John Gage
John Gage
John Burdette Gagewas the 21st employee of Sun Microsystems, where he is credited with creating the phrase: "The network is the computer." He served as Chief Researcher and Vice President of the Science Office for Sun, until leaving on June 9, 2008 to join Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as a partner to work on green technologies for global warming; he departed KPCB in 2010 to apply what he had learned "to broader issues in other parts of the world"...
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We had hoped that Judge Collyer's decision would bring all parties involved to the bargaining table.
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The historical society was a bit upset that they were demolishing the original building but they (the home owners) had been making ongoing renovations and they just weren't going to be able to bring that building up to code. For obvious safety reasons, nursing homes can't be wooden structures anymore; they must be built with steel construction. Because of that, as well as many other reasons, the two eventually made an agreement that they would design the new building to have many similar features of the original mansion and then the original would be destroyed. If you look at some of the old pictures I really think that they achieved what they had wanted to do.
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Each part of the community has to do some different part of it. You would not come to Sun for good taste in designing attractive programs. We can make sure the networking works. All of our partners, meaning all of the high-tech companies in the world, ought to contribute their engineering knowledge.
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In 1997 alone we went from a 65-bed facility to a 120-bed home.
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We will use anything that can carry IP packets to get to the poor countries. You can modulate the radio and TV frequencies, use telephone lines or have packets come down via satellite. The Globalstar idea is the result of a conversation in the last week. We're trying to establish the technical feasibility. Can we do all this? The answer is yes. But then, the devil is in the details,
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This threat of cronyism and patronage, I don't think it's a threat anymore. I think it's a promise.
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This is a setup, ... Our people are extremely concerned about this. There is no way for us to provide representation to our members in such a scheme.
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provides this administration with an opportunity to rethink its misguided wholesale privatization policy.
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Shutting the door on schools that are doing a great job educating the children of military families doesn't make any financial or common sense.
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It should be a number above 100,000, but under a million.
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They are busting the unions with this. Collective bargaining will mean nothing.
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In this last year for the first time you had agreement amongst all the poor countries that Internet and IT is a fundamental component of development. Two or three years ago you would go to a meeting and people would say: 'We don't even have clean water, how can we even think about IT,'
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I just hope DHS takes a step back on this.
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Closing down Fort Bragg and Camp Lejeune schools won't save taxpayers a significant amount of money now and won't save them any money in the long term,