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is it just me or does her mouth weird anyone else out? it extends beyond natural dimensions into a creepy permanent smile

We use Kaspersky for Windows systems at work (and ClamAV on Linux for mail, though that might change to Kaspersky as I believe we have a license for it). When employees ask if they can use our licenses for their personal machines, I point them at Avira AntiVir because it's about as good and it's FREE FOR PERSONAL USE (although the free version has less spyware detection). It blows AVG out of the water.

Here are some useful links from my research, which included the above site:

• Wikipedia:Antivirus software's external links are very useful.
• Top 9 Windows Antivirus, a review at About.com, ranking Avira, Kaspersky, BitDefender, and McAfee as #1, 2, 3, and 4 respectively.
• Virus.gr measured detection rates of tweaked settings, ranking in order: G DATA, F-Secure, TrustPort, then Kaspersky.
• AntiVirus Software Review 2009 - TopTenREVIEWS, ranking in order: BitDefender, Kaspersky, ESET, then AVG.
• Virus Bulletin's latest test results (no direct ranking).

From the Wikipedia links and other research that I didn't bother to note to my colleagues (who were also doing this research), I determined that Kaspersky's software was among the most efficient and CPU-friendly. It's only downside was a less-than-optimal user interface, especially on the administrative side for the corporate product. We didn't mind its UI flaws in the free trial period, so we purchased it. We're still happy with it several months later.

The main arguments for our switching from Trend Micro were that it was slow, had poor performance, missed several viruses, we wanted to boycott it, and we were tied to a very old version (since it out-performs the newer ones in reviews). Arguments for switching to Kaspersky included: it doesn't feel bloated (remember when that was the norm?), great performance, well received across the board in reviews, dirt cheap (new licenses are 70% the current renewal cost of Trend Micro, which is an ever-growing target), we liked the UI that prevented reviewers from giving it a perfect score, and it's the de-facto number one scanner in Russia and surrounding area (you know, where all the viruses come from?). Kaspersky is also growing rapidly in deployments; you can now get computers installed with it.

Well, they did under the old cooperative multitasking "old world" Macintosh System Software.

I'm suprised that no one mentioned that we Mac users had a virus known as Oompa-Loompa starting on Valentine's Day, 2006.

I found this stuff on About.com! C'mon, people! Firefox even has a Google Quicksearch built right in! Ctrl-L "google mac viruses" enter. No mouse even required.

Well, they did under the old cooperative multitasking "old world" Macintosh System Software.

I'm suprised that no one mentioned that we Mac users had a virus known as Oompa-Loompa starting on Valentine's Day, 2006.

I found this stuff on About.com! C'mon, people! Firefox even has a Google Quicksearch built right in! Ctrl-L "google mac viruses" enter. No mouse even required.

So we've heard talk, day after day, night after night, an incessant drilling into our heads that we're in a deep and severe recession -- one that may even now rival the Great Depression! -- creating panic and fear, causing people to pull investments and hold onto their wallets, change purchasing plans, in turn creating bleak forecasts for manufacturers and other business, which causes job loss, and then -- voilà!

While I don't totally fault the blathering idiot of the media for creating a self-fulfilling proffecy, I'm beginning to think that "2 quarter" rule was invented by those in the market so they could claim there wasn't a recession while quietly moving the money elsewhere.

But I agree this, "worst economy since Hoover," tirade parroted by the TV bubbleheads and politicos is a bunch of crap. Looking at the GDP, which was adjusted from -0.3% to -0.5% for the 3rd quarter 2008, a depression (explained here as actually two separate periods) is defined as "any economic downturn where real GDP declines by more than 10 percent."

And as for the Great Depression and "worst economy since Hoover":
"By this yardstick, the last depression in the United States was from May 1937 to June 1938, where real GDP declined by 18.2 percent. If we use this method then the Great Depression of the 1930s can be seen as two separate events: an incredibly severe depression lasting from August 1929 to March 1933 where real GDP declined by almost 33 percent, a period of recovery, then another less severe depression of 1937-38."

I can't figure out if the idiots in the media can't be bothered to look something up, if they love making people think things are more dire than they really are, are on a political witch hunt or combination of the three!

Perhaps they should rename it "Project Assfuck" - after all, that's what it's doing to the consumer.

The initiative is similar to security tags used in clothing retail that spill ink on garments if they're forcibly removed, thereby destroying the item.

Uhm... those tags come off if you get a rare earth magnet (say, from an old hard drive or something) anywhere near them.

