I concur. Into the wild Green yonder (considering at the time it was considered the end of the story) was a major let down. Especially with the limited time devoted to Fry and Leela's feelings for each other which has been a major story focus for the entire life of the series

It may be a small crowd but when you consider who is in that crowd it makes the statement even more damning. Consider the fact that the World's biggest Luddite held the post a number of years prior to it going to Conroy. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/03/28/this_man_must/

You dont need to talk to a customer service rep personally (potential embarrassment) when ordering a porn channel on cable TV (At least in Australia). Any channel packages, including Adults only channels can be ordered via the automated phone menu system without conversation.

In country's like Australia they do (pay a monthly fee, but only get a certain number of GBs for that fee) and I believe the number of countries adopting that metered approach is growing

Microsoft have been pushing subscription based sales (activations, and licensing that expires after 12 months). Other products like Quicken do it successfully. However for Microsoft to be able to force this profitable ongoing revenue stream down its enterprise customer's throats it will need them to actually USE the product. Vista Flopped because it was too hard to remotely support (UAC being on by default made it very difficult to configure for RDP or Remote assistance, etc.) over an enterprise network. It made mundane tasks, excessive chores and meant a large cost for support that never existed with XP. My own employer developed an image for Vista for customer's environments before scrapping the idea as unworkable. Simply put only through OEM licenses were Vista used and at the first chance, our company went back to XP for our customers and we still use it today. Windows 7 doesnt look like it will be much better (from my early looks over the Beta)