The problem is that this gets misunderstood. The "Quantum Computer" is the magic machine that can break encryption, compute everything massively faster, etc. The D-Wave is not that machine.
Well, you might be right about the management. The problem is that if management is this grossly incompetent, you still have to fix management, not piss of the people doing actual work. The only justification for what she did would be that she wanted to obscure that she cannot fix the problem. Which makes the problem worse.
ReRe: #5, but that would mean you have to fire _management_! Because they put somebody into a position where they were in over their head (I see that all the time...) and set them up to fail. Nothing more stupid than doing that. (Of course you need to fire the incompetent developer/tester/etc. as well.)
ReRe: #6, this one is very tricky. Finger pointing usually does not result in any clear picture and quite often the people actually responsible manage to fly under the radar. While not assigning blame is a bad solution, assigning it wrongly is infinitely worse.
Not necessarily. A prototype can be a viable implementation if it is done well. Of course, only people really good at this (and hence expensive) can do that.
Unfortunately, how much planning you need to be able to "do" well afterwards depends on the person. I routinely see systems that are completely screwed up because of the lack of planning. They are slow, impossible to maintain, insecure and often do not even fulfill the design requirements. At the same time, they are impossible to replace because there is no specification. Having such systems is worse than having nothing.
Personally, I find that depending on project, I need between 10% and 50% of overall time for planning, or rather fro understanding what problem I am solving. That has worked very well so far for me.
Indeed. These hypes live on the mistaken belief that you can get great value out of mediocre and relatively cheap people by just using the right magic development process. That does not work and never will. It is just another manifestation of the greed and stupidity so prevalent in society today.
The fascinating thing is that even the Scrum manifesto says "Individuals and interactions over processes and tools" in first place. A warning that this is only a tool and will not magically make people perform much better, does not get much more explicit. Yet it seems most people doing Scrum completely miss that one.
And by what magic would non-productive employees actually get productive when they have to be on-site? Do you put a watcher behind each one of them that makes sure they actually work?
The only thing that move accomplished is make the non-productive ones more expensive and to drive away productive ones that liked the freedom. Stupid.
I don't think so. Yahoo never was any good at what it does. I once had a domain there and even the tenth Customer Services Person did not understand what I meant by wanting to run my own DNS and I finally had to move it somewhere else. My guess is that level of understanding is common there. Hence the only thing needed to kill Yahoo is to wait. Mayer cannot really do anything, she just has the usual big ego and lack of understanding so common and usual in large company CEO's these days.
It would be far more honest to call is a "limited usefulness single-purpose quantum computing device".
Incidentally, the Turing definition definition does not apply for analog computers. But a real quantum computer (not this D-Wave con device) _is_ a non-analog computer that can solve discrete problems like factoring numbers.
It does not shut anybody down that actually understand the subject matter. (You do not.) This thing is not a quantum computer. It is a special-purpose analog computer that happens to use some quantum effects. And (again) it looks like they have made the comparison as unfair, and hence as meaningless, as possible.
We can say that. We can also remember that the same is true for a host of other computing devices, for example graphics cards, signal processors, specialized analog computers, etc.
This thing is not special, despite what many people believe. It does also not demonstrate that quantum computers are possible.
Actually, it is not. For specialized things, analog computers have always been vastly faster than digital ones. This thing may still turn out to not even be a specialized quantum computer.
No proof at all. This may well just be highly parallelized classical analog computing, the speed-up factor is a bit on the low side. And even if it uses quantum effects, the D-Wave is not a real quantum computer, it is a 1-trick pony and can only do simulated annealing.
No. These computers cannot be used for general purpose computing. They can only do simulated annealing. Pretty much useless and not even real quantum computers.
It is called "stupid", and there really is not cure for it. Trump just shows how badly ignorant of reality and history the average American conservative really is.
Pure bullshit in the civilized world (but likely true in the US). They cannot do "whatever they like" and they must continue to offer the service they have been paid for.
FUD. These do not install automatically for most users. Also, for example in Germany, listening to user actions without explicit and informed consent (and that means written from, a click will not do it) is punishable by up to 2 years imprisonment.
They still view this as a desktop-only OS where the computer gets shit down daily. I had some computations running weeks for my PhD, and I never even considered using Windows for that. It was and still is still a glorified toy.
Indeed. And I, for one, will not update to Win10 before Win7 goes out of extended support. There is just too much greed and disrespect for the user involved in it. With a bit of luck, Windows will be irrelevant by then anyways.
Seriously, stop lying and twisting the truth. The TOR network has countermeasures to it and it is large enough to make such an attack both hard and obvious. The question is not whether this is theoretically possible, the question is whether this is being done in practice.
And if you are unable to control your fears (as you seem to be), you are doing about the worst disservice to others by spreading them here.
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The problem is that this gets misunderstood. The "Quantum Computer" is the magic machine that can break encryption, compute everything massively faster, etc. The D-Wave is not that machine.
