Quantum Computer Breakthrough ! or ?

[Raineh Daze]

The requirement of cooling it to close to absolute zero makes it rather inaccessible for home users.

[dman11235]

Close?  No, that's not just close.  That's "gasses solidify" cold.  I don't think helium....oh, no, helium is solid at that temp.  Okay, that's solid helium levels of cold.

[veekie]

It's a breakthrough to prove it works at all, once that's done it's either scaling up for use in predictive modeling, or reducing the energy/infrastructure requirements so it can make it into home users. Both are refinements of the application, which would be the next step.

[Raineh Daze]

I'll only be getting excited once I get to play with the things. XD

[awaken_D_M_golem]

(smarmy yet ironic mom voice):
Honey , don't play with the Solid Helium ... you'll go blind.

The particular gimmick is that modern processors are already reaching the limits of their useful speed with regards to the operations they are good at, so much so that I/O(device or memory) is going to be a bigger choke point than raw speed of operation, as well multitasking to do more on a given unit. 

Quantum computing works around the major difficulties of cryptography, modeling and massively parallel problem solving, which are the main things which require more processing power than present chips can supply effectively. And quantum computing is way better at those.

As far as the home user is concerned, it would affect file compression, media playback(both by fitting more data into less space without taking more time to interpret), security(either quantum computers break traditional encryption by being able to backsolve for what would normally be insoluble due to complexity, and/or quantum cryptography makes it impossible to intercept information) and graphics(your games can now be hyper-realistic, as the operations necessary to render sunlight scattering through clouds of dust and semi opaque substances can do things the proper way rather than using shortcuts that trade detail for finishing the calculation in decent timespans)

    ... more reading for me.

[PlzBreakMyCampaign]

Really aDMg? I thought everyone knew about that. Since, like the 7th grade.

Oh well I suppose I'll go back to watching people not be able to correctly wrap their mind around religion. I wish those threads would die.

[awaken_D_M_golem]

(I deserve that) ... but but in 7th grade Chemistry
I wasn't paying attention to the Chemistry part.



Samsung just announced a 5G wireless system, but for around 2020.
"several hundred times faster" versus competitors saying it's hype.