Posted on 08/07/2005 12:39:05 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The hospital room where my wife is staying has free wireless for the guests, so I bring my laptop while visiting.
For cryin' out loud!
Why go to the woods and sleep on the ground, without a/c, and have to cook over a campfire or on coleman stove if you want to have internet access, tv's, etc.????
I go to the woods to get a weekend away form the ehadaches of modern life.
However, for people like my folks who "camp" in a 5th wheel trailer with all the amenities, I guess this could be a plus.
This interesting technology can be used on a take it or leave it basis, but it has safety capability that may be useful. I wonder how long it will take before small transceivers with position locating capability are put on young kids who wander off in the woods. (Could they be so small as to be undetected by kidnappers?).
What's the point.
I suppose I can understand people who travel around in RVs wanting Internet access, but I just returned from a week at camp with no TV and no Internet and it was so very nice. Even so, a grandson had his Game Boy and one of my daughters' husbands listened to tunes on his IPOD. I guess there is no escaping being plugged into something nowadays.
What's wrong with wanting to FReep anywhere on the surface of the Earth? :-P
I agree. We went to a reservoir in the Sierra foothills recently to camp for a week at the water's edge. We were surrounded by boom boxes, cell phones, and even boombox boats on the lake, blasting rap music to the water skiers.
I go camping to escape all those things. What is it with people who simply cannot take the silence of nature? Fear that they might hear themselves think?
I'm actually visiting in a hospital now, using my Axim.
I'm interested in wireless access, as we'd like to move to a rural area. We can get satellite tv reception, however we'll need reliable internet service. I've heard that people can hack into your computer if you're on wireless, and must use extreme caution.
Is there a good place to go to learn more about this?
Next time you go camping, take a really loud boombox with a CD player. Get a sound effects CD of city noise, traffic, jackhammers, etc. When poeple start blasting all their crap, put in your CD and crank it up- enough to drown out their music.
If they complain you can't hear their music over all the noise, tell them just like they didn't come there to hear their music any more than they came there to hear the noises you're playing.
For cryin' out loud!
Why go to the woods and sleep on the ground, without a/c, and have to cook over a campfire or on coleman stove if you want to have internet access, tv's, etc.????
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What's wrong with Freerepublic in Yosemite or Yellowstone? Going to the woods, sleeping on the ground, and Freerepublic are essentials for survival in the wilderness--not to mention the sidearm that you've secretly stored in your backpack.
What happened to camping to "get away from it all" this is getting ridiculous, people are so insecure without their cellphones, laptops, etc. no wonder the world is falling apart, how can a family spend quality time camping if mom or dad is on the computer, in the woods no less.
"I'm interested in wireless access, as we'd like to move to a rural area. We can get satellite tv reception, however we'll need reliable internet service. I've heard that people can hack into your computer if you're on wireless, and must use extreme caution.
Is there a good place to go to learn more about this?"
Do a google on WiFi
&/or go to wildblue.com
This is very interesting. I just got a new cell phone that has internet access, email, bluetooth(?), a video recorder, a camera, and a host of other things. My hopes are that I can leave my clunky laptop behind when I travel. This is assuming I learn how to use the damned thing - I've spent days trying to figure it all out.
Heheheh. I've thought of a variation on that. Take a CD of polka music and blast it at them. (wicked evil grin)
I usually choose for vacations places where there is no cell phone carrier (think Boundary Waters, Isle Royale, some parts of Wyoming). The intent of vacation, esp. camping, is to GET AWAY! Yet lately I have seen work obsessive yuppies bringing their laptops on BACKPACKING TRIPS fer cryin' out loud!
Hacking a notch in the antenna pole for later use.
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