Well, you might be right about the management. The problem is that if management is this grossly incompetent, you still have to fix management, not piss of the people doing actual work. The only justification for what she did would be that she wanted to obscure that she cannot fix the problem. Which makes the problem worse.
ReRe: #5, but that would mean you have to fire _management_! Because they put somebody into a position where they were in over their head (I see that all the time...) and set them up to fail. Nothing more stupid than doing that. (Of course you need to fire the incompetent developer/tester/etc. as well.)
ReRe: #6, this one is very tricky. Finger pointing usually does not result in any clear picture and quite often the people actually responsible manage to fly under the radar. While not assigning blame is a bad solution, assigning it wrongly is infinitely worse.
Hehehehe, nice!
And, after a bit of time you are wondering why both your infrastructure and your new software is getting worse and worse.
Not necessarily. A prototype can be a viable implementation if it is done well. Of course, only people really good at this (and hence expensive) can do that.
Unfortunately, how much planning you need to be able to "do" well afterwards depends on the person. I routinely see systems that are completely screwed up because of the lack of planning. They are slow, impossible to maintain, insecure and often do not even fulfill the design requirements. At the same time, they are impossible to replace because there is no specification. Having such systems is worse than having nothing.
Personally, I find that depending on project, I need between 10% and 50% of overall time for planning, or rather fro understanding what problem I am solving. That has worked very well so far for me.
Indeed. These hypes live on the mistaken belief that you can get great value out of mediocre and relatively cheap people by just using the right magic development process. That does not work and never will. It is just another manifestation of the greed and stupidity so prevalent in society today.
The fascinating thing is that even the Scrum manifesto says "Individuals and interactions over processes and tools" in first place. A warning that this is only a tool and will not magically make people perform much better, does not get much more explicit. Yet it seems most people doing Scrum completely miss that one.
And by what magic would non-productive employees actually get productive when they have to be on-site? Do you put a watcher behind each one of them that makes sure they actually work?
The only thing that move accomplished is make the non-productive ones more expensive and to drive away productive ones that liked the freedom. Stupid.
I don't think so. Yahoo never was any good at what it does. I once had a domain there and even the tenth Customer Services Person did not understand what I meant by wanting to run my own DNS and I finally had to move it somewhere else. My guess is that level of understanding is common there. Hence the only thing needed to kill Yahoo is to wait. Mayer cannot really do anything, she just has the usual big ego and lack of understanding so common and usual in large company CEO's these days.
Seems like they continue their fraudulent ways. No surprise.
It would be far more honest to call is a "limited usefulness single-purpose quantum computing device".
Incidentally, the Turing definition definition does not apply for analog computers. But a real quantum computer (not this D-Wave con device) _is_ a non-analog computer that can solve discrete problems like factoring numbers.
This thing can only do simulated annealing. It is not a quantum computer that can run different algorithms.
It does not shut anybody down that actually understand the subject matter. (You do not.) This thing is not a quantum computer. It is a special-purpose analog computer that happens to use some quantum effects. And (again) it looks like they have made the comparison as unfair, and hence as meaningless, as possible.
We can say that. We can also remember that the same is true for a host of other computing devices, for example graphics cards, signal processors, specialized analog computers, etc.
This thing is not special, despite what many people believe. It does also not demonstrate that quantum computers are possible.
Actually, it is not. For specialized things, analog computers have always been vastly faster than digital ones. This thing may still turn out to not even be a specialized quantum computer.
No proof at all. This may well just be highly parallelized classical analog computing, the speed-up factor is a bit on the low side. And even if it uses quantum effects, the D-Wave is not a real quantum computer, it is a 1-trick pony and can only do simulated annealing.
No. These computers cannot be used for general purpose computing. They can only do simulated annealing. Pretty much useless and not even real quantum computers.
It is called "stupid", and there really is not cure for it. Trump just shows how badly ignorant of reality and history the average American conservative really is.
That was after Hitler came into power, not before. Trump has time.
Pure bullshit in the civilized world (but likely true in the US). They cannot do "whatever they like" and they must continue to offer the service they have been paid for.
FUD. These do not install automatically for most users. Also, for example in Germany, listening to user actions without explicit and informed consent (and that means written from, a click will not do it) is punishable by up to 2 years imprisonment.
You cannot be serious. Have you been living under a rock? Or maybe you are just a paid MS shill...
They still view this as a desktop-only OS where the computer gets shit down daily. I had some computations running weeks for my PhD, and I never even considered using Windows for that. It was and still is still a glorified toy.
Indeed. And I, for one, will not update to Win10 before Win7 goes out of extended support. There is just too much greed and disrespect for the user involved in it. With a bit of luck, Windows will be irrelevant by then anyways.
Seriously, stop lying and twisting the truth. The TOR network has countermeasures to it and it is large enough to make such an attack both hard and obvious. The question is not whether this is theoretically possible, the question is whether this is being done in practice.
And if you are unable to control your fears (as you seem to be), you are doing about the worst disservice to others by spreading them here.