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And so it is. I don't even have a cell phone although I gave one to my wife. As for Jabber, we were looking seriously at that for integrated public safety systems. PS is just real-time command and control 365 x 7 x 24. One military system I looked into read just like the specs I saw for PS dispatch; it was simply more web capable than the PS systems (a late adopter market if ever there was one). Northrop-Grumman could be cleaning clocks in the public safety and transportation markets if they reapplied the same off-the-shelf technologies that their military divisions have developed and it would make some of the more advanced proposals for HLS doable sooner rather than later. Fiefdoms... sheesh. <soapbox>Too much of the HLS money is going down research ratholes instead of into designs that can be procured now rather than ten years from now.</soapbox> OTOH, let's say you are in BoonieHaha somewhere in a sandstorm with a wrongdong assembly torn out and you are trying to upgrade it for the first time with the newly shipped whazzenhammer. It is always tough the first time, so you are in a live chat mode with the contractors back in the States and you are both looking at the same real-time 3D model decimated down from the original CAD models, integrated with the parts list and assembly/disassembly procedures. There is absolutely nothing cutting edge or exotic about that technology to any of us who are familiar with 3D chat rooms with voice synths and/or VOIP. Cheap off the shelf. Of course, the diagnostics are live too so that is another data set the XML communications server is handling. Look at ABNet for starters. All common workstation mojo. The CD player is optional. The chill is getting the digital data from the original drawings. The W3DC CAD WG made that possible sometime back. You can even use Collada for interchange. But it takes a concerted effort from the Tri-service civil servants to make it happen and they have to plan and fund it. The technical information food chain is a long one and there are lots of logistics pieces that have to fit together in new contracts, training and procurement. Again, Betty knows this drill. Heck John Junod was talking this scenario 12 years ago when we were working on the MID. Turned out, he was right. Someone is working on it. Guaranteed. The contractors and the government all know what the high costs of buying IETMs using the equipment vendor proprietary IETM systems are. That is why the USA IADS program is still running lo this many moons later. With VISTA coming out soon, someone is working on a new system one really hopes because a lot of our people are out in that desert and could use some creative fast work back here to help out. len From: david.lyon@p... [mailto:david.lyon@p...] Len Bullard <cbullard@h...>: > Still, there is a lot we could do for the guys and gals in the desert with > real time chat, integrated real-time 3D, VOIP and so on. I'd like that a > lot. After the last nine years of being on the sidelines fuming, it would > be good to be working on something worthy for the last fifteen. But IM is banned in a lot of workplaces because it is too distracting. I believe they allow CD players in the tanks and rock music when they go on shoot-em-ups as the two are fairly complimentory. You can always try to put together something with Jabber if you have a good idea... :-) it's xml based..
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