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- BXRWXR, on 08/25/2008, -1/+29I can tell you one thing - the wave function has collapsed. The fact that you're an idiot is no longer indeterminate.
- fl3sh, on 08/25/2008, -0/+21I wish I knew what they were talking about. :P
- prunch, on 08/25/2008, -0/+14Quantum Memory thinks its so great now .... "I can run at room temperature" .... it will be unbearable
- aphexcoil, on 08/25/2008, -0/+13Dude ... you ever get that "look" from her? You know what I mean? That cold, hard, steely stare that screams, "if you want a snowball's chance in hell of getting laid this week, you better figure out why I'm pissed and fix it because if I have to tell you, I'm not putting out tonight, this weekend or all of next week."
That's not quantum mechanics, that's dealing with women. And let me tell you, the former is much simpler to understand. - talonstriker, on 08/25/2008, -0/+12"I am a bit fuzzy on the issue though."
Understatement of the year.
I seriously hope you forgot /s at the end. - theaceoffire, on 08/25/2008, -3/+13Will what? Memory?
Are you asking if storage can execute binary code? - daxz, on 08/26/2008, -0/+8Two of my friends died while working at room temperature.
then again, old meme is old. - Auxon, on 08/26/2008, -0/+8There are so many sources ... where to begin? I'd say, start with "The Emperor's New Mind", by Richard Feynman, and work your way up. It's not isolated to quantum computing, because trying to explain quantum computing without some background in physics - you don't have to be a Phd but advanced highschool physics and your own personal reading (I used to read everything I could about physics before university) - is pretty much required to get the basic ideas - and especially quantum mechanics is pretty much impossible.
If I were to try to summarize quantum computing in one sentence, it would be, "you can calculate many - indeed with enough 'qubits' (which are the QC version of bits) you can calculate ALL - possible answers to a problems simultaneously instead of one at a time as we do in classical computation" - Gryfft, on 08/25/2008, -0/+8Quantum Ownage
- BoneheadFarker, on 08/25/2008, -0/+7Funny...I thought Dec 13 2012 was the day Skynet becomes sentient...
- mikebb79, on 08/25/2008, -3/+9Is this article about Daniel Craig?
- Justice101, on 08/25/2008, -1/+7...so it can't.
- Gryfft, on 08/25/2008, -0/+5Quantum Of Ownage
- alappat1, on 08/26/2008, -0/+5 here is a link ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computing) for a basic idea of what quantum computing is all about.
However as someone above mentioned, for a full understanding of what this is all about, you need more. I suggest reading some of the links provided at the bottom of that wikipedia page as starters and maybe go buy a quantum physics textbook if you find it interesting - M3mphist0, on 08/26/2008, -0/+4Is this an article about japanese deep frying?
- inactive, on 08/26/2008, -0/+4I don't know what this means but WOOOOOOO!
- Auxon, on 08/26/2008, -0/+4Of course, if you just go out and buy a quantum physics textbook without advanced mathematics and physics education you will be thoroughly stumped by the strange symbols and formulae. It's not a short-term thing, to understand QM. In fact, no one really understands it all - a fact which physicists are quite fond of reminding each other and the laymen of quite often. The ideas are quite understandable with a lot of reading and a lot of thought, but the MATH ... the PROOFS ... that's another dimension entirely.
- linksus, on 08/26/2008, -0/+4What is room temp? Its freezing in here..
- uberkuh, on 08/25/2008, -0/+3Ouch!
- inactive, on 08/25/2008, -3/+6fif- DOH!
-homer - Singularitarian, on 08/26/2008, -1/+4The Wikipedia article is always a good place to start.
- Derrekito, on 08/25/2008, -1/+4Zack. Please. Shut up.
- MizSwann, on 08/26/2008, -1/+4Dude! I don't know why you're being dugg down....really, I don't.
I dugg you up because I'm really impressed with your honesty and your lack of self-centeredness.
You seem to have no, ummm...shame?
Nah...I think you have a great sense of humor and an amazing imagination - coz if you were being serious, you'd have never been able to spell half the ***** you did. - squaredUP, on 08/26/2008, -0/+3My guess is no one digging this actually cares about the science. Your best bet is to just look it up yourself, but be prepared for a lot of very though reading. If you care to go take a look the capabilities of quantum computing you will find they are simply amazing. Sadly there is no real easy place to start, so I would recommend reading "The Fabric of the Cosmos" by Bryan Greene. After you read that book you will have the foundations to understand the rest.
