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I know bashing Microsoft is oh-so-tempting, but can you at least try discussing the actual article here?
But some people can't even read the "actual article" because the navigation is so broken.
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that's redmond in the foreground and seattle in the background
Yes, but does it add anything to the piece?
This is a pretty poor attempt at copying the NY Times design for their Snow Fall project ( http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/#/?part=tunne... ). It's lacking the top nav and the typography is terrible. Generally just lacks some polish and execution.
Wow, "next page" is broken/nonexistent in firefox. I could only read the first page with it... Had to switch to Chrome to get past the first page.
This is a pretty poor attempt at copying the NY Times design for their Snow Fall project ( http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/#/?part=tunne... ). It's lacking the top nav and the typography is terrible. Generally just lacks some polish and execution.
Very interesting overview. I wonder how the sensors work... can they detect a broken pipe at a specific location? The article also kept referring to "equipment"... how granular does that get? Is an entire heating system one piece of "equipment", or can they get down to the component level? Still, very cool. I know we trivialize dealing with lots of data, but still, this is a huge amount of information they have to au…
I think MS is one of the greenest IT companies in the world - folks here should give credit where its due. They have also been setting standards for energy conservation in co-lo facilities.
Sounds interesting, but totally lacking in specifics, or enough explanation of how some of the claims would work. Like the statement on the first page that engineers would be able to fix a stuck damper or leaky valve with "a few clicks" - how's that gonna happen, exactly?
If that's a city of the future, then I don't want any part of it...
Agreed. As you can see from the image at the top, the "city" they built is a sprawling mess of buildings quite far from the city (Seattle, in the background). Depending on your team, you may need to frequently take Shuttle Connect to get to meetings, or walk a mile or more. If you live within walking distance from campus, you'll be dependent on a car for everything else. There's just endless cookie cutter suburbia ar…
A lot of people would kill for a view of water and trees and the ability to walk outside at lunch.
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I know bashing Microsoft is oh-so-tempting, but can you at least try discussing the actual article here?
I was going to agree with you but the execution of this article is quite awful. The worst part of it is how there was no reason for this to be subdivided into pages. An average page in the Microsoft story has fewer than 700 words. In the NYT's Snowfall, the average chapter is 3,000+ words. The NYT has an incentive to increase pageviews with pagination. Microsoft is paginating their press releases .
I didn't realize there were more pages. I just thought it was a very short and fluffy article.
This is a pretty poor attempt at copying the NY Times design for their Snow Fall project ( http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/#/?part=tunne... ). It's lacking the top nav and the typography is terrible. Generally just lacks some polish and execution.
Wow, "next page" is broken/nonexistent in firefox. I could only read the first page with it... Had to switch to Chrome to get past the first page.