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[Ramon F Herrera]

1995: Bill Gates discovers the Internet.
2007: Jon Schwartz discovers magnetic tape.

Schwartz: Sun to focus on storage business

http://www.news.com/Schwartz-Sun-to-focus-on-storage-business/2100-1015_3-6211162.html

The only subject that I can possibly find more boring than mag tapes
is accounting, which never failed to put me to sleep back in college.

-Ramon

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Ramon F Herrera wrote:
> 1995: Bill Gates discovers the Internet.

<snip>

I thought Al Gore discovered the internet! ;-)

[Frank Cusack]

No, Al Gore invented it. :)

[Paul Gress]

No, sorry, that was the "Super Highway". The internet and the Super
Highway are two different things. The internet is current today, the
Super Highway was suppose to be a Commercial Internet controlled by the
government.

Paul

[[H]omer]

Verily I say unto thee, that Richard B. Gilbert spake thusly:

No, Gore /created/ the Internet, it just took Gates 40 years to notice.

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[Roy Schestowitz]

____/ [H]omer on Wednesday 03 October 2007 05:12 : \____

> Verily I say unto thee, that Richard B. Gilbert spake thusly:
>> Ramon F Herrera wrote:
>>> 1995: Bill Gates discovers the Internet.
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> I thought Al Gore discovered the internet! ;-)
>
> No, Gore /created/ the Internet, it just took Gates 40 years to notice.

...And 40 Digg shills to wipe the news off the front page if you know what I
mean...

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[Tim Bradshaw]

On Oct 3, 2:05 am, Ramon F Herrera <ra...@conexus.net> wrote:

>
> The only subject that I can possibly find more boring than mag tapes
> is accounting, which never failed to put me to sleep back in college.
>

But important, of course.

Sun presumably need to either stop their storage offerings from being
a bad joke (and make some money from the Storagetek acquisition) or
bite the bullet and give up on storage. So they're doing the right
thing I think. It's pretty clear that it's doomed (apart from anything
aren't they busy encouraging us all to use a filesystem which thrives
on cheap-as-chips commodity storage? How does this tie in?) so in
relatively short order they will (if rational) write off the whole
storage line I guess, except for ZFS-friendly JBODs.

--tim

[Doug Mentohl]

Frank Cusack wrote:

>> Ramon F Herrera wrote:

>> I thought Al Gore discovered the internet! ;-)

> No, Al Gore invented it. :)

In a response to a question in a CNN interview from Wolf Blitzer ..

"what qualities set him (Gore) apart from Bill Bradley"

Gore said ..

"During my service in the United States Congress I took the initiative
in creating the Internet", Al Gore

http://usgovinfo.about.com/blgorenet.htm

[Andrew Gabriel]

In article <EKEMi.53$C02...@newsfe12.lga>,

Oh, just like this...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/02/richard_clarke_speech_trust_online_santa_clara_university_microsoft/

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[Paul Gress]

Andrew Gabriel wrote:
> In article <EKEMi.53$C02...@newsfe12.lga>,
> Paul Gress <pgr...@pb.net> writes:
>> Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>>> Ramon F Herrera wrote:
>>>> 1995: Bill Gates discovers the Internet.
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>> I thought Al Gore discovered the internet! ;-)
>> No, sorry, that was the "Super Highway". The internet and the Super
>> Highway are two different things. The internet is current today, the
>> Super Highway was suppose to be a Commercial Internet controlled by the
>> government.
>
> Oh, just like this...
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/02/richard_clarke_speech_trust_online_santa_clara_university_microsoft/
>

Yes, like that. Thats why he gave up. The internet was growing to
fast. I for one, would oppose a closed internet for my subscription.
If they want a closed internet, have it separate, then try and convince
people to go for it.

Paul