Microsoft : overkill.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beachhead

Blow it up.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/linuxemu.html

No, I would buy a nice, quiet island out in the middle of nowhere. And blow it up.

One of the features of Diablo that made it more replayable than Diablo 2 was the generation of random(ish) maps....will this be included in D3?

I second that question. As a follow-up to that question, what can be done to setup a dedicated server for the LAN game, assuming Blizzard had in mind more than 8 players at a time. That would be the most likely reason why Blizzard wanted to go with B-net route in the first place.

Weirdly enough, the only advertising I've seen is from online sources - and none of them from RSA. I kept seeing things like District 9 on Twitter and a couple other places, but in terms of advertising in side of South Africa itself... I think it's been pretty poorly advertised. *sigh*. Oh well, at least now people won't think we have lions wandering the streets, and that we have electricity and running water and all those other things that the rest of the world rarely considers us having...

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198196

Those C++/C99-style comments are parse errors in my pre-ANSI C compiler, you insensitive clod! Also, this program crashes on my dangerously overclocked CPU (Ref: ahref=http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/04/12/407562.aspxrel=url2html-15136http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/04/12/407562.aspx>)

Why would they possibly need the latest kernel version?

Because the people who write the requirements need to justify their jobs.

You realize your argument "on modern systems with plenty of processor and RAM" is exactly the point, right? It's fast because it is run on machines that are many orders of magnitude more capable than when 'vi' was originally written.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth's_law

Clearly because the opposition will achieve victory by sending wave after wave of its own men at them.

As others have said, the first thing I do in Windows is turn off window grouping, and in firefox is turn off all the extraneous, real estate-sucking bars they haven enabled.

I suggest that they implement whichever solution(s) they like as an extension, and let people vote with their downloads which one they like best before drastically changing the browser. Let the users decide.