It'd mean starting over from scratch with a whole new architecture, redoing decades of work in hardware and software.

So? I would say that is bound to happen eventually anyhow. Traditional integrated circuits are quickly on their way to becoming a stick in the mud. Something fundamentally different will have to replace them eventually.

The reason Apple stuck with the Power architecture for so long, was because IBM promised them quad and greater core chips running at 8 Ghz, air cooled, by 2005. Needless to say, they didn't even come close to delivering. It was that failure that led Apple to switch to x86.

I would be curious to know more about the architecture and all around chip specs they are using in their prototype: clock speed, memory interface, etc. The article states they are developing a version of Linux to test it on, so it's safe to say it's an established architecture. Anyway, I am excited to see the results once they have tested it on Linux. While this does not help with the density per core problem, perhaps it will help extend Moore's Law from the perspective of speed increase in respect to micro circuitry.

Your first idea? No. Second? Sure. Overwhelmingly it has to do with the economic sanctions we (US) slapped on them. They are not in a position to do the same back except to do business elsewhere and at home is always a good place.

The missing manual.

I remember watching cnet on television back in the mid 1990's. When it went off the air in in favor of an all web media outlet, I thought it was the end and was actually kind of depressed. It turned out television was limiting and now cnet probably makes more money from me browsing their site then they ever did with television advertising. Likewise, I used to spend a lot of time browsing computer related magazines. I haven't so much as visited a dedicated magazine isle in maybe 15 years. Print is dying with a whimper and no one cares. Nothing to see here, not really.

I know Elon Musk has his haters, even in the nerd community, and they have their reasons. But personally, I am thankful beyond thankful for him, his companies, and many fine employees. There is no one out there working so hard to make the Earth a better place while also opening the doors to space in order to ensure the survival of our species. I find it interesting that the business ventures he lines up are not only geared toward making a better Earth, they simultaneously serve the purpose of developing crucial technologies we would need to colonize Mars. The man is a genius, and yes I'm a fanboy.

I am willing to bet PJ passively reads Slashdot. If this is so and you read this, we need you back now please. Now more than ever is the clarity of your legal analysis needed. I admit that I am being completely selfish in asking.

I would like to see the paper (email really) trail where these companies plotted to screw over consumers. After all, there is no way that this happened by accident and being deliberate means communication. I thought highly of these brands until now. Now I can only wonder how long this has been going on and how many product lines are affected. They have lost my loyalty and cannot earn it back. I will warn everyone I know to avoid all of their products and I will explain why. I have a feeling this is going to snowball into a much more publicized scandal. I just hope I don't find out any of my still currently beloved companies have been committing the same fraud.

Also, I say naive because how could they have thought in this day and age that they would not get busted? I guess they were blinded by the dollar signs in their eyes.

If you read the original article about the technology, they have competing OS development teams. One of them is working on a new Open Source "Machine OS", another team is working on developing a modified version of Linux to take advantage of what the platform could potentially offer. As long as they are bothering to do that at all, I would say they know what they are doing and have a working answer to your question:

How exactly do you propose to design an OS for that, keeping the benefits of persistent data objects, while running applications working on serialized data on top of that?

Just because something looks like Linux or any *nix does not mean that it can't actually be fundamentally and radically different under the hood. The likes of Bash, csh, zsh, etc. are still the most powerful ways to interact with a computer - by far and away. The Unix console has survived as the ultimate interface since the sixties for a very good reason. Extending a shell to take advantage of new hardware functionality would actually make sense in this case: it's powerful, and admins would already know how to use it. Also, it doesn't sound like HP is exactly going straight for the desktop with this. Unless you want a refrigerator sized machine in your house. If you are envisioning running KDE on this thing, you are thinking about it wrong.

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Yet those same furious drivers will inevitably pass on the right into dense, slower moving traffic, ride someones tail until that driver gets nervous and speeds up enough to let them pass that center lane car only to further pass into the the left lane which was open in the first place. The moral of the story is, once you hit the highway, someone is always an idiot to someone else whether you are actually driving like an idiot or following the letter of the law.

It's more like, "Wow! I'm a jack-booted thug! This is awesome!"

I know I am a little late getting in on this conversation, but I really do think a lot of them enjoy being Nazi bastards.