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Comment What have we produced so far? (Score 5, Interesting) 44

Forgive me for being naive, or bad a googling (which I did) but what have we done using quantum computers thus far? I know they are touted to revolutionize practically everything in the future. But, since we have little ones right now, and paying customers have access to them right now, what has that yielded so far? Is it just esoteric simulation stuff that is actual progress but too technical and boring to mention, or has someone used a quantum computer and then came back and said "wow, check this out, I finally did X after decades of slogging through with traditional computers, and X has now made Y obsolete overnight!". Or maybe what I'm asking is: has anything been done that has any direct impact on our everyday lives so far? Traditionally most progress is never this disruptive but, isn't this what quantum computers keep touting? You can do X-trillion times more permutations per second than you could before, so surely breakthroughs will happen every day.

Comment Re:Is throttling against neutrality? (Score 1) 49

To me this doesn't seem like it's against network neutrality, after all you get a lot of bonus in return for this throttling with a much higher data cap. Furthermore for most people it's not that much of a degradation, if you are watching it on a mobile device how much better is 4K going to look as it chews through your data allowance?

Yeah, remember, NetNeutrality means you can't discriminate based on /who/ sends the data, not what type of data. So saying StreamingCompanyA can stream unthrottled but StreamingCompanyB cannot, that's a violation. But saying DataTypeA gets throttled but DataTypeB does not, that's fine (QoS).

Comment Re:Nostalgia is over (Score 1) 109

Yeah, that situation sucks too. You can play it until you die, but pay for it the whole time. Companies are realizing that future retrogaming will be a big deal and they want to monetize it. Sigh. As for PC game preservation, yes, it's hard but at least it's possible. And preservationist communities have done a lot in the way of trying to make PC emulators turn-key. Something I think some people are not realizing about this problem with cloud gaming is that it really is different than preserving other media. Someone pointed out that NetFlix exclusive shows can't be bought on Blu-ray or ever preserved. True, but at least someone could try to record it, even if it's just a lower-quality screen scrape. But, cloud games, there is no way to copy them at all even if you wanted to settle for lower quality.

Comment Nostalgia is over (Score 2) 109

Imagine being a kid right now. Some game releases in the next few years, via cloud only, that you play and absolutely love. It becomes part of your childhood. Fast forward 20+ years, and you start thinking about that game. You can't have it. It's gone. There is no digging it out of your mom's attic. It will just be completely gone. There may be videos of it, but those are just videos. You can never play it again, ever.

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