The biggest distinction for me regarding personal recognition, vs. generalized recognition such as targeted advertising is the depth of the potential privacy violations, and the ease at which they can be made.

This is applying your scroll to zoom problem to the OS level... switch to an older mac, or windows, or linux, or a lion mac with the default changed... actually switch to ANYTHING other than a touch based OS (a track pad is NOT the same as a touch screen) and you'll have the same flip flop... only it's EVERY program…

What's important to each person is different. I don't give a flip about rosetta getting axed, I've gone out of my way to keep it out of my snow leopard install, however I will not "upgrade" to lion until there's a way to turn off mission control and turn on expose and spaces. Mission control single handedly ruins my…

Why not use it for something productive instead of re-learning things that should be "natural"

SSD != HDD. You pay for speed and then a premium for size with an SSD, with a HDD you pay for size and then a premium for speed. Most people don't use multiple TB of storage so the speed is of much greater importance. Personally I use both (SSD for boot and applications, HDDs for storage, backups and alt OSs) but if I…

Ummm that's what the airs got last year too... haven't heard battery life on the new ones but they're more energy efficient so I would doubt it would be any worse...

Because people over pay for MACS, not windows PC's... if you charge more, and don't offer the main selling point that people go ape shit crazy for (it being a mac) then wtf? ergo, it's interesting that samsung doesn't beat the mac's price...

Browser preference is always personal. I use safari and chrome mostly. I WANT to use chrome more but for my usage safari is just smoother. I can afford the loss of a few milliseconds in rendering time because my bookmarks are laid out in a way I like, etc. Just preference, some people like IE... they're insane…

This is the single best thing about lion, that IE will no longer run on MacOS :0)

It's the total destruction of spaces that is keeping me away from lion until there's an option to turn it back. Everything else I could learn to live with in time (I don't like a LOT of new things, or they will never get used like full screen apps... I have 3 monitors for a reason...) but what they've done to spaces…

I haven't owned a real camera since I was 12 and film was king... I shot maybe 2 rolls with it ever. My phone's camera get used every 2 or 3 days. I simply would not take any pictures if I didn't have a camera phone. The only exception being on vacations I would likely pick up a disposable camera or 2. I interpret…

Because your TV remote uses focused IR to conserve power. These things throw IR around the room like it's a parade... IR RC helicopters, as well as IR dongles for i devices have both been around for years, they just finally tied the 2 together.

Yes, users only use a fragment of their device features but there's 2 importnat things about that:

When you're that rich you can afford to look creepy... who's going to stop you when you can just buy a country to house your enemies if you feel like it (so the math he can...)

I would try the hell out of this, but then trying odd beverages is a hobby of mine... the drink machines of Japan were like the promised land when I visited.

Please let that be the thing that kills me... I could not die happier. As an added bonus it would likely preserve my corpse for future generations to learn the folly of my ways...

Tighter would be better yes, but they can always change it (as you noted to keep it up to date with new offerings etc.) and if it can be changed it's meaningless...

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aaaaaaand none of that interests me in the least. I'll keep my data thanks. I still have no interest in any social networking stuff etc. And the flip side, everyone I know that uses facebook (like... everyone but me of course), I see nothing there that they would like... it's a new way of doing social stuff, but…