I have never found Japan the home of gaming pc's anyway. It isn't quite like Seoul in that respect. I have shopped in Akibahara frequently in the last decade and noticed some PC gaming exclusive shops pop up and also go, including range of stock varying.
Limited hardware is exactly why it is usable. Many e-ink devices exist now so limiting factors such as refresh rates etc, need to be considered when developing apps for android etc nowadays.
Oh no, that isn't factually correct. We have the theory. The theory is viable and provable and shown in both of the major branches of quantum computing, qubit and photonic. The key issue as I say is each has multiple 'architectures' for lack of a better term for each branch. We do have functional devices, it is just the function they provide is useless as we can already do it on a laptop. Which partially is a massive issue as Quantum computing almost needs to skip ahead of those development years classical computing was afforded.
I'm not going to pretend that I am that knowledgeable on classic computing history from that time period. I was primarily going off the fact the semi conductor was built in the late 40's, and I would say we have the quantum version of that in both qubit and photonic based computing and they work and we have been developing on them for some time now. The key difference is that there are many more steps to get to the stage of making them useful. A transistor becamse useful extremely quickly and well in Quantum computing, these just haven't quite yet.
There is private sector adoption and planning now of specific single purpose focused quantum devices in military and security settings. They work and exist although I do not believe they are installed. I may be wrong on the exact date, as my classical computer knowledge isn't spot on. The point I was trying to make was that we have all the bits we need. We have the ability to make the photonic quantum version (which spoiler alert is where the focus needs to move to over the qubit method of quantum computing) of a transistor, so we have hit the 50's at least. The fundamentals at this point won't change. What will change is how they are put together and how they are made durable.
- Too few researchers, as in my area of quantum computing. I would state there is one other group that has any academic rigour, and is actually making significant and important progress. The two other groups are using non reproducible results for credit and funding for private companies. You have FAANG style companies also doing research, and the research that comes out still is clearly for funding. It doesn't stand up under scrutiny of method (there usually isn't one although that will soon change as I am in the process of producing a recipe to get to the point we are currently at which is as far as anyone is at) and repeatability.
- Too little progress. Now this is due to the research focus being spread too thin. We have currently the classic digital (qubit) vs analogue (photonic) quantum computing fight, and even within each we have such broad variations of where to focus. Therefore each category is still really just at the start as we are going in so many different directions. We aren't pooling our resources and trying to make progress together. This is also where a lack of openness regarding results and methods harms us. Likewise a lack of automation. Most significant research is done by human hand, which means building on it at a different research facility often requires learning off the person who developed the method in person if possible or at worse, just developing a method again which is a waste of time. If we don't see the results, the funding won't be there. Obviously classical computing eventually found a use case and then it became useful for the public but I fear we may not get to that stage as we may take too long.
As an aside, we may also get to the stage whereby, it is useful but only in a military/security setting. I have worked on a security project (I was not bound by any NDA surprisingly but I'm still wary) featuring a quantum setup, that could of sorts be comparable to a single board computer (say of an ESP32), although much larger. There is some value to it, and that particular project could be implemented into security right now (I do not believe it has or will, I believe it was viability) and isn't that far off. But that particular project has no other uses, outside of the military/security.
It is more, many companies can't do what they claim to do, or they have done it once at best and had no more consistency. I sense most companies in the quantum computing space right now are of this ilk. As someone that works in academic and private quantum computing research, repeatability and methodology are severely lacking, which always rings alarm bells. Some companies are funded off the back of one very poor quality research paper, reviewed by people who are not experts, that then leads to a company that looks professional but behind the scenes I would imagine are saying Oh shit, now we actually have to do this thing we said we could do.
As someone that works in quantum computing research both academic and private, no it isn't imminent in my understanding of the word, but it will happen. We are still at that point whereby we are comparable to 60's general computing development. Many different platforms and we have sort of decided on the best next step but we have many issues still to solve. A lot of the key issues have solutions, the problem is more getting everyone to focus in the right direction, which also will mean when funding starts to focus in the right direction. There are snake oil sellers right now and life will be imminently easier when they are removed.
Like I have said for so long, it was snake oil, another theranos style lie whereby he overegged the speed of future development. He has at the very best exaggerated to gain funding, at the very worst potentially told outright lies (Open, what a joke!).
Ah good on you! You seem like a lovely person. Some absolutely do tell you a story to get a fix, and it is tricky. I visit Berlin often for work, and the sheer number of homeless people I have met and chatted to who seem to have become homeless due to a lack of mental health support is extremely sad. I suspect it will only get worse. I was lucky to be homeless in London respectfully weather wise, I can't imagine being homeless in Berlin as it is so cold.
This isn't for you as you do plenty but incase others read this, but if you happen to ever see a thick coat in a charity shop, second hand store, or thrift store (whatever you call it) and it is quite cheap, do buy it as there are many charities that take them to give to homeless people.
As a former homeless person, good on you. I will say, don't feel pressured to, a chat or a nice comment actually means as much, it reminded me I was human.
It is disgusting that those with health issues are scammed. I do think these instances require extra time on sentences. As someone who was a regular at a cancer hospital in my life, there is nothing harder than seeing a child and a parent who are clearly going through so much at a hospital at 8am. You realise all that they have gone through the whole time, and how much their life has changed, possibly permanently. It is hard for an adult, of course it is, but children have done nothing for this to happen.
Text adventures whilst sometimes infuriating, if played as they are meant to be back when released with a piece of graph paper to help map out where you have been and where you go, there is still some magic about them that isn't had with graphical games. Every room becomes exciting which just isn't the case even in my favourite games such as Fallout New Vegas. Oh more bottle caps again in a drawer but I can begin to tell what rooms will be essential to look in and which won't buy the middle of the game. There is none of that in text games, you just have to explore and get truly lost, another thing that is much harder to do nowadays.
I loved the Newton in all forms, both the tiny laptop which I consider the Pocket Reform to be a development on, and the handheld pdas. Keeping it alive is very important.
When I think of liberal democracies, I am thinking of places like Estonia, I am not including the current US, UK, and Germany in liberal democracies, Considering the current state in every single one and the recent cases for spying on their own citizens illegally I sincerely doubt they are publishing openly.
I don't read every news source internationally however I always wonder just how often UK, German, US linked vessels, drones, etc are found within close proximity of Russia/China/Iran and how often they get reported.
Many are gambles, many are funded by those who know buzzwords but not the actual market or viability. Once that funding runs out, often the buzzword has moved on to something new so no more funding can be gained. You have to find a way to make money without funding in that period. The key issue is trying to grow too fast with too few solutions. If you can solve a problem for people then that is giving you a good chance of survival.
I see absolutely zero mention of corporate America or any nation. It just states a way to improve meetings.
There are many people that don't have regular meetings so I'm guessing he is focusing on those that do which is a market. I wouldn't use it as personally I prefer to avoid the meetings.
You do realise the internet vastly surpasses the reach of corporate america. There are another 7.5 billion people out there that aren't American that would possibly use this. You don't need American users to be a big company. If it is a good idea, it is a good idea.
The complaints about battery life are valid however I see this as a test board to help bring more Linux programs to life on ARM. It can also be useful for porting other OSes like Haiku.