You could rev up to about 1940's era technology pretty quickly. With the exception of flat screen TVs, the internet and integrated circuits that brings us pretty close to modern standards of living. After that you've exhausted all of the low hanging fruit like high tensile steel, most ceramics and crude plastics. Space age technologies (flexible products like modern rubber, silicone rubbers and other elastomers, hyper pure titanium, rare earth alloys, etc and of course Velcro) took about 4% of the national GDP to identify uses for, and then produce on an industrial scale over the period of a decade. This was on top of an incredibly prosperous era and winding down from the education boom of the 1940's that produced the scientists needed for the space race. Given any other outcome, we'd be lucky to have late 1980's technology today.

The uptick of .net seems to have been that they unified their C/C++ computer scientists and C# business programming jockies, along with powershell scripting monkeys on top of the same framework. And fir the first two, share the same development environment.

There have been quite a few studies on how single-digit percent of Jews actively practice religion and/or marry a religious Jew; however those who observe at least some traditions from a cultural standpoint is well over 75%. We're all creatures of habit, but somewhere along the way we mixed religion and custom together.

And when that hardware dies... will they buy an Android tablet for $179?

People were still implementing new, paper-based workflows in 2000. By 2004-2005 that had mostly gone away, but jumping from NT4 to 2000 meant jumping 25-40% of the office to a new version, typically the smarter and higher earners who deal with change fairly well.
 
By 2005-2006 you're looking at Vista era and half a decade of XP dominance, nowadays all employees not working in food service and/or retail are assigned a desktop. This resulted in a huge upswing of PC sales which has now leveled off. So now in addition to server class hardware and A-level users, you're also having to migrate your B, and in most cases C, D, and E-level users at the same time. Even the guy in the mail room needs a PC to check email from his boss and HR once a day. Our copy room has a desktop to open word files.

Have you actually read an article about Google Chrome from start to finish? You clearly haven't ever used one, why did you even bother typing that post?

I'm sure for 5.5 million they could get the Mono project fully compliant. That's a team of 50 software engineers and 5 managers.

It's the WS2012 R2 kernel wrapped with desktop widgets. I'll let you google from there, but the improvements are vast. If you know what you're doing you can hack in WS2012 R2 functionality like file deduplication and NIC teaming in to your 8.1 desktop.

We ought to install shark sensors on surf boards, water and fork sensors on toasters. They cause more injuries per year than this will solve.

I'd like to see Voyager handle reentry through Earth's thick atmosphere and land gracefully on a runway. THAT would be a sight to see. Voyager 2 technically survived going through the rings of Saturn, but even that managed to take out several instruments (even though, to save someone's career that's not the official reason why they mysteriously failed immediately after)

The undercarriage of an F1 car is protected by a plank of wood, unless they've changed that rule

My 1997 BMW 5 series (the Tesla competes with the 2014 7 Series) has a thick plastic underbody shield. It was designed in ~1992 and started production in Europe around 1994. So it's not a new concept. It also still gets 33mpg @ 70mph on the highway from Dallas to Houston and isn't a diesel.

If you can get the price/durability/speed down by 95% it would be virtually indistinguishable from one of those star trek things that makes your food for you.

Until you need to install some new package to your webserver which requires IIS 9 or .net 5.5 framework or whatever crazy new thing is coming down the pipeline.

MIT's entire CS program is available on youtube, go hawg wild. My roommate is a graduate of Youtube U and now is a Sysadmin for 2 seperate non-profits (plus side work) and owns a yacht out of Houston. He's also finishing up a degree out of WGU but that's just icing on the cake for him.