I never pay for Applecare, ever, and never mentioned it. I've never needed it, that's my point.

That was my reasoning as well, and my last three laptops were Apple. On my one year old retina macbook pro discrete graphics card died and I only had 10 days before the 1 year warranty expired. Unluckily I was on a ship and I had to buy apple care online so I can get this garbage serviced. Exchanged motherboard when I got back home a month later, and two weeks later the same problem happened again. Also the display has the burn in problem, ^H^H^H, I mean "image persistence feature" and I'll get them to replace it as well.

My previous laptop was second gen Air and was great and still runnning as new. But the moral of the story is that without my last minute purchase of applecare I would be hosed completely (I still had to pay for it though) as the repairs on this kind of computer are crazy expensive.

SSDs have their place even if you don't want to acknowlede it. On my workplace we've upgraded 4 year old laptops with SSDs because those 60+ laptops were unusable how slow they were. An you know what happened after upgrade? Everything is flying fast on those laptops. That was much better upgrade than boosting ram from 4 to 8 GB (max supported) of RAM (we've tried that one, difference was miniscule).

It just doesn't matter if the user is booting, rebooting, opening outlook, browsing, or whatever, evething is reasonably fast.

And don't get me started on how my retina macbook pro with 16GB of RAM and a SSD is fast. It is ridiculously fast in day to day work. I absolutely don't have to wait for a computer to do something. When you get used to this kind of speed and responsiveness, when you get back to a relatively fast computer (good cpu, board, ram etc) with a normal HDD the difference is astonishing as everything seems to be dog slow. And the other poster is right traditional HDD is the biggest bottleneck on the whole system bay faaaar.

I was there recently. Nothing much to see though. Just a lot of flat land, cold wind and sea, and some penguins. There are a lot more nicer countries to visit though.

If it runs so well, how do you explain that those metro programs are total pigs in terms of running them? I have a fairly fast computer with SSD and even microsoft's metro apps take 10 seconds to open. On the same computer, photoshop takes 3.5 seconds to open. It just painful to watch those those full screen loading screens for applications which are gui-wise not much complex than win3.1 programs.
 

You are not thinking creative enough. You can have a 3D printer which of course can print spare parts for itself and have say a robot who can gather materials etc. Of course, the printer can print another 3D printer and another robots so we can infest the Mars in no time.

The only problem is that the printer which can print its own parts must be complicated and of course converting raw materials to printable ink is nigh impossible.

But in any case, imagine the possibilites! It isn't logically impossible, there are technical difficulties but not impossible barriers.

You are right on. Blizzard locked out my account because I was changing geographical zones too much (I'm a seaman, working on a cruise ship). So they said that I had to change my password. And to do that you have to receive a text message with a code on your mobile phone. This part didn't work even though the phone number stored was completely ok. So I couldn't change the account's password.

Then you have to open support tickets which I did, and the same day I've received a mail that they are not going to unlock my account nor delete/change my mobile phone number because they cannot verify that it is the real person contacting them. And I've sent them my national ID card scan. Basically they didn't even read my support ticket. Then I've opened another ticket and a day later some guy unlocked my account because this guy obviously read my e-mail and it probably helped that I've sent them a scan of my ID and passport.

But of course, the SMS text message functionality was still impossible to disable because I couldn't receive a verification code sent by a text to disable that "feature". Then I had to open another ticket and some guy disabled that shit.

Then couple of days after this events I've received a mail from Blizzard that I should purchase and authenticator to avoid problems like this. Fuck them! I've given them like hundreds of dollars and they give me shit like this and locking me out of my own account which has a very secure password.

I did it at my own house. It doesn't cost nothing extra, it is just your imagination on what to do with your bricks.

And one day I hope this is going to be visible from space;)

http://imgur.com/a/rkQpO

Smaller would mean that you couldn't pack all the modern amenities (shops, casino, et al) into it.

If you've ever been to smaller luxury ships (Silversea, Seabourn etc) you would realize that the you can put evertyhing in relatively small amount of space. It is just a compromise between ship's size, number of pax cabins and their size (consequently the number of passengers), and public areas. In other words you can have a small ship, all the amenities your passengers would want, a great choice of restaurants etc and big cabins. But you wouldn't have as much passengers as a full QM2.

And on the other hand, in these times it would be next to impossible to fill up QM2 sized ship with wealth passengers. That's the reason small and luxurious cruise ships still exist (and hopefully they still will;).

And preferred method of transportation is a bomber, during the night...

On a cruise ship all watertight doors can be closed remotely from the Bridge in 60 seconds max.

There are different types of WTDs and some are kept closed all the time, some are closed when in navigation, and some are closed in navigation when there is a higher than normal chance of having a problem (fog, rough sea, manouvering in/out of port etc).

You're missing the parent's point and generalizing too much. I'll give you a counterexample. Nokia Ngage and N9. They targeted a very small group and they didn't hit pretty much anything.

First iphone didn't target very specific users. It targeted as big the market share as possible. I know about that 1% share of the smartphone market but everyone knew back then they are going for much bigger share in the future. After couple of years the phone didn't change much even if you include the apps. Apps for mobile phones then were almost non-existent. Of course you had some apps on other phones but that wasn't used much anyway.

So if Google wants to have a flagship phone it would be natural to target as big market share as possible. Pigeonholing themselves by introducing a huge phone doesn't help them in any way. Of course you can release a big phone as an experiment and that is fine by me, but introducing something as a design template (as nexus one and samsung's nexus were) which is destined to be used by potentially very small market share isn't a good strategy.

There is somewhat similar to what you are requesting. Try Neat Bookmarks.
But well, I'm still using Firefox 4 RC. I just hate missing a proper bookmarks sidebar, find w/o pressing ctrl+f, and most of all, it is not owned by google.

That is patently false. My brother has an iphone 3G (with newest iOS) and it is a fucking slideshow. If it were mine, it would be on the bottom of the ocean right now. When it was new it was great but now it is barely usable. Same with my friends' 3G too.

The main feature of the iOS version was that you could drag and drop pretty much any unconverted/torrented video file to the iphone and VLC would play it.
Try that with the default player and report the results please.

Not only that, but wifi settings* in vista are buried behind something like 15 windows. Win7's are behind around 5. That is improvement, but still far behind leopard where three clicks will get you almost anywhere.

*or almost any other setting.