I see "clueless" is still cool in come circles. A "lobbyist" is not an "engineer" or a "scientist". (You may want to look these words up....) His expertise is pushing what he gets told to push, not to understand anything except the pushing itself.
I once heard a talk by a US lobbyist about his work given to an expert audience. (Don't ask me how they got the guy to do that, but there were some pretty high-powered people in the audience...) Extremely interesting, extremely smart and capable guy, extremely disillusioning about the mental capabilities of politicians. Lobbyists do not explain things or create understanding in their targets, they use every trick in the book to create the illusion of understanding. That is why they do not actually need any facts or any expert knowledge to do their work.
Because of the way it works, it can actually not scale up. It can do the same-size problem in parallel more time, but a classical computer can do the same. So no advantage at all, not even in the future. The only possible advantage would be cost, but as the D-Wave is much more complicated and has much lower deployment numbers than classical computers, it would probably take several decades of intense and expensive optimization to get its cost for the same performance down past the classical solution, if it can be done at all. And then it would take additional decades for this to amortize.
Now, if the computing problem solved were a major part of the world-wide overall computing load, this could make sense. But it is not.
That limits the type of problems it can solve, but it does make it a lot easier to scale up.
It also makes it a whole lot slower than the best classical algorithms for the same problems and a whole lot more expensive. This device has no applications where it would make sense to use it.
No. The only case where this thing is faster than a classical computer is when the classical computer emulates the d-wave. This of course makes zero sense. The best classical algorithms for the same thing the d-wave can do are much, much faster on much, much cheaper hardware. The whole thing is driven by fantasy and some people with no clue and too much money. It device has no practical application value.
They have a "Quantum Annealer" and it happens to be much slower than the best algorithms for classical computers. All that keeps them alive is clueless morons with too much money and a desperate desire to be at the forefron of things.
And you think that this could not be done for legitimate distribution as well? That most legitimate offers suck at this time does not mean that they have to.
My take is that most creators still on facebook will leave as soon as there is a reasonable alternative. Facebook just has lost all respect for those that made it big.
Wrong. Piracy will never be as convenient as a good, reasonably-priced offer by the original content distributor. Those that will pay will basically always look there first and only look at alternatives if they do not find what they want there. Those that look at pirated version first will almost universally not buy a legitimate version if they cannot get a pirated one. Study after study shows this. There is absolutely no point in preventing non-commercial or low-key commercial piracy. Sure, if a pirate actually pretends to be the legitimate content distributor or creator, that is something else. But that is exceptionally rare and will remain so and the laws were entirely sufficient to deal with that 50 years ago.
This has been clear for a long time now. The stupidity, greed, arrogance and authoritarian mind-set of the content "owners" is the reason they are incapable of seeing this. They still believe entertainment data is somehow "theirs" and that, of course anybody copying it without their say-so is "stealing" and that without a doubt this must hurt their revenue.
Nothing of that is true. It is an antiquated mind-set suitable for cave-men where physical goods are the main type of good, but not reflecting actual reality in the digital age at all. Fortunately, quite a few content creators have understood what was clear for a long time: If you provide entertainment, your customers decide what they are willing to pay for it, not you. And that if you provide good value, enough of your customers will be willing to pay even if not forced to do so at all that your business will turn a reasonable profit. If you try to force your customers to pay, on the other hand, they will either go away or circumvent your measures, which will hurt you the most.
It is good to see that some people that some people (those doing these studies) continue to see the actual facts here, instead of the "obvious", but deeply wrong claims of the copyright mafia, which in addition, are dangerous to society as their aggressive efforts to push draconian laws hurt individual freedoms and fair-use.
Huawei can be trusted to deliver equipment that works and that is reasonably priced. That is better than what the competitors have to offer. You cannot trust any network equipment to not have backdoors these days anyways.
Here is news: Everything has backdoors in it these days. The idiots at the NSA, GCHQ, etc. made sure of that. But the other thing is that any security expert knows that while you cannot trust the network, you also do not need to. End-to-end encryption solves that problem.
Well, I am not actually interested in any "superhero" stuff. Comes with being an adult, this stuff is for children. That we have lots and lots of children in adult bodies does not change that.
Well, those that prefer speed over security will at least not have security. The funny thing is that these morons are the ones to complain loudest when they get hit because of their own stupidity...
And you continue to be stupid. First, whatever gave you the idea I could not afford an expensive phone? Maybe I have the money but see not point in spending it? This is just your deficient excuse for an intellect at work. And second, who ever in their right mind would want to get rich? It is basically a waste of time and energy and will make your live much poorer. Getting enough money to live decently is the thing to go after. Again, your mental capabilities do not fail to disappoint.
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I see "clueless" is still cool in come circles. A "lobbyist" is not an "engineer" or a "scientist". (You may want to look these words up....) His expertise is pushing what he gets told to push, not to understand anything except the pushing itself.
I once heard a talk by a US lobbyist about his work given to an expert audience. (Don't ask me how they got the guy to do that, but there were some pretty high-powered people in the audience...) Extremely interesting, extremely smart and capable guy, extremely disillusioning about the mental capabilities of politicians. Lobbyists do not explain things or create understanding in their targets, they use every trick in the book to create the illusion of understanding. That is why they do not actually need any facts or any expert knowledge to do their work.
