It's not bigotry to call someone who believes in something there's no evidence for the existence of "insane/delusional/stupid." Just because millions of people believe it doesn't make it not a delusion.

"God" is nebulous, and inherently impossible to disprove. So is anything else anyone could make up that is untestable! That was kind of the whole point of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

It's perfectly fair for Dawkins to use the term "delusion", because theists have made an outlandish claim with no evidence to back it up. You can't assert something, provide no evidence for it, then claim you're right until someone proves you wrong. That's literally the logic of an insane person. The sane person observes a phenomenon, comes up with a testable hypothesis, and tests it, and doesn't claim their hypothesis is true unless it holds up to repeated and rigorous testing, and even then, there's no 100% "proven."

Uh... if someone starts hallucinating magic pink slugs that sing Beatles songs, and claims only they can see them, you can't disprove that, but you wouldn't have to disprove it to call them delusional.

I never even bought it (thank gods) and it caused me problems. I demo'd it for a while, and found it not as good as VMWare Fusion at the time, so I uninstalled it. My Mac Pro took an impressive dive in stability after that, and IIRC, I couldn't even do a software shutdown due to a kernel extension Parallels had left behind. I had to go on the web to find out what files it left behind, and how to remove them, and sure enough, my computer worked fine after that.

I'm not a huge fan of VMWare Fusion nowadays either, though. I suspect it's what broke my XP Boot Camp partition twice (made it hang at the loading screen when booting it native) and I know it somehow managed to make it so when using X Chat Aqua, in OS X, without VMWare Fusion even _on_, XCA would crash if I right-clicked anything in it. I uninstalled VMWare Fusion, and everything went back to normal.

I'm thinking of trying Virtual Box out, but I kind of am reluctant, considering the current track record of virtualization on my machine. :/

No, it really, truly doesn't bother me in this case, it just bothers you. I am not you, and I'd appreciate it if you didn't put words in my mouth.

Seconding this. I've been using the Silverlight-based player, and it's been ace on OS X. The quality isn't stellar, but it's not bad enough to bother me either. It's a lot better than say, Youtube, but not as good as Quicktime streaming. It's maybe a little worse than DVD for me, which is perfectly fine by my standards.

Only problems I've had with it were occasional movies with audio out of sync, but it's a rare problem. (I've had it happen two or three times out of at least 50)

The DRM doesn't really bother me in this case. I'm renting these movies, not buying them. The DRM isn't depriving me of anything. (I'm really anti-DRM for things one owns, but seriously, for rental services, DRM makes perfect sense to me.)

A demo for a good game will increase sales, and for a bad game it will decrease sales. Solution: stop publishing bad games.

I wouldn't have bought Starcraft, Diablo 2, or anything made by Spiderweb Software, for example, if not for their demos. Can't think of many bad games I actually bothered with the demo (if it existed) of, though.