if you really want to demonstrate something self-propagating, write a shellscript that uses ssh with a special user and public-key authorization to copy itselself to remote machines. Generate a ssh-key just for this purpose and copy it to the target-machines. It's more a trojan than a virus, but don't feel tempted to make it more stealthy (naming it 'ls', changing target's $PATH), that's too dangerous.
And before this, if you are in the US, talk to your lawyer and check brainless zero-tolerance-policies that might be applied to you.
I don't get this bithing. My iTunes Library is more than 100GB by now. I have been using iTunes since day one and I really like how it helps keeping my library organized.
> Java's death means.NET and Windows in the server arena.
That's an interesting theory and I agree with it. I'm wondering if this really is one of the consequences Oracle indended with this lawsuit. What value would the acquired Sun be if everybody switched to.NET/Windows on the long run to avoid Java?
he/she mentioned the hydrogen in the surrounding water as one potential source of electricity. It's not, obviously, because it always takes more energy to split water in hydrogen and oxygen than you can get in electricity from burning the hydrogen again. The rest is heat. That's what I wrote and what I was amazed at having to explain on Slashdot.
So the water around the site does not solve the problem of how to supply the site with electrical energy, at least not by using chemistry.
Of course there may be options to generate electricity on site using wind/wave/solar but you would not want to waste it on generating hydrogen and heat first but to power your serverfarm, directly. Maybe you would want to use it to generate a litte hydrogen for USV-purposes, now that I think of it, but still.
Basically: Water is burned hydrogen. Mentioning it as a source of chemical energy is nonsense.
You need energy (eg: electricity) to turn water into hydrogen and oxygen (and heat). Hydrogen and oxygen of course can be used to generate electricity (and heat and water).
In the end you'll have less electricity than you put in but way hotter water.
Citation needed. Since the Apple Macintosh was introduced just about "20 to 30 years ago" (==1984) and the amount of memony and CPU-power in keyboards was very small, then, I guess that your posting is just trollish nonsense.
To me that sounds like a good idea. I'd like Apple to provide an enhanced push-like API, where other services can register to my location data. By this, actions that have to be triggered by changes in my location can be offloaded to a server and do not have to run on my iPhone / iPad. So if I really want to have my IM status and whatever additional services to know my location, it can be done without draining too much battery.
I have been motorcycling in a neighboring country the last weeks and thus switched off my iphone 3G Wifi and Data Roaming and switched it to Edge and hardly used it. I was amazed that it had a standby time of about a week.
Back home again with all those push-services, mail 3G and the frequent use the runtime is back to normal though. I guess if I had used my old trusty Nokia 6310i that way it would have had a shorter battery life, too.
That's why I like the iPad - basically its more battery than computer, they got it right
> Can you not understand the concern that Apple's strategy if successful will > leave them with more of a stranglehold on mobile computing than Microsoft > ever had on the desktop?
While this may be a very strong point to make the arguments usually run along the lines of "it's low quality, overpriced crap, the GUI sux, only stupid fanboyz would buy it, hate hate hate, UR gay, yadda"
Everyone who still builds a iPad/tablet-like device where the PCB is bigger than the battery didn't get the idea. Most important facts about a tablet are UI (includes display, usability and responsiveness) and availability/connectedness (includes battery capacity, WLAN/WWAN). So getting rid of flash is necessary.
(And I still think that video-chat on a tablet without at least excellent optical image stabilizer was pointless. You had to put the device down and then it would be like talking to somebody with double chin sitting in a hole under your desk...)
I wonder how long it will take until Scientology starts to disconnect its critics for supposed downloading of copyrighted material. I mean "disconnect" from the internet...
> play music while reading a web page/book or taking a photo? You can already, iTunes will happily play on while you're doing something else.
> Or playing music, updating my gps, and running a pedometer while walking? You can already, runkeeper.app happily records my running-tracks for me every other day while I'm listening to Music.
>Or being able to receive skype calls while doing anything else? This could already be implemented using the push-service. Maybe Skype does this already, I don't know.
> Easier and cheaper to develop for If Cocoa Touch and Objective C are too complicated for you I don't think I'm interested in the applications you are about to develop.
Of course, there are other valid reasons to prefer different frameworks / languages, but I don't see "easier" an one...
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if you really want to demonstrate something self-propagating, write a shellscript that uses ssh with a special user and public-key authorization to copy itselself to remote machines.
Generate a ssh-key just for this purpose and copy it to the target-machines.
It's more a trojan than a virus, but don't feel tempted to make it more stealthy (naming it 'ls', changing target's $PATH), that's too dangerous.
And before this, if you are in the US, talk to your lawyer and check brainless zero-tolerance-policies that might be applied to you.
> What are they going to use, AAC or some other crap-quality lossy format?
You had me until here, from here on I considered the beginning of your content being an indifferent rant, too.
