And even if so, it doesn't account for the phones that don't have one or more of them.

This problem has always existed and isn't relevant. Either a software requires a piece of hardware or it doesn't, usually a user wouldn't even need a software that requires a certain kind of hardware unless they have the hardware in question.

Good visual effects - check
Epic music - check
Illogical plot (certainly dropping a bomb would be easier than marching through Uruguay) - check

Yep, he is certainly Hollywood material. :P

Some would argue that FX is the only thing Hollywood is good at.

Well the post that started this thread was pointing out that this is proof of Hollywood running out of ideas, which certainly isn't helped by the fact that this $300 movie is standard Hollywood fare. Who knows, maybe the dude will make an awesome movie with a great plot, but that is not what he got hired for (if this short movie really was the reason he got the deal).

Some of them are far too large (e.g. WC, Maraudon) and take a long time even with a max level character due to the distances involved (not to mention getting lost!). Better design of their layout would help. On the other hand SFK is very nice and I look forward to its HC version.

Like the other poster mentioned the badge system has been expanded upon since 3.2, you now get emblems in 5mans that can be used to buy items of the previous tier which means that you can pretty much start raiding the newest raid after gearing up in 5mans. Also, you don't need BIS to be able to raid, a player who knows his rotations and doesn't stand in fires will easily outdps someone who just runs around in epics with no knowledge of their class.

It won't make some of the extremely long low level dungeons themselves fun though. Hopefully this is remedied in the next expansion.

While your post contained interesting information, it wasn't really relevant to the grandparent (try reading more than the first line, i.e. the part where he mentions that he does not use CB anymore). I also find it amusing that you immediately categorized him as "one of the guys screwing up communications on the amateur bands". You also forgot to end your post with "get off my lawn".

Thank you.

The parent post would of course sound less stupid if I actually used the word lossy instead of lossless. My proofreading skills seem to have atrophied a bit due to the lack of posting on slashdot.

Audio CD's do not contain .WAV files, they contain audio in the CD-DA format. That the Audio for Windows format (.WAV) usually is used to contain uncompressed audio has no bearing on the fact that WAV files can even contain losslessly compressed audio (e.g. mp3). ;)

So therefore the average users, or the people who provide the majority of votes, would never vote for DRM.

Have you tried speaking with said average users? The ones I have talked about the matter with have all been on the side of DRM/stringent copyright because "otherwise everyone will pirate and there will be no more music/movies/software". Some might even invoke the "Amiga theory", which is that Commodore died because of rampant piracy (even though it died because the Amiga was no match for consoles in the gaming front and no match for PCs on the software front).

No, in a true democracy people will get precisely what they want, which is why we are all suffering and will continue to suffer in the future due to all the nice things our predecessors wanted.

This isn't possible, as the guest OS cannot get more memory allocated to itself than has been assigned to it. Let's say you have five guest machines that "share" all their memory through this new feature. If you gain access to one of the machines and completely rewrite all the memory it has inside it, you still have only doubled the memory usage as the host os allocates the new memory for the guest os. Rewriting in the same memory multiple times will not increase memory usage any more than that as it will still be writing in the same memory area the host os allocated. Even if the attacker was able to gain access to all five machines and rewrote their memories, the host os would still only have five times as much memory usage as in the beginning (which is pretty much the way it is now without KSM).

So worry not, this should not be exploitable. *knocks on wood*

How much memory did the images use in total before the change (i.e. how big was the savings in %)?

Of course, every byte is precious as long as it doesn't affect performance, but it would be interesting to know how much more images one can expect to run on one computer. :)

Don't be ridiculous, America wasn't even discovered when elected representatives were running around in fear giving up liberties to their dictator here in Europe. This has been going back and forth for millennia and mankind is just too stupid to permanently break the cycle.

And you seemed credible until you dismissed his argument due to presentation.