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.

I'm not sure about the others things you mention, but firewall was included (at least) since the original windows xp release. Service pack 2 only turned it on by default and added some polish. So relatively cautious men turned on firewall from the get go and didn't have much (or any) problems with worms.

I disagree with your second sentence.

They were never called netbooks at first. They were called (sub/ultraportable) notebooks(1) and later some idiot invented "netbook" word which news sites like engadget and gizmodo propagated. And the name netbook is completely undeserverd because those kind of devices can be (and are) much more than simple internet dumb/thin clients. But the name stuck and my whole point is that it is laughable to put devices strictly under special names/definitions. As the definitions vary from person to person and change from time to time (as shown above) it is pointless to argue about them.

(1) ss you can find at the first reviews, or at my MSI Wind U100 cleary using notebook words.