news.yahoo.com— A risk-taking culture and close ties with universities are big reasons for the success of the U.S. computer industry, some of Silicon Valley's brightest stars told Prime Minister Tony Blair on Sunday...
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The "secret", Blair? Why don't you stop cutting funding to our tech departments in our unis every year for a start, eh? And the venture capitalists and banks we have over here are just so close minded. Chances are if it's innovative, they'll refuse. The UK will never have anything approaching the innovation and talent of SV as a result of this.Not that the Government cares, most of them have just discovered what email does!
I feel the urge to say "bless you" when people sneeze, but then don't because it would be weirder to say it as I don't believe in that stuff (religion), whats the secular equivilent ?
I wasn't trying to start a socialism vs. capitalism debate here. I was trying to point out that getting the government (any kind) involved (in anything) tends to produce the opposite of the intended results.But, to weigh in on the running debate. Has anyone noticed that the European countries with more socialism have higher unemployment and weaker economies (GDP per capita) than those with less?
DARPA, yeah, but it was a drop in the bucket until the NFS absolved itself of control of the routing tables, and the prohibition against commercial traffic was thereby dropped.I was there. The 'Net only took off once government got out of the way. The basic protocols were developed not by government, but by the cooperative Internet Engineering Task Force, which merely allowed coordinated action by people employed by private companies and grad students.Nothing like the Internet as it is now was envisioned by government. The closest they got was the "Information Superhighway" which would have been 6 peering points while everyone was legally prohibited to peer anywhere else. All traffic would have had to pass through government routers/firewalls. This is pure DARPA, and you see this as a good thing?
n3wtr0ckn13Jul 31, 2006
yeah, it's expensive. it's mostly urban sprawl unless you can afford million dollar homes.
Closed AccountJul 31, 2006
You bastard now I cant get Tony Bliar out of my head
hpsauceJul 31, 2006
The "secret", Blair? Why don't you stop cutting funding to our tech departments in our unis every year for a start, eh? And the venture capitalists and banks we have over here are just so close minded. Chances are if it's innovative, they'll refuse. The UK will never have anything approaching the innovation and talent of SV as a result of this.Not that the Government cares, most of them have just discovered what email does!
crunkAug 1, 2006
I feel the urge to say "bless you" when people sneeze, but then don't because it would be weirder to say it as I don't believe in that stuff (religion), whats the secular equivilent ?
archimboldoAug 1, 2006
Your link was more interesting than the original article.
willcode4beerAug 4, 2006
I wasn't trying to start a socialism vs. capitalism debate here. I was trying to point out that getting the government (any kind) involved (in anything) tends to produce the opposite of the intended results.But, to weigh in on the running debate. Has anyone noticed that the European countries with more socialism have higher unemployment and weaker economies (GDP per capita) than those with less?
curthowlandAug 12, 2006
DARPA, yeah, but it was a drop in the bucket until the NFS absolved itself of control of the routing tables, and the prohibition against commercial traffic was thereby dropped.I was there. The 'Net only took off once government got out of the way. The basic protocols were developed not by government, but by the cooperative Internet Engineering Task Force, which merely allowed coordinated action by people employed by private companies and grad students.Nothing like the Internet as it is now was envisioned by government. The closest they got was the "Information Superhighway" which would have been 6 peering points while everyone was legally prohibited to peer anywhere else. All traffic would have had to pass through government routers/firewalls. This is pure DARPA, and you see this as a good thing?