Not that we're supposed to know how things work... after all, knowledge is evil, the almighty corporations want us to be dumb and stupid and drink Brawndo.

Seriously, now. This will not only be cracked damn quick, but it'll fail the first time someone has a non-'net-connected home box (dvd player, console, etc) and they'll get up in arms about it. Plus, it's already been tried once, remember Circuit City and Divx?

his Macintosh wasn't a computer?

It could have been a raincoat...

In the U.S., #4 is incorrect. I'm not sure how things are in the UK. But in America, private schools pay less than public schools. Is that different from the UK? I believe the reasoning is that teaching in a private school is more desirable than teaching in a public school. Where I live, which has terrible terrible schools, teachers get paid higher. It's like hazard pay.

From what I know of the UK (which isn't a great deal about specifics concerning wages and working conditions, so take with as much salt as you think it needs), there is a nationwide payscale within the state system which pays based on experience and responsibilities. Private schools are free to set their own payscales, but would usually guarantee to equal or better the state system.

What often attracts teachers to the private schools is that you generally have smaller class sizes, disruptive pupils can and will be expelled and parents are encouraging their children's education. All of which makes the job a whole heck of a lot more pleasant.

In the U.S., #4 is incorrect. I'm not sure how things are in the UK. But in America, private schools pay less than public schools. Is that different from the UK? I believe the reasoning is that teaching in a private school is more desirable than teaching in a public school. Where I live, which has terrible terrible schools, teachers get paid higher. It's like hazard pay.

Bertrand R. Brinley's 'Rocket Manual For Amateurs'.

Published in 1960, it has long been something of the Holy Grail for modern amateur rocketeers.

Chock full of technical details, design specs, and rocket fuel recipes. And that's the reason why it's been out of print for decades.

Rocket Fuel. There are some seriously dangerous formulas in this book. You could easily kill yourself if you did something stupid.

And of course, in this post 9/11, "BE AFRAID!" day and age, as well as the irrational fear of anything that might possibly hurt someone, no one is going to take on the potential liability for republishing this book.

However, getting back to the subject of this posting.

The book is on the Net as a PDF scan of the pages. I downloaded it myself. Not that I'm planning to brew up rocket fuel in my apartment or launch rockets from the roof of the building.

No, I downloaded it because I'm now one more person that has the PDF, making it just slightly more difficult for this book to be lost and forgotten.

While I'd love to have a genuine hardcopy of the book, the cheapest version I have seen recently was US$50.00 via eBay. Maybe someday I'll be able to spend that kind of money on a 40+ year old paperback book.

Oh, the URL?

Sure. Here you go: http://www.filestube.com/1144a11ae0e8381203ea/details.html

You'll have to download three separate files, though, via Rapidshare, which will take you about 45 minutes to get all of them, and then use some manner of file decompression utility to expand the .rar files.

Oh, and then there's the matter of the file password.

It's Brinley.

DISCLAIMER!!! I am not responsible for ANYTHING that YOU DO with this book. Don't be stupid! If you have a "Here, hold my beer" moment and wind up getting a Darwin Award, that's not MY FAULT. No way, no how.

Got that? Good.

Similarly, the Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments is similarly WAY OOP and will never, ever see the light of day as a reprint, again, liability issues.

What most people, including the parent of this thread, don't understand is that NASA and other federal R&D facilities do is fuel our economy.


Many people here on /. work in the IT field. Well you can thank NASA for the Beowulf Cluster. NASA also worked with industry to make cordless drills, CAT Scans, digital thermometers, welder's goggles and thousands of other products.

Don't take my word for it.
http://www.beowulf.org/overview/history.html
http://space.about.com/od/toolsequipment/ss/apollospinoffs.htm
http://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/spinoff.html

Engage brain before moving mouth.

Indeed, the NFL looks poorly upon spearing your opponent.

The Manji predates the Swastika by hundreds if not thousands of years.

But you'll see whatever you want to see /.

"The same technology could be applied to any other extinct species from which one can obtain hair, horn, hooves, fur or feathers, and which went extinct within the last 60,000 years, the effective age limit for DNA."
Well, the mammoth technology works because they can implant the fertilised egg into an elephant, which is a close relative of the mammoth.

What happens when you try to clone a Tasmanian tiger? Where do you put the fertilised egg? Tasmanian devils are probably the most closely related, but still very different. They are marsupials, so probably not such a huge issue carrying the foetus.

