My point was that a different thing started 2790 years ago, and this new thing started 118 years ago. If we started executing witches in salem today, it would be disingenuous to say that the salem witch trials are a 322 year old tradition with a 320 year gap in between the old ones and the new ones.
I think visual graphics are good for EE's because they actually have to physically make all the components they are designing. Having the design in a graphical format allows for easy translation of design to real life. Software runs in a computer as a set of instructions. It is sort of naturally a language. Obviously you could write tools to transform graphical representations to language representations and vice versa. And we have already done similar things like this with higher level languages being transformed to assembly to machine language. But it is an extra step with extra costs whose benefit that may or may not be worth it. When high level languages first came out, some people still preferred to write in assembly. They thought high level languages weren't worth the added complexity. Maybe graphical languages will turn out like that. I don't know. My gut feeling is that they won't though.
I wanted one of those thingies where you could enter a number but also click arrows to make the number increment or decrement. I could not come up with a google search that told me what the hell this thing was called. I ended up installing the QT GUI creator app, and found the visual representation of this widget and dragged it into my design. Then I generated the sourcecode and inspected it to learn it is called a spinbox. Then I went back to editing code in text form only.
I am not sure what my point is. (are GUI creators good or bad?) I just thought it was interesting.
Try ATT uverse if they offer that in your area. They charge a $50 installation fee. And I was already an internet customer so I didn't have to pay the installation cost. Also even if the installation guy doesn't get there for a week or so, you might still get a username and password to log into the NBC site immediately.
This year I'm just watching OTA and using my sisters cable login to watch the olympics
They do have a way to give NBC money for (the olympics) product. There are these things called cable companies that will actually provide you with NBCs content and pay NBC some of the money. Complicated idea, I know, but I think it works.
and their whole family... I can't stress the importance of the freedom to murder the male children of your victims to prevent any possible retaliation. Bloodfeuds are really messy and you really want the freedom to clean things up before they get out of hand.
How much would you pay for the stream? $30? That's how much I paid to get cable TV in 2012 for the olympics. What difference does it make if you pay for cable for 1 month or an internet olympics subscription fee. Now you have an additional option to watch the olympics over the internet. You don't even need to turn on your cable box.
It would be great if Costco gave out bigger food samples, so that anybody who went to Costco at lunch time could save the cost of a meal. But no, fuck you for no real reason. All they care about is money.
Why is it that the broadcasters are owed the airwaves ?
Because your government signed a contract with them to that effect. If you want your government to do what you want, you need to convince enough people to vote (to fire legislators) to make it happen.
You are not owed a functioning democracy. It takes work.
It's a 118 year old tradition that happens to have copied the name from a 2790 year old tradition that ceased to exist about 1600 years ago. The ancient olympics have been gone 16 times longer than the modern olympics have been going.
It's a tradition. It's just a bit of a stretch to say it's a 4000 year old tradition.
I do think it's the Olympic committee's business. They're the ones who should be requiring NBC to provide live internet coverage (for a fee) as part of their exclusive deal.
The Olympic committee's job is to get more money, and they can do this by allowing NBC to do whatever they want to get more money form their customers.
For the same reason that I'm not allowed to broadcast Game of Thrones without HBO's permission. The people who are providing the content (the olympics) and the people who agreed to buy it (NBC) get to decide the rules of their contract. If you want the olympics to be free for everyone to watch, then you can pay for them.
Because the other 99% stuff on TV is all stuff you like to watch? This is like complaining that there are some radio stations that don't play the kind of music you like.
"millions" is not a lot of dollars anymore. "millions" of dollars can go missing from the government, and it would be like a couple dollars missing from the cash register at the end of the day at Costco.
It's certainly not free market. People have all sorts of definitions of capitalism where this sort of behavior could easily be considered normal, but I don't see any reason why all capitalism *must* eventually degrade to crony capitalism, anymore than socialism *must* degrade to Stalin style communism with bread lines and death squads.
President Obama kills children every day with his foreign policy. At least Putin pretends that saving children (by oppressing gay people) is a good thing. Long story short: Obama = child murderer, Putin = pro democracy, parent comment = stupid.
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My point was that a different thing started 2790 years ago, and this new thing started 118 years ago. If we started executing witches in salem today, it would be disingenuous to say that the salem witch trials are a 322 year old tradition with a 320 year gap in between the old ones and the new ones.
No, it's more like buying a car *from* a dealership rather than through the car manufacturer directly (e.g. Tesla).
