Each individual thread can't malloc more than 4GB, but any program dealing with more than 4GB of data should be threaded anyways, since everyone here seems to be operating under the assumption that any machine with more than 4GB of ram will be multi-cored.

Yeah sure, corporations and the mob may control everything, but did you see how fast my pizza got here?

I'd love to see a more community minded society, but we need a massive paradigm shift before anything can even begin to happen. I know people who care more about stock prices or the lives of celebrities than what's going on in their community. Is the performance of the DOW more important than the performance of your local public schools? Is the death of a celebrity more important than your neighbors kid loosing his legs in an accident?