The problem isn't with drooling (or you personally in any way) - the problem is with every single tablet that shows up online gets 9,000 comments of the variety "WTF? $300+ for a tablet? HP sold theirs for only $99, do they think we're crazy?" or "Meh, it's not a $99 HP Touchpad, not interested"... If you don't believe me, watch Woot and similar sites any time a tablet shows up...

But, but, but... if you can't see ALL of the channels available, then you can't see all of the "Fantastic, Premium Programming" that is available on all of the channels you're not currently (but soon will be!) subscribing to...

I agree, being able to display only the channels you can actually choose from is one of many great features I love about my Tivo Premiere - not only can I block channels I don't get from the guide, I can block channels I don't ever want to watch (Bloomfield TV, Oprah TV, Lifetime, Lifetime Movies, Univision, HSN, QVC, etc.) from the guide so it's much easier to find the programming I do enjoy. Combined with a HD Roku box and a Netflix streaming-only subscription, I have more TV choices than I really need.

I didn't fully appreciate Apple's lawsuit against Samsung over the Tab 10.1 - that is until I read the owner's manual trying to figure out how big of a SD or microSD card it would support and found this gem: "Note: This device does not support external memory cards" -- Congratulations, Samsung, you have successfully duplicated all the great features including the second most incredibly annoying "feature" (the first being inability to install whatever software you want) that Apple ever invented - the inability to increase your storage space.

if only your post ended with "Sent from my iPad" it would have made my day... sadly I am now led to believe that you were using a keyboard when you kludged together these words and almost, but not quite made a sentence.

Once you "purchase" the rental of a movie (is there a better word than purchase in this situation?), you can watch the movie through YouTube as well - as long as you log into YouTube with the same Gmail account you used to pay for the rental.

Oh, you're dissing Google... that's going to land you in Circle #6 (Heresy)...

And by personal information you mean First Name, Last Name and Gender? Because that is all you need for a Google+ profile. I don't think that even the brilliant minds at Google are going to find a way to make a huge profit off of information like that - especially since they already have all of that information already...

How about if they call it "www.qik.com" and the corresponding free apps that go with it. Oh wait, they've already done that...

Where the hell do you see anyone paying 2x-6x more for Android vs. an iPhone?

I think I paid $79 for my HTC Desire with contract, which if I'm not mistaken is actually less than most people pay for an iPhone - and I didn't have to decide "Gee, do I want to buy the base model or pay an exorbitantly high markup to have more storage space?" - I just bought my phone with the only capacity it's available with (8 GB microSD) and then went out and bought a 16 GB microSD card for $19 to upgrade it - vs. paying $100 (or more!) more to get the larger iPhone - which can't have it's storage capacity increased.

Oh, and then I loaded about 80 free applications on it, and how many free apps are available through iTunes, oh, that's right - they start at $0.99 and go up, so I saved another $79+ there, too....

I agree with your solution with one additional step - after the light has turned red and the steel plate is raised up, but before the light for the other direction can turn green, the center of the intersection should open up like a trap door and dump in to a pit all the cars who entered an already full intersection so they wouldn't have to stop for the red light and wait for their turn. I'm not sure what should be in the pit -- hungry tigers, or maybe a pool filled with ill-tempered sea bass - either of those would be fine.

This is exactly the same as the Kindle 1984 issue

Uh, No... it's not. The Kindle users with copies of 1984 *paid* for those copies - the apps that were removed were free apps. And, the apps did not do what they had claimed and had a hidden, although non-malicious purpose.

The only way this would be similar would be if the Kindle copies of 1984 had been free, weren't actually 1984 when you tried to read them, and reported back to the publisher any information that they thought was relevant.

Switch to brown sugar, it's much better for you.

You do know that in many cases the "brown sugar" you buy at the store is just white sugar mixed with a little molasses, right?. Unless you specifically buy the significantly more expensive stuff, it's not any healthier for you.