I would love to see an emu trying to crap out a Moa egg though? There are limitations to this technology. It won't work for any extinct animal for which DNA exists.

But for my money, the clone I would most like to see is Otzi everyone's favourite ice-man.

He said god not God.

Why resort to a method of getting your cardio up that beats the crap out of your joints when you can get the same exact effect another way?

Two reasons - firstly, you can't get the same effect another way. If all you're looking for is to keep your heart healthy enough to stay alive, "half an hour of moderately brisk walking" is probably enough. If you want to improve your fitness level, running will expend a heck of a lot more energy, work your cardiovascular system harder and make your body adapt faster. To get real benefit from exercise you want to reach your target heart rate and sustain it - something that you'll find hard with a brisk walk.

Secondly, "beat[ing] the crap out of your joints" is, in fact, one of the benefits of jogging. As long as you don't overdo it you'll strengthen your joints and your bones. I would also point out that since the number one risk factor for joint problems is being overweight, deliberately increasing the weight your joints are carrying may not be a good solution for those trying to avoid joint pains

(References: http://www.runnersworld.com/article/0,7120,s6-241-285--12232-0,00.html , http://running.about.com/od/gettingstarted/a/101whyrun_3.htm )

You don't suppose demographics has anything to do with it?

Also, women contribute a lot to society too (all sorts of operations jobs, raising families, inventing useful stuff, etc.), just that we men don't always give women the recognition they deserve.

If this makes you feel any better: I believe men are the ones who dream up of destructive tactics like patent trolling, buy-and-kill, sue-until-bankrupt, and so forth.

(Oh no, now I'm going to be modded down as flamebait too.)

Get your PDF copy here while you still can of the number one classic kids chemical experiment book that's been banned from libraries for decades.

In 1966, a nuclear armed B52 crashed over Palomares Spain, scattering radioactive material from multiple bombs, each 100 times more powerful than those which destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The most serious reported accident in the U.S. Military's nuclear history took place in Palomares, Spain on Jan. 17, 1966 when a B-52 loaded with four nuclear bombs suffered a mid-air collision with a KC-135 refueling plane. All four bombs were ejected from the B-52 in the crash. One was recovered on the ground and a second from the sea after a long and difficult search. However, the high explosive packages of the other two bombs detonated on impact with the ground. While the nuclear payloads of the bombs did not detonate, over 1,400 tons of surrounding soil and vegetation were contaminated with radioactive materials. The US conducted an extensive cleanup of the area under the scrutiny of the Spanish government.

I never said "never disrespect by booing", you moron.
And saying that Bush is "not my president" is not disrespectful; it's stating one's disapproval. Considering that Bush is a war criminal, that's a pretty tame way of putting it.

You think you're not a right wing authoritarian, but you probably believe you're not entirely devoid of wit, yet it appears that there are some clues otherwise.

BTW, calling the Democratic party "far left" is hilarious. They're center right by European standards. Get a brain, moran!

I'm also aware of the horrible things that a few in the liberal media have said.

1. Cite? And no, "I don't like Bush" or "not in my name" is not "horrible."

2. What is your definition of liberal media? CNN? MSNBC? I'm litterally rolling on the floor laughing, and beating the ground so hard the neihgbours knocked on the door to complain.

Bone marrow removing is not very painful. It basically chemotherapy and all needed cells are collected from blood not from bones. I have been bone marrow donor for myself. Read about it http://rarediseases.about.com/od/rarediseasesb/a/bmt05.htm

To be accurate. The republican's never controlled congress when Eisenhower was president. They controlled the senate for only 2 years (and were not even close to having a super majority).

http://uspolitics.about.com/od/usgovernment/l/bl_party_division_2.htm

And as far as FDR goes all his spending didn't magically fix everything and he was extremely worried about getting re-elected. The unemployment rate was still ridiculously high when world war II started. That's what saved his "legacy" not any of his socialist programs.

Luckily for me, my journey was to demonstrate this to my clients for selling some linux appliances (firing up BSOD at the end of my powerpoint demonstration something like that's cheap joke I know ^^). You may refers to here, but I'm not sure it works for all version of XP (I forgot which I had, long time ago anyway), and backup before you try.

The moral of this experience is to avoid mentioning "WINDOWS crashing" in a plane. ^^

This already happened - we have already done enough to justify a whole new Epoch according to some- and even better we get to name it after ourselves. There is even a good chance that this will be accepted.

