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Quoting "Andrew S. Townley" <ast@a...>: > The types of things Len is talking about are at the heart of some of the > key challenges to actually deliver the Federal Information Sharing > program usefully... > > I agree with Len: it's not about politics, it's about people. yeah.. yeah... > > ast > > On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 14:20, Len Bullard wrote: >> 1) We care. Those are our people out there. Politics only enter into that >> obligation as regards procurement. Never break faith with those who have >> not broken faith with you. It sounds cherry, but that is what team means. >> >> 2) They use ANYTHING to make repairs. During one brouhaha, the repair guys >> told me they collected soda cans, cut them, and used them patch flak holes. >> They will disassemble and reassemble anything from spare parts even if the >> vendor told them not to. There are no Radio Shacks in the Indian Ocean. >> >> 3) Real-time X3D can do things PDF can't do. Drilldown IS the problem. It >> is faster and much more informative to jump to the correct viewpoint and >> auto rotate into position. It is also easy to convert the CAD drawings into >> X3D than any PDF. Try chat inside PDF. Now try it inside even the cheapest >> 3D with freeware and unencumbered IP. If your customers don't get this, >> then they are about to spend themselves poor. >> >> 4) Parts handling databases are already advanced. That bit most of us >> understand. >> >> 5) Running forever. See B52 and HAWK. Hardware systems often outlive >> software operating systems and programming languages. Not news. I'm not in a disagreable mood today... yup.... yup... yup... except for one point.... reality... we still don't see here a single parts listing in xml yet for all these wonderful parts systems being talked about. It's mostly ascii files, spreadsheets and pdfs... explain that... David
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