Slashdot Mirror
Nerd Vacation to the Earth Simulator
eecue writes "Earlier this year I went on vacation to japan. At the end of my trip I was lucky enough to receive a tour of the Earth Simulator, which is the world's fastest super computer. I took pictures and wrote about it."
I can only imagine that your comment is serious.
In defense of the creators of Slashdot, I have to say that I was an Anonymous Coward for about a year before I took a "real" ID. At the time, there were many reasons to be paranoid about signing up for _anything_, let alone some random, marginally interesting website.
http and related protocols were being hashed out with reverse searches, fingerings of those that were using them, etc. It was not a "clean" transition at the time. (And it's still not. *grumble* *grumble*)
One of the nicer things about Slashdot is that they have defended some core interests from back when "the web" was new, no matter how ridiculous they might seem with modern tech.
It's a good thing. Slashdot and all involved have fought hard. So an AC is an imbecile every once in a while. Fuck 'em.
Everyone who cares will stay. The bad AC(s) will leave. Maybe someone will take their place, maybe not. It's not that important.
Providing the random expert a chance to contribute is well worth it.
As my father lik@(munch munch)...