Stefan MacGeek - Slashdot User

Should Gaming Worlds Join the Workplace? 68

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday January 16, 2010 @07:14AM from the gotta-farm-those-tps-reports dept.

destinyland writes "A Stanford professor argues that gaming worlds can keep workers engaged, and advocates elements of World of Warcraft or Second Life to hone workplace skills like teamwork, leadership, and data analysis. An IBM report also argues games like World of Warcraft teach leadership and that 'there is no reason to think the same cannot be done in corporate settings of various sizes.' The professor even suggests putting online gaming experiences into your resume. ('There's just so much that gets done [in a virtual world] that's just right on target with what happens in real business.') And Google's CEO also claims that multiplayer gaming also provides good career training, especially for technology careers. 'Everything in the future online is going to look like a multiplayer game. If I were 15 years old, that's what I would be doing right now... It teaches players to build a network, to use interactive skills and thinking.'"

Hubble Repair Mission At Risk 224

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday February 19, 2009 @05:18AM from the someone-take-out-the-space-trash dept.

MollyB writes "According to Wired, the recent collision of satellites may put the Atlantis shuttle mission to repair Hubble in the 'unacceptable risk' status: 'The spectacular collision between two satellites on Feb. 10 could make the shuttle mission to fix the Hubble Space Telescope too risky to attempt. Before the collision, space junk problems had already upped the Hubble mission's risk of a "catastrophic impact" beyond NASA's usual limits, Nature's Geoff Brumfiel reported today, and now the problem will be worse. Mark Matney, an orbital debris specialist at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas told the publication that even before the collision, the risk of an impact was 1 in 185, which was "uncomfortably close to unacceptable levels" and the satellite collision "is only going to add on to that."'"

Oldest Weapons-grade Plutonium Found In Dump 552

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 21, 2009 @08:31PM from the radioactive-home-coming dept.

Urchin writes "Researchers have just identified the first batch of weapons-grade plutonium ever made. The batch was produced as part of the Manhattan Project, but predates Trinity — the first nuclear weapon test — by seven months. It was unearthed in a waste pit at Hanford, Washington, inside a beaten up old safe."

What the Papers Don't Say About Vaccines 737

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday December 07, 2008 @01:40PM from the headlines-over-reason dept.

jamie tips an article in The Guardian's "Bad Science" column which highlights recent media coverage of the MMR vaccine. A story circulated in the past week about the death of a young child, which the parents blamed on the vaccine. When the coroner later found that it had nothing to do with the child's death, there was a followup in only one of the six papers who had covered the story. "Does it stop there? No. Amateur physicians have long enjoyed speculating that MMR and other vaccinations are somehow 'harmful to the immune system' and responsible for the rise in conditions such as asthma and hay fever. Doubtless they must have been waiting some time for evidence to appear. ... Measles cases are rising. Middle class parents are not to blame, even if they do lack rhetorical panache when you try to have a discussion with them about it. They have been systematically and vigorously misled by the media, the people with access to all the information, who still choose, collectively, between themselves, so robustly that it might almost be a conspiracy, to give you only half the facts."

Comment Re:This is off topic, but (Score 1) 477

by Stefan MacGeek on Thursday February 03, 2005 @04:35PM (#11565981) Attached to: DIY Mac mini Overclocking

Mac OS X works well with Windows machines on a network - it will mount Windows shares and you can use shared printers.
The other way is just as easy, you can enable Windows file- and printer-sharing with a click in the Sharing control panel of System Preferences.
Another option ist an external hard disk - it should be formatted with FAT32, because Mac OS X can read NTFS, but cannot write to it.

Stefan

Slashdot Top Deals