Some nerds have now sold them this idea, but when it eventually comes to deployment, everyone will realize "Oh my god the desktop is buggy, and LibreOffice constantly screws up the formatting of documents. We can't actually use something like this." After that, there will just be the ugly flag symbol and a spinning pearls animation when people start their computers.
Any counterarguments?
You actually believed HTML5 would be capable of something like that on it's own?
It would be a hard project, but completely doable with WebGL and scripting.
Short NPR "Planet Money" podcast about the history of spreadsheets, including interviews with the inventor of Visical:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money...
> Note: This episode contains explicit language.
> Spreadsheets used to be actual sheets of paper. Sometimes, a bunch of sheets of paper taped together.
> Then, in the late '70s, a bored student invented the electronic spreadsheet. It transformed industries. But its effects ran deeper than that.
> As one journalist wrote more than 30 years ago, "The spreadsheet is a tool, and it is also a world view — reality by the numbers."
> Today's show was inspired by A Spreadsheet Way of Knowledge, a 1984 article by Steven Levy.
That wasted standby power is probably consumed by the power supply itself.
No modern power supply is so inefficient that it would leak 10W when not loaded.
Or
China would really sanction such a petty operation against github
GitHub is suddenly target because of what?
It makes no sense for the Chinese to use their own primary connectivity to the rest of the world to run a half assed DDoS against a company that almost no one outside the OSS world even knows exists.
And if they wanted to do it, they'd take github down and be done with it. China has WAY more bandwidth than github, even taking AWS into account.
The whole story is wildly unbelievable to anyone who stops and thinks about it rather running life a half cocked nut job like appearently slashdot has devolved to. If you believe this story, you really need to come back to reality
We really should be preserving old computers in HDL in a form as loyal as possible to the original. Then we could always reimplement them in FPGA and make "real" hardware cheaply enough until the sun burns out.
It's doable, although these are big efforts.
There is already this Japanese guy who has done it for the SNES.
nor that the Facebook TLS is properly signed if you can't rely on the DNS entry.
TLS doesn't depend on DNS working properly and not being corrupted. Its job, is in fact, to alert you of the fact that things like DNS corruption are taking place, or that someone is intercepting your traffic.
Hard drives require a lot precision machining and assembly. Chip fabrication and PCB assembly scales much better, and is much cheaper. It's the same pick-and-place followed by oven reflow that
Good point.
"What man has done, man can aspire to do." -- Jerry Pournelle, about space flight
