The part I just can't see is what do I need "computed" on a server which will take longer to calculate locally? My biggest problem with the Internet is that it is the slowest part of all my computing needs. I don't buy this 3X faster crap! They can't even put 1X as fast per user equipment currently why does anybody expect that in the "FUTURE" that it will be any different?
This is just a bunch of marketing crap so they can get free press. When it comes out it will be as lame as the Wii U is today. Microsoft hasn't even explained how this will even hook up to my TV and offer better TV even though they spent hours boasting about its TV features. Does it connect to cable? HD? Satellite? Cablecard?
.... but what's the criterion for delineating between 'spam' and 'marketing'? How about between 'spam' and 'opt-in' that the user no longer wants?
SPAM is very clear any and all email that I did not subscribe to which is soliciting me. Now I subscribe to lists and once in a while marketing comes through some lists which I therefore unsubscribe. If it continues coming it is SPAM. Very clear to me.
Because it doesn't follow from "Sony did this bad thing once".....
It may be my math but I gave 2 examples. I can list more but I don't feel I need to because they make my point. Sony has shown no reason why we should trust their statement.
It's not a theory when it is fact. Sony made the above mentioned statements and they reneged(fact) so it is your "malevolent theory" that this time they will keep their word.
I am willing to place a wager on this one, odds are on my side unfortunately we will have to wait till the PS5 to see who wins.
DRM is bad especially when it is not disclosed. As an example, I though like you, back in the old DVD days and did not think that CSS was such an issue. The problem was that the DVD not only were encumbered by CSS they also had bad sectors or tracks which created problems for computers. Now the reality was that it also created problems with DVD players which implemented CSS but were a little too old. One day day I bought a Disney DVD and sat down with my kids to watch the movie. It started and would constantly error out. Now thinking that the DVD player was broken I rushed out and bought a new one. The funny thing was that the old one would play all the existing DVDs just fine. Then the second player did the same thing with transformers. I may be slow but I know that's when I realized that there is nothing wrong with the players. What I had to do is scrap the player every 2 years or so in order for the DVDs to work.
DRM prevents the law abiding person to get screwed it does not stop a pirate especially Disney, MPAA, RIAA and such. Where I live you cannot return media when the package is open even when the contents are defective. The laws may not say as much but getting your $20 back will cost more.
Mod parent up. iOS is a single platform, but new releases (major, point, all) are adopted relatively quickly
I know of more than one iPhone that has never been connected to a computer. I know I'm just one person but these statistics that we see all over the net are based on people who connect to something mainly an account on iTunes. What if someone doesn't care about apps and iTunes? To say that most upgrade is very far fetched.
On the other hand a Nexus will upgrade over the air but it still needs the user to be connected to the internet and agree. The problem in this scenario is the user, the manufacturer and/or the carrier and not an OS issue.
As all business owners will attest there is no technology which exists today that will prevent skimming. If you trust technology without constant supervision then you are on the road to bankruptcy. This only affects the honest business which now will pay an additional penalty when an employee goofs. This will not in any way slow down the thieves.
I will ask one question and I am sure that all the bright minds here can add a few thousand. What stops a business from creating multiple items at identical prices and just reprinting the same receipt every second time? You cannot stop the printing of multiple receipts because to err is human, printers jam, equipment fails and multiple other reasons including reprints for the client.
The tax rates need to be fair and affordable otherwise the social contract that permits the collection of taxes falls apart.
At least the phones are getting it. Texting on the phone in the car is now hands free when you just speak to it I just haven't found a good one that voices the incoming texts...
There is a null zone in every in car system I've seen so far. I have a 2012 model which has trouble with street names. It's not that it doesn't know the street name it's that I have to figure out how the programer spelled the name. When I can't even enter the address because the "great head unit" programers couldn't figure out "search" is just mind boggling. I feel I'm back with Alta VIsta or Yahoo. I pick up my phone and just speak the address and the thing just works.
My 2012 system can't even take a bridge. It will send me 25km out of the way. It crashes ever time I navigate over a bridge. Oh the maps work fine just can't navigate. Sorry, but I prefer a phone system that works than one where it depends on luck at least on a phone I can download a navigation app which comes with all the apps preloaded.
Other systems I tried were even worse... I got it with a package and I use the phone navigation more than the head unit.
"but the sad truth is that the average computer user simply can't handle the freedom of being able to do whatever they want, without messing things up."
The Sad truth is people actually believe you need to allow a user to anything they want. You dont. It's school property, you restrict your users to only what they need the devices for, anything else is simply incompetence.
