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Kinda ironicKinda ironicPosted Jun 5, 2009 4:37 UTC (Fri) by tstover (subscriber, #56283)In reply to: Kinda ironic by khim Parent article: Google's Native Client
No there is not a real alternative, things sure could have gone better though. I was being somewhat facetious. I'm obviously using a browser for lwn.net. I've actually been following NaCl for sometime, and anxiously await some means to achieve some of its goals.
Being a little silly yes, but I was alluding to the under discussed culture clash between the ideas of the web generation and the system & application programming generation that has nothing to do with age (I'm 29 for instance, while some of biggest web advocates I know are in their late 50s). There is no way a browser will ever replace multiuser, protected memory OS. Even if that were - windows. I may be in a dying breed, but I'm here to the end. I'll turn out the light on the last copy of *nix just before I retire, and let you kids with your browser in bios, iphone, or whatever wonder what it was like when computers were fun.
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Why not? Posted Jun 5, 2009 6:13 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] There is no way a browser will ever replace multiuser, protected memory OS. What exactly is lacking and why this can not be added to browser? I can name two programs I can not see embedded in browser which I
use regularly: The was majority of applications I use can be embedded in browser. If it's good idea or not is debatable, but I see the trend goes this way... because it's convenient. I can work with the same doucments on my desktop, my laptop and even my phone! And important things like regular backups are done by professionals. So while I can not see situation where all applications are embedded in browser, I can easily see situation where most applications are embedded in browser...
Why not? Posted Jun 5, 2009 17:21 UTC (Fri) by yokem_55 (subscriber, #10498) [Link]
Actually an embedded CD/DVD burner would be a cool app to help people burn ISO's. I don't know how many times I seen people download a linux ISO, and end up with CD containing the ISO file. Sigh.
This is not even the worst outcome! Posted Jun 6, 2009 7:52 UTC (Sat) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] If they have installed something like WinRAR then said ISO is shown as archive and can be opened as one - thus they end up with files extracted from "archive" and then saved on CD. Of course the resulting CD is unbootable, but it looks genuine enough on first glance...
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