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Shuttleworth: Amazon search results in the DashShuttleworth: Amazon search results in the DashPosted Sep 26, 2012 22:06 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: Shuttleworth: Amazon search results in the Dash by jspaleta Parent article: Shuttleworth: Amazon search results in the Dash
As a person who actually uses sat links on a regular basis in remote locations.. in the United States. I'm telling you flat out, that you are absolutely wrong about the viability of sat broadband for the always connected lifestyle.Well, that's interesting. I thought we were talking about typing in a search box sending queries out to the Internet, yet suddenly in order to win the argument you have jumped across to 'the always connected lifestyle'. I'd hate to point this out, but my mother types things in search boxes on a regular basis, over her satellite broadband link, and it works fine. She's not a member of the 'always connected lifestyle' crowd, though. There are a lot of people in that boat, but you've forgotten they exist. Personally I have always assumed that virtually anything can and will talk to the network when it sees fit: networking is not something hived off into a few applications, but a property of the system as a whole. The system is networked, not the web browser. Unix systems have been like this for decades, and heavily used by 'people who want to feel in control of what the computer is doing'.
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Shuttleworth: Amazon search results in the Dash Posted Sep 26, 2012 22:14 UTC (Wed) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
what you are missing is that some things are expected to use the network, and having those things be slow if you have a bad or not Internet connection is expected.
Having a local search box now require Internet connectivity _IS_ assuming the "always connected" lifestyle.
for people who are "always connected" with fast, low latency connections, the only concerns are privacy related.
for people who do not enjoy such "always connected" environments, these new dependencies on the network are a problem.
Shuttleworth: Amazon search results in the Dash Posted Sep 26, 2012 22:39 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Not true. That is only so if search results do not appear until the Internet side of the search is completed. If they appear as soon as they have any results at all, and then update as new results come in, the net effective latency of the Internet side of the search is zero.
This is not rocket science: Chrome's suggestion box already does it.
Shuttleworth: Amazon search results in the Dash Posted Sep 27, 2012 4:57 UTC (Thu) by spaetz (subscriber, #32870) [Link]
but I can tell you from first hand experience that it is very dsconcerting and annoying to ha the layout and result page of a dash query jump around for 10 secs after the search. heck, if i type in the das, I probably just want to start GIMP and not earn about all possible gimp media out there.
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