>=20 > On Jan 16, 2011, at 4:21 AM, Tamas Rudnai wrote: >=20 > On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 7:20 PM, N. T. wrote: >=20 >> Seriously, PCB design CADs were quite successful even on Pentium 150 >> MHz, and were written in C language. Why they must not run in a >> web-browser sandbox (Javascript) on a PC with Intel=AE Core=99 i7 CPU, >> which is, let's assume, a hundred times faster? >>=20 >=20 > It is not about quickness. It is about privacy and reliability. A serious > design most probably would not want to go on web and assume that the web > owner is not stealing his/her idea. As with the reliability: Again, you > assume that the internet and that web site is always there. If you are a > serious company you need more reliable resources than that. Similarly I u= se > Google Docs quite a few times for writing letters and and small calculati= ons > on the sheets but only for my own and definitely would not use it to do m= y > presentations, my patents and my books... and guess what, it is not compa= red > to Microsoft or Open Office, useful but not "serious" tool. >=20 > Tamas >=20 This is OT. I don't care much about privacy or security. Most of it is go= ne. It is an illusion to believe it exists. Focus on what is most importa= nt. For me that would be my major assets. ( Real estate mostly ) I am hav= ing trouble protecting that from be taken from me. Property taxes doubled = last year ( doubled ) . When I protested there was veiled contempt from th= e "public servants". Regulations increase every year. I would ( and do ) = happily design stuff in the cloud ( puts on protective aluminium hat ) . F= or example the NXP mbed site. If someone steals my work, I don't care. In= tellectual property is highly over-rated. I am tired of the knee-jerk reac= tion that IP is beneficial or moral. Certainly not the kind that has infin= ite ownership life. Gus in Denver >=20 >=20 >=20 >> Why? You may wish to ask yourself and try to answer it as well. I >> believe, you'd find numerous reasons. Let's name a few: >> - always latest algorithms, you don't need to update it; >> - you can run it in a browser and don't care much what Op System it is >> based on; >> - if you need, say, to teach students, you can run it on as many PCs >> as you need without installing it. You could run it even on a good >> mobiles (some modern mobiles feature HDMI output), not to say about >> tablets. A student would go home and continue working on a project >> without the hassle to download and install the software. >> - if you feel like making money of the web site, you would charge some >> membership fee plus usage fee, summing up to ten bucks a month or so, >> not hundreds bucks one time fee + update fee. >> - Please, continue ... >>=20 >> Regards. >>=20 >> PS >> Again, no offense meant. >>=20 >> -- >> http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive >> View/change your membership options at >> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist >>=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > --=20 > int main() { char *a,*s,*q; printf(s=3D"int main() { char *a,*s,*q; > printf(s=3D%s%s%s, q=3D%s%s%s%s,s,q,q,a=3D%s%s%s%s,q,q,q,a,a,q); }", > q=3D"\"",s,q,q,a=3D"\\",q,q,q,a,a,q); } > --=20 > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist >=20 >=20 --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .