What happened to all the free Wi-Fi?
First airport post to my jounal. It's 1:14AM at home but here in Las Vagas its only a little after 10:00PM. This is the first damn place the whole trip that has offered free internet access. Cleveland airport wanted money, Denver wanted money, Orange County airport wanted money and of course the hotel I stayed in (The Queen Mary) wanted money. I actually payed a few dollar for some access to check my work email. Even the confrence center were the DARPA MEMS meeting was wanted money for access. It seems just a few years ago all the hotels were offering free internet access what happened?
I need to get me a new laptop (this inspiron 660, my work laptop is really showing its age) and a cell phone with data modem capability (my present cell phone suck rocks hard core). Thats got to be cheaper, or at least less agravating, than paying for access everywhere I go. Any suggestion on a small (under 5lbs) laptop that is not outragously expensive (say less than $1100, cheaper is always better, to a point) would be appriciated.
None-the-less the confernce was a bit dry, well really dry, and if I hear one more monotone talk on 1ns - 1V NEMS (yes NEMS not MEMS) micro switches I am going to scream. There was some cool talks on MEMS inplant to create cyborg insects but most of the rest of it was switches and resonators.
More later maybe got to go get on the plan for cleveland. (no spell checker here sorry)
I need to get me a new laptop (this inspiron 660, my work laptop is really showing its age) and a cell phone with data modem capability (my present cell phone suck rocks hard core). Thats got to be cheaper, or at least less agravating, than paying for access everywhere I go. Any suggestion on a small (under 5lbs) laptop that is not outragously expensive (say less than $1100, cheaper is always better, to a point) would be appriciated.
None-the-less the confernce was a bit dry, well really dry, and if I hear one more monotone talk on 1ns - 1V NEMS (yes NEMS not MEMS) micro switches I am going to scream. There was some cool talks on MEMS inplant to create cyborg insects but most of the rest of it was switches and resonators.
More later maybe got to go get on the plan for cleveland. (no spell checker here sorry)