Still, congratulations. It's amazing that we've gone from stars visible only as a single pixel to being able to detect surface features.

On my Macbook, the fans spin up to audible levels when CPU usage hits 100%. That rarely happens in normal use, so when the fans start howling it's usually because some process hangs (I'm looking at you, Quicklook Helper!).

For several years now, VAG has been building cars where some of the options can be added by tweaking settings in the car's computer system, or by adding a few inexpensive components. I can add an alarm to mine just by plugging a horn and a couple of sensors into the car's network. Similarly, the wiring for heated mirrors is installed by default even if the option is not checked by the initial customer, I replaced the standard mirror glasses with heated ones and was good to go. $50 and 10 minutes to enable a $200 option. Lists of available options circulate on the internet.

Antigravity, nuclear fusion, holodeck.

I was following the webcast, a few minutes ago they received the signal from Rosetta, so the wakeup has succeeded, if a bit behind schedule.

(unfortunately I can't see a way to rewind, so you'll have to wait for the video to become available on the archive section of the webcast page)

I remember staying up late to watch Giotto's close approach to Halley. That we're now planning to *land* on a comet, is very impressive.

Sounds like a fun place to visit. Where is this?

How did they incorporate 3D modelling, which mostly uses 3D vector-based drawing, into a 2.5D pixel-based application?

The audience of this site is not airplane pilots. Feet don't make sense for half the visitors on this site.
Also, screw the airline industry and their nonstandard units of measurement.

EADS/Arianespace is in a spot of trouble as their launch cost is much higher than that of SpaceX. The Ariane 6 is designed to close the gap a bit, but Arianespace has always struggled to be profitable even though they're bankrolled by ESA. Basically they're used to the old world where cost was no object and will have to adapt to the way SpaceX et al do things.

I wonder if this could be mitigated by not treating a problem as an excuse to build an entirely new language. Build an awesome library for (choose a decent basic language) instead, and you get new functionality without fragmenting the playing field even more.

So THIS is what that slogan is all about...

In case you missed it, TFA is about Germany. You know, the country that plunged the world into 6 years of hell thanks to the Nazis, and the country that is now committed to preventing that from ever happening again. So yes, they have special laws that target neo-Nazis. And I don't blame them.

Incorrect. Prostitution was legalized in the Netherlands years ago, but it's still rife with abuse and human trafficing.