If Moore's Law hits a sinkhole...

[Radar]

Originally Posted by mbpark

Radar,

I didn't like seeing that little post of yours dredged up again. You made assumptions which simply were not true then, and are not true now. The level of management you are at doesn't change a damn thing about who you are .

When they offer pricing, I'll be on the phone with them. There's at least one doctor in cancer research I know who will pay out the nose to make his equations run faster on his huge datasets (http://www.dwavesys.com/index.php?page=bioinformatics).

However, the first applications of this type of physics and computing are going to be in areas such as GPS and encryption (think hardware random number generator first). General-purpose computing is still years off, no matter what a press release from late 2007 says.

If I could afford such a computer, I'd also be in line to buy one too. It makes sense that they would use it first to attack encryption. The government is always interested in that, and they have invested millions into this research. They always want to get their hands on the new stuff first, and even force companies to delay the release of certain technology until they get it first.

I said they'd have a working computer by 3 years. They did. It might not be very practical or useful at the moment, but they have a working version.