It doesn't matter that it is olde news, in fact it is more relevant today than it was back then. Many people may have missed it when it first came out, besides it sheds some light on where Microsoft wants to be tomorrow... in case any of you are still trying to figure out why Microsoft is making Passport play nice with others, this may be why.
I am pleased to see that perhaps one day in the near future, companies might cooperate to give us something we need. Regardless of their motivation, perhaps they should get a gold star next to their name for playing well with others.
Placing information anywhere outside of your physical control implies either a great deal of trust, or stupidity. With a financially disinterested party keeping an eye on the individual trusted federation members I think that we may soon be able to trust our personal information, which many value greater than their money, with the same level of assurance as depositing our paychecks. I think that this brings up 2 questions:
[1] whether usage fees ala not-my-bank's ATM might be forthcoming...
[2] Would we be able to make a withdrawl of our information and trust that it is completely removed from their computing environment? With regular backups and cache-systems, it seems rather difficult to expect not leaving behind some residual trace...
I would think that having huge blowholes thru the building would make it more secure in such conditions. With the building being designed such that the force of the wind does not strike perpendicular to the windows, rather, is directed towards the turbine, I would think that the damage done to the turbine would be a minimal cost to the insurer if it did break compared to what a conventionally shaped building would withstand under similar conditions.
Perhaps the blades could be pitched into the wind to make them less efficient as the RPMs approached the danger zone.
I know that would not be a problem in Chicago, I mean, they don't call it the Windy City for nothings. Seriously. Wind that normally blows across the plain would, where a city is built, flow along the canyons of skyscrapers we build.
As far as rotation goes, if it really was necessary, upper floors could follow a weathervane approach to their design. It's a little disorientating to have the world pass by the window but it's been done (Seattle's Space Needle) albeit a lil differently.
Don't know about Revos, but several months ago, I had a problem with Jornada 690s resetting themselves. The incidents were isolated to the technicians who were using them in the construction areas of the cleanroom. I found one station that had a hole cut in the clear plastic so users could see the screen better... unfortunately when they taped around the CRT, an excellent path was made to the stainless steel workstation that the other end of the Visqeen was taped to! While this was an isolated example, it did give something solid for me to present to the engineer tasked with solving our problem; the other issues were more subtle... To be honest, I was more concerned about the devices being manufactured than my toy, but frustrated as hell when I lost my notes. If you are concerned about static, perform a backup before entering the area.
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It doesn't matter that it is olde news, in fact it is more relevant today than it was back then. Many people may have missed it when it first came out, besides it sheds some light on where Microsoft wants to be tomorrow... in case any of you are still trying to figure out why Microsoft is making Passport play nice with others, this may be why.
I am pleased to see that perhaps one day in the near future, companies might cooperate to give us something we need. Regardless of their motivation, perhaps they should get a gold star next to their name for playing well with others.
Placing information anywhere outside of your physical control implies either a great deal of trust, or stupidity. With a financially disinterested party keeping an eye on the individual trusted federation members I think that we may soon be able to trust our personal information, which many value greater than their money, with the same level of assurance as depositing our paychecks. I think that this brings up 2 questions:
[1] whether usage fees ala not-my-bank's ATM might be forthcoming...
[2] Would we be able to make a withdrawl of our information and trust that it is completely removed from their computing environment? With regular backups and cache-systems, it seems rather difficult to expect not leaving behind some residual trace...
What do you think?
If we had some high powered microwave antennas mixed into the design... we could really feed the homeless!
I would think that having huge blowholes thru the building would make it more secure in such conditions. With the building being designed such that the force of the wind does not strike perpendicular to the windows, rather, is directed towards the turbine, I would think that the damage done to the turbine would be a minimal cost to the insurer if it did break compared to what a conventionally shaped building would withstand under similar conditions.
Perhaps the blades could be pitched into the wind to make them less efficient as the RPMs approached the danger zone.
I know that would not be a problem in Chicago, I mean, they don't call it the Windy City for nothings. Seriously. Wind that normally blows across the plain would, where a city is built, flow along the canyons of skyscrapers we build.
As far as rotation goes, if it really was necessary, upper floors could follow a weathervane approach to their design. It's a little disorientating to have the world pass by the window but it's been done (Seattle's Space Needle) albeit a lil differently.
Don't know about Revos, but several months ago, I had a problem with Jornada 690s resetting themselves. The incidents were isolated to the technicians who were using them in the construction areas of the cleanroom. I found one station that had a hole cut in the clear plastic so users could see the screen better... unfortunately when they taped around the CRT, an excellent path was made to the stainless steel workstation that the other end of the Visqeen was taped to! While this was an isolated example, it did give something solid for me to present to the engineer tasked with solving our problem; the other issues were more subtle... To be honest, I was more concerned about the devices being manufactured than my toy, but frustrated as hell when I lost my notes. If you are concerned about static, perform a backup before entering the area.