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Its OS is built with alien technology (aka LISP)

http://dwave.wordpress.com/2011/05/20/learning-to-program-th...

This particular device is only wired to do one kind of optimization search - basically it does a variant of the 'traveling salesman' shortest route search. There's no OS or programming language, it's just an 'oracle' device. You set the states of the qubits via the inputs, let it 'run' for a bit and then you read the results.

So, it's more like an expensive ASIC and not a general-purpose computer?

"I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."

That's like hearing about a faster-than-light spaceship and asking about what kind of seats it has.

Don't be a jackass. It's a much more minor mistake to assume extra similarities between conventional and quantum computers than to assume that computers are effective magic.