On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Temlakos <temlakos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 03/23/2013 02:42 AM, Tim wrote: >> >> Joe Zeff (How do you produce with a browser?): >>> >>> Do you expect authors, as an example, to do all their writing in a >>> browser? Do you expect lawyers to compose their briefs and court >>> documents in a browser? How about accountants? How about programmers, >>> graphic artists and musicians? The question isn't am I serious, but >>> have you really given any thought to your position? >> >> In essence, the same way as companies used to use a main frame (and >> those who still do must be laughing their asses off at all the problems >> companies face who use scads of individual Windows PCs). >> >> However, the average ISP service is too slow for using a cloud as a >> straightforward replacement for a mainframe. Even if your ISP was your >> cloud service provider, the lag may be too much. You'd need a half and >> half solution, where the main application is on the cloud, and your >> client has an more complicated interface than just remote display and >> input. >> > > That last is true today. Will it remain true? Are you sure, in other words, > that we have reached the limit of throughput speed, and lag will always be > the deal-killer? > > Temlakos Two things: 1. "Fiber to the home" is really fast. E.g. I've got 100Mbps to my ISP; more than enough to power web-based applications. In many ways, GMail on my Android is far faster than GNOME Evolution has ever been - even though Evolution ran on far more capable hardware. (E.g. search on a 4GB mailbox). 2. The huge investment on javaqscript compilers makes optimized client-side-computing an interesting alternative. Instead of letting the server-side crunch all the information into static HTMLs and images, send the raw information to the client, and let the heavily optimized JS do the heavy lifting instead. I suggest you take a look at how Google, Facebook and Twitter optimize their user experience. - Gilboa -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