This already happened - we have already done enough to justify a whole new Epoch according to some- and even better we get to name it after ourselves. There is even a good chance that this will be accepted.

This is what I use

Permanent magnets are based on a local effect in each atom that makes electron orbits spin around a particular axis, when taken as a net effect across millions of atoms, you have a magnetic field whose net force on ferro- and ferri-magnetic materials seems to defy the difficult to measure current around each atom. (unless you're looking at X-Ray microscopy)

As for 'theoretical' or 'imaginary' lines, neither applies. Everything from your digital wrist watch to slashdot's servers depend on, exploit, and sometimes must be designed to account for the magnetic forces of permanent and electro-magnets. Hell, we were using the 'imaginary' lines of force for navigation as early as the 3rd century B.C.! The lines they are talking about are quite real, so 'practical' is the word I would choose to describe them.

Leaving aside the whole muslim thing for a second, you just said:

One could tolerate a president being Christian, Buddhist, or Atheist.

You could perhaps, but the majority in the US don't agree with you...

As an atheist who considers all religion to be a dangerous form of delusion, and that rationality is the only sensible way to improve the state of the world, this is quite saddening.

Note the poll results are from 1999... since 2001, I'm sure the percentage of those willing to vote for a muslim have decreased, but sadly, with the state of religious fervour coming from that continent, the percentage of those willing to vote for an atheist has probably also decreased.

Atheists have a long way to go... One atheist in the entire history of the US government is a pretty small start. It doesn't help that atheists are the most distrusted and hated group of citizens in the United states.

Americans are generally tolerant of other's faith... but incredibly intollerant of a lack of it.

Maybe there IS some kind of crazy connection between the moon hoax idiots and the twits who claim Obama is a "secret muslim". People have been making the same claims about Neil Armstrong for years...

http://urbanlegends.about.com/b/2006/09/16/was-neil-armstrong-the-first-muslim-on-the-moon.htm

It's a G7sus4 chord. It's never been a secret. http://guitar.about.com/library/blchord_g7sus46.htm

You mean like the idea of giving $1000 to people unwilling to work will improve our economy?

No. I mean this: http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/24/palin-fruit-flies/ and http://chicago.about.com/od/neighborhoodshistory/a/AdlerDebateStmt.htm (which he mentioned TWICE in debates), http://www.factcheck.org/outrageous_exaggerations.html (hint: DNA study), etc.

Or something like this: http://news.aol.com/newsbloggers/2008/03/04/mccain-perpetuates-vaccine-autism-myth/

Stupid positions on foreign affairs? Like maybe the willingness to sit down with tin-pot dictators who would get populace support from demonizing the US and then forcing the our leaders to negotiate with them?

Ok. What else do you propose? Kill these poor people to save them from suffering? You'll HAVE to talk to them.

Look, I'm from Russia. We had our problem with Chechen terrorists, it is now mostly solved. But only after Putin made peace with a former Chechen terrorist and supported him in rebuilding destroyed Chechnya.

No, I don't think I can overlook that one either. Pandering to the extreme religious right? You mean instead of pandering to the extreme religious left? Yeah. I'll probably let that one slip by in a "don't care" conditional.

How about not pandering to religion at all? Or _at_ _least_ pander to religious moderates.

Oh well, I'm already diversifying my business. I guess I won't have much clients from the US after another 4 years of Republican administration.

If you were on cardiac bypass or were cooled and then rewarmed too quickly, you might be suffering from Pump Head.

Real Americans can take a look around, and say "I've seen worse." and rebuild. If you're not interested in that, move.

Except there has never been worse fascism in America, so of course, you'd be nothing but a liar were you to claim that you'd seen worse here.

"Seeing worse" doesn't mean "seeing worse fascism".

"Seeing worse" also doesn't mean "seeing worse here".

I think you're arguing against what you wish he'd said.

the original post WAS ABOUT FACISM

It's done. Stick a fork in it.

Do yourself a favour: GET THE FUCK OUT NOW.

The country's been insolvent since January.

It's not run under the rule of law as there is no guarantee of habeus corpus.

It invaded another country, unprovoked.

One election was a failure.

And another seems to have been stolen.

and after all of this an eloquent thoughtful (and by world standards) centrist is actually facing significant opposition from a third rate pilot and POW turned right wing hack and his "prom queen" veep choice? What the fuck is wrong with you people?

