The basic UI may feel smoother, but the moment you run some software that needs to crunch numbers, no amount of OS magic will negate the limited SoC performance.

I used Visual Studio every day at work. It has a good feature set, but it is notoriously unreliable, and every new release comes with more bugs than fixes. Visual Studio 2013 for example forgets to perform the post-build registration step in 64bit projects, requiring a manual post-build step. It's the year 2015, and the IDE still regularly hangs for seconds at a time when I simply type in the text editor. The debugging engine regularly gets confused, and I have to close all instances of devenv and kill mspdbsrv to get it to respect breakpoints again. I get an average of one day between IDE crashes (even though VS is written in .NET, it still suffers from frequent access violation [0xC0000005] crashes). When 2010 and 2013 are installed side by side, 2010 misbehaves and believes the project needs a full rebuild every time it is run when the project uses IDL files.

I've used Eclipse, and while I don't like the UI or feature set, it has at least been more stable during the times I've used it.

Sure. I'll just abandon my home country and never visit my family again. Thanks for the tip.

Even then it could still be faked pretty easily, just make some cloned RFID tags.

Even for a shitty movie from Sony?

If they're not releasing new builds, why did they recently introduce the fast/slow opt-in mode for how quickly you get access to the new builds?

Storage Spaces and Hyper-V are in the client versions of Windows too.

More likely the US would detain him and trade him for Snowden.

All those words are correctly spelt. A spell checker won't help.

They've stopped shrinking the process (they're actually going bigger again) and are just layering NAND vertically for extra density. We've still got some way to go with reliable high density flash memory.

You don't need it to be a chain reaction for it to be a nuclear catastrophe. Have you heard of "dirty bombs"?

Pu-238 is manufactured, not mined.

It's not, they expect it to melt by March next year.

At 1 volt, 200W translates to 200A. The voltage that the chip runs at is normally not much more than 1V. Some (maybe most?) of the coils will be closer to 12V but at some point there will be really high currents.

If you do that, your emails will simply fail to send as per these guys who discovered the issue. You're right though, at least it won't fall back to unencrypted transmission.

The sender of the email presumably owns the copyright of the email. The ISP would need the senders permission to circumvent the encryption if that was the case. As per my response to the first reply that mentioned TOS, I didn't see anything in there claiming such permission.