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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It should be a number above 100,000, but under a million.
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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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provides this administration with an opportunity to rethink its misguided wholesale privatization policy.
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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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We had hoped that Judge Collyer's decision would bring all parties involved to the bargaining table.
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With all the businesses of the world together we can link all of the poor countries, the schools, hospitals and health clinics of the poor countries and get them all on the Net. That helps enormously, for example, in sending information about AIDS.
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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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The PlayStation, $300 with a DVD-player and it runs Linux and Java, it's huge. Why would you ever put a PC someplace? It breaks all the time. You would spend more time fixing it than teaching (how to use it). These things (the PlayStation consoles) are designed for 12-year-olds and are really powerful.
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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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We are definitely one of the bigger employers in Coventry. We have someone for everything - med techs, nurses, food service and social workers.
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They are busting the unions with this. Collective bargaining will mean nothing.
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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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The people that make above a dollar a day, under three dollars a day, generally have some electricity. They've got television sets that run on car batteries, or they will have a little generator. Everywhere there is a flicker of a TV screen is a target for putting one of these PlayStation things hooked to a satellite.
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I just hope DHS takes a step back on this.