If you have any sense, get out now, before the border closes, and the country sinks into a blackhole of debt, financial ruin, infrastructural collapse, and fascist tail chasing. Seriously. Just pack your bags and go. If you'e reading this site, it is likely you have skillsets that are desirable all over the world.

And if you think Obama's gonna fix it all, you're fucking dreaming.

RS

WHAT?

http://playstation.about.com/od/ps3/a/PS3SpecsDetails_3.htm

"* 1 of 8 SPEs reserved for redundancy"

I know EXACTLY what I'm talking about.

From you linked page:

"The Cell processor in the PS3 is much faster doing Folding@Home calculations than a regular Intel or AMD CPU for example, but isn't well designed for other workloads."

Sorry, my 9800GTX+ TEARS up F@H and goes through more folds than my PS3.

You might want to read your own garbage before using it to point out something I know for a fact.

Do yourself a favour: GET THE FUCK OUT NOW.

The country's been insolvent since January.

It's not run under the rule of law as there is no guarantee of habeus corpus.

It invaded another country, unprovoked.

One election was a failure.

And another seems to have been stolen.

and after all of this an eloquent thoughtful (and by world standards) centrist is actually facing significant opposition from a third rate pilot and POW turned right wing hack and his "prom queen" veep choice? What the fuck is wrong with you people?

If you have any sense, get out now, before the border closes, and the country sinks into a blackhole of debt, financial ruin, infrastructural collapse, and fascist tail chasing. Seriously. Just pack your bags and go. If you'e reading this site, it is likely you have skillsets that are desirable all over the world.

And if you think Obama's gonna fix it all, you're fucking dreaming.

RS

Well, the other side does.

When you're just reading one or two sentences, proper punctuation and capitalization can be ignored. However, beyond that, it gets painful reading your comments.

Please take the time to familiarize yourself with your keyboard. On the far left, you will see a button labeled "Shift". If you hold it while typing a letter, that letter will become capitalized.

If you need further assistance in capital letter use, please see:
http://specialed.about.com/od/grammar/p/CapitalRules.htm

Thank you.

This thing sounds expensive. I wonder if this ended up costing more than the $3,000,000 that the Alder Planetarium payed for it's high-tech projection system.

When, in a recent debate, McCain was reaching for an example of ridiculous pork that he demonstrates spending that's run out of control, he mentioned this as a paradigmatic waste of money: "Three million dollars for a (heh heh) projector." See the story here.

Be glad he doesn't read Slashdot!

I could spend 3 million dollars to make my home hurricane proof, or I could move to Montana.

Where your house would promptly burn down due to global warming.

We don't know all the symptoms yet...

Personally, I don't see a reason for a normal person to own an assualt rifle or any weapon along those lines other than to fight an organized military, be it an invasion, a gang, or to overthrow the goverment.

Can you define an assault rifle? As far as I can tell, it's a propaganda term coined by Hitler, the term is rarely used to mean anything well defined. Wouldn't it be better to describe a rifle by its functional characteristics? eg: bolt-action, semi-automatic, selective fire etc.

Otherwise, since you can't have a murder weapon unless someone has been murdered, I maintain that there is no such thing as an assault weapon until someone has been assaulted.

Personally, I don't see a reason for a normal person to own an assualt rifle or any weapon along those lines other than to fight an organized military, be it an invasion, a gang, or to overthrow the goverment.

Well, I agree. Since that's the point of the 2nd amendment, I don't see that as any reason for weapons bans.

Personally in the unlikely event that I will ever be fighting government forces, I don't want to be using automatic fire. I won't have the government supplying my ammunition and would try more for "one shot, one kill" than "spray and pray".

However, the degree of training needed to use various weapon types effectively is usually misrepresented. http://usmilitary.about.com/library/milinfo/marinefacts/blmarksman.htm Designated marksmen apparently use semi-automatics, snipers often use bolt actions, regular troops use selective fire/automatic. It isn't automatic fire that requires more skill. Automatic fire seems to be best when you have one large group of people firing at another large group of people, like a modern day version of standing in two lines facing each other firing muskets in volleys. Not something I would recommend for civilian militias facing fully equipped military forces.

That said, many civilians are actually ex-military (including my two immediate neighbours), so even if I have it all wrong, there are still civilians capable of using automatic weapons. I have no military experience and doubt I'll ever be in armed conflict with the government, I do think we should retain the capacity though.

kinda the inverse of the spit/snot drop we've all done as kids

How to make fake snot

...statistically you have a MUCH better chance of being killed by a falling vending machine than terrorism.

