Depends on where you live. $60,000 is not much anywhere in the Bay Area (cost of living is through the roof there - NYC may be the only place more expensive in the US), but if you don't want to live in crime-ridden ghetto areas, most of your net salary will go to pay rent.
you think the President doesn't hammer out those kinds of things with Congressmen?
Yes, actually, he doesn't hammer out those kinds of things with congressmen. He hands orders from Karl Rove to the Republican congressmen, and ignores the Democrats, who then roll over for fear of being portrayed as 'obstructionist,' when in fact they'd be happy just to be included in the discussions -- which, as previously noted, don't actually occur in the first place. And so it goes...
She's a doer, not a talker, and doesn't like all the pomp and ceremony associated with the foreign affairs position.
Please. She's either a liar or incompetent, and probably both. You don't seem to be aware that she is currently position the National Security Advisor -- i.e., the person who should have known about 9/11 before it happened. From the Washington Post:
Just weeks ago, Condoleezza Rice, President Bush's national security adviser, made a trip to the Middle East that was widely seen as advancing the peace process. There was speculation that she would be a likely choice for secretary of state, and hopes among Republicans that she could become governor of California and even, someday, president.
But she has since become enmeshed in the controversy over the administration's use of intelligence about Iraq's weapons in the run-up to war. She has been made to appear out of the loop by colleagues' claims that she did not read or recall vital pieces of intelligence. And she has made statements about U.S. intelligence on Iraq that have been contradicted by facts that later emerged.
The remarks by Rice and her associates raise two uncomfortable possibilities for the national security adviser. Either she missed or overlooked numerous warnings from intelligence agencies seeking to put caveats on claims about Iraq's nuclear weapons program, or she made public claims that she knew to be false.
And nobody rewards failure like Bush, so Secretary of State it is.
You're on slashdot, and you're glad Bush won? Is Slashdot the only thing you read, or do you have some other excuse for such willful ignorance?
I mean, I pity you. You are clearly unaware of what the neofascists surrounding Bush have done over the past for years and will continue to do. So your so-called God is in the White House, continuing to preside over the destruction of America as a world power, basically to line the pockets of Halliburton stockholders. Maybe you're one of them. Guess what: Bush's management of the economy probably means financial ruin for you, too, eventually. Hopefully the rest of us can leave the country before Herr Gonzales puts all the Jews and Catholics into boot camps...
Have you looked at the screenshots on the site? Apple has clearly rewritten the interface from the ground up for Logic 7. It doesn't look like a bad PC port from the late 80's anymore, and it wouldn't surprise me if it shared some of the UI framework and back end with GarageBand.
Big improvements take time. Emagic didn't care about UI. Apple does. Note also that Logic 7 is no longer branded Emagic; it is now a fully Apple-branded and -supported product.
As a California resident who voted for der Gropinator, you'll forgive me if I say that I think the jury is still out. He still has a few years to go, and I'm not necessarily convinced. California's financial mess is not sorted out yet, not even close. The day of reckoning has been postponed, but not eliminated.
Also, despite his campaign promise to only sit for one term, I find it unlikely that Arnold will be unable to resist attempting reelection, and even the presidency when the GOP comes calling.
But you never know. God knows he's better than Gray Davis, who sold us out to the power companies for years to come.
On paper Bush and Kerry are both so equally horrible that it is impossible to distinguish between them.
Thanks for that, Karl Rove. Please back that assertion up with facts. Because it sure seems to anyone who's actually paying attention that there's a huge disparity between Bush and Kerry. Let me list just a few of the differences that I've observed.
Meanwhile Bush's favorite philosopher is Jesus, which is fair enough. Lots of Christians love Jesus. But Bush can't name anything Jesus ever said, let alone abide by His word. Still, Jesus is a good name-drop sop to the sacreligious right for him, so he'll continue to use that line.
Bush has never saved anyone's life. Bush started a preemptive war that has so far resulted in over 1000 American deaths and at least ten times that number of Iraqi deaths -- including innocent women and children.
Come on, man, pick up the beat. Kerry is much superior to Bush. Don't listen to the right-wing talking heads. Think for yourself.
