..

Your analogy is wrong.
It's like walking inside a dollar store, and bringing them a pen or a small toy that the dollar store doesn't really sell.. However, since the price is known to be $1 per item, they'd sell it to you.

The AP's store has a price-list based on words.. If you want to license a given set of words that you found in an article of theirs, you can easily pay up.
Their system is there to make money for them, not to tell you if a given sequence of words belongs to them.

Whether 5 words rule is fair to copyright is a different story.

In Canada, as in the States, you can still buy barebone laptop - no OS included, like:

http://ncix.com/products/?sku=30406&vpn=OCZNBIS15DIYA&manufacture=OCZ%20Technology&promoid=1016 [ncix.com] [ncix.com]

I worked out the price, and it's still not in your favor though.. I also looked at US Dell models with Ubuntu - their price is not that good compared to the windows version..

Tell that to Reiser :) He had a Russian chick and look what happened :)

Nada, nope, No, nein, niet, ne

Just because they have to make money, doesn't mean I have to pay.
If you want premium content, you need another brand. Youtube stands for "us", not them!

How about working towards the reason someone would try to bomb a plane?
Or, make non-bombable planes.. Hammering at only one side of the problem doesn't lead to the best solutions.

Well, the line workers can put a light connected to the wires.. The moment the light comes on, they can just take off their hands off the wire so the electricity doesn't hit them.. It's so simple, really.. Note, that this won't work with a sound-based alarm, as sound travels more slowly than light.. so it's gotta be light :)

Joking aside, linemen do treat wires like live, usually. Plus, their feet are well insulated (the bucket they stand in is insulated from any grounding). So, they only way they can get electrocuted with 120V is by holding two wires at the same time, so the electricity flows from the hot wire to the grounded one..
At 7kV, it's a different story, because any resistance smaller than infinity would mean current passing through your body that could kill you.

mod parent up..