I don't get this bithing. My iTunes Library is more than 100GB by now.
I have been using iTunes since day one and I really like how it helps keeping my library organized.
> Java's death means .NET and Windows in the server arena.
That's an interesting theory and I agree with it. .NET/Windows on the long run to avoid Java?
I'm wondering if this really is one of the consequences Oracle indended with this lawsuit.
What value would the acquired Sun be if everybody switched to
Germany, multiple carriers.
In Austria it is even cheaper.
You get about 5GB for about 20 per month. I think that's an okay price for now.
he/she mentioned the hydrogen in the surrounding water as one potential source of electricity.
It's not, obviously, because it always takes more energy to split water in hydrogen and oxygen than you can get in electricity from burning the hydrogen again. The rest is heat. That's what I wrote and what I was amazed at having to explain on Slashdot.
So the water around the site does not solve the problem of how to supply the site with electrical energy, at least not by using chemistry.
Of course there may be options to generate electricity on site using wind/wave/solar but you would not want to waste it on generating hydrogen and heat first but to power your serverfarm, directly. Maybe you would want to use it to generate a litte hydrogen for USV-purposes, now that I think of it, but still.
than burning the hydrogen will give you. That's what I tried to explain.
So the hydrogen in the water will not help in any way to supply the server ships with electricity.
Basically: Water is burned hydrogen. Mentioning it as a source of chemical energy is nonsense.
You need energy (eg: electricity) to turn water into hydrogen and oxygen (and heat).
Hydrogen and oxygen of course can be used to generate electricity (and heat and water).
In the end you'll have less electricity than you put in but way hotter water.
(I'm amazed that I'm explaining this on slashdot)
> powered by [...]
> c) hydrogen (there's definitely no lack of water)
Because in neutral waters we don't have to obey the laws of thermodynamics.
Citation needed.
Since the Apple Macintosh was introduced just about "20 to 30 years ago" (==1984) and the amount of memony and CPU-power in keyboards was very small, then, I guess that your posting is just trollish nonsense.
>And Sun Tzu also Said
It's Oracle Tzu now and it's not a strategic product anymore, you insensitive clod!
You obviously have no clue what cooperative multitasking is or what iOS4 does. Or both.
If it's implemented with user controls.
To me that sounds like a good idea. I'd like Apple to provide an enhanced push-like API, where other services can register to my location data.
By this, actions that have to be triggered by changes in my location can be offloaded to a server and do not have to run on my iPhone / iPad.
So if I really want to have my IM status and whatever additional services to know my location, it can be done without draining too much battery.
I have been motorcycling in a neighboring country the last weeks and thus switched off my iphone 3G Wifi and Data Roaming and switched it to Edge and hardly used it.
I was amazed that it had a standby time of about a week.
Back home again with all those push-services, mail 3G and the frequent use the runtime is back to normal though. I guess if I had used my old trusty Nokia 6310i that way it would have had a shorter battery life, too.
That's why I like the iPad - basically its more battery than computer, they got it right
The print on the back looks too ugly to me.
> Can you not understand the concern that Apple's strategy if successful will
> leave them with more of a stranglehold on mobile computing than Microsoft
> ever had on the desktop?
While this may be a very strong point to make the arguments usually run along the lines of
"it's low quality, overpriced crap, the GUI sux, only stupid fanboyz would buy it, hate hate hate, UR gay, yadda"
Everyone who still builds a iPad/tablet-like device where the PCB is bigger than the battery didn't get the idea.
Most important facts about a tablet are UI (includes display, usability and responsiveness) and availability/connectedness (includes battery capacity, WLAN/WWAN). So getting rid of flash is necessary.
(And I still think that video-chat on a tablet without at least excellent optical image stabilizer was pointless. You had to put the device down and then it would be like talking to somebody with double chin sitting in a hole under your desk...)
> Some of us are interested in using whatever media or website we happen to come across
Yes, some are.
Most aren't.
I wonder how long it will take until Scientology starts to disconnect its critics for supposed downloading of copyrighted material.
I mean "disconnect" from the internet...
You don't own an iPhone, obviously.
> play music while reading a web page/book or taking a photo?
You can already, iTunes will happily play on while you're doing something else.
> Or playing music, updating my gps, and running a pedometer while walking?
You can already, runkeeper.app happily records my running-tracks for me every other day while I'm listening to Music.
>Or being able to receive skype calls while doing anything else?
This could already be implemented using the push-service. Maybe Skype does this already, I don't know.
> Easier and cheaper to develop for
If Cocoa Touch and Objective C are too complicated for you I don't think I'm interested in the applications you are about to develop.
Of course, there are other valid reasons to prefer different frameworks / languages, but I don't see "easier" an one...
Very low latency?
> Anyone who claims differently is a deluded apologist Apple fanboy.
And if she floats she's a witch.
> then feel a fool when they read the story properly?
On Slashdot, nobody reads the story properly....