You're employing a logical fallacy (argumentum ad metum).

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_fear

It's almost as though life is based on the balance of probability rather than existing in a Vulcan logic simulation.

Please save these types of comments for Reddit.

Sure they do: get another tablet. It's not necessarily Apple's responsibility to be an open platform, is it?

I remember this too. Jeff Atwood made the comment in the stackoverflow blog back in 2008:

"We rely heavily on full-text search on stackoverflow.com, which worked amazingly well for us under SQL Server 2005. Looks like that’s no longer the case for SQL Server 2008, unfortunately."

Here's the entry: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/11/sql-2008-full-text-sea...

I have always found the discussion of Groklaw posts on Slashdot to be interesting. It's curious that this article has not yet been posted there yet.

Turtles all the way down: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down

Fields arranged by purity: http://xkcd.com/435/

I use a variant of this when running Windows: Ubuntu in VirtualBox is always running.

And that was 1993. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtCW-axRJV8#t=4m40s