I think visual graphics are good for EE's because they actually have to physically make all the components they are designing. Having the design in a graphical format allows for easy translation of design to real life. Software runs in a computer as a set of instructions. It is sort of naturally a language. Obviously you could write tools to transform graphical representations to language representations and vice versa. And we have already done similar things like this with higher level languages being transformed to assembly to machine language. But it is an extra step with extra costs whose benefit that may or may not be worth it. When high level languages first came out, some people still preferred to write in assembly. They thought high level languages weren't worth the added complexity. Maybe graphical languages will turn out like that. I don't know. My gut feeling is that they won't though.
The last time I used an graphical GUI editor:
I wanted one of those thingies where you could enter a number but also click arrows to make the number increment or decrement. I could not come up with a google search that told me what the hell this thing was called. I ended up installing the QT GUI creator app, and found the visual representation of this widget and dragged it into my design. Then I generated the sourcecode and inspected it to learn it is called a spinbox. Then I went back to editing code in text form only.
I am not sure what my point is. (are GUI creators good or bad?) I just thought it was interesting.
Try ATT uverse if they offer that in your area. They charge a $50 installation fee. And I was already an internet customer so I didn't have to pay the installation cost. Also even if the installation guy doesn't get there for a week or so, you might still get a username and password to log into the NBC site immediately.
This year I'm just watching OTA and using my sisters cable login to watch the olympics
They do have a way to give NBC money for (the olympics) product. There are these things called cable companies that will actually provide you with NBCs content and pay NBC some of the money. Complicated idea, I know, but I think it works.
Getting basic cable for 1 month is going to be cheaper than $100
Some basic algebra:
talk - action = nothing
talk = nothing + action
talk = action (i.e. talk is equivalent to action)
If you wanted to say that talk is useless or something you should have said something like:
talk - action = -action
and their whole family... I can't stress the importance of the freedom to murder the male children of your victims to prevent any possible retaliation. Bloodfeuds are really messy and you really want the freedom to clean things up before they get out of hand.
How much would you pay for the stream? $30? That's how much I paid to get cable TV in 2012 for the olympics. What difference does it make if you pay for cable for 1 month or an internet olympics subscription fee. Now you have an additional option to watch the olympics over the internet. You don't even need to turn on your cable box.
And this is still how it works. You can watch the broadcast of the olympics for free with ads.
It would be great if Costco gave out bigger food samples, so that anybody who went to Costco at lunch time could save the cost of a meal. But no, fuck you for no real reason. All they care about is money.
Why is it that the broadcasters are owed the airwaves ?
Because your government signed a contract with them to that effect. If you want your government to do what you want, you need to convince enough people to vote (to fire legislators) to make it happen.
You are not owed a functioning democracy. It takes work.
So nothing is free and we can just stop using the word. Even if someone gives you a free car, the time you had to spend to pick it up.
It's a 118 year old tradition that happens to have copied the name from a 2790 year old tradition that ceased to exist about 1600 years ago. The ancient olympics have been gone 16 times longer than the modern olympics have been going.
It's a tradition. It's just a bit of a stretch to say it's a 4000 year old tradition.
I do think it's the Olympic committee's business. They're the ones who should be requiring NBC to provide live internet coverage (for a fee) as part of their exclusive deal.
The Olympic committee's job is to get more money, and they can do this by allowing NBC to do whatever they want to get more money form their customers.
You should start a revolution.
There is no such thing as digital. It's a hoax. It's all just analog below the surface.
For the same reason that I'm not allowed to broadcast Game of Thrones without HBO's permission. The people who are providing the content (the olympics) and the people who agreed to buy it (NBC) get to decide the rules of their contract. If you want the olympics to be free for everyone to watch, then you can pay for them.
Because the other 99% stuff on TV is all stuff you like to watch? This is like complaining that there are some radio stations that don't play the kind of music you like.
So this can be the part of the navy that is doing something...
"millions" is not a lot of dollars anymore. "millions" of dollars can go missing from the government, and it would be like a couple dollars missing from the cash register at the end of the day at Costco.
It's certainly not free market. People have all sorts of definitions of capitalism where this sort of behavior could easily be considered normal, but I don't see any reason why all capitalism *must* eventually degrade to crony capitalism, anymore than socialism *must* degrade to Stalin style communism with bread lines and death squads.
President Obama kills children every day with his foreign policy. At least Putin pretends that saving children (by oppressing gay people) is a good thing. Long story short: Obama = child murderer, Putin = pro democracy, parent comment = stupid.
It is free to the viewer, not the advertisers. Nobody is putting a gun to your head to make you buy the stuff in the advertisements.