The user needs to be sandboxed and he can do whatever he likes including install a virus without affecting the system. Sure he destroys his files if he is not careful but he does not destroy the system and he does not destroy the backups.
Limiting a computer in this situation would limit education. Users don't need to run any software above their privileges including IE and Office.
The day there's an unified tax law over Europe some non-European company will step up to replace Ireland.
That's fine. But there will be import taxes and duties, same as with anything that comes from say, China.
The problem here is that Ireland is distorting tax income in other European Union countries and these countries can't do anything about it.
Say you pay now a 30% income tax. I -legally- offer you to pay just 10% over here (but you still live wherever you are, and use the infrastructures and services over there). Do you take the offer or not? If you do, then you pay 1/3 of the taxes you should pay, you still get all the benefits (at someone else's expense), and I get 1/3 of your taxes for nothing.
That's what Ireland is doing.
Tax law is written to collect. It is not intended to pay for anything. The services provided do not correspond with the money collected. We ask people with few means to pay for pensions and salaries which would sometimes be performed by less expensive individuals. The association that we are bombarded with is that tax revenue pays for services and our protection. This is not entirely true. My contribution a couple of years ago was over $100K and this year it will be about $30K and I have not changed jurisdictions. So now I ask you why is 30% acceptable and 10% not? If I take on a second job why should I pay a higher rate? 10% or 30% should be the same no matter what my income is, after a basic living allowance. If I go to work and earn my living why do I have to pay a VAT on transportation that is tax provided by income taxes and a minor fee from users? You get all the benefits even when you don't pay so why does it matter what you pay? Taxes are not based on logic. They are emotional pitting one individual against another and ensuring that some get more than others. Some pay more than others irrelevant what country you reside in. Some regions pay more than others. Cities pay more than rural areas. It goes on and on... We need to change our whole society but as of yet we have not found a system which would solve all our problems so we live with what we have. Ireland is doing nothing more or less than what rural areas are doing to the cities.
you missed his point. The only reason everyone else stopped refining rare earth was because China dropped the price by flooding the market with cheap rare earths. Once China is no longer able(unwilling) to produce cheap rare earths then the rest of the world will get back into production.
Wow! What a surprise. up until yesterday there was absolutely no mention of this Windows 8 version that you are talking about. Who would have thought that Microsoft would develop a whole OS so secretly.
Do we need to keep this up. Let it come out already and see. This has been in the news for sooooo long now that it's probably going to be overshadowed by Windows 9 on Monday.
Can you upgrade to the next version of the OS remotely? Not saying that it's not getting better but it still has a ways to go. On most UNIX systems I can partition, format and copy an OS from a running system to a new system. Please provide how with windows and CLI/Powershell. Yes I know I can buy some software.....
Left? Never left, just added on.... Servers FreeBSD, OpenBSD used to install from one floppy with FTP/DSL. Desktop is mostly OS X but I also have Ubuntu (drag and drop straight from the file manager onto a server halfway around the world with ssh/sftp. The cloud made easy.) Legacy equipment support amazing 12year old scanner runs as new.
No need to leave. The freedom cannot be matched.
Learning order that I would recommend Linux > Windows > OS X > FreeBSD one after the other and keep them ALL.
Linux before windows because some thing windows does it seems like magic to a new user due to the fact that it is hidden deep under many layers once you understand these basics they are the same on all platforms. OS X when used with standards is amazing. When you lock your stuff up in a garden I feel it's hard to move you off. Get rid of iTunes, iCloud, iPhoto or any iXXXX it's a selfish way to enjoy your files and it limits how you share your stuff. It gets in the way.
For some of us who have older S's (1.5 years) Samsung needs to support their phones like Apple does. Get us the updates.
If you need to look at how well Samsung can fail in their own software look at Kies. Poor platform support apart from Windows. Poor older phone support. Come on Samusung get with the big boys. Not everyone can upgrade every year. remind us why we should be loyal.
Is it me or does it seem than Apple is upgrading their hardware every 2 years? No mini, iMac or MacBook improvements. It seams this year they upgraded the models which they skipped last year.
In the video I watched, Emanual absolutely had a counter argument.
Topolsky said "they (Google) aren't policemen, they don't police things" and Emanual responded "no, they decide when they want to police something and when they don't want to". He went on to discuss how Google is actively filtering child pornography, but refuses to actively filter copyright infringement.