- Auxon, on 08/26/2008, -0/+3OMFG I almost choked to death laughing ... ROFLMAO
- compubomb, on 08/25/2008, -2/+4Generally super conductors only work at close to 0 Kelvin, using different materials allows them to get super conductor capacity to lower temperatures, and generally super conductors are highly magnetic. Computers often use magnetic surfaces to write using magnetic heads etc. I won't claim to be any kind of expert at all, just use wikipedia on super conductivity.
- EnderMB, on 08/26/2008, -1/+3If I could Digg you up a thousand times I would. I just checked the book out on Google and it looks like a fantastic read for anyone that is interested in Computer Science.
Your comments are wasted on this website. Go join Reddit. - EnderMB, on 08/25/2008, -1/+3Instead of saying "great news!" it'd be helpful for someone to provide some good links to information about Quantum Computing. Perhaps a couple of academic papers or articles written about how it all works and stuff? It'd be fantastic if someone with knowledge of this could provide some sources for interested users.
- fwertz, on 08/26/2008, -2/+44TB (2x 2TB) DDR12 G.Skill Quantum Storage RAM - $199.99
only at Newegg.
First buyer review: 2/5
Pros: "Sucked in the girl-next-door. See other."
Cons: "Doesn't do my laundry. See other."
Other: "DOA on arrival. I set it up and my motherboard wouldn't post. Then my case turned to a liquid state and engulfed me, and my house into a irriversible black hole. It's pretty cold and dark here. Jesus isn't so cool as everyone makes him out to be." - EnderMB, on 08/26/2008, -0/+2Perhaps if you want a brief understanding of it, but I was hoping for some more academic sources that'll give more than a small understanding of it.
- Auxon, on 08/26/2008, -0/+1It's both in a state of use, and unuse. 50% probability each way ....
- Visarga, on 08/26/2008, -1/+2Your posts already existed in my consciousness.
- inactive, on 08/26/2008, -1/+1So if Quantum memory is in use, how do you make certain its on or off? I mean a zero does not equal zero right?
- inactive, on 08/26/2008, -4/+4The Universe iz a hologramz!1111111111111
- eldano512, on 08/26/2008, -0/+0am i the only one who wishes digg stories were spelled correctly? atleast the titles?
- inactive, on 08/26/2008, -1/+0Who cares. It's all gonna be used for weapons anyways. Like every new technology is. So forget Movie Maker and Crysis.
- SundayBrunch, on 08/26/2008, -2/+1can it run windows movie maker?
- inactive, on 08/26/2008, -4/+2Duuuuude... what if the Earth is just a giant atom and the universe is just a giant molecule?! Whoa...
- linksus, on 08/26/2008, -5/+1And considering he added the " at max settings? " he and I shud be dugg down to hell!
- Sloi, on 08/26/2008, -5/+0Where's my holodeck? :*(
- inactive, on 08/25/2008, -13/+8Will it be able to run Crysis at max settings?
- steve9924, on 08/25/2008, -11/+4second
- inactive, on 08/25/2008, -9/+2Viral sized tracking devices will deployed to the public in early 2009. The switch will be flipped on Dec 13, 2012. Humanity ends on Dec 14, 2012.
- takamichinaku, on 08/25/2008, -9/+1third
- ZackScott, on 08/25/2008, -26/+7Can someone tell me if this has anything to do with quantum mechanics? I think my wife and I must have been born at the same time because millions of electrons in our brains must have been created at the same time. My wife will have a thought, and then I might have the same thought. Like what we want for dinner. Also, she knows when I am mad at her because she acts nice as if she didn't do anything. But she did! And I did not like it, and she knows! But how did she know to do it?
Probably because of quantum entanglement. I am a bit fuzzy on the issue though. I wish I had the same electrons in my brain that Albert Einstein had. I wonder where electrons go when someone dies? Can someone fill me in? Maybe someone got his electrons in their brain now, and we can tap that to contact him to tell us how to perfect the quantums? Maybe this is how the idea of reincarnation started.
I hope my wife doesn't read this. For one, I am not up to brush with lots of science, and I don't want her to think I'm dumb. But if I am dumb, then so is she since we share part of the same brain. Maybe parts of my brain are everywhere at once and everyone can tap into it, and maybe my wife is the only one who figured it out? Maybe our soul's electrons are the same?
