How big is your house that it costs several million Euros? A buddy of mine (I'm the US fyi) bought a used fork lift battery. His system consists of panels on the roof, the battery(s) and a propane generator as an ultimate fallback. I'd like to say the battery cost him $2400 dollars. The way he uses it, it'll last indefinitely.

If I have to write a tool, I create a new buffer in emacs and have at it. If I'm standing in front of a machine fixing it, I'll reach for vi, only because it's on every platform.

I work in almost a 100% UNIX environment and what I generally see on people's desktops are: emacs, Eclipse (some flavor) and IntelliJ.

Replace "Stock Holders" with large corporate customers who buy Dell's server hardware.

Firstly, I'd forgotten that Dell had gone private. So replace stockholders with enterprise customers who buy dells higher end servers. That's where the high margin stuff is.
The beauty of the UNIX operating systems is the simple idea that everything is a file, period. Knocking down the wall between the filesystem which is just a file and memory which is just a file is a matter of semantics and drivers. So you've got an in memory file system, this filesystem instead of inodes has memory offsets. Getting the kernel to schedule a program now merely takes out the "open the binary file, and read it into memory" part and jumps directly to the schedule it to run. Yes, I'm making a straw man and knocking it down, yes I'm ignoring some sharp corners. However, none of this is like getting wolfenstein 3d that was designed to run on a 386 to run an i7. The whole idea behind unix is that the primitives are straightforward. Provided the kernel knows how to run binaries in such a machine, frankly the average unix command will work just like it did before, treating things like files and doing open/close/read/write/seek operations. It won't give a flying fuck it's running on a giant memsister machine, nor will it matter.

HP is their competitor. HP just announced that they're working on something that even if the entire thing doesn't come to fruition, likely some part will and it will change the computing landscape. Understand, this announcement is pointed directly at Dell's share holders.

Best case scenario HP actually pulls it off and they've got some radically fast system running something that looks like Linux.
Mid case scenario, they figure out how to make memsistors at scale and then sell licences for everybody to make blisteringly fast SSD's, etc. Then others come along and figure out how to put the pieces together. HP makes out like a bandit in royalties, etc.
Worse case, nothing comes out of this. HP shrugs, files a whole pile of patent applications. Someone else takes bits and pieces of it (like IBM) and does cool things with it. In all three cases HP is going to be enhance their IP portfolio and possibly make their stock worth more.

All of those scenarios are bad for Dell. Dell doesn't do fundamental science. They design motherboards that use components supplied by everybody else and crank out cheap computers. If scenario #1 comes true... HP is NOT going to sell any of this to Dell, cutting them out of the market. If scenario #2 comes true, HP is going to get these components at a price that Dell can't compete with. If the last scenario comes true, Dell still ends up being a VAR like everybody else and HP racks in royalties.

The CEO of Dell is almost obligated to thrown cold water all over this, otherwise Dell shareholders are naturally going to ask if this announcement is going to make Dells stock worth less and/or worthless.

I think it's because they're on the hunt for the record.

I hope Chevy pounces as well. A Volt with ultra charging technology sounds awesome! Mind you, this isn't the battery technology, this is their charging tech.

As a driver of a range extended electric vehicle, I'd be perfectly happy to pay to quick charge my car at one of his charging stations. If anything it could encourage me to switch to a Tesla. Ultimately, what I want is for the battery technology to really take off. I'd rather have fewer charging stations and more robust battery technology...

I have a new car... 2014 Chevy Volt and I've found the thing pretty darn intuitive. I can do all of those functions from the steering wheel. The only exception would be if I'm at some FM radio station and I want to tune to some other FM radio station I have to use the tune scroll wheel... but I had to do the same thing on my 14 year old car I just sold.

Setting favorites is as easy as merely pressing and holding the spot on the favorites for 3 seconds... then it's set.

It makes complete sense. Why add weight and complexity when you've got a perfectly good propulsion system already on your capsule.

Let's get this baby loaded, do a couple unmanned tests, including the crew escape system and lets roll.

I have to imagine if you're the Russian Space Agency this has to be very unwelcome news.

What I like so much about my kindle is it's pure simplicity. If I wanted something that I could take notes with, I'd grab my tablet, or my desktop. Yes, you can put bookmarks in and highlight text. The only thing I can do with my kindle is read. If it were to do more, I'd be tempted to do more with it. Miles of battery life, easy to read, simple controls.

So RedHat fully certifies a stack as something that they'll support... Yeah, I don't see the problem here. If you go doing things to it that RedHat hasn't tested, don't be surprise when they won't want to support it. Considering that RedHat only makes money off of support doing anything that takes them away from that core mission is money out the window. Now if you want a blanket support contract or a per diem situation where when you get stuck with your wack ass solution they'll drop engineers on the problem... I'm sure RH would be up for that... provided they're getting paid. Otherwise you'll just taking engineers away from supporting supported configurations and sending them down support rabbit holes.

Exactly what I was thinking... Even though the courts just vacated his case, this is the best next thing... Ultimately, Russia is completely fucked in this situation. Read my older posts regarding my position on this...

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