There was no argument because if you wish to find child pron you can on Google. Emanual pulled this out of his ass because nobody will admit that they searched for child porn... As to filtering content the answer is simple for Emanual, all he has to do ask Google not to index his material. Google will gladly remove any reference to his content. Google is not privy to all the licensing deals that Emanual may or may not have made nor is Google profiting from Emanual's work therefore it is not Google's job to filter Emanual content legal or otherwise unless Emanual asks and provides Google with the valid licenses holders.
As a final note Google does provide copyright holders the tools to advise it of what content is not licensed and I believe that Google does remove the links. Yet this last statement is based on news I read on/. and other news sources.
Yes... because your $500? ($1500??)+ PC is a simpler more reasonable solution than a $50 bluray player and $5 worth of cables (which you'd need for your computer too)... give me a break.
Yes! Yes! Yes! because it will continue to work when the DVD/Bluray stops playing . I have a perfectly good DVD player which no longer plays new DVD's All the old DVDs still play most new ones too but some of them are so error prone (DRM) that they do NOT play. They are not scratched they are new out of the box. So at the time the answer was to walk over to the computer and rip them. Now the question is why even bother with the DVD? If you no longer bother with a DVD then you don't need a $500 ~ $1500 computer you can play them of a media player straight from your USB.
So for your answer it is YES a $50 media player and a $5 USB dongle is cheaper than a $50 player with $20 DVD/Bluray that may or may not play.
There is more to a democracy than the right to vote, such as the right to understand what we are voting for. We are not allowed to see or discuss most aspects of our government (ACTA). Most contracts are awarded behind closed doors. Politicians can say whatever they please and are not bound by their words. Laws are hidden with in ambiguous statements which curtail the freedom of expression such as "think of the children". Every year we move further away from the definition of democracy and I strongly believe that we no longer live in a democracy, if we ever had.
Her words remind me of the saying "Do as I say not as I do."
It's getting to the point that you can never be sure whether a copy is legal or not. If you haven't read the original contract between the author and the publisher and the distributor you cannot be sure if you are acquiring a legal copy. Reading the copyright page in a book does not always state whether it is legal to distribute in such and such a country.
Now if he had pirated the book, since he was a student of few means, he would not be in this situation where he would have the need to sell the book.
If you cannot resell a legally purchased copy then it's best you pirate and be done with it. I don't subscribe to the idea that there is a grey market.
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I buy and play games because they are fun! What is killing the $60 games it's that they are not worth $60. They are the same game as the last one with better graphics more DRM and the same glitches. When you are playing a multiplayer game and can't kill your opponent when you sneak up behind them and empty all your rounds into their backs. They turn around and with one bullet you are dead. It's not a cheat it's a poor engine design because I've been at both ends of the experience.
And for the love of god I know it's EA DICE FROSTBITE or whatever company designed the game. Stop wasting my time with endless start up ads then proceed to load the game while I'm looking a a screen which is flashing LOADING..... I only have about one hour at a time to play. I have to earn a living in order to pay the $60 or more for the game so I don't have much time.
Get rid of DRM.
I bought a 300Gig HD because it made sense to load the games so I wouldn't have to wait for the slow DVD/BR.
I need to be able to sell the game since I can't return it if I don't like it or wish to purchase a new one.
I don't need any additional warning messages. They are already in the booklet that came with the game.
So basically the solution is: Fix the bugs. Don't waste my time. Let me play by getting out of my way. Get rid of DRM. I will gladly pay $60.
On a Mac and a typical UNIX system the apps are run in a sandbox with limited permissions keeping them tied to the user. If the user gets compromised the system is not affected. On Windows there is a user called System and most programs need to be installed/run as the system user which gives a virus Trojan unlimited access to the full system.
Macs can get viruses but they will be limited to the user. If you have a knowledgeable user on a Mac he can run the system securely with out a need for a virus scanner. Unfortunately on Windows you do not have this option. Yes Windows has improved considerably but most applications will not install unless Administrator installs them and they then can be run as system. This is only one simple example of how the two systems are different but it makes a big difference. There are many others.
You can have stupid users on Mac who install everything from everywhere and run their system as root or the main user but once burnt they learn and have a means to protect themselves. Now I've never ran an anti-virus on an UNIX system I own, including my Macs, but I would never run a Windows system without it. The stupid users may grow but the knowledgeable users will not be affected.
