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Comments on news posted 2007-12-15 14:31:57: Quantum computing is a relatively young technology which has the potential to develop into the creation of super-powerful computers with super-fast problem-solving abilities. However, there are flaws in the technology which limit its abilities. ..

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More of the same

So, this story makes the front page. Dry subject. No quotes from any of the links. Photon conductor chips ? Maybe in the Intelll Inginear forum. Moving on....


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If the topic is so boring to you, why bother to leave a comment at all? Keeping an eye toward the future is never boring...


GanJa
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What would it do?


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Skynet.

Wait..so is this just a super computer solving problems? Something like Folding@home?

DSLR didn't really say much about the project..just seem like they saw the news clip made up a few things to say about it and threw on the main page..bleh
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 The future beckons

I think this is fascinating. I'd love to come back 200 years from now to see how technology has advanced, specifically in the areas of medicine and computer tech.

Companies like IBM developing a processor that uses light pulses (See IBM Research) is very intriguing to me.

We have dual- and now quad-core processors, IBM's Cell processor, and AMD's announcement of an 8 core processor due in 2009 is very exciting.

Technology is accelerating at faster levels than it has previously, if you ask me. If I had mentioned 1TB consumer-level hard drives 6 months ago, you would've declared me to be a fruitcake. Now they're widely available (albeit quite expensive for the time being), but the point is they exist!

Flash drives are now up to 32 GB. It's enough to boggle the mind.

So bravo to BroadbandReports for passing along this story. The future looks to be compelling.
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Re: More of the same

And there will be a lot of government funding in the area of quantum computing and especially quantum communications. And that is because the FBI, CIA, NSA, etc. are very interested in quantum communications over fiber because it quickly becomes known if anyone is eavesdropping on the fiber optic line and actually scrambles the communications as soon as anyone taps into the fiber optic cable.
»www.physorg.com/news66922790.html
The key to the technology is quantum cryptography -- sending messages via optic fibers, one photon at a time. As quantum states cannot be copied, users of the system will know immediately if anyone steals the information. As Huntingdon says, "If you're sending one photon at a time and one goes missing, you definitely know it." Although other similar commercial systems exist in the United States and Europe, they use filtered lasers to approximate single photos instead.
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Once they get the Heisenberg Compensators developed the technology will really accelerate!


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"This new technology would allow every person on the internet to view super high resolution pornographic images at a rate of 6934.6 images per second. In fact not only will it allow this to happen, it would FORCE it upon them." Dr Frank N. Furter, Project Lead


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Re: The future beckons

said by momus_98 See Profile :

If I had mentioned 1TB consumer-level hard drives 6 months ago, you would've declared me to be a fruitcake.
While I agree with you for the most part, I had to point out that about 6 months ago Seagate introduced a new 1TB hard drive for the consumer market. And 12 months ago Hitachi introduced the "Deskstar 7K1000" which as you can guess also had 1tb. So if anyone had called you a fruitcake, they would have been a cup of cherries short of a fruitcake themselves...

But yes, technology accelerating at an amazing pace. I never thought I'd have 4 gigs of ram, let alone 8.


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10^90 bits!

It is probably one of the most promising technology. Just look to this from wiki article:

"The number of classical bits required even to estimate the complex numbers of some quantum state grows exponentially with the number of qubits. For a 300-qubit quantum register, somewhere on the order of 10^90 classical registers are required, more than there are atoms in the observable universe".


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Re: So

Porn is the cutting edge baby.

ShadezeRO

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Hopefully...

This technology will lead to the invention of the flux Capacitor! Time travel will be fun indeed.

As will 8mbps DSL from ATT


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Quantum Leap

Sam Beckett will make it home sooner or later.


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gooshi? GOOSHI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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Can't wait to see the Microsoft OS that will choke one of these computers.


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Re: More of the same

Mis-click. Definitely meant to be thumbs-down.


Armanian

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This is really fun knowing what the Quantum Era will bring

and i have to agree with the person above me.. what will Microsoft OS do to destroy one of these systems.

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Yeah, probably make it run like a 486. But at least it will be doing it at the speed of light..
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