We have had C64 emulators for a while.
The Raspberry PI is more than enough to do the work of a 30 year old personal
computer.

It isn't really that interesting the fact that it has been done.
But for the person who did it, I would say it was pretty cool that they tried.

Well we have a few groups who would be resistant.
1. They are sick of being told how evil and bad we humans are! The news organization/scientific community. Have done a piss poor job at explaining the issues. By making us feel bad that we are killing cute animals or will cause New York City to flood. Will cause some people into action. But others who feel they cannot help, because it means giving up stuff they really need or like, is like telling a kid that he is Bad all the time, after a while they believe it and will live up to the expectation.

2. Religious humility. Normally Humility is a good aspect that religion teaches. However in this case, the idea how can we such little people be causing a world wide problem. Then you can combine some religions who feel a god will come down and save them.

3. Inconvenient truth. There are a lot of good people working for the Oil and Gas companies. However if it means their jobs are at risk and they won't be able to feed their families. They will not believe the science as it will cost them.

4. Conspiracy: There are a lot of people afraid of some dark secrete society trying to control people. If this society infuses the schools and scientists to believe that CO2 causes global warming. They can use that to control peoples lives, by having them go use less efficient energy, Where we cannot grow food, causing a famine where we will need to go to them for help. Thus infusing their power base.

5. Misunderstanding and distrust of science: Their biggest argument is that during the 1970's when we had a lot of smog, there was talk about global cooling, as the smog will block out the sun. The media doesn't help when they tout every hypothesis before there is any solid evidence as fact. So these people get mixed messages so they just choose to pick what they like and not.

Even without computers. Computer Science is a damn useful skill.
Computer Science is the Science of Computation.
So in this theoretical world where technology is gone, which will mean that we won't know how to make electricity by spinning a magnet in a bunch of wires, or how to make a battery with Zink and copper in an Acid. Then sending this electric current threw some sand to make a transistor. Then we arrange these things into Not gates, And Gates, Or Gates. We seem to know quartz can vibrate so we can remake a counter.... We can save stuff with magnetizing it on rust suck on something sticky.

So the idea were we cannot have a computer made from scratch within a few years, as we already know about them and how the basic components work, is rather silly.

However in the mean time, these computer scientists can use these skills to manage a labor work force. Giving them simple jobs, aligning them so they can perform complex actions. For example in college cafeteria. I found there was a long line for the utensils, Because all the forks were group together, the spoons were grouped together then the knives were grouped together. The computer science people saw that this line was being inefficient as only 1 person was at the table at once because they almost always needed the fork. So we moved the forks, spoons and knives into clusters next to each other and were able to improve the line speed threefold.

Computer Science disciplines the mind to think of things in terms of efficiency, and patterns, as well figuring in the unpredictable actions from people, and their more predicable actions in masses.

So in this theoretical Apocalypse work the computer scientist is still a useful person in such a world.

Now this said, in order to get such an world, you will need to kill off all the information and including the smart people. So you will need to kill of all the computer scientists, engineers, and other educated people to really create such a world.

As to not embarrass the people who normally do not pay for an app, except for Angry Birds.

This would happen to any group that gains market control.
IBM, Microsoft, Apple...

If a Linux distribution somehow got a large foothold in the market, they will find a way to keep their dominance. Having a particular fork of the kernel, a distribution system that is a bit different, rename some folders around. Add a closed source install tool or Windows manager....

We all should ware Kevlar vests to protect us from shootings. Those who got killed and didn't wear a Kevlar vest is their own damn fault.

You find a flaw, you report it. If they choose not to act and something goes wrong, it is the guys who failed to take actions fault, with the guy who did the crime, you end up the Hero. If you find a flaw and exploit it. It is all your fault, and you are the villain.

That and the impressive movie interface isn't necessarily good for normal use.

The issue with Misted and Movie 3d displays is the normal translucency and clarity. Sure it is nice to see an object in 3d and it can give you some scale... However the real need is to see the detail.

3D Star Wars style, makes for a good movie, but are you better off talking to a shaky Yoda in blue, but in 3D, or a 2d full color high resolution Yoda.

I say the real trick for teleconferincing today is to move the camera behind the screen so when you look at the persons eyes on the screen you are looking into the camera so it seem like you do have eye contact.

You can teach them to code, but I don't think most of them will want to code.

People are not stupid they can learn... However (especially in america) people identify themselves with the work that they do. The fact that they identify themselves as a miner is an important aspect to themselves, attributes that make a good miner are attributes that the person values and strives in themselves. Physical Strength, Courage, Hard Work, working with big equipment...
Taking this person and tell them that you need Patients, Attention to Detail, Creativity, and Sitting at a desk, to succeed, is at odds with their favorite values of themselves. You will be better off giving them a job wired networking, or laying out fiber across the country, if they want to go in technology.

Just as me a Software Developer was told that I need to work in the Mines. Yes I can learn how to do it. However I wouldn't really fit in too well. For one I would get really board as my mind wouldn't be as active, as well as I would be more miserable as I am not working in a comfortable work environment. As well as I may be a bit more sweemish as I am in a place that could kill me at any minute.

But how much more trouble would they be in if they had hard evidence.

With a convenient technical glitch, there is at least the argument that they followed procedures. Vs. blind proof that they were abusive.

We will cloud source it to the internet and come back with a solution.

Found it.
We will get Chuck Norris to launch a Australian Pirate Zombie Ninja from a catapult at Mars. which is the perfect candidate because being a Pirate they will want to collect treasure, being a Zombie they will be immune from death, and as a ninja they will be stealthy and fast, the Australian part is because they will know how to boomerang themselves back to earth.
Flawless where is my $250,000 I have a mortgage to pay off.

So we see evidence of a seeming Miraculous event in the universe. One that seems to defy logic. And you use it as a time to get angry at people who believe in God.

Is your atheism so week, that you fall back on violence if confronted with evidence that seems to force you to realign your belief structure.
So tell me again how atheist are better than religious people?
Or is it that you are just as human as the rest of us, and will strongly hold onto our belief structure and get very angry when something dissuades it.

Did you ever notice that Police Dashboard cams seem to glitch out between the time they do the stop, and during an escalation. Then seems to be working when a bruised suspect finally hits the cop.

I expect the same thing...
You see a video of the inspector. Talking to the owner who is wearing a nice gold watch. Well lets take a look at that refrigerator, the display get very pixally the sound wavers and is hard to hear, then it finally comes back on, with the inspector well it looks good then shakes the guys hand with a tan line, while the inspectors is wearing a gold watch.

Screw you those cheap third party knockoffs.
I am going for a Sorney and a Genuine Penaphonics!

I hope he doesn't get too much more trouble. You should be really annoyed that they found the name of the guy who made the bug.

If open source contributors get so much negitive press due to a bug, how do you think you will get other people to contribute to OSS projects?

We all make bugs, this one got past layers of reviewers who should be as much in the blame too. But unlike companies who have insurance to cover these expensive legal attacks, the individual would just be crushed.

Or the number of people who file for their Taxes....

In short people will procrastinate.
Out of the uninsured...
I say about 10% would never join because they hate all things Obama.
Then you have those who do not want to join out of principal or figure the Tax Penalty is cheaper than getting insurance.
There is a portion who do not know about it.
Some will over procrastinate figuring they can always come in late.
However most would wait until the last minute.