If it means that your competitor is either hurting because of the money you got from them, or even better, out of business, then the companies that starting the patent dispute won.

It may of "cost them" billions, but it was probably worth it, if it means their competitor(s) aren't selling products, directing money to themselves.

Some might say it's the pirates that force Diablo 3 to be like this, and if it weren't for them, we wouldn't have had this restriction. This isn't the first game to do it, and it won't be the last.

The Sheeple as you call us, are just trying to get the game they want to play, and yes it sucks you need the internet all the time, but it's a minor nuisance to play Diablo 3 when I loved Diablo 2 so much.

I have alt-tabbed from Diablo 3 and I was fine.

However I was playing and my internet had a hiccup, and it killed my game, saying it "Lost Connection to the Internet".

I don't know how much I lost, but it couldn't be that bad, I am only level 10. Later it will kill me though.

Thank you parent, and who said I was getting paid for development?

RAM is $40 for 8GB, having 512MB is just inexcusable. Shut up and fork over the money, it's worth it. Unless you have DDR in which case, get a new computer

Hmmm maybe I should have said:

Also I don't like just downloading random plug-ins and exes from RANDOM websites, because most of the time I don't trust them.

instead of:

Also I don't like just downloading random plug-ins and exes from websites, because most of the time I don't trust them.

I trust adobe(kindof), microsoft.com, etc, but not joe-schmo.com, see the difference?

Chrome has done a lot to remove the need for plug-ins. Not completely as Adobe won't let anyone except Adobe make a flash player, but you get the idea

Hey all I know, is a bought the game, installed it, and was playing it until 10 minutes ago.

Anyone remember Rage? Who played that on the first day? first week?

They may emulate Blizzard's servers, and then re-direct (using the hosts list, remember that?) all traffic going to blizzard to your local machine where all the stuff you need is present.

Just a theory, I don't really know, but that's how a lot of crackers do it

Full Rage install: 30GB

Let's be real, games are getting bigger, but this is NOT one of them.

I second that (adblock+), other than that, I never even look at the web store or app store or wtf it is called

OMG, anteater I love you sig!!! Damn emacs! (Oh god, slashdot don't rape me for saying that)

yes they are making repos but for lusers, but it just makes it that much easier to get software you want.

Also I don't like just downloading random plug-ins and exes from websites, because most of the time I don't trust them.

hAHAHAH seriously, if you have a 1/2 a gigabyte PC, you need a new PC!!!

This is slashdot, how do you have only 512MB?!?!?!

Writing this on a system with 8GB of memory, and am thinking about getting another set. BTW I am a software developer and sometimes big projects takes a lot of memory to build

Some people like stability, which then I would tell them to get a LTS (Long Term Support) version of your favorite GNU/Linux OS (although not every OS has one)

Others like the support, some the easy of use, others just aren't technically inclined enough to get things to work if they don't work "out of the box" (out of the CD? no, no one gets linux on CD, so I guess: out of the download? Ah, I digress....)

And to think, they used Java just for the UI, and just so that a lot of people could start programming quickly... shame

But that is external, why would I want an external SSD?