Mozilla and Epic Games have announced this week that they have teamed up to port the Unreal Engine 3 to the Web without the need for any plugins.
The browser company has long wanted to make the Internet a viable platform for modern games, and "about six months ago, Mozilla started to work on using its emscripten compiler to port C and C++ code to asm.js, a strict subset of JavaScript. ... [ read the full article ]
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Sounds cool, until you realize that this is merely the next salvo in the "cloud computing" war to turn everyone's PC into a "net appliance", rather than a real PC, which is dependent on an always-on, high bandwidth internet connection.
The corporate world would love NOTHING more than turning everyone's PC back into a graphical terminal (AKA "thin client"). This way they can ensure that you pay fees for every single activity, from storing your data in the "cloud" to running a web-based app or game. Hell, M$ even directly stated the reason for emphasizing cloud computing was to ensure a constant revenue stream; it has never had anything to do with benefit (except in a secondary, emergent manner) for consumers.
