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Quantum Computer To Launch Next Week
judgecorp writes "D-Wave Systems of British Columbia is all set to demonstrate a 16-qubit quantum computer. Simple devices have been built in the lab before, and this is still a prototype, but it is a commercial project that aims to get quantum devices into computer rooms, solving tricky problems such as financial optimization. Most quantum computers have to be isolated from the outside world (look at them and they stop working). This one is an 'adiabatic' quantum computer — which means (in theory, says D-Wave) that it can live with thermal noise and give results without having to be isolated. There's a description of it here — and pretty pictures too."
FTA .....
"Twenty years before most scientists expected it"
"It has been predicted that quantum computing will make current computer security obsolete, cracking any current cryptography scheme by providing an unlimited amount of simultaneous processing resources."
Just in time to crack Vista.
Sorry.. Couldn't resist...
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Remember when Windows were washed, mice were trapped and UNIX guarded the harem?
Yeah, but 4 of them will be used to keep Notes running.
The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.
Most quantum computers have to be isolated from the outside world (look at them and they stop working)
So... in what fundamental way is this different from running Windows?
The expected app to be demo'ed will be Duke Nukem Forever.
"Tell me doctor, with all of your defenses, are there any provisions for an attack by killer bees?"
It may launch next week, but it's impossible to say where... </farnsworth>
One man's constant is another man's variable.
Do you consider photons particles or waves here[...]?
Yes.
They call that a flaming stick. Obviously they don't have a firm grasp of the language... They way the talk though, you'd think they'd invented it.
Do not meddle in the affairs of sysadmins, for they are subtle, and quick to anger.
The Quantum Computer launched next week, becoming sentient and self-aware 5 minutes before being turned on. A worm-hole opened shortly after activation, preloading the Quantum OS 3 weeks ago that was announced next week and was ready for installation 2 years before the actual delivery date of February 9, 2021. 4 Hot fixes were waiting, in the quantum queu but won't be loaded until July 3, 2002 due to a lack of connectivity that was fixed in 2008.
Tasks for the quantum computer are:
Failure of the first 2 bullets have caused the new Quantum Computer to commit intellectual suicide and it now spends most of its time watching Buffy reruns and constructing 11 dimensional models of the Babylon 5 sets.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong fix.
Answer: Yes. Both.
${YEAR+1} is going to be the year of Linux on the desktop!
look at them and they stop working
No Fair! You changed the outcome by observing it!
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
so the only question would be whether your package got lost with 1 or 2 locks on it