Were they even an analogue for the Soviet Union before Star Trek VI?

An Ubuntu install by default will see Windows partitions. You still have to navigate the directory structure manually to create a shortcut, but as long as you've installed Wine (I honestly don't recall if it was installed by default or not), it's either a double-click away or you may have to right-click it to tell it to launch with Wine. Regardless, it's pretty simple for someone who has a moderate knowledge of computers and GUI usage. It is most certainly not the exclusive domain of leet hackers. Heck, it even does a passable job of Direct3D wrapping, but you'll note a performance boost (and UI glitches will go away) if you modify the config.wtf file in the WTF folder of your WoW install to instruct WoW to use OpenGL rendering. Downside: you lose the hardware cursor. There is a (moderately complicated) workaround with a custom-patched Wine install to make it so your system cursor shows up on top of Windows apps.

Indeed. As I once saw, "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a car full of CD-Rs." Or DVDs or BluRay discs or these holographic discs.

2008 was the year of the Linux desktop. Consider this your memo.

All it needs now is a "Launch World of Warcraft from my Windows partition" menu entry, and it'll take the world by storm.

You do realize that you can do this with Wine, right? It's how I play. I never ran the installer in Linux, I just told Wine to launch Wow.exe on the NTFS partition and it worked.

I also did an update via update manager. I just told it to start last night when I went to bed, and when I woke up this morning and rebooted, everything came up and seemed to work fine. I only got about 20 minutes to fiddle with it before I had to go to work, but no problems. Oh, I'm running Kubuntu FWIW.

Wait... since when does WoW focus on "casual" gamers? I'm sorry, but a game that I have to play often just too feel that I have made my 15$/month worthwhile isn't what I call "casual".

The fact that YOU feel like you have to spend that time to make the $15/month worthwhile doesn't affect the fact that many people consider 10 hours per month to be plenty. Some people log in, work on some quests or whatever, spending maybe 2 hours at a time twice a week.

More than 50% of the players in the game require more than a month to hit endgame.

That was a great film.

Torrents is illegal [sic]! Didn't the [MP|RI]AA teach you anything?

If they yank it and you try to re-upload it, make sure you re-encode it with different settings first. They store a hash of the original video, so if it's bit-for-bit exact, it'll never show up the second (or subsequent) times. All that being said - I don't expect you'll have a problem with it. Haven't seen it yet (at work), but I've got it saved to check out when I get home!

No, I share one with 3 other people.

Your "news attention span" for a week is over one hundred hours? That is impressive.

Doubtful. I'd have modded you up but instead I'm just posting on everything today. Stupid First of April.

This is why I've disabled my smilies and only post mine backwards so they don't get parsed. I don't want to be considered a hacker... (-: