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U of Michigan creates first Quantum Microchip
zigziggityzoo writes "According to this article, The University of Michigan has created the first Quantum Microchip, which could eventually lead to the first instance of Quantum Computing ever." The bad news? We won't be seeing any notebooks or handhelds with quantum chips in the near future.
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Will your notebook or desktop PC someday sport quantum innards? It's unlikely, at least in the immediate future. Researchers believe quantum systems will be much more efficient at rock-solid cryptography and mass database searches than running the latest version of Doom.
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Invaders must die
Seemed appropriate given I'm trying to edit something on a windows system right now and it crashes four to five times an hour. About the only graphics app that I have that doesn't crash is Photoshop. I have four different machines and they all crash and the only thing they have in common is Windows. I'm running everything from Win 2000 to XP and they all crash.
Sorry, Open Office is the only free or open source I use. I have a small fortune in licensed software. I'm slowly switching to Mac and eventually Linux for rendering. I'd jump ship almost entirely but there's still some Mac support issues for hardware rendering and video cards in Maya. That'll get resolved later this year and I can start switching the render farm over once I sort out the driver issues to get it on Linux. I loose far too much time to WIndows crashes and it just hasn't gotten better. I use good motherboards and video cards so it keeps coming back to Windows. I've even tried different brands of ram with no effect. It's easy for the vendors and Microsoft to point fingers at each other but at the end of the day crashing multiple times a day let alone multiple times an hour is simply unacceptable.