General Chat / My friend's dad built a working quantum computer.

That's nice.

Too bad it will never see the light of day.

I would download a movie store. and play every movie at 1 time!!!!!!!

so how much ram would this be 700-800,000,000,000 tb?

i need pics dude, how big is the computer? like 15 fucking feet?!!

I would download a movie store. and play every movie at 1 time!!!!!!

Did someone EVER mention the internet?

WARNING: you probably won't know what i'm talking about

OK, modern computers use two quantum states of an electron to compute, represented by ones and zeroes, a quantum computer would utilize all 32 quantum states of an elctron, which could bring computing time down to essentially zero.

This doesnt necessarily mean a faster internet connection, but it means you could compute data in seconds, equivalent to the combined power of a stack of processers the size of a skyscraper

i need pics dude, how big is the computer? like 15 fucking feet?!!

The computer itself is not visible to the human eye, its much too small.

The cooling unit is pretty big though.

i guess the scale would be a helicopter blade cooling off the end of a needle.

...it's all well and good to make things like this....but when there's no obvious point....

Good point, actually.
But the computer industry thrives off of useless progress.
They get all this new power, then try and find ways to [squander] use it. I mean, really. Ever compared the requirements of Windows 3.11 with WindowsXP?
New hardware isn't created out of the demand from software, it's created out of demand from nerds such as myself. I mean, I would love to encode my pornography to MPEG in a few seconds*.
Currently, we don't need any of this quantum bullshit. But we will. Because software gets bigger, sloppier, more inefficent, and more fucking demanding as time goes by.
But what it comes down to is the consumer - the ones that upgrade for the sake of upgrading. The ones who have developed AMD nesting instinct.
Pointless, yes. But never underestimate the power of penis envy.

*That was a lie. I use DivX.
But seriously. Porn is for retards.

It's all about novelty

but anybody who read Timeline knows what quantum computers mean, TIME TRAVEL! probably not, but it's still fun to think about, go read that book, Timeline by Michael Crichton (one of the best authors ever)

Mike IS a good writer... I don't care what that creative writing teacher said.
He said he has good stories, but can't write himself out of a paperbag. That is bullshit, because storytelling is a part of writing.
I just got done with prey, fucking awesome book.

deleting a file that was about 1 gig

Erasing the evidence.... =P

Meh I want one of these things. But I haven't any money...*sob*

But wouldn't Blitz-samas big-tyme-deletion require a fast HD rather than a fast CPU?

Quantum computers hold 100 million gigabytes within each of their operations, so they dont need hard drives.

Quantum computers hold 100 million gigabytes within each of their operations, so they dont need hard drives.

Shit.

This may (and likely will) be a stupid question, but would this mean that rather than programming in 1s and 0s, everything would have to be reprogramed into 1s through 32s?

Also, say you've maxed out your 100 million gigabytes with the entire Kazzaa network, could you add a second one?

So how long should it take before this technology will become affordable and everyone can use it?

(not that they'd let anyone use it, but heck, I could use half of it... or even a quarter)

Of course, the ultimate test would be how fast it could load RCT 2.