Comment Re:You first, buddy (Score 2, Funny) 453
Dwight Schrute? Is that you?
Comment Re:side-effects of mod cooling? (Score 1) 95
They are not solely made of Silicon. They also have layers of copper interconnects and dielectrics. I wonder if their thermal expansions are relatively similar?
IBM and Sun Launch Intranet Metaverses 123
wjamesau writes "Sun and IBM have launched intranet metaverses designed for business and built to work behind their corporate firewalls, so their worldwide employees can use them to collaborate together. Most interesting to game developers, IBM (which also runs a private, no public access Second Life island as a development lab) created their intranet world from the 3D Torque engine from Garage Games. Will the metaverse actually be thousands of gated community metaverses?"
Dvorak on Our Modern World 420
DigitalDame2 writes "If people from the 1920s suddenly landed in the here and now, they'd probably find modern technology a bit weird. Take digital cameras for instance. Nobody would have predicted that most people would now take pictures by holding the camera out in front of them and look at the preview screen to frame a shot. Then there's the iPod phenomenon. Is anyone's music collection that interesting? How many people are being deafened by these things, and what kind of a public health disaster is this? Take a stroll through our modern world with John C. Dvorak's hilarious take."
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