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Started by Pipo DeClown Oct 10, 2002 at 11:31 AM 11 replies 1.7k views
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Pipo DeClown
Pipo DeClown
I was reading a thread in the For BEginers forum about wasting our time programming and stuff. Ive thought about this before and its time to share my thoughts. I konw that I want to be a game programmer and will be. No matter how hard the path is my dream will come true. Ive been learning about 8 months now and I think that its quite an experience! I know that my social life will be touched and even my school rapports are worse. But Im not giving up... The boyfriend of my sister loves games too, he love to play them. Hes in collage now and he said he would have chosen programming if it wasnt for this though: Will people invent things more powerful then the computer? This thought scared me, what if we do invent such a thing? What if we learned al those hours for nothing? But my heart told everyone must follow his own path. Maybe mine is to waste my time( OUCH! ).... .lick
surabaya
surabaya
quote:

Will people invent things more powerful then the computer?

This thought scared me, what if we do invent such a thing?



When that "thing" come out, guess who''s going to be able to master it first? Computer programmers of course.
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Pipo DeClown
Pipo DeClown
And what if that thing is hell different?
Not thinking in bits but in earth wind water air?

.lick
KalvinB
KalvinB
What do you mean "more powerful than a computer?"

Like a bulldozer? It''s impossible to make a computation device more powerful than a computer because that''s exactly the definition of a computer.

The question makes no sense. If you''re not comfortable with the fact that we''ve gone from 33Mhz to several Ghz in ~25 years then okay...but it''s all concepts.

Coding on a 286/Graphing Calculator isn''t any different than coding on a modern PC.

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bishop_pass
bishop_pass
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Original post by KalvinB
If you''re not comfortable with the fact that we''ve gone from 33Mhz to several Ghz in ~25 years then okay...but it''s all concepts.

33 mhz to 2.5 Ghz in ~10 years, you mean. 1 mhz to 2.5 Ghz in ~20 years.

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Waverider
Waverider
Chances are it will be designed with computing algorithms in mind, which should hopefully go along well with our existing thought process.

Heck, if we can come up with sorting algorithms by tossing numbers into buckets, we can certainly program algorithms on the next generation of computer by, I don''t know, moving stuff around inside a gel cube??
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Yann L
Yann L
Well, if the ''next big thing'' are quantum computers, then you can just trash everything you know about programming or algorithmic design. Their programming is totally different to anything we do today. Just think about it: each ''bit'' can hold different information in parallel, but can be read only once. Information is destroyed upon reading. A ''byte'' can be written multiple times, but the information is not overwritten, it is sumperimposed: a = 1; a = 2; a = 3;. After this code sequence, a would not be 3, but 1, 2 and 3 simultaneously ! No existing algorithm or programming structure would apply to such a computing platform - it''s a whole new world.
Big B
Big B
Just because theres going to be a "next big thing", it doesn''t justify going into Leisure Studies.

What does your sister''s boyfriend take in college?


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Cold_Steel
Cold_Steel
Hey, if its no more computationaly powerful than a Turing Machine, I''m all set!

Maybe someday they''ll get rid of the Von Neumann architecture all together, then you may have to look at programming a little differently.

I''ll be waiting in line for the quantum computers! (Maybe I should double major in physics)

Cellular computing could be a big thing too if it works out. I actually hope they do come up with something better than the current technology(Moore''s law has to end eventually).
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Beer Hunter
Beer Hunter
quote:
Original post by Yann L
No existing algorithm ... would apply to [quantum computers]
There are some existing algorithms which were designed to run on quantum computers. Like this one.
Cold_Steel
Cold_Steel
quote:
Original post by Anonymous Poster
Try the human brain...


I can't get my own to work right, let alone programming someone else's

also, we've talked about quantum computers in some of my classes, and they sound really cool. Apparently they can operate on a whole bunch of data simultaneously. The professor gave us an example of doing 4x4 matrix addition(maybe it was multiplication) in 1 operation. Imagine how much faster graphics would be...real-time photorealistic graphics here we come

[edited by - Cold_Steel on October 10, 2002 8:57:28 PM]
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Yann L
Yann L
quote:

There are some existing algorithms which were designed to run on quantum computers. Like this one.

OK, I used the wrong term By 'existing' I meant algorithms as commonly used on today's computer architectures. AFAIK, someone also developed a basic quantum sorting algorithm.

Really interesting page, btw.



[edited by - Yann L on October 10, 2002 9:13:00 PM]

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