DonGateley

The link is dead.

One fundamental thing has had millions (billions?) of years and countless organisms to refine and that is the remarkable ability of life to turn what it gets into what it needs and the ability to discard the rest.

Countless books have been written and people deceived, including the book's authors, trying to contradict that simple reality. As always, follow the money.

This totally infuriates me as well. Some bizarre snobbery over there. Nearly every time I follow a Google search link to stackoverflow I find the topic closed for one bullshit reason or another. Rarely does the logic make common sense.

Thing is, about all he has ever been is a critic. Anybody got an example of his skill at anything but writing about crypto at the level of commentary and advocacy?

To move volitionally usually implies the belief that something will get better because of it. That delusion has pretty much been erased.

A link with no explanation pretty much guarantees that no one will either.

I sure wish I could listen to his talk but the moron who recorded it wasn't looking at his meters or listening to a monitor. The clipping distortion is far beyond my ability to tolerate for more than about 10 seconds. Incredible incompetence.

Preemptive monopoly on the inevitable. If you can afford it, why not?

The only question is whether it can ever be cheap enough to reap the kind of profit Google is used to.

Silly me. I didn't even know that Virtualbox existed for the Mac. I too like it a lot in the windows environment and use it to play with Chrome OS. I'll have to give the Mac version a look. Thanks.

As a maker of things myself with monumentally less ambition all I could think about was all the trial and error and iteration he didn't have space or inclination to talk about. :-)

He certainly didn't walk into this project knowing how to do everything he did. Or did he?

If you want to completely lose your place in an HN thread, make a comment. I hate that.

I consider it the most harmful book ever written. It's impact on the mood and choices of several generations has been devastating if not catastrophic.

Had he been offed in the war the U.S., at least, would be a much more optimistic and forward thinking place.

It's because of VMware Fusion and Parallels. Simple.

My next system will probably be a Mac primarily running Windows 7 or 8 where I'm currently the most invested. The ability to have both in the same box justifies the extra cost of a Mac to me. My older XP music production system is actually a VMware Fusion virtual machine running on an older MacBook and used mostly for the XP apps.

Both integrate flawlessly on my home network where I use TeamViewer to access them from what is currently my main Windows machine.

Iteration is the child of patience. Patience is the child of passion.

Sorry, but I still don't get it. Does it modify what people see when they visit that website? What behaviors of what are impacted how? In terms that a naif to advertising and site design might understand.

"In a larger sense, the theory suggests that the entire universe can be seen as a two-dimensional information structure "painted" on the cosmological horizon"

True for an anti de Sitter space (thus ADS/CFT) but not for the one we live in which is a de Sitter space and lacks the requisite boundry. I wish someone could explain the relevance of ADS/CFT to this universe.

I once had the opportunity of being in a car alone with Juan Maldacena for an hour and asked him. He pretty much shrugged (probably meaning any attempt to explain that to me, a layman physics junkie, would be futile.) He's a really, really nice and personable guy so I'm sure that if there was anything I could have understood he would have tried.

Adobe needs to be extinguished.

I'd like it if hovering on a parsed item moved it's explanation to the top rather than just highlighting it. Not so much scrolling required if any.

Is that all there is to it?

Sportsmen will have a blast with this.

What shocks me is how long it took for someone to think to run this simple and rather obvious experiment.

Might this mean that we can resume the sexual revolution?

That could be hard to do freehand. There is a KS plotter project, the WaterColorBot, which is very inexpensive and should be easy to adapt to this. Then, over-tracing and creating multiple overlapping parallel traces could be rather easily achieved.

With regard to this question they responded,

"2. There are ways to reduce the ohm rating when dry, simply rubbing the trace with a hard, smooth surface like a rounded pen cap will decrease the resistance by increasing particle to particle contacts 3. The ink can support a maximum current of about 175 mA on standard copy paper. Higher currents cause joule heating and a subsequent drop in resistance due to sintering the particles (up to around 8x decrease in resistance if controlled). Currents exceeding 400 mA may break the trace on standard copy paper. High currents can be achieved with photo paper, near 800mA. 4. Currently, the ink will only be available via rollerball pen, but this can be adapted to be used in various plotters. We will have videos and demos of this shortly. 5. Conductive adhesives will work with the ink"

Yeah, I've been wanting to make a high order yagi antenna for FM for a long time but have been daunted by the construction. All I need with this is a piece of cardboard, a ruler and a nub to compress the traces when dry for better conduction. :-)

They did some experiments with HF antennas like for WiFi or cellular and it didn't work so well but I think there is a HF limit with it that FM should fall far below.

Not at all. You can paint over a crossover with something (Whiteout I think) and then just write across it. When you can do that it's far more flexible than multi-layer with via's.

The resistance will not be an issue either for signal traces. Only those receiving or delivering power such as Vcc or the output of an audio amp or cable drivers.

I'm looking to enhance it with software for another KS project WaterColorBot, a very low cost plotter. With that, multi-line overlapping traces can be created to lower resistance and it could even automatically implement their suggestion of rubbing over a dried trace with something hard to compress the colloidal silver in it into making better contact between particles.

I'm curious what reality he considers missing from K&R.

I'd like to add that this was not only before the public Internet but almost before the PC. :-)

All you need is K&R, honest.

C is a very simple language. I learned it from K&R in the '80s in an office in a building in a corn field on a back road halfway between Rockford, Il and Belvidire, Il. I went on to hire and assist eight others in acquiring it and then employed them to write, along with myself, a successful machine tool controller of serious sophistication employing a three way tightly coupled Mot 68010 MP system (using bus fault recovery to resolve address collisions) of my design. Not bragging, really, just being dramatic about what you can accomplish starting with just K&R.

Yeah, it will be fine for high impedance signal paths, which are by far the majority of traces, but not so much for power. I'm not sure what to use for the power traces and hope they come up with some solutions or suggestions. As an EE I know where it is appropriate and where it's not and would hope that design/layout software could make that mechanical just because it's easy to do.

I jumped on the project as soon as I saw it and will be thinking about a solution myself.

What of the huge population and variety of bacteria that are symbiotic and in some cases necessary for good health such as gut bacteria? How would this technology target only bad bacteria? Is it so customizable that variants can be generated for specific pathogen species?