Nurey - Slashdot User

Comment Canada has its problems too (Score 1) 231

by Nurey on Monday February 09, 2009 @01:21PM (#26785799) Attached to: Wikileaks Publishes $1B of Public Domain Research Reports

The USA isn't the worst offender in the area of Government accountability. Canada has its share of problems and has recently been ranked 8th out of 250 countries by the Global Integrity Report.

But at least Canadian government has stepped up and is disclosing certain info like contracts. I have started a project to search/visualize all these contracts at http://www.disclosed.ca/

Why doesn't the US government have a proactive disclosure initiative? Or am I missing something? I know Obama has announced recovery.gov but is that it?

The Death of the Silicon Computer Chip 150

Posted by kdawson on Friday March 28, 2008 @09:42AM from the aye-and-it-had-a-good-run dept.

Stony Stevenson sends a report from the Institute of Physics' Condensed Matter and Material Physics conference, where researchers predicted that the reign of the silicon chip is nearly over. Nanotubes and superconductors are leading candidates for a replacement; they don't mention graphene. "...the conventional silicon chip has no longer than four years left to run... [R]esearchers speculate that the silicon chip will be unable to sustain the same pace of increase in computing power and speed as it has in previous years. Just as Gordon Moore predicted in 2005, physical limitations of the miniaturized electronic devices of today will eventually lead to silicon chips that are saturated with transistors and incapable of holding any more digital information. The challenge now lies in finding alternative components that may pave the way to faster, more powerful computers of the future"

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