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Andreessen Interview Discusses Post-Crash Innovation
kevcol writes "The SF Chronicle has an interview with Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen, talking about innovation after the dot-bomb crash, how AOL doesn't understand its own customers, his reaction to some comments by Larry Ellison, who believes that 'innovation primarily comes from big companies like Oracle', and Andreessen's post-Netscape experience as head of OpsWare (formerly LoudCloud)."
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Form your own opinion, but he seems to have interviewed the people, spell checking is entirely unrelated issue to fact checking. You may think it cute to equate the two, I don't see the point.
In the interest of balance I included two links, feel free to read them both before shooting your mouth off.
As I said in another response, we disagree, you have no basis to shoot this down besides your spelling obsession. I could quote Churchill or the U.S. Constitution w.r.t. spelling, but why bother, your type obsesses over lint like this.
Poor spelling on a document does not mean they are sloppy on the facts. *YOU* are sloppy, where's your evidence to support that satement? You don't have any, you just bade it up. It's pure conjecture with nothing to back it up.
You're making the common mistake of equating spelling with intelligence. Whatever floats your boat.
Why is it that every time this guys opens his mouth he takes a giant shit in my ear? Really, my gorge rises whenever I read a word he says.
G HHHHH.....
He comes across as such a smug, egotistical phony. I can only surmise that's exactly what he is.
He's the perfect face of Silicon Valley 2003: a pudgy corporate management toad with a deluded sense of his own talent and importance musing impassively in the midst of the economic and toxic wreckage that surrounds him. Somebody GeT mE a buckET!!!
WHOOOOOAAAAARRGGGGGHHHHHH.... WHOOOOOOARGGGGHHHHHH!!...*COUGH*....WHOAAAAARRRGG
I'm not sure how you can say that, given that the average American now make something like 20k per year (I'm too lazy to look it up)?
If you look at the history of the industrial revolution here and in the UK (among every other developed nation), they all go through periods of worker exploitation and environmental degradation, followed by spectacular recoveries of each.
So why not help developing nations make gobs of money so that it WILL filter down to the workers, and move them up to first-world status much faster?
Why do the workers in said countries flock to "sweatshops" like Nike? (Nike already pays much more than average for the area)
There is a definite progression that has to happen in these nations. They cannot, and will never be able to, jump from hunter/gatherer to diamond age in a single generation (hyperbole, of course). So why not encourage them to compete where they are able on the global stage instead of blocking their products and leaving the in the dustbin of history?
Is "the environment" in the U.S. better now than it was during the 1800's? Sure is, and the reason is that we were able to climb up from it. Everyone else has to follow the same path. Maybe there is another path, but noone's found it (or followed it successfully) yet...