From: "Juergen Specht" <js@nooper.com>
> But actually this collected processing power reminds me that I have a
> friend who is a hardcore programmer. After he programmed my HP
> postscript printer to create HTML pages (and left me and my printer
> astonished), he started to work for the German telekom and programmed
> something related to public telephone booths.
>
> After a short while he saw that most telephone booths are pretty much
> idle all the time, but all of them had a permanent connection to a
> network, a powerful processor and 2MB ram. So he created a control
> program which was able to distribute calculations to all idle booths
> and send back the results. He showed them a prototype rendering
> some fractals and ... got fired.
I wonder if you could do this for mobile phones in the recharger
cradle? The Java code would, of course, be pretty limited, but
you might be able to do some fun things. This would, of course,
require user permission, under the circumstances.
-michael turner
leap@gol.com
Received on Sat Jan 26 06:01:05 2002