Comment Maybe GM is correct (Score 0) 236
Maybe GM is correct in its valuation, but it's their engineers who are vastly underpaid on a regular basis.
The Matrix For Businesses 88
An anonymous reader writes "The idea of using virtual reality and gaming technologies to create training exercises and business simulations has been around for years. But recent advances in computer graphics, interfaces, and massively multiplayer online (MMO) games have made it commercially viable to pursue simulations in the business world. Novel, a venture-backed startup company, is about to launch a new MMO role-playing game, called Empire & State, with an unusual goal: to use the technology and the lessons it learns from the game to create simulations for big companies that want to improve their human resources and hiring efficiencies. Imagine assessing employees' leadership and teamwork skills by jacking them into a virtual, multiplayer business scenario. That's the goal, but Novel will face challenges of all sorts — business, social, and technical — in its efforts to sell MMO technologies to the corporate world."
Comment borkborkbork (Score 5, Funny) 252
Does this mean when Starcraft 2 comes out I will start seeing borkborkborks instead of just kekekes?
Comment Re:If you want speed... (Score 1) 371
Lynx is not graphical at all. Its first release was in 1992, and remains the gold standard for text based rendering or website accessibility.
I don't even know why all those linksian browsers exist, other than as a hobby for their creators. Is there some way they can compete with Lynx that I am overlooking?
Comment Re:"Great Heavens! That's a laser!" (Score 1) 465
The LASER is misnamed; the expanded abbreviation is Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.
However the internal mechanism is not an amplifier, but an oscillation chamber. The proper name therefore is Light Oscillation by Stimulated Emission of Radiation, or LOSER.
However the internal mechanism is not an amplifier, but an oscillation chamber. The proper name therefore is Light Oscillation by Stimulated Emission of Radiation, or LOSER.
Comment simple question (Score 1) 465
for anyone that could and would answer:
How could the antimatter be stored or handled for use?
Given that these are positrons, would it be possible to contain them is a ceramic container, amongst Hydrogen-1, or both?
I found the upthread PET scan remark interesting, but that works by measuring the decaying atoms as they travel through the blood. I don't see a way of using the positrons from the laser in a PET scan. Something like a CAT scan (x-rays) I would understand
As an off-sub-thread follow-up, most hospitals using short half-life material are connected to a cyclotron lab via a pneumatic transport tube (the same kind they have at my local Costco)
