IBM claims huge strides in quantum computing

CNET ^ | February 27, 2012 9:00 PM PS | Daniel Terdiman

[The Cajun]

CA these kids understand pentode tubes?

Now you're talking my language.
Filaments, cathode, control grid, screen grid, suppressor grid, plate, B+, etc, etc.

[mylife]

I have seen great engineers do shit on paper and hands on.
Ive seen lousy engineers get complacent with software driven engineering programs.
One of the things I have noticed with that with automated programs, hardware guys get complacent.

Its the same in the commercial world, people get mesmerized with flash and stop thinking about the goal

I know a bunch of smart SOBS that play call of duty on the x box 360 who never served and wouldn’t know one end of a gun from another.

[mylife]

How are they to understand Quantum computers if they dont understand the basics?

Seriously.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Sorry to be cynical, but I’ll venture to guess this will immediately be outsourced to the PRC and we’ll go further into debt.

[The Cajun]

Every now and then I think back where we were when I was in electronic tech school in 1967 and where we are now.
Really blows my mind, the young ones have no idea.

[mylife]

That’s my point Cajun,they have no clue.

We are floating them on hardware.

[dr_lew]

I remember it well. ... where’s my mitten ?

[dr_lew]

Now I’m curious and will have to do more research.

Start by watching the Wizard of Oz six times. Then read The End of Science by John Horgan (1996).

Trust me on this one.

[SunkenCiv]

Nice work! The Asian manufacturers will make a fortune!

Thanks Ernest.

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[Condor51]

*** Riiiiight. What’s a qubit? ***

LOL. You're showing your age.

an aside: I have all of his albums, pure comic genius. Today's yutes would be amazed how we entertained ourselves back then. 'You sat around and listened to what? How is that any fun???'

[rbg81]

No, we don’t cover vacuum tubes, except to mention that the early computers used ‘em. We do (briefly) cover how transistors work and also how to build interesting stuff with digital logic.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I posted this so I could learn something about....still don’t know much.