Not if your account has been updated to the newest version, they did make traffic better with the ability to use live traffic or average traffic and a bubble on a dropped pin that shows current time from your default location but the removal of search nearby is a major bummer.
Then hook up a phone/tablet via HDMI and use a BT keyboard and mouse, the only thing that would suck would be compiling but that can be done on a server. Flagship phones already ship with 2GB of ram and a processor about on par with the first Core 2 Duo's, within 18-24 months they'll have 4GB of ram which should be sufficient for most workers.
No one in their right mind actually licenses Java stuff from Oracle LOTS of companies license JavaEE from Oracle, in the form of OAS and Weblogic licenses.
Considering the court rubber stamps 99+% of garbage put in front of them it's pretty obvious that their oversight is inadequate, even the most tough on crime judges in general criminal courts don't approve that high a percent of warrant requests.
How does it handle latency? I was interested in FreedomPop since the cost was so low but the latency and jitter of 3G data networks caused it to be completely unusable and they were supposed to be using one of the better VoIP codecs for the conditions.
Actually after doing some research it turns out that some of the contactless cards actually contain a smart chip which does encrypted transactions rather than merely holding a copy of the magnetic stripe data in an easier to steal form, the problem is that as a consumer I have no way to know which type of chip is in any given card. Visa is phasing out MCD contactless cards but merchants have to support them through next year so I can guess that no new ones are being issued but without an advanced RFID scanner setup who knows?
Well estimated 2012 revenues were $3.6B, if they run about average in profitability they'll have around a 20% margin which means $720M profit for 2012, at that rate it will take them less than 3 years to pay back the $1.65B they paid for youtube (real ROI will probably be longer since they ran it at some loss for 5-6 years).
Sounds more like your change control process is broken than Powershell being broken (though the fact that PS4.0 breaks many core MS apps on 2008/R2 is pretty lame)
In the corporate environment there's a huge list of under the hood improvements that would be great to take advantage of but which are not worth saddling my users with the horrible win8 UI, if they would bring all the win8 tech and bolt on the win7 UI I'd start the upgrade program as soon as 9.1 shipped.
Damn you, damn you to hell. I was forcing myself to use 8.1 because I knew I'd have to implement Server 2012 R2 sooner or later and wanted to be comfortable with the UI and now you tempt me with a Windows 8 that doesn't suck horribly.
Nope, Visa card from Chase Manhattan and then one or two from BoA after they bought that particular line of cards from JP Morgan Chase. BoA eventually dropped the smartcard feature as an offering (probably due to cost and lack of POS adoption).
Support for XP embedded runs longer than XP, and other than smalltime operations POS systems should be running XPe, though it's still only supported through January 30, 2017. PCI DSS will force the replacement of any XPe systems with Windows Embedded POSReady 2009 which is supported through 2024 or Windows Embedded POSReady 7 which is supported through 2026.
Wow, smartcards are finally going to become standard, I had one for 2004 to 2009 and the chip was only used twice because there were essentially zero POS readers that supported the chips and the home reader for online banking required IE for an ActiveX control which I felt probably made it less secure than entering my password with an alternative browser.
Other than Hawaii almost all US electric generation is from domestic sources since oil is WAY too expensive on a $/BTU basis to compete with coal and natural gas, it's much better used for transportation and for feedstock for the petrochemical industries (plastics, cosmetics, medicine, textiles, etc).
Not even close, $600M is a drop in the ocean, the IRS has wasted $12B and counting on their two major attempts at modernization. The Airforce blew $1B on ECSS. The DOD and VA wasted $1B on a failed EHR project. You get the picture, multibillion dollar IT project failures are more common than successes when it comes to the federal government and most of the blame lies at the feet of the large consulting companies that see problems as a source of revenue rather than failures.
The insurgents have bled over $1T from the US economy with nothing gained in return except perhaps keeping some combatants from killing a few civilians on US soil. In addition they have turned us into a police state, the US government is now doing more pervasive monitoring of their own citizenry than even the Stasi accomplished.
When the third largest economy in the world (or second depending on how you put Europe together) is outspending you on metrics that lead to future growth it absolutely is a meaningful metric. As to scientific progress, this isn't just about science, it's about economics as TFA mentions this is all R&D and much of it in China is companies spending on developing existing knowledge into better, cheaper products.
As an example take solar cells, we've had them for decades and while new research might be upping the maximum possible efficiency by 1-2% per decade at this point the Chinese have been reducing the cost per watt by 90% per decade, which is more important overall?
The Pentium was superscaler, the Pentium Pro and Pentium II added out of order execution and were based on microcode internals with a translation frontend which is very, very different from the 486.
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Not if your account has been updated to the newest version, they did make traffic better with the ability to use live traffic or average traffic and a bubble on a dropped pin that shows current time from your default location but the removal of search nearby is a major bummer.
Sunspider scores for the iphone 5S and Note 3 are nearly identical to the Core 2 Duo, remember Conroe is 7.5 years or 5 Moore generations ago.
