WWDC Day 2~3
Posted by Ray @ 1:53 pm[This post has been edited to remove all references to XCode, Development, Cocoa/Carbon, Core Data/Image/Audio, OpenAL, OpenGL, and other geeky stuff that you probably aren’t interested in - Ray]
As is required in this day and age, the convention center is wired. It’s 3 storeys tall, and has wireless access points for each level. Unfortunately, it’s dying under the user load. There’s some 3,800 attendees here, and even a fraction of that number simultaneously using a single wireless network severely bogs everybody down.
Lucky for us, the convention center also has communal hard-wire ethernet tables where you can connect to the internet at a blisteringly consistent 200+ KBps.
I was going to take a screenshot of a torrent downloading, but it finished before I could capture it. Heh.
It wasn’t until I fired up iTunes that I saw just how cool having gobs of people networked up could be. See, iTunes has this “share my music” thing going, and I can browse other people’s playlists and such. And unlike the crappy wireless network, the ethernet connections are fast enough that anyone can listen to anyone else’s music library.
So here I am, audiophile and music-lover (hell, isn’t everybody?), listening to gobs of songs by artists I’ve never even heard of, in genres I wouldn’t've considered listening to, in a place I’d never thought I’d be in.