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Programmable Quantum Computer Created 132

An anonymous reader writes "A team at NIST (the National Institute of Standards and Technology) used berylium ions, lasers and electrodes to develop a quantum system that performed 160 randomly chosen routines. Other quantum systems to date have only been able to perform single, prescribed tasks. Other researchers say the system could be scaled up. 'The researchers ran each program 900 times. On average, the quantum computer operated accurately 79 percent of the time, the team reported in their paper.'"

Comment Common vs. Prefered (Score 1) 118

Isn't that the difference between Common Stock and Preferred Stock? Common is an actual percentage of ownage, while Preferred is a dilutted slice of the pie. I've vested and exercised 1/2 of some preferred options on a low cents amount, although the company chooses to remain private, hence, I effectively loaned them money at best.

Comment Glasses for Color Blindness Correction (Score 1) 197

I've heard of glasses that help correct colorblindness and found the following link.

http://www.dyslexia-help.co.uk/chromagen_colour_deficiency.html

They even have stuff for dyslexia.. weird.

Whats interesting is i can partially pass the tests and I don't land into any of the categories of color blindness. If i blur my eyes i can pass the tests, although i remember it being difficult in the "real" test.

Comment Cobol vs. Data Entry (Score 3, Insightful) 223

I learned and taught cobol for awhile, and i can say that cobol is not too far from data entry. It is way too much work to do simple things, and it is way too weak of a language for most things. Its functionality is low that it takes a lot of code to implement simple things. The compiler gives you weird error messages. The language is archane. It is a very miserable language to write in, and I wouldn't code in it for less than several hundreds of dollars per hour, just because its so boring and takes way too much typing to do simple things that would be a snap in other languages.

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It's a naive, domestic operating system without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.

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