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To: elmatador who wrote (45618)	2/4/2004 6:47:15 PM
From: Dr. Voodoo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

LOL! Fails to take into a account one miniscule detail. THE VALUE of the discovery!! The discoveries came from PARC<--academic lab founded by Xerox and Gary Kildall who did his Ph.D. in operating systems. The NEED drove the development, but not the discovery!! Without semiconductors, no intel, without Chips, no bill gates. Without computers no intel. Etc etc. When does the cart begin to pull the horse??? 99.99% of drugs fail, but we still have drug companies whose only lifeblood is R&D. It's high risk/high reward and you can't win at it unless you have the academic knowledgebase!

To: elmatador who wrote (45618)	2/4/2004 8:37:31 PM
From: Seeker of Truth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Elmie, I'll accept anything you want to say about how useless the other universities are. But it would be wrong to say that Stanford was useless. The whole of silicon valley, way before the internet and the dot coms, the basis of modern efficient computer technology,was largely created starting at the southern boundary of the Stanford campus, continuing on down to San Jose, many of the engineers having graduated from Stanford. There was constant contact with Stanford. The only way one could conceive of Stanford having played a small part is if the development of the computer and of semiconductor technology is no big deal, also. This time not JMHO. On the contrary, absolute fact.