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- chanop, on 04/16/2008, -1/+63I hope AOL will send me a disk, so I can install this new "quantum interwebs"
- plizard, on 04/16/2008, -1/+26bit torrents will FLY!
- TastyLamp, on 04/16/2008, -4/+27Thanks Al Gore.
- chanop, on 04/16/2008, -0/+22I thought everyone used AOL?
- chanop, on 04/16/2008, -0/+21You're ***** me, AOL is the best ISP out there. If you'd like to discuss it further, meet me in Private Chat: Pool Party
..........all this blatant sarcasm is hurting my brain, did I really need to mark /s on my posts? - TheHydrogens, on 04/16/2008, -0/+19A 'quantum leap' perhaps?
- CTK14A, on 04/16/2008, -0/+16Thank you, Scott Bakula!
- TheHydrogens, on 04/16/2008, -0/+15Nice palindrome!
- Marumekomu, on 04/16/2008, -0/+13Won't we have to pay people to stand there and not look at the cables, though? Seems a bit costly.
- bosssmiley, on 04/16/2008, -2/+13...maybe
- irgeorge, on 04/16/2008, -0/+10Your comment reflects your user name perfectly.
- justjoehere, on 04/16/2008, -3/+11Heisenberg Uncertainty is in ur Internetz
- KraftDinner101, on 04/16/2008, -1/+9Let's get that quantum computer first, then think about the internet. Also, I don't like the idea of my packet both getting there and not, unless I observe it.
- bocaJWho, on 04/16/2008, -0/+8I would say it both is and is not a leap.
- ElbertF, on 04/16/2008, -0/+8Qubit Torrent?
- orangefly, on 04/16/2008, -1/+8hell, i'll be happy when they get fios in ohio....
- darkism, on 04/16/2008, -0/+7What good is all that upload if you can't seed on it?
- echo2501, on 04/16/2008, -3/+10lolcatinabox?
icanhasobserver? - morphboy23, on 04/16/2008, -0/+6So when your torrents don't work, Comcast can say the reset bit was flipped by random chance?
- racco, on 04/16/2008, -2/+8A technological "leap" forward
- PocchieTheMan, on 04/16/2008, -5/+11And so rises skynet...
- plizard, on 04/16/2008, -0/+6will ziggy be there?
- MISking, on 04/16/2008, -1/+6You sound jealous.
- KraftDinner101, on 04/16/2008, -0/+5Exactly!
- kazamx, on 04/16/2008, -0/+4I still think this is how jesus become so famous.
Jesus was so full of himself that someone said, Jesus you think your the son of God. Everyone started saying Jesus was the son of god taking the piss. Overtime people forgot it was a joke and now look what happened.
Maybe in a few hundred years people really will think Al Gore invented the internet. - ApokalypseNow, on 04/16/2008, -0/+4Quantum tubes
...maybe. - MxM111, on 04/16/2008, -0/+4"But observing it will change the result!"
Is it what he just said? - MacEnvy, on 04/16/2008, -0/+4Funny how they'll give you a huge pipe, but sever access if you put too much through it ...
- DteK, on 04/16/2008, -0/+4just got a 20/20 pipe connected. Whole new internet experience is being had. I cant find enough movies to keep queued up they download so fast.
- forcedfx, on 04/16/2008, -0/+4I'd rather have the 20mbps up than 50mbps down and only 5mbps up.
- pardonmedoug, on 04/16/2008, -0/+4I'm making this comment from one of the other universes.
- supermanred, on 04/16/2008, -0/+3Soon the entire planet will be a giant quantum computer. The answer: 42. The question? Well, that's the question!
- j3ff86, on 04/16/2008, -0/+3They have the internet on computers, now?
- MacEnvy, on 04/16/2008, -1/+4I think it was a ***** point.
- AVigorVermin, on 04/16/2008, -0/+3I still can't get broadband where I live.
- 4d669, on 04/16/2008, -1/+4***** this, I'm waiting for the grid
- protogenxl, on 04/16/2008, -0/+3But didn't Microsoft already pioneer quantum computing? At home my Xbox 360 is in a quantum state of Bricked/Unbricked.
./Stolen from Yahtzee - ElbertF, on 04/16/2008, -0/+3This should be faster then The Grid.
- bosssmiley, on 04/16/2008, -2/+5is it can be determinacy tiem now please?
- geobay, on 04/16/2008, -2/+5I can kulaps ur wav funkshun?
- innocentsinner, on 04/16/2008, -0/+3Oh, I get it. It's like that book!
- Godlike, on 04/16/2008, -0/+3My cats breath smells like cat food.
- joeanon, on 04/16/2008, -1/+3It's because of super positioning that bits can HOLD MULTIPLE VALUES AT ONCE>
It's not simply adding another bit. You can process a BIT at a certain speeds, so theoretically by having multiple values you can process more info faster at a bit level.
Basically yes it's saying less quantum bits can do more than electron bits. But, for the most part it's still quite far away.
We had logic gates for light powered computers invented 15 years ago or so... yet no light powered computers. Plus how reliable is using super positioning when we don't fully understand how it's happening.
That may not be a secure or stable model... but HEY they have to built it to see.
It's certainly going to good for somethings such as searches of massive amounts of data or likely high bandwidth uses. The logic gate part though,,, it may or may not be made fast enough to matter.
It's really ALL ABOUT the logic gate speed and how many you can cram together cost effectively. BUT being able to process multiple values bits at once COULD change that model to a high BIT processing PC that doesn't need as much logic gate speed.
Computer investments have paid off VERY WELL for the US so far, I think we should stick with our market edge and stay ahead of the competition. I think in the late 70s and 80s superior computer technology is what really lifted us above Europe and Russia and likely part of the edge that won the economic cold war AND gave us superior military and space programs. Though Russia's rockets were/are great, sometimes computers aren't the most reliable solution. Mechanical solutions can be very reliable also, gotta make the right design decisions there.
We certainly whouldn't need as much computing power if we hadn't mistakenly went with the Space Shuttle design, which was supposed to be reusable, but more accurate ... gets rebuilt every launch. It's really just the MOST expensive way to go into space vs the cheapest and most reliable... Apollo style rockets with capsules on the top.
Basically there is no reason to enter the atmosphere so fast and hard when you can parachute down in an automated capsule. There is also little reason to launch ALL of space shuttles weight into orbit every time when the payload is actually just a fraction of that weight.
All the computers in the world don't stop bad design and management. - rickdigger, on 04/16/2008, -0/+2I thought a qubit was a little orange guy with a big nose that jumped around a bunch of squares...
- Maturola, on 04/16/2008, -0/+2minesweepers online multiplayer ...FTW
- Jektal, on 04/16/2008, -0/+2Or it might not.
- PawFox, on 04/16/2008, -1/+3Don't people actually know "Quantum" is a really small amount? - I hate people who use the word thinking its some "giant" amount.
- NathanielJ, on 04/16/2008, -1/+3"Since qubits compute with multiple values at once, the processing power of a quantum computer doubles with each additional qubit."
That makes about as much sense as saying that on a classical (ie. normal) computer the amount of information it can process doubles with each additional bit. While technically true (because you can represent twice as many different pieces of information if you add an additional bit), it's an utterly useless fact that has nothing to do with why quantum computers are so sought-after. - inactive, on 04/16/2008, -0/+2if that's the case, which one is the captain of the enterprise, and which one is the cylon?
- crzdmn, on 04/16/2008, -0/+2just paid a visit to my place too, got them 1 more dig!
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