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If we can just struggle on until this thing is in production we could fire all polititions and figure things out sensibly.
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We don't really need that much for that... 
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Fascinating !
"The ability to store and process huge amounts of data in a quantum way (on an atomic scale) would revolutionise computing, making it possible to carry out massive calculations and enabling computers to understand chemical reactions, create new medicines and carry out seemingly impossible simulations, such as the creation of our universe."
And, when they perform the simulation of the creation of our universe, and find out that what we thought were our "real lives" were dreams in the minds of gods: a few will be blissful; many will commit suicide since they will find the knowledge they create their own fictional continuity in time intolerable because they realize that they have chosen who they are, and are fully responsible for their own actions.
bill
Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview
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BillWoodruff wrote: when they perform the simulation of the creation of our universe
The people started, open mouthed, at the sky. Or, rather, what had been the sky.
Across the plain blue, cloudless expanse, in bright, white writing, was written
"A problem has been detected and Reality has been shut down to prevent damage to your Quantum Computer".
As if automata, eight billion people simultaneously saluted with three fingers.
MVVM # - I did it My Way
___________________________________________
Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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Yeah men we are all in the matrix right? 
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So can we finally have sound and picture synchronized in our porn?
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Who knows.... Maybe we can even sync a 3d on it....
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I don't want quantumses on my computer, I want e-books.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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"No! Not! Never! Sméagol hates nasty quantumses! Sméagol wants to see them… dead!" 
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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Perzakerley!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Paulo Kunzel wrote: What is your opinion?
I don't believe it and believe it at the same time 
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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It never happened it is never going to happen and where did that bloody cat come from!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Cool, but I think that even when useful quantum computers become a thing, they'll be the huge room-filling things used mostly for simulation at quantum scales. Mortals like most of us won't ever get to program them, and we wouldn't understand it anyway. Eventually quantum computing would become cheaper, and we might start seeing services pop up where you can submit parameters for a fixed set of problems that they can solve.
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Maybe. I don't count it as a true quantum computer. D-Wave is cool and quantumy, but afaik only applicable to some specific problems, even more niche than a proper quantum computer would be.
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Does it do email?
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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To some extent the possibility is already there.
You know the advice to use those 'military grade' disk wipe applications before you give an already used hard-drive to another person - it's because the amplitude of the magnetism on a disk gives away the previous values stored on that physical part of the disk.
I am surprised that nobody has yet developed a disk/driver that will allow multiple bits to be written at the same time using this feature of being able to measure the amplitude of the magnetism - you could triple disk size.
There again I am not an electronics engineer so I may be off on one...
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I read In five years, Microsoft’s share of personal computing fell from 90 to 33% [^] from apple insider.
Their title claims that PC is losing market share... that is true, but what I don't understand is :
-How do they conclude it falls from 90 to 33% from their graph "PC (+tablet) shipment" ?
-Why Microsoft should care, since PC shipment are not so much impacted by the tablet market ?
-How does it show that people drops PC for tablets and phone ?
My interpretation of the same graph is that consumers are giving more money to the whole device industry, not that personal computer relevance is dropping.
Same number, different interpretation, am I biased ?
modified 14-Oct-13 4:24am.
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I think they probably means computing used to be PC, dominated by Microsoft.
Computing is now PC + tablet + iPhone + iPod + iWatch + iGlass (or gGlass?), not dominated by Microsoft, ergo Apple is taking over the world! ^_^
On a similar topic I used to think I have to change my PC every 3 years to keep up, but now, my monster desktop from 2010 is still very decent! I think I will wait until I can buy an affordable laptop which can beat it...
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on the other hand they make you change your iStuff every year 
The point is that it is common belief that tablet and phone are replacing computer for the consumers market, but the numbers does not show the computer industry declining at all.
The only imperceptible decline might be attributed to the stupid Windows 8 OS, as when vista released... which was compensated when Windows 7 released in 2009.
I feel this is because when people equals "lose of market share" to "selling less", where in reality the pie just become bigger.
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Nicolas Dorier wrote: on the other hand they make you change your iStuff every year
The point is that it is common belief that tablet and phone are replacing computer for the consumers market, but the numbers does not show the computer industry declining at all.
The only imperceptible decline might be attributed to the stupid Windows 8 OS, as when vista released... which was compensated when Windows 7 released in 2009.
I feel this is because when people equals "lose of market share" to "selling less", where in reality the pie just become bigger.
Apple makes you change it??? I guess if Gallagher can smash watermelons on your front lawn, Apple can smash apples on your lawn until you are forced to upgrade to their latest toy. http://s.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/smiley_redface.gif
Personally, I still use XP and even DOS and 95 (also Linux). If it "ain't broke, don't fix it"! Unlike what the new CEO did to Yahoo e-mail. What used to work fine is now a disaster. They felt they had to compete with Google by emulating G-Mail. If I wanted to use G-Mail, I would have switched. Now Yahoo is driving me there as at least it works.
Back on topic, desktops are not selling like they used to sell. You can achieve pretty much the same thing (in most cases) with a good laptop. And people who bought laptops due to their portability are now buying tablets. Much more convenient (and longer battery usage before recharging). Also, desktops and laptops are lasting longer than in the early days. Even businesses are slow to migrate with many still using XP. Just because Microsoft ends support doesn'r mean XP is going to stop running. Plus many of the non-Microsoft products will continue to run (unless you upgrade, of course). People in the consumer market found out they can do what they need to do with a tablet and not be concerned that its not Windows iPads and Androids get the job done for most home users and for many business users. Of course, if you are developing code, that is another matter. I also wouldn't want to develop a spreadsheet on a tablet or even write a lengthy message (unless I have a small, but usable keyboard).
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People in the consumer market found out they can do what they need to do with a tablet and not be concerned that its not Windows iPads and Androids get the job done for most home users and for many business users.
That is the point of this topic. What you say is what every blogger says, but the numbers are telling otherwise : People do not replace laptop and pc with tablets.
Check the link I gave, it is the number of laptop shipment from 2008. It did not slow down one bit.
The effect of a bad Windows version is way more important to shipment than the release of any android or istuff.
That's what I don't understand : why we have the same numbers but different interpretation.
modified 15-Oct-13 8:07am.
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Super Lloyd wrote: I used to think I have to change my PC every 3 years to keep up
Exactly the same here. My current desktop was put together when Win7 was released and still gets the job done very well. My current laptop is six months older with Win7 and also performs exceptionally well. Like you, I had been on about a 3 year replacement schedule, but that cycle has now been broken...and barring a major hardware failure, I can see both workstations serving me well for at least another two years.
There was a previous thread discussing the decrease in PC sales over the last few years. One of the explanations for the trend was that we had achieved 'desktop nirvana', or at least gotten a point where it's good enough for most users.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Nicolas Dorier wrote: Same number, different correct interpretation
But you can't expect the apple insider to say "Hey, Microsoft's doing pretty well!", can you?
I dare say that there's a pro-MS site somewhere with exactly the same figures, but using them as proof that apple is collapsing into oblivion.
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