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- Maniaca, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26Maybe this is some kind of subtle joke about the Uncertainty Principle.
- eplawless, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19Ha, this is the first time I've seen a self-dupe.
- pennyfan87, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10I'm on First and First. Jerry! This must be the nexus of the Universe!
- WarpFox, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Thats right, I'm sure these things will only get larger and only the 5 kings of europe will be able to afford them.
- dagonweb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8People don't see the glaciers move untill they become avalanches.
- DoctaStooge, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9he says this page is a dupe (accidental double submission) and provides us with the real page.....which happen to be one and the same as the dupe.....how is that possible?
- khag7, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7unless you're a retired person you're wrong. quantum computers will be here sooner than you think. it will come like an avalanch. it will all be going very slowly at first but then out of nowhere quantum computing will just explode and before you know it everyone will have them in their pockets and we'll have glasses with computer screens in them and handheld keyboard/mice things and a bluetooth headset on and we'll have a computer/cellphone all in one. all that is of course until the computers become more efficient than humans and our jobs are replaced by computers/robots and we are reduced to insignificant beings and are killed by an army of quantum computer robots.
- dagonweb, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7The first quantum computers will be big machines, somewhere by 2018, 2020. Then we will see things moving faster suddenly, a lot faster. Consumers will buy quantum process devices around 2025-2030. Those will be effectively more intelligent than humans, including software. 2030-2045 will se the end of the Human Era.
- airstrike, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5it is called 'researching' for a reason.
- duck1123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Man, I was so disapointed when August 29, 1997 came and went.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4and we are forced back into the only warm place left in the world... Zion... ha
- Afraithe, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6This is usually they way it is with research... all these kind of theories and demos are presented, none seem to make any sense in a real world application, but when enough ideas have been born only one single breakthrough in practical usage is needed and you have a revolution in that technology area. Look at how transistors and IC where born.
- angrycat, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6I highly doubt I'll ever sit in front of a quantum computer in my lifetime.
- hobophobe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Probably in the next 50 years, though it won't be a tiny cube. The most likely scenario is that we will replace the current style of processor with a QCPU.
- NanoStuff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_dots
Just look how colorful they are! Add some fruity flavours and you've got yourself a really hot new soft drink. - EricAnderton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"However, one thing has been clear: all implementations suck beyond belief, especially when thinking about building something beyond a demonstration. This is because the "computer," which is really stretching the term, occupies at least one optical table and probably involves a vacuum system as well."
But of course, you can't tell just by looking at it. ;) - trigger0219, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1classic example in Quantum Computing is Shores algorithm, of courses theres Grovers's search Algorithm, exploring/modeling Quantum Physics better, and possibilty Solving P=NP problems!
But for general computing, QC isn't going to be beneficial - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Dude those dots have the most GANGSTA wavelength.
- Nundahl, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3About time, I've been waiting for a war against machines for twenty years now!
-Nundahl - jawbreaker4fs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Tell me we get flying cars before all that! Please?!
- Dotnetsky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Who's on First?
That's right. - Moosebern, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Uh, Duh.
- rasterbator, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I will wait for a cube like the one in Atremis Fowl.
- jenny83, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Studies like this are building blocks for further research. Scientists build upon the works of others until we can get to a point where a viable product is created. Quantum computing isn't going to be a reality for awhile, but bless those who are working hard to bring us to that point.
- OsiVert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I think this is the first article that i've read on quantum computing that has used the word "suck" to describe something.
- paulrenegar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0With all the Apple-related stories posted on Digg, I thought this was about Mac OS X's spinning beach ball. I'm glad to see that it isn't! ;)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1As advances in Nanotechnology lead to Nanomachinery, quantum computers will become a reality very fast. Nanotechnology will revolutionize our world at such an alarming rate that even us geeks will be caught off guard. Just watch out for the grey goo!
- MoeWasHere, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2@ButtHoleSurfer:
"and we are forced back into the only warm place left in the world... Zion... ha"
where the palestinians and isrealis have set up shop and probably turned it into a war zone already. - malkir, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12020: The quantum computer is born.
2022: We believe we have developed AI.
2023: AI starts destroying everything.
2023 & 1/2: Arnold Schwarzenegger, aka, The chosen one, discovers that it's not true AI but instead it is demons possessing the quantum computers that we have inadvertently created to be their host bodies!
2024: Sadly for Arnold he doesn't have psychic powers to drive the demons away and he dies a tragic death.
2024 & 1/4: Chuck Norris gets annoyed with it all and round house kicks the world, thereby negating every ones existence. - digitaldivider, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1middle easterners: fighting over a useless bit of dried out land since creation.
- Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Bah...probabilistic algorithms are not algorithms at all.
- waytoorandomx, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2It's great to see quantom computing improve, but when will I be able to throw away my battery-exploding Dell laptop and replace it with a 1"x1" cube 100x faster than my laptop? To this point, I'm still seeing theories, not physical developments.
- iFelix, on 10/12/2007, -25/+9For some reason I managed to submit this story twice, please digg the real version.
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