That's great, they even have a picture of Fabian Mohn putting the atom to be imaged into the scope:-

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ibm_research_zurich/6807218837/in/set-72157629144258045

:-)

Why is "Europe's Spaceport" in South America? Isn't that South America's Spaceport?

"Europe's Spaceport" is in Kourou, in French Guiana. Which is a French colony in South America.

Would having wireless carriers be dumb pipes really be so bad?

Not as far as I'm concerned. The sooner the carriers work out where the future is taking them, the sooner they can change their 'investment' in phone branding to improving their network infrastructure.

Too many to count.

VMS FTW!

Fantastically consistent command line interface. Tools that were designed to do the job rather than just thrown together. Sadly the only current hardware OpenVMS runs on is iTanic. So it's days are numbered.

Not exactly everyone but you. I'd guess anyone, like me, who blocks almost all Javascript is going to find an improvement in it's execution speed fairly irrelevant.

I don't know how BeOS was engineered to achieve this, I only know that no other OS I used during and since then, achieved this sort of responsiveness.

Fine grained multi tasking, and avoiding mutexs. I think BeOS uses message passing to implement inter process communications. In engineering terms, it is the most modern desktop operating system.

I fail to see why NOT having one (a command line) is good?

It is difficult to get a buffer overflow exploit to run the command line interpreter, when the operating system doesn't have a command line interpreter.