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First Quantum Byte Created
gila_monster writes "Juice Enews Daily is reporting that the Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information at the University of Innsbruck in Austria has created an entanglement of eight quantum particles, yielding a quantum byte or 'qubyte,' or eight qubits. The formal paper was published in the December 1 issue of Nature. A qubyte with eight ions provides a computing matrix of 65536 mostly independent elements. No word in the article about whether they were able to actually use the qubyte for computing."
Let us all take a minute to reflect on all the cats who died in support of this research.
Or maybe they didn't.
... build a Linux Box 40 Qubits in size....
EMail: 0110001101100010010000000110001101110010 0110000101111010011011100110000101110010 0010111001100011011011110110
Mmmm, quantum porn. Super-position, entanglement and some guy with a pussy.
J.
You're only jealous cos the little penguins are talking to me.
I was born in 1983, but now I can re-experience even advances in computing that happened in the seventies and before! Cabinet-sized hard-drives that hold a couple of megabytes? Quantum computing is at A FEW QUBITS! I doubt many people here lived through the ENIAC (and realized what it meant at the time), but that's exactly what my grandchildren will be hearing from me. Granson, back in my day we had EIGHT QUBITS! Not qubytes, QUBITS, sonny boy, eight of 'em. Like this: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Total. And that was state of the art. It was a research demonstration! And we liked it!
"There is a world market for 4, maybe 5 quantum computers."
"512 kiloqubytes outta' be enough for anybody!"
Etc, etc, etc. WHOOOHOO!!! I was there at ground zero, baby!!! In ought six!!!!
What do you mean ought-six, grandpa? "I mean 2006, granson".
"Whoa! When were you born?"
"I was born in the LAST MILENNIUM, GRANSON"
"Did they have cars?"
"Just road ones."
"What about Google?"
"yeah, but it wasn't like today. Man I wish I'd have held on to that stock tho'..."
They probably felt that 7 wasn't enough and 9 was too many.
sic transit gloria mundi
But is the pussy alive or dead? Beastality or necrophilia are two completely different areas of porn and discriminating viewers need to know!
/syle