That Independent article is dumb as ass. Quantum computing only solves a *very* specific set of problems; for instance doing queries on a database may be made quite a lot faster, and linear optimization problems (which are so common it's not even funny) will see a great improvement with it, but writing the rendering code of a web browser would suck horribly.
Also, keep in mind that quantum computing gives *approximates* result. So if your boss is okay with 2+2 being 4 only 99.9 percent of the time you can proceed with qubits. (of course this is a dumb example, but AFAIK current state of the art experimental linear optimization algorithms have a fidelity ~ 98.5%). Best, ------- Jean-Michaël Celerier http://www.jcelerier.name On Sat, Jul 8, 2017 at 10:08 PM, Roland Hughes <rol...@logikalsolutions.com> wrote: > >Qt company belive that qml is the best thing that happened to qt. So many > years have passed and we still see this. > > > >Reminds me of Nokia, they kept saying windows phone will succeed. Too > late. > > > >Problem is that unlike windows phone Qt has no serious compitition (well > wxwidgets is not that level). So Qt can live longer. > > > >I miss QWidget. > > Just an FYI, Microsoft has issued an End of Life for Windows Phone/Mobile > without a replacement option. Google is in the process of abandoning > Android and its butchered underlying Linux OS for Fushcia and Cannonical > has their own fork of Fushcia (sp?) after Unity basically failed. > > A later post on this list talks about the movement to put Qt's core > features including a Moc like step into the C++ standard. It's just white > papers, lecturing and grumblings right now but should not be long before it > turns to pitch forks and torches for the angry mob. > > I'm just too old. I've seen too many of these frameworks start out with > great promise then get pulled down a rabbit hole as they try to be all > things to all people, whoever "all" is defined as at the moment. CScape, > Zinc, etc. Heck, even Watcom took a stab at it with their OS/2-DOS-Windows > platform and IDE and when Novell, their biggest customer by far, had a > brush with the bankruptcy reef, Watcom went away. It now even looks like > the OpenWatcom project has faded into the sunset. > > Very soon, like within the next 8 years, the x86 based world of INTEL and > ARM will be relegated to embedded devices. IBM is going to release their > first Quantum computer with API in 2018. IBM will naturally try to scale it > up to the Big Iron world of old while other companies will try to scale it > down, first to midrange computers, then desktops. If you are really old > like I am you remember a time when we had feeble 8086, 80286 based desktops > and just down the hall there were Sparc Stations and all of these other > high end engineering workstations. History is about to repeat itself. The > "cloud" built out of low end x86 blades and racks will be replaced by a > massive Quantum computer or 5. Development machines will be smaller > Quantums for "engineering workstations" and PC based machines will be > viewed as quaint antiques like mechanical adding machines. > > http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/new > s/ibm-quantum-computer-how-work-commercial-api-faster-q-syst > ems-computing-a7613271.html > > According to that the first generation unit will be millions of times > faster than today's tech and it is not a white paper theory. The machine is > being tested now with various dates in 2018 floated for production. Oddly > enough I haven't read anything about Quantum disk drives. It's all well and > good we can now have a Boolean holding as many states of true and false as > today's 64-bit integer, but, if the spinning platter of rust we need to > store on cannot.... > > I wonder if we will see them bring back The Brick phone just so we can get > a big enough battery. > > https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Dy > naTAC8000X.jpg/220px-DynaTAC8000X.jpg > > Within 3 years of Quantums going full production the same thing will > happen which happened before. Mechanical, biological and chemical engineers > will clamor about needing the speed on their desktops and _someone_ will > scale it down to create sub $100K engineering workstations. The x86 world > cannot scale up to compete. In the past INTEL and the big CPU makers were > competing in the same arena. Both were trying to scale, pack and cool to > increase speed. Occasionally one manufacturer invented a new compound which > allowed the next major leap in processing power, eventually plateauing and > opting to stacking more lower powered cores in the same or a reasonable > amount of space. > > What much of the world calls a "smart phone" will have to follow suit, not > because the apps need to be able to dynamically calculate how to turn lead > into gold but because the graphics world, driven by Hollywood and > television makers will start deploying Quantums for dynamic image > generation. In a very short period of time the displays you now consider > beautiful will look like DOS text graphics of the 1980s. Personally I > prefer that interface for many types of applications. Seriously, just how > pretty do you need your word processor or email client to be? Wont' matter. > The consumer will want the same amazing experience on every device. The > image file standards we have today will simply go away, replaced by Quantum > data fed into an image rendering library on a Quantum core. > > Sorry, I guess I need to mindlessly vent. This happens when I decide to > read email I've been putting off instead of writing another book when I > know I should be writing the book. > > -- > Roland Hughes, President > Logikal Solutions > (630)-205-1593 > > http://www.theminimumyouneedtoknow.com > http://www.infiniteexposure.net > http://www.johnsmith-book.com > http://www.logikalblog.com > http://www.interestingauthors.com/blog > http://lesedi.us/ > http://onedollarcontentstore.com > > _______________________________________________ > Interest mailing list > Interest@qt-project.org > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest >
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