20 reasons as How I wonder Why Jurassic movie again

1. Jurassic Park was not just a movie, it was an experience and a sensation. It created waves around the globe with its ground breaking special effects that cinema never witnessed before. Will JW live to that expectation?

2.JP introduced us to 'real' dinosaurs that looked so real it was hard to believe these was engineered through computer. We as children did believe that there really were dinosaurs in some island where the movie was made ☺. Now even toddlers know what special effects are. Just see a third graders syllabus to know what is Micro processor and what RAM is.

3.JP led a franchise that made dinos as household things such as comics,toys, bags,t-shirts,cartoons and endless other things.. What about JW..

4. Now dinos are nothing new.. There are TV series on Dinos in discovery and NGC.

5. There are independant film makers who were able to produce special dino effects at par with big production houses.

6.Nothing can beat the original. This has been the buzz word for ages.

7. There are Dino theme parks and rides everywhere.. JW follows the theme again..

8.Dinos have become yester year topic now.. And there have been N-number of creature effect movies.. Group of people stranded at a creature ridden place and plan for escape.. nothing new.

9.On a funny note: Jason Sthathom can defeat T rex now.

10. JP offered something new to the world. I would say it was almost an invention and a revolution in Cinema.. Hats off to Spielberg and his vision. and Stan Winston on technical grounds.. and Michael Crichton...for his inimitable concept...

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20 reasons as How I wonder Why Jurassic movie again

"INTRO"

23 years back Jurassic Park was  sensation. People had never seen anything like it on the screen before. Spielberg achieved a seemingly impossible task and the movie won the hearts of one and all.. And what followed was a mass histeria on dinosaurs with dino toys, dino games,dino theme parks and dino themed movies.

The concept of cloning the extinct giants from DNA of fossilized insects was innovative and the visual effects were phenomenal unlike some of the older hollywood dino flicks where the animals were mere puppets. Here the technicians had breathed life into the animals such that they looked so real.. We as children believed that they were real dinosaurs -We werent aware that the original concept was by an author called Michael Chricton. As time passed by the movie attained cult status.

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Feeling Nostalgic

I felt nostalgic after watching the new featurette on Jurassic World. Childhood memories.. The movie that introduced us to Dinosaurs and computers. The T Rex and the Silicon Graphics Workstation.

https://youtu.be/PA4IdQZ7k7w

Essential Unix for Hadoop

In the next posts I will focus on Unix required as foundation for Hadoop. I will touch base all the commands needed for Hadoop ech system as well as a bit of Shell Programming which will be required at times to simplify execution of long commands (hadoop is famous for) at the command line.

Five Best Sources for learning Hadoop

Apart from Apache community,I would recommend the below sources/books for learning Hadoop:

1. Data Intensive Text Processing : This is available free of cost at this link

https://lintool.github.io/MapReduceAlgorithms/MapReduce-book-final.pdf

The book focuses on the theoritical aspects of Map reduce rather than programmatical aspect. It has algorithmic approach and dwelves into the various paradigms of Map reduce. This is a must book to start with Map Reduce. A 175 page book but serves as an excellent source to understand the roots of Map Reduce.

2. Yahoo Developer Website:

These are excellent tutorials that focus on the basics of hadoop. Very simple and concise these are a must for beginners.
https://developer.yahoo.com/hadoop/tutorial/

There is an option of downloading the tutorials for off line study.

3. Hadoop A Definitive Guide

Author :Tom White

This book doesnt touch the bare bones of Hadoop but emphasises on programming and vividly focuses on the echo system. The author takes up complex examples to explore the various nuances of Hadoop. Hence this is best studied once we are thorough with the Yahoo Developer tutorials.

4. Hadoop in action

The book contains several Hadoop examples in a problem solution format. However the book assumes some basic knowledge in Hadoop and Map Reduce. Also all the examples are Java based and hence readers need to be thorough in basic Java. But its an excellent source to explore Hadoop.

5. Kaggle.com

Want to be a champ? Then this site is an ultimate source to compete in Hadoop. Its  challenging and would generate profound interest in Big Data.

Gearing up for Hadoop

For learning Hadoop, Java is a must as most of the programming in Mapreduce is done in Java. The basics of Java should be sufficient. The best book I would prefer is of course the complete reference by Herbert Schildt if you are a beginner or can go for Effective Java by Joshua bloch.

Mission Impossible 5

The full length trailer for the fifth installation of the series is out. It looks very promising indeed. Cant wait for the movie!