Long Car Trips, Moore's Law & Abortion Rights
A useful game for long car trips is 'If Only He Had Lived to See'. If only Gregor Mendel had lived to see the first cloned pig. If only Icarus had hung on long enough to fly the Concorde. If only Zapruder had used a better-resolution camera, with more frames per second, on the grassy knoll. And if only Alfred Hitchcock had a mobile phone.
Intel Corporation researchers have demonstrated that there are no fundamental barriers to extending Moore's Law for another decade by building the world's fastest silicon transistors. These transistors — featuring structures just 20 nanometers in size — will allow Intel to build microprocessors containing a billion transistors, running at speeds approaching 20 gigahertz and operating at less than one volt in approximately 2007.
Woman on Waves, a privately financed Dutch ship equipped to perform abortions near countries where the practice is banned, will sail to Ireland on its maiden voyage.
Intel Corporation researchers have demonstrated that there are no fundamental barriers to extending Moore's Law for another decade by building the world's fastest silicon transistors. These transistors — featuring structures just 20 nanometers in size — will allow Intel to build microprocessors containing a billion transistors, running at speeds approaching 20 gigahertz and operating at less than one volt in approximately 2007.
Woman on Waves, a privately financed Dutch ship equipped to perform abortions near countries where the practice is banned, will sail to Ireland on its maiden voyage.