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Using a Toy Train To Calibrate a Reactor Screenshot-sm 120

Posted by samzenpus from the little-engine-that-could-measure-minute-amounts dept.
alfredos writes "Physicists and engineers at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory built tracks inside a fusion reactor and ran a toy train for three days to help them with their calibrations. From the article: 'The modified model of a diesel train engine was carrying a small chunk of californium-252, a radioactive element that spews neutrons as it falls apart. “We needed to refine the calibration technique to make sure we are measuring our neutrons as accurately as possible,” said Masa Ono, the project head of the National Spherical Torus Experiment.'"

Comment Re:36% Zilch? (at the time of the post) (Score 1) 596

by omgarthas (#30552006) Attached to: In 2009, I've donated (or will donate) to charity ...
Sorry but I can't find any reason to give the money that I have earned with my work to other people

I've seen well founded families go to bankrupt in less than a year, I'm saving every freaking euro I earn just in case I get fired or something happens.

If I had won an obnoxious amount of money in the lottery, sure, I'd donate a lot, but that's not the case and I'm a normal worker.

Comment Re:VAC (Score 1) 203

by omgarthas (#30289006) Attached to: Infinity Ward Fights Against <em>Modern Warfare 2</em> Cheaters

The lobby and matchmaking service is pretty nice, allowing you to form a party and then look for games where you can play on the same team, a pity it doesn't work so well in practise. You're stuck with the problem that a large proportion of people leave as soon as they see several people bearing the same tag join the game meaning that you have to go through the matchmaking process several times. Then there's the more technical problem of the game sometimes leaving some players behind when the lobby joins or leaves a game.

Where is the need to all of you using the same tag?, just do as my friends and I do, use your usual nickname

When you actually get into a game, there's a small chance that the dynamically chosen "best" host will be terrible and have huge lag spikes. (This while we're all connected through the university JANET connection.) Eventually the game decides to migrate the host, everything stops, a new host is chosen and then the game continues. Then the host quits because his team is losing and we go the the "Choosing a new host" screen again, and again.

Which takes 5 seconds at most, YMMV, but in 40 hours of multiplayer gameplay, I had to leave the host TWICE because of having massive lag, and then, I was playing again in less than a minute

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