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Offline CymricTopic starter

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Turn the computer OFF if you want your programs to work...
« on: February 22, 2006, 06:19:38 PM »
Yes, that's right. Turn the computer off and still obtain the results you're interested in. Hello, quantum weirdness to the extreme.
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Re: Turn the computer OFF if you want your programs to work...
« Reply #1 on: February 23, 2006, 12:40:06 AM »
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With the right set-up, the theory suggested, the computer would sometimes get an answer out of the computer even though the program did not run. And now researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have improved on the original design and built a non-running quantum computer that really works.
that sounds like how my Right Brain works! :idea:
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Re: Turn the computer OFF if you want your programs to work...
« Reply #2 on: February 23, 2006, 05:24:48 AM »
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Turn the computer OFF if you want your programs to work...


 :-? But *my* computer is non-quantum. :(
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Re: Turn the computer OFF if you want your programs to work...
« Reply #3 on: February 23, 2006, 11:05:26 AM »
Headache coming up, must stop trying to understand it...
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Re: Turn the computer OFF if you want your programs to work...
« Reply #4 on: February 23, 2006, 04:09:10 PM »
@odin

Hum,
try to think up a microsoft windows OS joke...
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Re: Turn the computer OFF if you want your programs to work...
« Reply #5 on: February 23, 2006, 05:49:55 PM »
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blobrana wrote:
try to think up a microsoft windows OS joke...


No need, Windows security is a joke  ;-)
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Re: Turn the computer OFF if you want your programs to work...
« Reply #6 on: February 26, 2006, 10:11:01 PM »
w00t! 8-)
This means that those computers will play the MP3 before downloading it!
RIAA will have a field day with this one... :lol:
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