I believe that you missed the real point of the article. It was clear to me the intent was less a slam at NoSQL and much more of a slam at the stupidity of everyone suddenly jumping across the fence for SQL to NoSQL for no other reason than it is the current "correct" thing to do.

The new button layout is not really worse than the old one.
The new button layout is not really better than the old one.

The new button layout is just different than the old one.

To change just for the sake of change without improvement is just stupid.

TFA says: "They had a unique problem, Nakhamkin said, in that their daytime load far exceeded their nighttime load, the opposite of the regular pattern." This is NOT a unique problem. It is NOT the opposite of the regular pattern. The normal pattern is heavy usage durring day excess capacity at night. Existing hydo systems pump at night and generate during the day. I suppose that is is possible for some system to have heavier demand at night, but I cannot imagine where that would be. Air condidioning is higher during the day (its hotter), industrial users use more during the day (not all industrial users are 24/7 and even those that are generally are busier during the day), transit systems run more during daytime hours, and on and on. Animal intelligence ranking -> Mice, dolphins, humans, chimps, ........., cockroaches, journalists, sports journalists.

Dec 21, 2012 they are planning for almost two years too many.

Wow! Only 4 years to create a Linux distro! Those N. Koreans are really on the ball! We should all copy their methodology.

Not sure what your issue is, but my installation of Windows 7 64 bit does have support for .NET 1.0, 1.1, as well as 2.0 and up in the 32 bit framework. 1.0 and 1.0 are not in the 64 bit framework, but never have been. 64 bit windows runt the 32 bit framework just fine.