Wednesday, October 15, 2003
Will You Be Living the WiFi High Life?
Posted by Andy Sjostrom in "THOUGHT" @ 03:00 PM
MSNBC runs an interesting article titled: "Living the WiFi high life". It's a wireless network 101 if you feel that you need some overview orientation and futuristic inspiration! Personally, I am much more connected using WiFi with my Pocket PC 2003s than before. The new Connection Manager and built-in WiFi detection support makes it so much easier.
"It's 2006, after dark on a December day. You pause before pulling your car out of the company parking lot, flip open your PDA and tell it to pull up your home's profile. YOU'VE BEEN MEANING to reset the heat. You say: "Family room floor: 72 degrees by 4:30 p.m.; master bedroom: 70 degrees by 10 p.m." Then, you do a virtual-check on dinner. Yes! The chops you marinated and chilled this morning soon will be baking at 350 degrees. Your home server already turned on the porch light at 5 p.m. and reminded your spouse to stop at the cleaners and cut off the cartoons at 5:15, switching the TV to the school's Internet channel so that your kids should be - hopefully - doing their homework by now."
"It's 2006, after dark on a December day. You pause before pulling your car out of the company parking lot, flip open your PDA and tell it to pull up your home's profile. YOU'VE BEEN MEANING to reset the heat. You say: "Family room floor: 72 degrees by 4:30 p.m.; master bedroom: 70 degrees by 10 p.m." Then, you do a virtual-check on dinner. Yes! The chops you marinated and chilled this morning soon will be baking at 350 degrees. Your home server already turned on the porch light at 5 p.m. and reminded your spouse to stop at the cleaners and cut off the cartoons at 5:15, switching the TV to the school's Internet channel so that your kids should be - hopefully - doing their homework by now."
