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HP's Crossbar Latch... Next-Gen Transistor?

moojin writes "CNN.com reports that "in a paper published in Tuesday's Journal of Applied Physics, HP said three members of its Quantum Science Research group propose and demonstrate a "crossbar latch," which provides the signal restoration and inversion required for general computing without the need for transistors.""

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  1. Netcraft confirms... by gregarican · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    It is official.

    Netcraft confirms: Michael is dying

    One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Michael support community when IDC confirmed that Michael has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all reactionary editors. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Michael has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Michael is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by falling dead last in a recent reactionary editor study.

    You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Michael's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Michael faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Michael because Michael is dying. Things are looking very bad for Michael. As many of us are already aware, Michael continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

    There can no longer be any doubt: Michael is dying.

    Due to the troubles of half-baked, biased posts, abysmal moderation and so on, his editorial spot will probably be taken over by another hoser who will continue his legacy. Now Michael is also dead, his corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

    All major surveys show that Michael has steadily declined in popularity. Michael is very sick and his long term survival prospects are very dim. If Michael is to survive at all it will be among dilettante dabblers. Michael continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save him at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Michael is dead.

    Fact: Michael is dying

  2. Re:Can you say "invented"? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    A difference only seen by withered testicles of sterile donkeys. Get with the program, it's 2005, not 1850 man!

  3. Re:Can you say "invented"? by dark_requiem · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Funny? If by "funny" you mean "crazy", then yes. You write that as if you actually believe it. Based on one man's poorly-worded testimony, and a bunch of documents he claims to have but no one has seen, and a super-transistor thousands of times faster than anything we have now, which, for some odd reason, has never had a commercial debut. I mean, there's paranoid, and then there's just gullible. By the way, Mulder called, and he'd like you to help him with funding some research on the Black Oil, so if you could please send all your money to a Pay Pal account I specify, we'll have a hyperdrive working by the end of the week, based on the 10,000 year old martian schematics

  4. Re:Great - someday we have faster computer by Grishnakh · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    WTF are you talking about? I pay $50/month for cable internet service which I think is 4 Mpbs.

    Maybe your problem is you live too far away from civilization for anyone to bother providing you high-speed access. The answer is simple: MOVE!!!
    There's a reason most people live in cities.

    Far too much money in this country (USA) is wasted subsidizing services for people who choose to live in rural areas.