Maybe the situation here is more dire in the UK, but I don't think your claim holds true for the US (and, absent statistics, it makes me doubt that it holds true for the UK):

Are Vending Machines Deadlier than Sharks?:

"... Moreover, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission there were 37 known vending machine fatalities between 1978 and 1995, for an average of 2.18 deaths per year. ..."

Ah, but he said "falling" vending machines.

That would not be classified as a vending machine fatality, but rather an industrial freight fatality. The real statistics are hidden.

I blame the labour party : )

...statistically you have a MUCH better chance of being killed by a falling vending machine than terrorism.

Maybe the situation here is more dire in the UK, but I don't think your claim holds true for the US (and, absent statistics, it makes me doubt that it holds true for the UK):

Are Vending Machines Deadlier than Sharks?:

"... Moreover, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission there were 37 known vending machine fatalities between 1978 and 1995, for an average of 2.18 deaths per year. ..."

'It's Not the People Who Vote that Count; It's the People Who Count the Votes' (Though, it is actually never proven that he said this). So, it doesn't matter if your vote was hand counted, Diebolded or Linuxed. If the powers that be who are managing the vote counting are biased or corrupt, it is all moot anyway.

Sure, "type" is intuitive. But calling "cat" "type" now would be horribly counter-productive because there are way too many people who know the existing names for common Unix tools who wouldn't want it to change. If you want to make it more user-friendly, set up an alias for your users. It's VERY easy to do.

P.S.- There's already a Linux type command

I wonder what people will think about the new Audi A4/A5 when they roll around. I think Audi is trying to be the new "asshole" car.

I wonder how much easily this could be accomplished just by enforcing the golden ratio on a face.

If you enforce the golden ratio too far, you get Precious Moments, where the eyes are a golden ratio down the face (resulting in a huge forehead) and the neck is a golden ratio up the body (resulting in difficulty putting on clothes).

We should revive Cro-Magnon man and give him another shot.I think he was unfairly killed-off.

He wasn't killed off. We are the descendants of Cro-Magnon man. He tended to be more robust and bigger-brained, but was otherwise anatomically a modern human. Perhaps you're thinking of Neanderthals?

(Fans of Sliders will probably remember the alternate reality where Homo sapiens went extinct, and the "Cromags" were the dominant species.)

Bad idea to get your paleontology from cheesy sci-fi. "Cromags" were Homo sapiens.

Because when the Wine people screw up, you get blamed.

Haha, no.

Care to explain your position? Or would you rather just troll?

Being featured on Slashdot won't get you added sales, sorry.

This guy got almost 400,000 hits -- for some christmas lights. Keep in mind, that's actual hits, as in actual click-throughs from Slashdot.

According to this page, cost per click is between 5 cents and $1. At 400,000 clicks, that's between $20k and $400k in free advertising -- from a demographic already predisposed to gaming and technology in general.

And that's ignoring any additional sales.

Put another way, why do you think Blizzard is letting Slashdot interview them? Out of the goodness of their heart?

Quake Wars is irrelevant in the grand scheme of the industry.

However, Id tech is not. Nor, for that matter, is Epic.

Popularity isn't a measure of technical difficulty, I never said it was.

Yet you continue to ignore how technically difficult it isn't to port to Linux, particularly a game.

What was the point of mentioning popularity, anyway? It has nothing to do with the technical difficulty, as you've just admitted, and the feasibility of any port is based on percentages, not popularity.

Putting something on Linux will get you about 17 extra sales.

Pulling a number out of your ass will get you nowhere.

Let's try some real numbers from a tiny indie game. Turns out the number is actually 333 -- out of 3635.

The breakdown was:

73% Windows
20% OSX
7% Linux

The math is very simple: If it takes less than 7% of their time to develop and maintain a Linux port, Linux is a profit.

Given how much effort goes into Warcraft, particularly the content, it would take significantly less time to develop a Linux port than goes into, well, any aspect of the game today. And I forget, but what's 7% of 10 million customers?

The only remaining question is support -- and Linux users would tend to be more self-sufficient, on average, meaning the support costs would be proportionately lower.

It is NOT worth the effort by any convoluted, exaggerated, emotionally charged measure.

Let's be blunt -- you've given me a single number, which you pulled out of your ass. I've given you actual statistics. If we are playing facts versus subjectivity and emotion, I think I win by default -- you haven't contributed a single fact.