Posts by Mingy

Hard to believe

That Canada once had global leading telecommunications infrastructure. 20 years of incompetent and/or corrupt (I prefer to believe my politicians are corrupt than stupid) we don't even rival the 3rd world.

By the way the 20% of rural Canadians are not in "polar bear and no roads" type places. Most of us are within 100 km of a major city and a few km of a town.

Regardless, we somehow managed to provide almost everybody with electricity and telephone service at a time when infrastructure was build by men with shovels.

Perhaps the politicians were a tad less corrupt, or realized serving the country was important, back then.

Why does anybody pay for Gartner research? If they had to dramatically revise their HDD forecast 7 times over the past few years it's pretty clear they have no understanding of the HDD industry.

Get back to me if, as, and when, Dwave solves a commercially relevant problem

Researchers using Dwave have a remarkable capacity of testing the machine against non-optimized competition.

Let us know know if they ever solve a commercially relevant problem several orders of magnitude faster than the same dollar value of traditional computing running an optimized algorithm.