Then hook up a phone/tablet via HDMI and use a BT keyboard and mouse, the only thing that would suck would be compiling but that can be done on a server. Flagship phones already ship with 2GB of ram and a processor about on par with the first Core 2 Duo's, within 18-24 months they'll have 4GB of ram which should be sufficient for most workers.
No one in their right mind actually licenses Java stuff from Oracle
LOTS of companies license JavaEE from Oracle, in the form of OAS and Weblogic licenses.
Considering the court rubber stamps 99+% of garbage put in front of them it's pretty obvious that their oversight is inadequate, even the most tough on crime judges in general criminal courts don't approve that high a percent of warrant requests.
How does it handle latency? I was interested in FreedomPop since the cost was so low but the latency and jitter of 3G data networks caused it to be completely unusable and they were supposed to be using one of the better VoIP codecs for the conditions.
Actually after doing some research it turns out that some of the contactless cards actually contain a smart chip which does encrypted transactions rather than merely holding a copy of the magnetic stripe data in an easier to steal form, the problem is that as a consumer I have no way to know which type of chip is in any given card. Visa is phasing out MCD contactless cards but merchants have to support them through next year so I can guess that no new ones are being issued but without an advanced RFID scanner setup who knows?
In fact, I can't remember the last time Microsoft shelled out even a measly billion dollars for an acquisition.
MS paid $7.3B for aQuantive in 2007, $8.5B for Skype in 2011, and 5.4B Euros for Nokia just 4 months ago.
Well estimated 2012 revenues were $3.6B, if they run about average in profitability they'll have around a 20% margin which means $720M profit for 2012, at that rate it will take them less than 3 years to pay back the $1.65B they paid for youtube (real ROI will probably be longer since they ran it at some loss for 5-6 years).
tap to pay != smartcard
tap to pay = RFID == lower security
smartcard ==better security
Sounds more like your change control process is broken than Powershell being broken (though the fact that PS4.0 breaks many core MS apps on 2008/R2 is pretty lame)
In the corporate environment there's a huge list of under the hood improvements that would be great to take advantage of but which are not worth saddling my users with the horrible win8 UI, if they would bring all the win8 tech and bolt on the win7 UI I'd start the upgrade program as soon as 9.1 shipped.
Yup, I launch my HTPC user directly into MediaPortal which is a great 10' UI.
Damn you, damn you to hell. I was forcing myself to use 8.1 because I knew I'd have to implement Server 2012 R2 sooner or later and wanted to be comfortable with the UI and now you tempt me with a Windows 8 that doesn't suck horribly.
Nope, Visa card from Chase Manhattan and then one or two from BoA after they bought that particular line of cards from JP Morgan Chase. BoA eventually dropped the smartcard feature as an offering (probably due to cost and lack of POS adoption).
Exactly, looks pretty much like a full sized SIM card pad near one edge of the credit card.
Support for XP embedded runs longer than XP, and other than smalltime operations POS systems should be running XPe, though it's still only supported through January 30, 2017. PCI DSS will force the replacement of any XPe systems with Windows Embedded POSReady 2009 which is supported through 2024 or Windows Embedded POSReady 7 which is supported through 2026.
Wow, smartcards are finally going to become standard, I had one for 2004 to 2009 and the chip was only used twice because there were essentially zero POS readers that supported the chips and the home reader for online banking required IE for an ActiveX control which I felt probably made it less secure than entering my password with an alternative browser.
Other than Hawaii almost all US electric generation is from domestic sources since oil is WAY too expensive on a $/BTU basis to compete with coal and natural gas, it's much better used for transportation and for feedstock for the petrochemical industries (plastics, cosmetics, medicine, textiles, etc).
Not even close, $600M is a drop in the ocean, the IRS has wasted $12B and counting on their two major attempts at modernization. The Airforce blew $1B on ECSS. The DOD and VA wasted $1B on a failed EHR project. You get the picture, multibillion dollar IT project failures are more common than successes when it comes to the federal government and most of the blame lies at the feet of the large consulting companies that see problems as a source of revenue rather than failures.
It's the only actual data available, only the IRS would have the information for privately held companies.
The median compensation for CEO's of publicly traded companies in 2011 was $9.6M source.
The insurgents have bled over $1T from the US economy with nothing gained in return except perhaps keeping some combatants from killing a few civilians on US soil. In addition they have turned us into a police state, the US government is now doing more pervasive monitoring of their own citizenry than even the Stasi accomplished.
When the third largest economy in the world (or second depending on how you put Europe together) is outspending you on metrics that lead to future growth it absolutely is a meaningful metric. As to scientific progress, this isn't just about science, it's about economics as TFA mentions this is all R&D and much of it in China is companies spending on developing existing knowledge into better, cheaper products.
As an example take solar cells, we've had them for decades and while new research might be upping the maximum possible efficiency by 1-2% per decade at this point the Chinese have been reducing the cost per watt by 90% per decade, which is more important overall?
The Pentium was superscaler, the Pentium Pro and Pentium II added out of order execution and were based on microcode internals with a translation frontend which is very, very different from the 486.