Re: How to fly

From: John S. Novak, III (jsn_at_panix.com)
Date: 08/17/04 

Date: 17 Aug 2004 16:02:50 GMT

In article <cfj3km02uv@enews4.newsguy.com>, hunkahunkaburninluv wrote:
 
>> And if there is a bug in the code, it gives a whole new meaning to "system
>> crash."
 
> A few million man years of testing (probably a couple seconds of real time
> on a QM computer) should be enough to make sure that any new code is bug
> free.
 
Argh.

What makes you think that a computer, simply by virtue of performing
quantum computations, will be as powerful as you're implying? (Which
is to say, arbitrarily powerful.)

What makes you think that any computational device can perform an
automatic debug of a system like that? What principles do you think
apply here?

In short, please stop treating these concepts like they are magic, and
can do anything you want, arbitrarily swiftly and with arbitrarily low
cost. They're not, and they can't. 

-- 
John S. Novak, III              jsn@cegt201.bradley.edu
The Humblest Man on the Net