Kerry said that national scientific policy would be based on sound science, not ideology, in his acceptance speech at the DNC. But we know he's a flipflopper, the so-called liberal media tells us so, so he can't be trusted.
WTF does Vivendi have to say about it? They don't have an interest in either the Beatles music or Apple Computer. EMI is the Beatle's record company. (Apple Corps is simply the holding company for the Beatles.)
the Bush administration doesn't have a very good reputation with respect to science.
You, sir, are a master of understatement.
Science fiction writers do seem to be overwhelmingly liberal.Given the recent news story about brain differences between liberals and conservatives, the liberals having more empathy, this makes some sense. Writers need empathy to write from different character points of view. Just a theory.
If by "liberal" you mean "open-minded," sure. If you mean "liberal" as "leftie," there are plenty of counterexamples in science fiction, such as Robert A. Heinlein, and (ugh) ol' homphobic Orson Scott C*rd.
Thank you, yes. If Fox News would be open about its intentions, and use something like "Conservative blowhards for fat rich white hypocrite oil heir chickenhawk racists" as its slogan instead of "Fair and Balanced", we'd all be better off. Seriously.
... the senate and house forever. The more dirty tricks they attempt now, the worse off they'll be in a majority Democratic congress. The Democrats are not going to forget this treatment (the energized base of pissed-off, open-minded progressive consitituents will not let them).
Further, if the Democrats are smart, maybe they'll start looking at ways to get rid of the extremist 'Christian' Coalition cancer, perhaps by adding laws that in some way encourage the expansion of minority viewpoints within the major parties.
The spoiled brats in the Republican party just need to accept that they aren't going to get their way all the time. Otherwise, it will return to haunt them.
He has denied the accusations in the past. The White House has denied them this time. This "controversy" over whether the documents are real is just the Republicans doing their usual thing of shooting the messenger. How unfortunate that the facts have a liberal bias.
If this was happening to President Kerry, you can damn well bet the Democrats wouldn't have the unmitigated gall to do this. And the sheep in our press just rolls over -- even boingboing.net, which I had thought to be (a) rather liberal and (b) rather more credulous of claims from partisan right-wing christian coalition sites like drudge and little green footballs, gives this bullshit play. They've all been duped by the Republicans again.
When will the press fucking do their job?
When will the Democrats grow a pair of balls? You guys cannot turn the other cheek, because the Republicans will shoot it with their newly-legal assault weapons.
Seriously, AC is giving you solid advice -- don't burn bridges. Doesn't matter if he's an asshole. You never know who you're going to work with again or why circumstances should conspire to make you do so...
Why packet writing to CDRW's STILL isn't nativly supported
It's not supported because CD-RW packet writing is incredibly fucked up. It has a limited number of writes before the disc becomes unusable. It doesn't have error correction. It's slow. The standard filesystem, UDF version 2.0 does not lay out efficiently on CD (lots of preallocated space required for block sparing), and, due to the way partition works, requires you to blur the distinction between the filesystem and the driver layer. And have you ever read the UDF standards document? Good luck parsing the UDF document itself, let alone the incredibly obtuse ECMA volume format standard on which it's based.
The Mt Rainier standard fixes some of this by offloading it into hardware, but you can still only rewrite a CD-RW sector 999 times before the sector goes bad.
Add in the fact that CD-R media is cheaper than CD-RW media. It's easier, cheaper, and more reliable to use a ton of CD-Rs than to use a few CD-RW discs.
I've found exactly the opposite to be true. The Mac OS X rasterizer seems to "over anti-alias" the fonts - it makes everything too soft and makes any font below 9 points hard to read.
By default, OS X antialiasing is off for sizes less than 9, so what are you complaining about? You can even adjust the size threshold in the Appearance panel of the System Preferences.
Tahoma, Verdana, Trebuchet MS, Georgia, and the rest of Microsoft's "web core fonts" are so well done that Apple ships them with OS X. Now, you shouldn't use Tahoma or Verdana for a printed document, but as a screen font it's excellent.
Actually, Apple only ships them because they're so widely used on the web. As primarily an OS X user, I have to say they're ugly as sin compared to the native OS X fonts.
