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- EddiePotato, on 11/06/2009, -0/+9That is obviously a trick question.
- jareddennis, on 11/07/2009, -0/+7Kurzweil will be pleased.
- EddiePotato, on 11/06/2009, -0/+6I can see the fanboy arguments already between the quantum and electron fluid camps.
- rchargel, on 11/07/2009, -0/+6We'll get quantum computers around the same time we get a reliable, sustainable, energy positive fusion reactor.
- sock2828, on 11/06/2009, -0/+5You do realize how far off a quantum computer is don't you?
- copypastry, on 11/07/2009, -0/+4In before Crysis.
- FitteMas, on 11/07/2009, -0/+3*Tachyon
- Laughingman42, on 11/07/2009, -1/+4You made a bet against all available data and you're surprised that you lost?
- Culyt, on 11/07/2009, -0/+2Quantum computing isn't that useful. As a rule of thumb you basically need to be able to test the result of the computation (the testing is done using traditional methods). For example you can test factorisation of numbers. It means things like breaking encryption are done better but it won't speed up many tasks. You also can't use tricks that speed up the algorithms, you basically have to process all the answers.
- FredFredrickson, on 11/06/2009, -0/+2...and it'll all be yours in a mere 150 years!
- IHaveVoot, on 11/07/2009, -0/+1Of course! It's a flux capacitor!
- swraman, on 11/07/2009, -0/+1I made a bet with my EE instructor that Moore's law would change. Guess I lost.
- rchargel, on 11/07/2009, -0/+1CMOS, then 3D-CMOS, then NFL, then Quantum Processors, then my ultimate Tacheon Processors (where calculations will be made before you asked for them).
- gev1st, on 11/06/2009, -1/+2Swim wavelengths, SWIM.
Soon they'll impregnate all digital devices out there. SMH. - hereticoftruth, on 11/07/2009, -1/+2Show me. Otherwise, if it looks, smells, tastes and feels like bull *****, it probably is bull *****. I am really getting tired of all these bull ***** sandwiches from so called scientists.
- DrLeePhD, on 11/07/2009, -0/+1and then something comes along to turn the old technology on it's head and make a drastic improvement.
moore's law continues. - dwittman, on 11/07/2009, -0/+1Really though.. couldn't they have found a better acronym than NFL?
- swraman, on 11/07/2009, -0/+1Actually I was basing it off of the fact that operating frequiencies havent changed much since the P4 era, all theyve done is double and quadruple the number of cores. There has to be a practical limit to the number of cores you can efficiently use on one chip.
- copypastry, on 11/07/2009, -0/+1The way that science is reported now is not quite the same as it used to be. Before, in the 60s-80s, a lot of these research findings weren't available unless you were a researcher in the field. For a scientific advancement to reach the common people, generally it had to be commercialized.
With the internet, findings can be published long before any hope of commercialization. And yes, it is frustrating to hear about all the amazing leaps forward that scientists are making only to be told that a viable commercialized product employing those discoveries is a good 15-20 years away. - anthropodeus, on 11/07/2009, -1/+1i anticipate that we will have 3d "conventional" chips first. surprised this article didn't mention it.
- Cyberdactyl, on 11/06/2009, -5/+2So we're ***** canning quantum computing already?
- weister42, on 11/07/2009, -3/+0By that time we should have anti-gravity engines and anti-matter laser beams.
- Frixionburne, on 11/06/2009, -6/+2Electron semen..
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