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The part I just can't see is what do I need "computed" on a server which will take longer to calculate locally? My biggest problem with the Internet is that it is the slowest part of all my computing needs. I don't buy this 3X faster crap! They can't even put 1X as fast per user equipment currently why does anybody expect that in the "FUTURE" that it will be any different?
This is just a bunch of marketing crap so they can get free press. When it comes out it will be as lame as the Wii U is today. Microsoft hasn't even explained how this will even hook up to my TV and offer better TV even though they spent hours boasting about its TV features. Does it connect to cable? HD? Satellite? Cablecard?
.... but what's the criterion for delineating between 'spam' and 'marketing'? How about between 'spam' and 'opt-in' that the user no longer wants?
SPAM is very clear any and all email that I did not subscribe to which is soliciting me. Now I subscribe to lists and once in a while marketing comes through some lists which I therefore unsubscribe. If it continues coming it is SPAM. Very clear to me.
Because it doesn't follow from "Sony did this bad thing once" .....
It may be my math but I gave 2 examples. I can list more but I don't feel I need to because they make my point. Sony has shown no reason why we should trust their statement.
It's not a theory when it is fact. Sony made the above mentioned statements and they reneged(fact) so it is your "malevolent theory" that this time they will keep their word.
I am willing to place a wager on this one, odds are on my side unfortunately we will have to wait till the PS5 to see who wins.
Remember Linux compatibility? Remember the PS3 initially was able to play PS2 games? Why would we believe anything that Sony says?
DRM is bad especially when it is not disclosed. As an example, I though like you, back in the old DVD days and did not think that CSS was such an issue. The problem was that the DVD not only were encumbered by CSS they also had bad sectors or tracks which created problems for computers. Now the reality was that it also created problems with DVD players which implemented CSS but were a little too old. One day day I bought a Disney DVD and sat down with my kids to watch the movie. It started and would constantly error out. Now thinking that the DVD player was broken I rushed out and bought a new one. The funny thing was that the old one would play all the existing DVDs just fine. Then the second player did the same thing with transformers. I may be slow but I know that's when I realized that there is nothing wrong with the players. What I had to do is scrap the player every 2 years or so in order for the DVDs to work.
DRM prevents the law abiding person to get screwed it does not stop a pirate especially Disney, MPAA, RIAA and such. Where I live you cannot return media when the package is open even when the contents are defective. The laws may not say as much but getting your $20 back will cost more.
Mod parent up. iOS is a single platform, but new releases (major, point, all) are adopted relatively quickly
I know of more than one iPhone that has never been connected to a computer. I know I'm just one person but these statistics that we see all over the net are based on people who connect to something mainly an account on iTunes. What if someone doesn't care about apps and iTunes? To say that most upgrade is very far fetched.
On the other hand a Nexus will upgrade over the air but it still needs the user to be connected to the internet and agree. The problem in this scenario is the user, the manufacturer and/or the carrier and not an OS issue.
Why does he need you to make his point!
As all business owners will attest there is no technology which exists today that will prevent skimming. If you trust technology without constant supervision then you are on the road to bankruptcy. This only affects the honest business which now will pay an additional penalty when an employee goofs. This will not in any way slow down the thieves.
I will ask one question and I am sure that all the bright minds here can add a few thousand. What stops a business from creating multiple items at identical prices and just reprinting the same receipt every second time? You cannot stop the printing of multiple receipts because to err is human, printers jam, equipment fails and multiple other reasons including reprints for the client.
The tax rates need to be fair and affordable otherwise the social contract that permits the collection of taxes falls apart.
At least the phones are getting it. Texting on the phone in the car is now hands free when you just speak to it I just haven't found a good one that voices the incoming texts...
There is a null zone in every in car system I've seen so far. I have a 2012 model which has trouble with street names. It's not that it doesn't know the street name it's that I have to figure out how the programer spelled the name. When I can't even enter the address because the "great head unit" programers couldn't figure out "search" is just mind boggling. I feel I'm back with Alta VIsta or Yahoo. I pick up my phone and just speak the address and the thing just works.
My 2012 system can't even take a bridge. It will send me 25km out of the way. It crashes ever time I navigate over a bridge. Oh the maps work fine just can't navigate. Sorry, but I prefer a phone system that works than one where it depends on luck at least on a phone I can download a navigation app which comes with all the apps preloaded.
Other systems I tried were even worse... I got it with a package and I use the phone navigation more than the head unit.
"but the sad truth is that the average computer user simply can't handle the freedom of being able to do whatever they want, without messing things up."
