Probably because you have to release a french version as well and they do not want to pay the additional expense...

This article is about everything EXCEPT the camera itself. Apart from a crappy diagram in the middle, I learnt absolutely nothing about that piece of equipment.

Probably because they have been working with it for decades and it is a known quantity, instead of having to recertify, retest, remanaufacture cooling systems based on something else. I am not a rocket scientist so this is an educated hunch.

The check-in part at least is nothing new, Fairmont has offered email check-in/out for a few years at least.

My father blew his brains out, I think he took the cowards way out. Only non-victim in a suicide is the person who does it in my opinion...

The A380 fleet was never TOTALLY grounded at the same time like the 787. The 20 oldest ones were inspected and the other ones had the check incorporated in their upcoming regularly scheduled maintenance. You are right to say that every new aircraft has teething problems, but this 787 story is completely different and shows the inherent weaknesses of the certification scheme.

I left Fedora after using it for many years because of the Gnome 3 crap-fest. Been using MATE on Mint since then and have been very satisified. Understand that Fedora is cutting edge and used to test and develop new stuff for RHEL but Gnome 3 was unusable (for me, hate it when others make all the UI decisions for me, no minimize because it is against their philosophy, please...) Going to take out F18 for a spin for sure, always nice to have options. And once again, not bashing Gnome 3, to each their own, it only failed from my point of view!

Rocks clusters (http://www.google.ca/search?gcx=w&ix=c1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=rocks+clusters) CHARMM (http://www.charmm.org/) Gaussian as an example of how academic-inspired software should NOT be commercialised (http://www.gaussian.com/)

Then just use Chromium, you can check the source code all you want to make sure the evil Googles is not getting any of your data...

NPACI Rocks without a doubt. Red Hat centric, you need to put in some work to understand how it ticks, once you so and set up your cluster properly, it is very solid and reliable.

I am guessing this doesn't include the boatload of private tracker torrenting going on...

... a good number people won't even notice...

You are correct that the UK and France have their own nuclear arsenal but the way they went about it was completely different. The UK is tied much more closely to US nuclear bomb technology because the US licenses the design to the UK. Of course, the UK maintains launch authority for their warheads. France, on the other hand, developped their nuclear weapons systems from scratch and are completely independent from the US from a manufacturing perspective.