Researchers at NIST have created a programmable, 2-qubit quantum processor.
Mr. Hanneke suggests that while this is just the first 2-qubit processor, one could combine many such processors by linking them together.
Qubits, are roughly similar to the ‘bits’ used in traditional computing, except that qubits can be both 1 & 0 at the same time. The NIST processor uses ultraviolet lasers to manipulate individual atoms to track such qubit information.
This is a big step towards ‘Quantum Computing,’ which is a new kind of computing that would (it doesn’t exist yet) use stuff much smaller than electrons to process data. This is science fiction slowly becoming reality here. The final product will probably depend on this other research being done on quantum teleportation.
To those of you who think that the rich get away with a free ride in our ‘capitalist’ society:
Personal FinanceSoftware – Mint.com
It’s my guess that the debate on Network Neutrality has just gotten started. This will continue to be an issue for decades, unless we find a better way to sell Internet access.
Net Neutrality gets mostly contentious on the question of how much control Telecom companies can exert over the traffic that travels over their infrastructure. My gut pushes me to defend the telecom’s right to do what they want with the systems they’ve built or bought, that’s what a world of strong property rights would do. The fact remains though that the level of competition in the ISP market is incredibly low.
Customer choice typically lies in the choice between ‘fast’ cable or ‘less fast’ dsl. Or in some cases the same company that offers the ‘less fast’ dsl also offers the ‘faster’ fiber. The ‘fast’ company has little incentive to reduce rates or increase speed because there is no ‘faster’ option that they can hope to draw market share from.
Net Neutrality seems like nothing more than a new spin on the age old question of monopoly regulation. When you resolve the symptoms of monopoly the debate usually fizzles because there is no longer any need for it. It’s hard to ask for a better accountability master than a working market. That’s what I’m now looking for.
Notice anything?
You know, other than that they are all melodramatic divas?
How about that they were all brought up from their graphite infancy to be objectified symbols of paternalism?
Keep guessing, you’ll get it…
Not sure how I missed this, but apparently, the first device certified for USB 3.0 released in September.
Just want to make sure everybody knows how cool this is! It can transfer about 600 Megabytes each second. That’s most of the contents of a full CD, transferred to your flash drive in 1 second. It also carries substantially more power, so charging devices over USB won’t take nearly as long over USB 3.0.