The Sad truth is people actually believe you need to allow a user to anything they want. You dont. It's school property, you restrict your users to only what they need the devices for, anything else is simply incompetence.
The user needs to be sandboxed and he can do whatever he likes including install a virus without affecting the system. Sure he destroys his files if he is not careful but he does not destroy the system and he does not destroy the backups.
Limiting a computer in this situation would limit education. Users don't need to run any software above their privileges including IE and Office.
The day there's an unified tax law over Europe some non-European company will step up to replace Ireland.
That's fine. But there will be import taxes and duties, same as with anything that comes from say, China.
The problem here is that Ireland is distorting tax income in other European Union countries and these countries can't do anything about it.
Say you pay now a 30% income tax. I -legally- offer you to pay just 10% over here (but you still live wherever you are, and use the infrastructures and services over there). Do you take the offer or not? If you do, then you pay 1/3 of the taxes you should pay, you still get all the benefits (at someone else's expense), and I get 1/3 of your taxes for nothing.
That's what Ireland is doing.
Tax law is written to collect. It is not intended to pay for anything. The services provided do not correspond with the money collected. We ask people with few means to pay for pensions and salaries which would sometimes be performed by less expensive individuals. The association that we are bombarded with is that tax revenue pays for services and our protection. This is not entirely true. My contribution a couple of years ago was over $100K and this year it will be about $30K and I have not changed jurisdictions. So now I ask you why is 30% acceptable and 10% not? If I take on a second job why should I pay a higher rate? 10% or 30% should be the same no matter what my income is, after a basic living allowance. If I go to work and earn my living why do I have to pay a VAT on transportation that is tax provided by income taxes and a minor fee from users? You get all the benefits even when you don't pay so why does it matter what you pay? Taxes are not based on logic. They are emotional pitting one individual against another and ensuring that some get more than others. Some pay more than others irrelevant what country you reside in. Some regions pay more than others. Cities pay more than rural areas. It goes on and on... We need to change our whole society but as of yet we have not found a system which would solve all our problems so we live with what we have. Ireland is doing nothing more or less than what rural areas are doing to the cities.
you missed his point. The only reason everyone else stopped refining rare earth was because China dropped the price by flooding the market with cheap rare earths. Once China is no longer able(unwilling) to produce cheap rare earths then the rest of the world will get back into production.
Wow! What a surprise. up until yesterday there was absolutely no mention of this Windows 8 version that you are talking about. Who would have thought that Microsoft would develop a whole OS so secretly.
Do we need to keep this up. Let it come out already and see. This has been in the news for sooooo long now that it's probably going to be overshadowed by Windows 9 on Monday.
Can you upgrade to the next version of the OS remotely? Not saying that it's not getting better but it still has a ways to go. On most UNIX systems I can partition, format and copy an OS from a running system to a new system. Please provide how with windows and CLI/Powershell. Yes I know I can buy some software.....
Left? Never left, just added on.... Servers FreeBSD, OpenBSD used to install from one floppy with FTP/DSL. Desktop is mostly OS X but I also have Ubuntu (drag and drop straight from the file manager onto a server halfway around the world with ssh/sftp. The cloud made easy.) Legacy equipment support amazing 12year old scanner runs as new.
No need to leave. The freedom cannot be matched.
Learning order that I would recommend Linux > Windows > OS X > FreeBSD one after the other and keep them ALL.
Linux before windows because some thing windows does it seems like magic to a new user due to the fact that it is hidden deep under many layers once you understand these basics they are the same on all platforms. OS X when used with standards is amazing. When you lock your stuff up in a garden I feel it's hard to move you off. Get rid of iTunes, iCloud, iPhoto or any iXXXX it's a selfish way to enjoy your files and it limits how you share your stuff. It gets in the way.
I Love computers, just saying...
For some of us who have older S's (1.5 years) Samsung needs to support their phones like Apple does. Get us the updates.
If you need to look at how well Samsung can fail in their own software look at Kies. Poor platform support apart from Windows. Poor older phone support. Come on Samusung get with the big boys. Not everyone can upgrade every year. remind us why we should be loyal.
Is it me or does it seem than Apple is upgrading their hardware every 2 years? No mini, iMac or MacBook improvements. It seams this year they upgraded the models which they skipped last year.
In the video I watched, Emanual absolutely had a counter argument.
Topolsky said "they (Google) aren't policemen, they don't police things" and Emanual responded "no, they decide when they want to police something and when they don't want to". He went on to discuss how Google is actively filtering child pornography, but refuses to actively filter copyright infringement.
