The problem is not Apple offering Thunderbolt as a faster SATA. The problem is, as usual, them demanding people move to it RIGHT NOW and exclusively. It's also expensive, and even the fastest SSDs still can't max out SATA.

Remember how many times Apple changed video connectors for no good reason?

I work for a Fortune 500 shipping company that sends medical supplies to hospitals. I can tell you right now that even though our trucks have our own company logo on the side, they are under lease. We don't have old, retired trucks just sitting around -- they go back to the rental company. We have extra capacity only when we're not at our busiest, and things don't get fixed unless they actually break.

I should also probably point out that I don't work at a particularly good Fortune 500 company, though.

One thing that isn't brought up enough when discussing external expansion is external power supplies. So much for compact size.

You mean like practically everyone?

Maybe you should yell at those vendors that sold you a $10,000 piece of equipment, but refuse to update a driver to work on Windows8 because it would take them a whole, suffering week.

I've already considered that Google and other Web 2.0 have done this for years, since they will give you realtime results as you type.

I'm less concerned about what I type than clicking a link that contains questionable queries and then searches with my identity. There's a million ways to make it look like someone likes something they don't.

I don't think people resist change so much as they resist effort and change with no purpose. People will regularly throw out their old things and replace them with new stuff, just because it's newer. They will also use stuff that's different if it's clearly obvious that it's better. What they don't like is having to learn new stuff when it's not obvious that there's an improvement (which covers a lot of stuff).

My barber subscribes to a magazine called "Reminisce" which regularly sugar-coats life in the middle of the last century. Having read those magazines, it's obvious that old people don't really mind change, they just don't think today's livelihood and moral code is any better than it was 50 years ago.

Recently, I upgraded some software, and during the update it told me it was "optimizing my experience". I know I'm likely to resist any changes that come with an update if that's the best the marketing department could come up with.

Well, yeah, I had an AMD card. I've since replaced it with an nVidia and now I have no problems.

My guess is that hardware acceleration is working fine on your computer.

I recall all the hell I had to endure with my AMD video card and broken hardware acceleration, so I turned acceleration off completely. That made a hell of a difference with web browser speed.

I uninstalled QuickTime when I found it had installed not one, but several "iPod helper services" in the background, despite the fact I never owned an iPod. Granted, that was many years ago.

You can actually train teenagers to be responsible once there are no adults around?

I think you'll have better luck telling smokers to stop because it's bad for their health.

Insurance rates (and prices in general) as set according to market statistics. I don't see how monitoring individual people will help those people.

Too much potential for individual people to get screwed, with no real benefit to the public as a whole. Forget it.

Firefox has had a problem for years where field autocomplete will automatically change capitalization. It makes it impossible for me to log into some of my development tools, because it enforces the capitalization change no matter what. I use Firefox for one tool login and Opera for the other.

Also, I was slamming my head against a desk, trying to find out why my web site caused Firefox to insert usernames into the IRC channel field of a user's profile page. Turns out, Firefox will automatically insert your username into a field that precedes a password field, assuming that if a site is asking for a password, the previous field must be your username. I got really annoyed seeing everyone's IRC channel showing their username instead. Rather than move the password reset field to a different location, I just added a dummy field before the password field, so the extra username is discarded.

Autocomplete is not really a help if it's done badly, and it's often done badly.

Why don't they just call it autocomplete, like everyone else, rather than call it a "prediction service?"

I'm sure most employers would be very annoyed at having to change times on all their schedules, rather than just changing the time clock.

Personally, I think we have so much artificial light in the 21st century, we don't need to still live by rules conceived in the times of candles and moonlight.

The whole reason why we flush is to get rid of bombs.