Comment Why is everyone picking on Toyota? (Score 1) 437
Airplanes use X-by-wire for a much longer time than cars. What's this anti-Toyota FUD all about?
Comment Message flash! - not something I want (Score 1) 379
Did anyone read through the feature list? The message flash is not something I want in my 'vanilla' Thunderbird: http://www.trustedbird.org/tb/XSMTP (scroll down).
Comment Google clearly gives credit (Score 1) 157
The article states:
Teradata has been selling a commercial DBMS utilizing all of these techniques for more than 20 years; exactly the techniques that the MapReduce crowd claims to have invented.
However, the paper on MapReduce clearly states:
Our abstraction is inspired by the map and reduce primitives present in Lisp and many other functional languages.
The column writers claim to be "educators and reasearches" and they can't even read the *only paper* there is on MapReduce?
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