Quantum computing hits the desktop, no cryo-cooling required

www.newatlas.com ^ | September 27, 2021 | Loz Blain

[Jonty30]

Now, I get in quantum computing that your very thoughts can have an effect on results. What I don't understand is how they can insulate this quantum accelerator from your thoughts in such a small package.

[wally_bert]

Can it handle Lotus Notes?

I hate that software.

[GraceG]

so this could be bad for crypto as you could hack a unhackable key in a lot less time using a quantum computer.

[Fai Mao]

Great, the I-7 laptop I just bought is no a model-T

[Retrofitted]

I hesitate to say that for most people, thinking will not be an issue.

[Fai Mao]

It should be “now is a Model-T” not no model T

[Fester Chugabrew]

Just drop one and you have WWIV at your thinkertips.

[TexasGator]

“Great, the I-7 laptop I just bought is no a model-T”

The first laptop I-7 was 2009.

[Da Coyote]

Not holding my breath. Don’t think we’re at the point of pulling that off yet. Yes, I’d love to be wrong.

[dynachrome]

Will it run WYSIWYG?

[facedown]

so this could be bad for crypto as you could hack a unhackable key in a lot less time using a quantum computer.

Could undermine blockchain security.

[DEPcom]

Bitcoin values will crash.

[Jonty30]

So, to be consistent with my investment history, you’re suggesting that I buy bitcoin.

I’m on it!

[I-ambush]

I developed a quantum smartphone, but every time I opened an app, a cat died.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I’d rather have a flying car.

[algore]

not exactly, you can protect against quantum hacking.

but not important because desktop quantum computers are as far away as “Mr Fusion”

if the large govt entities who really want to control bitcoin cannot do it, (and cannot make energy with cold fusion either)

than it is unlikey you will see it any time soon.

hell I cannot even buy a decent graphics card.

[D_Idaho]

“I developed a quantum smartphone, but every time I opened an app, a cat died.“

Or not. ;-)

[FreedomPoster]

LOL!

I thought I was going to get through the early computer age without ever having to put up with Notes, and then I got a consulting gig for about a year and a half in a Notes operation. This around a dozen years ago.

I actually had a utility on my desktop called KillNotes. When Notes crashed, I could run KillNotes and get Notes going again without having to reboot my laptop! Which says much about the reliability of Notes in that era. Which was pretty well into the lifecycle of Notes.

[FreedomPoster]

Most people can’t properly format a complex document in Word using styles or do a data sort in Excel. It is amazing how little about using basic software most people know.

[FreedomPoster]

On that last, everyone is buying them up for crypto mining.