{"id":1444,"date":"2007-02-14T16:29:15","date_gmt":"2007-02-14T23:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1444"},"modified":"2007-02-14T16:29:15","modified_gmt":"2007-02-14T23:29:15","slug":"for-100-billion-i-could-do-it-i-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2007\/02\/14\/for-100-billion-i-could-do-it-i-think\/","title":{"rendered":"For 100 Billion I Could Do It, I Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a Boston Herald article (appears to be an AP news release):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;Users don\u2019t care about quantum computing &#8211; users care about application acceleration. That\u2019s our thrust,&#8221; he said. &#8220;A general purpose quantum computer is a waste of time. You could spend hundreds of billions of dollars on it&#8221; and not create a working computer.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And you&#8217;re probably happy that you don&#8217;t have an account on fool.com or else you might read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/high-growth\/2007\/02\/14\/harris-harris-quantum-leap.aspx\">this article<\/a> comparing the demonstration to December 17, 1903.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a Boston Herald article (appears to be an AP news release): &#8220;Users don\u2019t care about quantum computing &#8211; users care about application acceleration. That\u2019s our thrust,&#8221; he said. &#8220;A general purpose quantum computer is a waste of time. You could spend hundreds of billions of dollars on it&#8221; and not create a working computer. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2007\/02\/14\/for-100-billion-i-could-do-it-i-think\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;For 100 Billion I Could Do It, I Think&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,30,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science","category-funny-ha-ha","category-quantum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}