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GP is actually correct. This is not even a full quantum computer.

"The D-Wave machine is not a universal quantum computer, however, but a more limited "quantum annealer."", which according to wikipedia seems to mean some sort of global minimum finder (given how to find all the local minimum solutions, find the lowest one).

With a mere 512 quibits available on the D-Wave device I'm more than willing to believe they may be still in the area of small inputs where an O(n) algorithm can still beat an O(log n) algorithm (e.g. http://cse.csusb.edu/dick/cs20... )

I doubt it though. My school (California State San Bernardino) has a game dev degree. Unlike this article, I don't see people flocking to it. It's a cross between both mathematics and programming that get's kids who are interested to quickly change their mind for something else.

For the most part it comes down to their motivation. A lot of students I know going through the course are guys who are half motivated to do anything. Having managed teams of these guys, I know from experience that these guys will likely half-ass an entire project that others are depending on for them to complete. But thats not everyone and there are a few who have done well for themselves. For example 3 alumni have went on to form a company to create games for the iPhone and other mobile systems. They even go around the world instructing companies who want to use Unity to create games and such. In the past a group of students along with some professors created an xbox 360 arcade game called VectorForce which held its own in the shooting genre for quite some time.

Right now I'm involved with the team creating an action RPG using the Unreal Engine 3 called Mythic. The project is funded by the NSF and we have several schools (local colleges and high schools) working together to create assets for the game, but we are having trouble making people understand that we need little things. Above we got someone ranting about a former friend making trees for a game. We NEED that stuff to even create the game. Making kids understand that we don't want them creating an entire world on their own is proving difficult.

One last thing to note, I'm a CS major. Even though we do have the game dev degree, I like to program more than just taking arbitrary classes that make me feel like I'm doing something towards game development.

I doubt it though. My school (California State San Bernardino) has a game dev degree. Unlike this article, I don't see people flocking to it. It's a cross between both mathematics and programming that get's kids who are interested to quickly change their mind for something else.

For the most part it comes down to their motivation. A lot of students I know going through the course are guys who are half motivated to do anything. Having managed teams of these guys, I know from experience that these guys will likely half-ass an entire project that others are depending on for them to complete. But thats not everyone and there are a few who have done well for themselves. For example 3 alumni have went on to form a company to create games for the iPhone and other mobile systems. They even go around the world instructing companies who want to use Unity to create games and such. In the past a group of students along with some professors created an xbox 360 arcade game called VectorForce which held its own in the shooting genre for quite some time.

Right now I'm involved with the team creating an action RPG using the Unreal Engine 3 called Mythic. The project is funded by the NSF and we have several schools (local colleges and high schools) working together to create assets for the game, but we are having trouble making people understand that we need little things. Above we got someone ranting about a former friend making trees for a game. We NEED that stuff to even create the game. Making kids understand that we don't want them creating an entire world on their own is proving difficult.

One last thing to note, I'm a CS major. Even though we do have the game dev degree, I like to program more than just taking arbitrary classes that make me feel like I'm doing something towards game development.

Being born-and-raised in SoCal, attending CSUSB when part of the campus caught on fire (see here and here), and having a sister who lived in San Diego when the city was ravaged by a gigantic fire... I'm no stranger to this type of situation. In the case of the CSUSB fire, I remember having deep sympathy for my then future alma mater during the time we had no clue how much of the campus and surrounding area(s) would be destroyed. That feeling is with me right now as I watch the news and witness the Station fire. I not only hope the observatory is spared, but as many other structures and lives as possible. This is important because the last I heard (a few hours ago), the Station fire is about 22% contained so it has plenty of time to do more damage.

I dropped out of school in '96 (with a decent job, who needs stinkin' school!).

Then I was laid off in 2001 ("sorry, we don't hire non-college graduates")

So now I'm going back to the local Community College and will transfer to complete a Computer Information Systems degree at Cal State San Bernardino. From all the advice that I'm getting, everyone is saying that you should get an AA degree before leaving community college. The requirements change at the universities all the time so once you complete your AA degree they can't take away any of those classes that you completed.

--Ajay

There are still a few places to pick it up: try Cal State or Radix's FTP site.

Once you've updated it properly, it runs fine in classic mode, and is pretty zippy. I have to use it periodically because the university I work at monomaniacally standardized on wintel (despite having healthy fine arts, media, and comp sci depts., duh) and many use WP, so us mac users constantly receive official missives attached as a .wpd file. Fortunately, the old mac application opens even new files without choking.

Wrong. Most state universities have graduate mathematics programs and offer teaching assistantships as well as tuition waivers to the grad students. In fact your example CSUSB has a master's program. Oregon State has a Ph.D program that fully funds their grad students through teaching. So does Illinois state, as does Iowa state, etc. Additionaly, from your example again, Dee Matthews teaches at CSUSB and does not have a Ph.D.

"If A then B" logically implies "If not-B then not-A".

I'm sorry, but you are factually incorrect. Please refer to almost any textbook on Boolean logic [...]

I'm sorry, but he is factually correct. Look up 'contrapositive' in that Boolean logic textbook of yours.