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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (826426)	12/28/2014 7:29:51 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583389

It was small but it wasn't neglected, but it simply could not move forward without private enterprise. Which is always the case Nonsense. One word, Minitel. Now there are a lot of reasons why it lost out to the Internet, not the least of which is it was French, but it was successful and had a 30 year run. and we've spend more than ten times that. Not really. There are a lot of costs counted in that figure that aren't directly involved in the web site. Having said that, they spent far too much money on it and it was pretty much doomed to failure from the beginning. But the failure had nothing to do with it being a government project. It had a lot to do with the contractors having no experience in web applications. It was designed and built using software engineering techniques from the 1980s. Heck, they didn't do any integration testing until a couple of weeks before it went live. Given that, it worked better than it had any right too. Using a BDD or TDD approach in an Agile environment with continuing integration would have been a lot more successful. There are lots of big companies that learned those lessons many times. They just weren't as public about it. Neither can Kleinrock be credited with it, as packet-switching had already been used elsewhere. Kleinrock is credited with creating the mathematical basis for packet-switching back in the early 1960s. Try actually knowing something about the fields that you are expressing opinions about. It makes you look less like a fool. Like your opinion about Gore. Like it or not, he did see the potential of the Internet, promoted it starting in the 1970s before any other politician even had a clue and was responsible for the legislation that made it all possible. Did he rely on the work of others? Of course. But he was in the right place at the right time with the right ideas. A trifecta that we have all benefitted from. In that connection I would ask you to point to ONE, JUST ONE successful large scale government program in the last 30 years The Internet. Smart weapons. Just to name two.