Note that ARM in various permutations is still going very strong, largely integrated into embedded controllers. Don't make the mistake of thinking that the only thing that counts is the computer market -- embedded is huge.
But a "generic TiVo" leased from cable and satellite television companies does the same thing exactly.
The generic offerings from cable companies may be glorified VCRs, complete with unfriendly user interfaces, but you've obviously never used a Tivo. It's not just a replacement for a VCR, not even close. It's an entirely new genre of device, and you don't know how effectively it will change your TV watching habits until you own it.
Let's see if I can explain it. A Tivo is effectively your own personal TV-watching robot. It's as if you trained a robot in your preferences and dedicated it to applying those preferences to operating a high-definition VCR (with a huge supply of blank tape) all day.
To carry the analogy further: with the dual-tuner DirecTV Tivos, it's like having two robots at two high-def VCR's.
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Hasn't worked so far for SACD.
Great, so you have evidence? Because the alternative is that 51% of the voters are sheep who are incapable of recognizing evil incarnate.
Never would've happened if Roddenberry was still alive.
Depends on where you live. $60,000 is not much anywhere in the Bay Area (cost of living is through the roof there - NYC may be the only place more expensive in the US), but if you don't want to live in crime-ridden ghetto areas, most of your net salary will go to pay rent.
Yes, actually, he doesn't hammer out those kinds of things with congressmen. He hands orders from Karl Rove to the Republican congressmen, and ignores the Democrats, who then roll over for fear of being portrayed as 'obstructionist,' when in fact they'd be happy just to be included in the discussions -- which, as previously noted, don't actually occur in the first place. And so it goes...
Please. She's either a liar or incompetent, and probably both. You don't seem to be aware that she is currently position the National Security Advisor -- i.e., the person who should have known about 9/11 before it happened. From the Washington Post:
And nobody rewards failure like Bush, so Secretary of State it is.
... welcome to the America of your choosing, comrades. These are Bush's people.
I mean, I pity you. You are clearly unaware of what the neofascists surrounding Bush have done over the past for years and will continue to do. So your so-called God is in the White House, continuing to preside over the destruction of America as a world power, basically to line the pockets of Halliburton stockholders. Maybe you're one of them. Guess what: Bush's management of the economy probably means financial ruin for you, too, eventually. Hopefully the rest of us can leave the country before Herr Gonzales puts all the Jews and Catholics into boot camps...
I think you mean: Were you to start again today, would you use an object-oriented API instead of a procedural API?
Big improvements take time. Emagic didn't care about UI. Apple does. Note also that Logic 7 is no longer branded Emagic; it is now a fully Apple-branded and -supported product.
Also, despite his campaign promise to only sit for one term, I find it unlikely that Arnold will be unable to resist attempting reelection, and even the presidency when the GOP comes calling.
But you never know. God knows he's better than Gray Davis, who sold us out to the power companies for years to come.
Thanks for that, Karl Rove. Please back that assertion up with facts. Because it sure seems to anyone who's actually paying attention that there's a huge disparity between Bush and Kerry. Let me list just a few of the differences that I've observed.
Kerry actually mentioned science in his DNC acceptence speech. Kerry actually mentioned his web site in his DNC acceptence speech. Kerry actually saved the lives of several people in Vietnam and afterwards. Kerry is a documented war hero. Everyone who was actually there at the time says so. (Lots of people who weren't there and just happen to be funded by wealthy Republicans from Texas claim otherwise.)
Meanwhile Bush's favorite philosopher is Jesus, which is fair enough. Lots of Christians love Jesus. But Bush can't name anything Jesus ever said, let alone abide by His word. Still, Jesus is a good name-drop sop to the sacreligious right for him, so he'll continue to use that line.
Bush has never saved anyone's life. Bush started a preemptive war that has so far resulted in over 1000 American deaths and at least ten times that number of Iraqi deaths -- including innocent women and children.
Come on, man, pick up the beat. Kerry is much superior to Bush. Don't listen to the right-wing talking heads. Think for yourself.
Bush, on the other hand, can run his campaign secure in the knowledge that he has a superb record on science. Christian Science, that is.
Keep this in mind the when you see the talking heads on CNN or NBC fellate Bush at the debates. The national media is not only biased, it's feeding America's ignorance.
