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Comment Faantastic idea, and well-deserved. (Score 1) 301

I am so excited that members of the community finally came out and publically supported this figure whom we have all admired for so long. I can't think of another individual who has inspired so many members of the tech community to feel better about themselves - if only for a few virtual minutes - in our times of loneliness and isolation. Many of us as young men spent hours on the internet when there was even the hint of some unreleased file, image, or video. I know that I personally would never have bothered to learn how to configure a firewall if it wasn't for my being so inspired to get that torrent of Wild Things... And though we may have publically mocked her as a nuclear physicist in that Bond movie , we all secretly know exactly what "Christmas" present we wanted to see unwrapped...

What? Dennis?

oh... nevermind...

Comment The cool parts (Score 1) 67

The two cool parts of this announcement:

1) They are contributing the bits needed to make it work on windows back to open source (Hortonworks is helping that make sure that goes smoothly)
2) They are making JavaScript a first-tier language for writing map/reduce jobs, and contributing THAT work back to the community.

That is awesome.
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft embraces the Elephant in the Room (Hadoo (technet.com)

davevr writes: Microsoft today announced that it is embracing Hadoop as part of its big data strategy. A distribution will be available for both Windows Server and Azure. More interesting to Slashdot readers are two additional tibits: First, Microsoft is partnering with Hortonworks on this, and contributing significant portions of code back to the Apache Foundation. Second, Microsoft is enabling javascript as a language choice for writing map/reduce jobs. Java (or .NET) not required!

Comment What a scandal! (Score 1) 201

Imagine a crazy, mixed-up world in which people who have a history of writing useful reviews are given free products to review! Clearly this new-fangled technology will destroy our society. Next thing you know, advertizers will start giving incentives to bloggers to talk about things interesting to their customers.

Comment Politicians are clueless (Score 1) 657

Sure, they can pass a law that says to replace all nuclear power plants with power plants that do not generate greenhouse gasses. While they are at it, they should also pass a law to make influenza illegal. I mean, that is really bad too! When the rolling blackouts come, maybe we will elect some sensible leaders.

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