Best not to bother with trying to run it on XP. It, like most anything with a DOS version, tends to run under DOSbox better/easier than any other way.

Prepare to get super annoyed with the control scheme though. I really feel RTS controls were all rubbish until StarCraft 1, but stuff like Dune RTS and WC1... I honestly don't know how I played it. Then again I guess I didn't try to play it like I do now with RTS games were I like to try and pretend like I have great micro/macro.

You didn't miss anything with Diablo 3 really. It was ok, but nothing great. A step back for Blizzard if you ask me. With StarCraft 2 it was your own loss if you liked multiplayer. Also it had an offline mode that thanks to internet issues I got to make several uses of.

I am not the other guy, but maybe I can clarify: It is an online game. That is a fact. You may not like that, you may not have played previous Diablo games online ever, but Diablo III is sever side. It is an online game. That is not an argument, it is a statement of fact.

You are free to not like that and not buy the game and mention how much you dislike the fact, but it is still fact, not an argument. I agreed with their decision here, but I hope they (like me) look at it in retrospec and say "yeah that didn't really work out as well as we had hoped". I mean I only ever really played D1 and D2 online and I was very happy about very realistic changes to drastically reduce cheating and hacking. I was also excited about the (much less realistic) idea that maybe gold & item spam would be reduced by the RMAH. That said, in the end it wasn't worth it and it didn't improve either enough to justify doing it again. Overall I got enough hours out of D3 that I can't really hate on it too hard, but it just wasn't that good of a game. An ok game if you will, and I agree that I hope they drop online in the future.

Basically, I agree with 99% of what you are saying, but its not just 'add on offline and lan'. The game was server side, that was the way they wanted to go.

You seem to have a very odd notion of Twitter and how it is used. A large variety of people use it for an incredible diverse list of reasons. I use twitter, but I never 'tweet'. It just provides me with a simple single page where I can check for updates on various communities/podcasts/webshows that I follow. I have no idea why you think that only 40+ year old men use it.

Better rush to get those angry rager page views. Never mind anything else.

In most areas people can hardly "vote with their money" on internet providers already due to monopolies. I hardly see how this tool changes that. Also where do you live with your "violent State"?

Can the fakes be spotted by looking for the R in Appre?

Did he never notice the webcam light turning on? It is kind of hard to miss on all the Mac laptops I have seen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartam Makes it sound pretty safe tbh. Have anything else?

But that isn't how this malware is spreading. Users are downloading and installing this, it isn't an attack. That comparison doesn't really work there.

What does this have to do with progressives?

He could have also just used http://aquamacs.org/ or fired up the terminal and used vi... I have done a fair bit of webdev on OS X. Works fine. Terrible article.

While they killed off any enterprise level servers, you can still get a Mac Pro and throw OS X server on it. That would work for many people doing work with Xsan, Final Cut etc. And for just SOHO they can just get one of the Mac Minis with OS X server. Neither is good for a 'we can't have downtime!' enterprise level, but for SOHO? Plenty of options still exist. I see no reason for them to kill it off.

What nonsense you foul mountebank! Every good CIO knows that a firewall is a wall of fire (hence the name you dolt) that keeps burglars and other brigands away from the server of datas!

I just use my 'motherboard sound car' :p for the optical out to a receiver. The receiver does all the work so the quality of the onboard is almost totally irrelevant.

On top of that I would bet my bookshelves powered by a receiver from onboard audio sound better than many high end sound card to computer speaker setups.