begin quoting Todd Walton as of Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 06:02:29AM -0800: > On 1/8/06, Tracy R Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am quite skeptical. Is there really anything quantum-optical about this > > thing? Is it not just some sort of hard drive, if it exists at all? > > But it has a schematic diagram on the front page! It must be real.
Heh! > > I would expect one of the big guys who are dumping serious money into > > research (IBM, Hitachi, Quantum, etc) to be the ones who come out with > > this. Not some small company I have never heard of with a lame webpage. > > Sometimes small companies come into being *because* they had some > really great new idea or new way of looking at things that the big > companies didn't. It hasn't really happened in the computer hardware > industry in a couple of decades, but surely it could again. Computer hardware isn't as simple as it used to be. Building your own computer from scratch isn't done anymore, so far as I can tell. Now, "building from scratch" means you assemble the parts yourself. > "Why haven't they got bought out yet?" is a good question to ask, though. It's probably easier to steal it. IBM probably has a patent on the byte anyway. -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
