If Moore's Law hits a sinkhole...

[richlevy]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

A minority of people do the things that require a really powerful system: Battlefield 2, Unreal Tournament 2K4

So in other words, the really important stuff.:p

I'm only half joking here. A huge amount of innovation is driven by entertainment. It has been argued that porn provided the early impetus to the VCR industry. More effort has been expended on developing, marketing, and getting health coverage for using Viagra than on many cancer medications. More Hummers were sold to soccer moms that the US military ever bought.

Collectively speaking, 350 million people in the US (or a few billion worldwide) looking for fun have more economic clout than military, government, or even business. If there's a solution there it will be found. One possibility is moving from electricity to light as in photonic computing. Another is by building a ternary computer instead of a binary computer, which would be more efficient. To do this might require a combination of materials to allow for three states instead of two.

[Elspode]

I'm headed out to MicroCenter to buy my quantum computer this morning. Soon, I'll be posting WTF photos from a kick ass machine! I sure hope they don't force me to buy it with Vista on it, though.

[mbpark]

TW,

How does it feel to be proven right, and that smack-talker Radar proven wrong?

Mitch