I didn't realize how unclear it is whether Reagan and other top officials regarded it as a bluff or not, until I poked around a bit just now. Easy to see how they might have started off serious, then decided to re-write history and say it was all a bluff. I have some up-close and personal experience with the Reagan White House rewriting history - their version persists in most peoples' minds still; when I tell my version, most people are still surprised. Shows the power of the bully pulpit, sure was interesting to see it first-hand.
Nick On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Dan Minette <danmine...@att.net> wrote: > On Star Wars, it worked as a bluff, but I don't think Reagan was bluffing. > I think he believed. I know as a fact that the Defense Department said > they > would require that all programming for applications they used would have to > be done in Ada (I think within 5 years) because Ada was a compiler that > automatically eliminated bugs. Anyone who wrote any software at Dresser > Industries had to write a program in Ada, even scientists like me. But, > that was back in the day when the head of computer departments for major > corporations had no idea how computers worked. > > > Back to the facts. The Romney team said the software was running 20-30 > minutes behind. > > Well, I also read that parts of it simply failed....reporting 0 votes from > a > long list on election day. The part that targeted voting lists to cull > those who haven't voted for attention can be made modular. > > >But in that situation, you have to really over- design for scalability. > > Or modular. Let the software run on 10,000 computers in every regional > office, with just the sums sent to the main headquarters. Obama's software > worked....and I think its because it was field tested for months....it was > intended to track voters for months, not just on election day. > > Dan M. > > > _______________________________________________ > http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com > >
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