Incredible.
Because of the way it works, it can actually not scale up. It can do the same-size problem in parallel more time, but a classical computer can do the same. So no advantage at all, not even in the future. The only possible advantage would be cost, but as the D-Wave is much more complicated and has much lower deployment numbers than classical computers, it would probably take several decades of intense and expensive optimization to get its cost for the same performance down past the classical solution, if it can be done at all. And then it would take additional decades for this to amortize.
Now, if the computing problem solved were a major part of the world-wide overall computing load, this could make sense. But it is not.
It cannot play even a much simplified version. This is not a general computer and not really a quantum computer either.
It separates rich gullible people from their money. No other useful application.
The 5000 qbits are not entangled or rather only entangled in very small groups. This makes the whole thing a demented stunt.
That limits the type of problems it can solve, but it does make it a lot easier to scale up.
It also makes it a whole lot slower than the best classical algorithms for the same problems and a whole lot more expensive. This device has no applications where it would make sense to use it.
No. The only case where this thing is faster than a classical computer is when the classical computer emulates the d-wave. This of course makes zero sense. The best classical algorithms for the same thing the d-wave can do are much, much faster on much, much cheaper hardware. The whole thing is driven by fantasy and some people with no clue and too much money. It device has no practical application value.
If they were entangled, yes. But they are not. As such, this is basically a very expensive paperweight.
They have a "Quantum Annealer" and it happens to be much slower than the best algorithms for classical computers. All that keeps them alive is clueless morons with too much money and a desperate desire to be at the forefron of things.
And you think that this could not be done for legitimate distribution as well? That most legitimate offers suck at this time does not mean that they have to.
I said "good" offer. What you describe is not a good offer. It is a service nightmare that consumers understandably try not to use.
So I should have read the story then? Well, the title was all the stupidity I could stand, but thanks for pointing this out.
My take is that most creators still on facebook will leave as soon as there is a reasonable alternative. Facebook just has lost all respect for those that made it big.
Study after study done by actual scientists are "hogwash"? When they dished out intelligence, you must have gone to the wrong queue...
Wrong. Piracy will never be as convenient as a good, reasonably-priced offer by the original content distributor. Those that will pay will basically always look there first and only look at alternatives if they do not find what they want there. Those that look at pirated version first will almost universally not buy a legitimate version if they cannot get a pirated one. Study after study shows this. There is absolutely no point in preventing non-commercial or low-key commercial piracy. Sure, if a pirate actually pretends to be the legitimate content distributor or creator, that is something else. But that is exceptionally rare and will remain so and the laws were entirely sufficient to deal with that 50 years ago.
This has been clear for a long time now. The stupidity, greed, arrogance and authoritarian mind-set of the content "owners" is the reason they are incapable of seeing this. They still believe entertainment data is somehow "theirs" and that, of course anybody copying it without their say-so is "stealing" and that without a doubt this must hurt their revenue.
Nothing of that is true. It is an antiquated mind-set suitable for cave-men where physical goods are the main type of good, but not reflecting actual reality in the digital age at all. Fortunately, quite a few content creators have understood what was clear for a long time: If you provide entertainment, your customers decide what they are willing to pay for it, not you. And that if you provide good value, enough of your customers will be willing to pay even if not forced to do so at all that your business will turn a reasonable profit. If you try to force your customers to pay, on the other hand, they will either go away or circumvent your measures, which will hurt you the most.
It is good to see that some people that some people (those doing these studies) continue to see the actual facts here, instead of the "obvious", but deeply wrong claims of the copyright mafia, which in addition, are dangerous to society as their aggressive efforts to push draconian laws hurt individual freedoms and fair-use.
It needs people with insight, skill and experience. Doing it by committee routinely produces the worst possible outcomes.
Huawei can be trusted to deliver equipment that works and that is reasonably priced. That is better than what the competitors have to offer. You cannot trust any network equipment to not have backdoors these days anyways.
Here is news: Everything has backdoors in it these days. The idiots at the NSA, GCHQ, etc. made sure of that. But the other thing is that any security expert knows that while you cannot trust the network, you also do not need to. End-to-end encryption solves that problem.
Hehehehe, nice! Reminds me of when Watson learned to swear or that MS chatterbot went full fascist...
Well, I am not actually interested in any "superhero" stuff. Comes with being an adult, this stuff is for children. That we have lots and lots of children in adult bodies does not change that.
Well, those that prefer speed over security will at least not have security. The funny thing is that these morons are the ones to complain loudest when they get hit because of their own stupidity...
And you continue to be stupid. First, whatever gave you the idea I could not afford an expensive phone? Maybe I have the money but see not point in spending it? This is just your deficient excuse for an intellect at work. And second, who ever in their right mind would want to get rich? It is basically a waste of time and energy and will make your live much poorer. Getting enough money to live decently is the thing to go after. Again, your mental capabilities do not fail to disappoint.
I am not talking about buying Apple. But if apple can push performance that high, then other will be able to do that too later.