Surfs, Shoots and Leaves

[Jonathon Watkins]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3953953.stm' target='_blank'>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3953953.stm</a><br /><br /></div>After the yarn of the <a href="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=28456&amp;">yak header and the Wifi network</a>, here's another touching tale of technology's ability to make the world a slightly better place:<br /><br /><i>"The world's dwindling panda population is getting a helping hand from a wireless internet network. The Wolong Nature Reserve in the Sichuan Province of southwest China is home to 20% of the remaining 1,500 giant pandas in the world. A broadband and wireless network installed on the reserve has allowed staff to chronicle the pandas' daily activities.....It includes a 802.11b wireless network and a video monitoring system using five cameras to observe pandas around the clock. Before the new infrastructure arrived at the panda park, staff walked or drove to deliver floppy disks across the reserve."</i><br /><br /> <img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/web/2003/_40455471_pandabody.jpg" /> <br /><br />Everyone say "aaaaw, cute". :D Just love those <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1861976127/202-5685111-5791849">Pandas.</a> Apart from this and hooking your Pocket PC up to wireless networks, what's the best use of Wifi that you've heard about?

[Darius Wey]

Jonathon, is it me or does that panda in the picture look like a whiter version of your gerbil (in your avatar)? :lol:

[Jonathon Watkins]

Jonathon, is it me or does that panda in the picture look like a whiter version of your gerbil (in your avatar)? :lol:

Now you mention it..... :lol:

Well spotted by the man with one eye. :wink:

[NetGeek]

Probably the biggest impact right now would be to the medical community. Doctors are able to access current patient information and check diagnoses bedside instead of referring to dated and possibly inaccurate charts.

Having just endured rotator cuff surgery, it made me very nervous when every person I came into contact with asked me which shoulder they were supposed to be working on. Even after they marked it with indelible ink!

"Nurse Ratchet, I asked you to give this man an aspirin, not an ENEMA!"

8O

[Darius Wey]

Probably the biggest impact right now would be to the medical community. Doctors are able to access current patient information and check diagnoses bedside instead of referring to dated and possibly inaccurate charts.

Having just endured rotator cuff surgery, it made me very nervous when every person I came into contact with asked me which shoulder they were supposed to be working on. Even after they marked it with indelible ink!

"Nurse Ratchet, I asked you to give this man an aspirin, not an ENEMA!"

8O

:lol:

Actually, there is widespread PDA and Wi-Fi use in many hospitals worldwide. You just need to be in the right place at the right time to see it in action. I'm sure, with time, the use of this will grow, but it definitely won't be an "overnight" change.

[dean_shan]

The title of your post reminds me of a joke.
A panda walks into a bar, sits down at the bar and orders some food to
eat. He calmly eats all his food until he is finished. As he gets up he
pulls out a gun and fires a few shots into the ceiling. No one is
injured but the bartender is furious. "Why did you do that?!" The
bartender yells.

As he walking out the door the panda turn around and says: "I'm a panda,
look it up." And he leaves.

So the bartender goes into his back room and pulls out his old
dictionary. After blowing the dust off it he opens it and finds the
entry for "panda."

It says: "PANDA: native to Asia and a member of the raccoon family. Has
black and white markings. Eats shoots and leaves.

[Jonathon Watkins]

The title of your post reminds me of a joke.

Good, good. I was trying to be subtle about it. :) I do try to make the titles interesting. :mrgreen:

I was indeed refering to this joke and the "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation" book. You will find it referenced if you click on 'Panda' in the main text. :wink:

[Jonathon Watkins]

Actually, there is widespread PDA and Wi-Fi use in many hospitals worldwide. You just need to be in the right place at the right time to see it in action. I'm sure, with time, the use of this will grow, but it definitely won't be an "overnight" change.

Here in the UK there is a big push to computerise the NHS (National Health Service) and I believe that Wifi will play a big part in it. I just read on the train that someone's come up with the ability to work out location from Wifi signals. The specific use mentioned was in hositals, i.e. to be able to locate doctors, nurses, wheelchairs etc would be very usefull. I usually mentally tag such stories to post on them later, but can't remember where I saw it. :oops: I'll try to locate it.

[Bajan Cherry]

The title of your post reminds me of a joke.

Good, good. I was trying to be subtle about it. :) I do try to make the titles interesting. :mrgreen:

I was indeed refering to this joke and the "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation" book. You will find it referenced if you click on 'Panda' in the main text. :wink:

And such a lovely book! I, for sure, have started noticing wrongly placed apostrophe after reading this book (I hope I got my commas right!) :;

[ctmagnus]

And such a lovely book! I, for sure, have started noticing wrongly placed apostrophe after reading this book (I hope I got my commas right!) :;

Yep. But you misplaced that colon and semicolon. ;)

[Kati Compton]

Oh man. The topic title just sunk in. :lol: