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> Both IBM and Xerox had developed their own internal protocols for network communications. Yeah in the 1970s, after the 1960s government-created ARPANET had a

> Both IBM and Xerox had developed their own internal protocols for network communications. Yeah in the 1970s, after the 1960s government-created ARPANET had already been developed. Way to not dipshit innovate. /sarcasm > History is replete with examples of non-governmental entities making ground-breaking advancements in technology All your examples were government funded. Even the damn assembly line: > The Terracotta Army commissioned by the first Chinese Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi is a collection of about 8000 life-sized ceramic soldiers and horses buried with the emperor, who died in 210 BCE. The figures had their separate body-parts manufactured by different workshops that were later assembled to completion. Notably, each workshop inscribed its name on the part they manufactured to add traceability for quality construction. > At the peak of its efficiency in the early 16th century, the Venetian Arsenal employed some 16,000 people who could apparently produce nearly one ship each day, and could fit out, arm, and provision a newly built galley with standardized parts on an assembly-line basis not seen again until the Industrial Revolution. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_line http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_line Way to prove my point. Lack of knowledge tends to do that.

notdrunkatall 13y ago
Wrong, wrong, wrong. Wrong about the IC. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_of_the_integrated_circuit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_of_the_integrated_cir... Wrong about the television, both black/white and color. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_television#Electronic_television http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_television#Electroni... http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blcolortelevision.htm http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blcolortelevisi... Wrong about radio. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_radio#Start_of_the_20th_century http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_radio#Start_of_the_2... And you're just being disingenuous about the assembly line. it's widely known that Henry Ford modernized the assembly line for manufacturing purposes. And while we're talking about inventions, let's not forget to mention the automobile, which, like most other inventions (including all of the ones in this post), was incrementally invented by many people with very little or no help or influence from the government. Finally, for being disingenuous and outright lying as well as for insulting me unprovoked, I declare you to be a first-class asshole.
- hotpockets 13y ago
  Can you make an IC without understanding quasiparticles? Who created the knowledge that lets you do this? What equations govern EM radiation transmission? Knowledge genesis is the primary domain of knowledge creators, not employees.
  - notdrunkatall 13y ago
    >Can you make an IC without understanding quasiparticles? Yes you can, in the same way that you can build a telescope without understanding quantum mechanics. And you think we understand quasiparticles? I do see your point though, however spurious it may be. His claim was that companies never come up with major innovations. My response was that they do, and that they do it so often that his claim was laughable on its face. "Knowledge genesis" occurs at the confluence of motivated individuals and funding, which can happen anywhere.

notdrunkatall 13y ago

Wrong, wrong, wrong. Wrong about the IC. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_of_the_integrated_circuit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_of_the_integrated_cir... Wrong about the television, both black/white and color. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_television#Electronic_television http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_television#Electroni... http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blcolortelevision.htm http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blcolortelevisi... Wrong about radio. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_radio#Start_of_the_20th_century http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_radio#Start_of_the_2... And you're just being disingenuous about the assembly line. it's widely known that Henry Ford modernized the assembly line for manufacturing purposes. And while we're talking about inventions, let's not forget to mention the automobile, which, like most other inventions (including all of the ones in this post), was incrementally invented by many people with very little or no help or influence from the government. Finally, for being disingenuous and outright lying as well as for insulting me unprovoked, I declare you to be a first-class asshole.

hotpockets 13y ago
Can you make an IC without understanding quasiparticles? Who created the knowledge that lets you do this? What equations govern EM radiation transmission? Knowledge genesis is the primary domain of knowledge creators, not employees.
- notdrunkatall 13y ago
  >Can you make an IC without understanding quasiparticles? Yes you can, in the same way that you can build a telescope without understanding quantum mechanics. And you think we understand quasiparticles? I do see your point though, however spurious it may be. His claim was that companies never come up with major innovations. My response was that they do, and that they do it so often that his claim was laughable on its face. "Knowledge genesis" occurs at the confluence of motivated individuals and funding, which can happen anywhere.