There was no argument because if you wish to find child pron you can on Google. Emanual pulled this out of his ass because nobody will admit that they searched for child porn... As to filtering content the answer is simple for Emanual, all he has to do ask Google not to index his material. Google will gladly remove any reference to his content. Google is not privy to all the licensing deals that Emanual may or may not have made nor is Google profiting from Emanual's work therefore it is not Google's job to filter Emanual content legal or otherwise unless Emanual asks and provides Google with the valid licenses holders.
As a final note Google does provide copyright holders the tools to advise it of what content is not licensed and I believe that Google does remove the links. Yet this last statement is based on news I read on /. and other news sources.
Yes... because your $500? ($1500??)+ PC is a simpler more reasonable solution than a $50 bluray player and $5 worth of cables (which you'd need for your computer too)... give me a break.
Yes! Yes! Yes! because it will continue to work when the DVD/Bluray stops playing . I have a perfectly good DVD player which no longer plays new DVD's All the old DVDs still play most new ones too but some of them are so error prone (DRM) that they do NOT play. They are not scratched they are new out of the box. So at the time the answer was to walk over to the computer and rip them. Now the question is why even bother with the DVD? If you no longer bother with a DVD then you don't need a $500 ~ $1500 computer you can play them of a media player straight from your USB.
So for your answer it is YES a $50 media player and a $5 USB dongle is cheaper than a $50 player with $20 DVD/Bluray that may or may not play.
There is more to a democracy than the right to vote, such as the right to understand what we are voting for. We are not allowed to see or discuss most aspects of our government (ACTA). Most contracts are awarded behind closed doors. Politicians can say whatever they please and are not bound by their words. Laws are hidden with in ambiguous statements which curtail the freedom of expression such as "think of the children". Every year we move further away from the definition of democracy and I strongly believe that we no longer live in a democracy, if we ever had.
Her words remind me of the saying "Do as I say not as I do."
Your key is compromised. So your question is how do you revoke it????
Maybe you issue a new one????
Just saying that's all......
It's getting to the point that you can never be sure whether a copy is legal or not. If you haven't read the original contract between the author and the publisher and the distributor you cannot be sure if you are acquiring a legal copy. Reading the copyright page in a book does not always state whether it is legal to distribute in such and such a country.
Now if he had pirated the book, since he was a student of few means, he would not be in this situation where he would have the need to sell the book.
If you cannot resell a legally purchased copy then it's best you pirate and be done with it. I don't subscribe to the idea that there is a grey market.
I buy and play games because they are fun! What is killing the $60 games it's that they are not worth $60. They are the same game as the last one with better graphics more DRM and the same glitches. When you are playing a multiplayer game and can't kill your opponent when you sneak up behind them and empty all your rounds into their backs. They turn around and with one bullet you are dead. It's not a cheat it's a poor engine design because I've been at both ends of the experience.
And for the love of god I know it's EA DICE FROSTBITE or whatever company designed the game. Stop wasting my time with endless start up ads then proceed to load the game while I'm looking a a screen which is flashing LOADING..... I only have about one hour at a time to play. I have to earn a living in order to pay the $60 or more for the game so I don't have much time.
Get rid of DRM.
I bought a 300Gig HD because it made sense to load the games so I wouldn't have to wait for the slow DVD/BR.
I need to be able to sell the game since I can't return it if I don't like it or wish to purchase a new one.
I don't need any additional warning messages. They are already in the booklet that came with the game.
So basically the solution is: Fix the bugs. Don't waste my time. Let me play by getting out of my way. Get rid of DRM. I will gladly pay $60.
On a Mac and a typical UNIX system the apps are run in a sandbox with limited permissions keeping them tied to the user. If the user gets compromised the system is not affected. On Windows there is a user called System and most programs need to be installed/run as the system user which gives a virus Trojan unlimited access to the full system.
Macs can get viruses but they will be limited to the user. If you have a knowledgeable user on a Mac he can run the system securely with out a need for a virus scanner. Unfortunately on Windows you do not have this option. Yes Windows has improved considerably but most applications will not install unless Administrator installs them and they then can be run as system. This is only one simple example of how the two systems are different but it makes a big difference. There are many others.
You can have stupid users on Mac who install everything from everywhere and run their system as root or the main user but once burnt they learn and have a means to protect themselves. Now I've never ran an anti-virus on an UNIX system I own, including my Macs, but I would never run a Windows system without it. The stupid users may grow but the knowledgeable users will not be affected.