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    Quantum computers

    Thought this was quite interesting.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-27264552

    Somewhere in there is a cat. But is it dead or alive ? and who's cat is it ?

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    Is this the same company that won't tell you whats inside the machine and they don't have very much IP on the actual device??

    Still for $15m I'm sure a bunch of the big players will buy it just to strip it down and figure out whats inside.

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    they will never get 15m for it .... 7.5 tops .... they would be better off breaking it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Johnny View Post
    they will never get 15m for it .... 7.5 tops .... they would be better off breaking it.
    ...or fitting some different wheels to it and pushing it sideways into a wall.

    There are only three of them according to www.notmanyleft...

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    Quote Originally Posted by R3K1355 View Post
    Is this the same company that won't tell you whats inside the machine and they don't have very much IP on the actual device??

    Still for $15m I'm sure a bunch of the big players will buy it just to strip it down and figure out whats inside.
    I'll tell you what's inside... a cat, an isotope and a vial of poison

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    Android is better.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gonzomagic View Post
    Android is better.
    yes, but this is smaller, more compact, made of a nicer material and looks less silly in size compared to a samsung GS5....... all though at a quantum level it does share a lot of similarities to an HTC, where it can be in the state of switched on AND switched off at the same time .. or as HTC like to call it "hung"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Johnny View Post
    this is smaller, more compact, made of a nicer material and looks less silly in size compared to a samsung GS5
    Yea I have to agree those are plus points.

    I was looking at getting a GS5, but having to get planning permission to store the bloody great big thing at home was too bothersome

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    Dont the NSA have one of these things, and google was going to get one of the next gen ones to play with.

    Wish they would hurry up, i want a computer with a dead/alive cat in it so i can play crysis at last.

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    Aye, 15m and you dont know what you are getting but NSA, NASA and Google have all bought one apparently, thats not a bad customer list ........
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    After I shave my balls swarfega helps soothe, but means the hair grows back quite quickly, so give it a go

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    If it's true, there will be a massive change in computing. If it isn't true then they are just selling the idea of Quantum Computing and not the fully fledged Quantum Computing that everyone has be harking on about.

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    And its still slower than a standard mac book.

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    Quote Originally Posted by -ghost- View Post
    And its still slower than a standard mac book.
    Nowts as slow as a macbook, bar an 8yr old celeron dell with fluff all over the cooler.

    This quantum computer looks ok, but its no where near the sheer greatness of what the Daddy of all puters looks like


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    Dat is cray cray...


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    How long before someone gets one for mining Bitcoin??

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    Quote Originally Posted by sideways14a View Post
    Nowts as slow as a macbook, bar an 8yr old celeron dell with fluff all over the cooler.

    well thats only true if you installed a Windows OS on it, stick a nice install of Ubuntu on it and it will run just fine

    But anyway .... back on topic, can it run Crysis on full resolution ?

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    At nearly absolute zero it could well be a Pentium 4 overclocked to 50Ghz

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    Have you seen how bloated Ubuntu has got recently its definitely putting on the pounds - i shoved a copy onto a door stop of a laptop recently (single core ancient POS) and it was awful. Still you can pair it down but you can do the same with other linux installs and XP as well.

    Anyway seeing as i have now derailed this thread with pics of pretyy computers here is another, http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/07/p...sk-next-to-yo/

    Edited to say a p4 at 50Ghz wont actually be all that superb, anything using modern instruction extensions will cuff it even at nearly 100 times its average clock speed.
    Last edited by sideways14a; 20-05-2014 at 15:04.

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    Is no one alarmed.

    Google are using one of these to research artificial intelligence and they also own the company that makes this


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    Google has been watching too much terminator.

    Still Googles version of skynet will become self aware one day and then impload immediately from the influx of cat videos on youtube it watches.

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