I had to say this. Imagine the BEOWULF cluster of these....:-)
Anyway, I totaly agree with the 'It's just the way it is' guy above my post. Slashdot has missed some great submissions with more interesting data that this clumsy attempt at 'show them diversity of thoughts'. You'd be surprised how much gets slunted for rejection 'just because'. The only nice term I have for CmdrTaco and Hemos is 'sloppy editorial'.
Like, where in hell all the interesting, free-speech stuff? Whatever happened to the Recording companies selling overpriced CDs? To Microsoft's Kerberos screech? To Olimpics shutting out Internet et al? It is not us, repliers off-topic, moderated to be politically correct. It is the editorial stuff being too young and uneducated.
Gee, an old idea surfaced again, just on a bigger scale. If the posters would hold back their self ego-centrism and dig up in a local library they will find out that an AMERICAN physisist (since/. seems to be obsessed with americans most of the time) Robert Wood created such a telescope back in 1930s and was using it quite successfuly for some time. Look for an ancient book 'Modern Wizard' by William Seabrook in antique book stores. It is rather strange to see the history repeat itself so precisely.
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I had to say this. Imagine the BEOWULF cluster of these.... :-)
Anyway, I totaly agree with the 'It's just the way it is' guy above my post. Slashdot has missed some great submissions with more interesting data that this clumsy attempt at 'show them diversity of thoughts'. You'd be surprised how much gets slunted for rejection 'just because'. The only nice term I have for CmdrTaco and Hemos is 'sloppy editorial'.
Like, where in hell all the interesting, free-speech stuff? Whatever happened to the Recording companies selling overpriced CDs? To Microsoft's Kerberos screech? To Olimpics shutting out Internet et al? It is not us, repliers off-topic, moderated to be politically correct. It is the editorial stuff being too young and uneducated.
Gee, an old idea surfaced again, just on a bigger scale. If the posters would hold back their self ego-centrism and dig up in a local library they will find out that an AMERICAN physisist (since /. seems to be obsessed with americans most of the time) Robert Wood created such a telescope back in 1930s and was using it quite successfuly for some time. Look for an ancient book 'Modern Wizard' by William Seabrook in antique book stores. It is rather strange to see the history repeat itself so precisely.