So Rob Glaser had access to the source code for Windows Media Player? Interesting. Are you sure?
WTF does Vivendi have to say about it? They don't have an interest in either the Beatles music or Apple Computer. EMI is the Beatle's record company. (Apple Corps is simply the holding company for the Beatles.)
You, sir, are a master of understatement.
Science fiction writers do seem to be overwhelmingly liberal.Given the recent news story about brain differences between liberals and conservatives, the liberals having more empathy, this makes some sense. Writers need empathy to write from different character points of view. Just a theory.
If by "liberal" you mean "open-minded," sure. If you mean "liberal" as "leftie," there are plenty of counterexamples in science fiction, such as Robert A. Heinlein, and (ugh) ol' homphobic Orson Scott C*rd.
Thank you, yes. If Fox News would be open about its intentions, and use something like "Conservative blowhards for fat rich white hypocrite oil heir chickenhawk racists" as its slogan instead of "Fair and Balanced", we'd all be better off. Seriously.
Further, if the Democrats are smart, maybe they'll start looking at ways to get rid of the extremist 'Christian' Coalition cancer, perhaps by adding laws that in some way encourage the expansion of minority viewpoints within the major parties.
The spoiled brats in the Republican party just need to accept that they aren't going to get their way all the time. Otherwise, it will return to haunt them.
If this was happening to President Kerry, you can damn well bet the Democrats wouldn't have the unmitigated gall to do this. And the sheep in our press just rolls over -- even boingboing.net, which I had thought to be (a) rather liberal and (b) rather more credulous of claims from partisan right-wing christian coalition sites like drudge and little green footballs, gives this bullshit play. They've all been duped by the Republicans again.
When will the press fucking do their job?
When will the Democrats grow a pair of balls? You guys cannot turn the other cheek, because the Republicans will shoot it with their newly-legal assault weapons.
Seriously, AC is giving you solid advice -- don't burn bridges. Doesn't matter if he's an asshole. You never know who you're going to work with again or why circumstances should conspire to make you do so...
It's not supported because CD-RW packet writing is incredibly fucked up. It has a limited number of writes before the disc becomes unusable. It doesn't have error correction. It's slow. The standard filesystem, UDF version 2.0 does not lay out efficiently on CD (lots of preallocated space required for block sparing), and, due to the way partition works, requires you to blur the distinction between the filesystem and the driver layer. And have you ever read the UDF standards document? Good luck parsing the UDF document itself, let alone the incredibly obtuse ECMA volume format standard on which it's based.
The Mt Rainier standard fixes some of this by offloading it into hardware, but you can still only rewrite a CD-RW sector 999 times before the sector goes bad.
Add in the fact that CD-R media is cheaper than CD-RW media. It's easier, cheaper, and more reliable to use a ton of CD-Rs than to use a few CD-RW discs.
By default, OS X antialiasing is off for sizes less than 9, so what are you complaining about? You can even adjust the size threshold in the Appearance panel of the System Preferences.
Tahoma, Verdana, Trebuchet MS, Georgia, and the rest of Microsoft's "web core fonts" are so well done that Apple ships them with OS X. Now, you shouldn't use Tahoma or Verdana for a printed document, but as a screen font it's excellent.
Actually, Apple only ships them because they're so widely used on the web. As primarily an OS X user, I have to say they're ugly as sin compared to the native OS X fonts.
You've never been to California, do you really think you have any idea what it's like to live there?
Note that ARM in various permutations is still going very strong, largely integrated into embedded controllers. Don't make the mistake of thinking that the only thing that counts is the computer market -- embedded is huge.
The generic offerings from cable companies may be glorified VCRs, complete with unfriendly user interfaces, but you've obviously never used a Tivo. It's not just a replacement for a VCR, not even close. It's an entirely new genre of device, and you don't know how effectively it will change your TV watching habits until you own it.
Let's see if I can explain it. A Tivo is effectively your own personal TV-watching robot. It's as if you trained a robot in your preferences and dedicated it to applying those preferences to operating a high-definition VCR (with a huge supply of blank tape) all day.
To carry the analogy further: with the dual-tuner DirecTV Tivos, it's like having two robots at two high-def VCR's.