Now, you know as well as I do that you can't eject the CD unless you unmount the filesystem first. This strikes me as being perfectly reasonable (although, I concede, a tad inconvenient at times).
stdio and stdlib _are_ really libraries. Just because the standard requires them doesn't imply that they are part of the language. They aren't. They're libraries, and you're quite at liberty to replace them with your own libraries that do the same sorts of things. Btw, I've been programming in C for about 15 years.
Vegemite is _not_ a WMD, it's a nutritious food, part of what makes Australia great. I used to eat the stuff by the spoonful when I was a kid, but I'm not sure I could still do it...
Damn! I was going to go to bed, but all this talk of beer makes me think I could just slip out to the shed and pull myself another pint of homebrew Pils.
The really nice thing about living in Australia is that even our cheap wines ($A15 for a 2 litre mylar bladder in a cardboard box) are close to drinkable, and you can get an excellent shiraz for under $A20 a bottle. Of course, there are some even cheaper wines that I wouldn't even cook with...
12 quid a slab isn't bad - we pay about $A25, which is probably much the same (I forget what the Pom-to Oz exchange rate is, but I thinks it's a bit south of 1 for 2) but that's for shit like Fosters or VB. Decent beer is a fair bit more - over $A30 for Cooper's iirc.
Australians tend to start ANZAC Day (our most important religious holiday) with a "gunfire breakfast" (coffee and rum) - they gave it to the lads at Gallipoli before they went over the top. It tastes pretty good (if it's decent rum). The beer and coffee concoction otoh couldn't possibly taste much worse than normal American beer, so I guess no-one will notice the difference.
> but you think out of 3000 students, one would have said "hey, neat. here's five bucks" or something. ..
You could have parlayed all that free publicity into a whole bunch of paid live gigs. Speaking from experience, playing in front of an appreciative audience is the most fun you can have with your pants on, and if you get money (or free beer) as well, it's a bonus. Plus if you get real lucky, you might have even more fun later in the evening...
Part of the reason Australia is an earthly paradise is the 'roos. Damn, they're tasty! And they don't damage our ancient, fragile soils nearly as much as cows and sheep (having evolved here).
That's exactly how we do things in Australia. Combined with compulsory voting, preferential voting gives us an extremely robust, not particularly corrupt, democracy. Despite recent changes, Australia is still an earthly paradise.
The thing is this: your country is dominated by the fundamentalist christian Right, so of course they're going to be more upset about a president getting an illicit blowjob (and he didn't even use church funds to pay for it! Has he no shame?) than they will about one of their own telling a teeny little lie that enables them to restart the crusades, and ensure that the US keeps control of its Middle Eastern oil reserves.
WinXP is unbearably slow on anything south of 900MHz. I speak from experience (at various places of employment). I'm prepared to concede that _some_ of this might be because the machines have been poorly configured.
I'm currently running Red Hat (not the latest, but only a couple of years old) on a 120MHz (I think) with about 78MB of RAM at home, and while it's slow, it is almost usable and suprisingly stable. I wouldn't consider running even NT4 on it. (Assuming I had a copy. Which I wouldn't.)
I'm Australian. I can assure you that the one thing that Family First isn't, is left wing. They are certainly of the lunatic right (yeah, I know, that's actually a tautology). Interestingly they have strong links to the Assemblies of God. It's unfortunate that, because of declining standards of education in this country, there are growing numbers of fundamentalist christians here, but at least there are nowhere near as many as in the USA.
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Now, you know as well as I do that you can't eject the CD unless you unmount the filesystem first. This strikes me as being perfectly reasonable (although, I concede, a tad inconvenient at times).
stdio and stdlib _are_ really libraries. Just because the standard requires them doesn't imply that they are part of the language. They aren't. They're libraries, and you're quite at liberty to replace them with your own libraries that do the same sorts of things. Btw, I've been programming in C for about 15 years.
I'm pretty sure the US supported Franco in Spain, and he certainly qualified as a fascist, if not precisely a Nazi.
Vegemite is _not_ a WMD, it's a nutritious food, part of what makes Australia great. I used to eat the stuff by the spoonful when I was a kid, but I'm not sure I could still do it ...
Yeah - Toohey's Old isn't too bad.
Damn! I was going to go to bed, but all this talk of beer makes me think I could just slip out to the shed and pull myself another pint of homebrew Pils.
Hieneken isn't very good in Australia, either. I just think it isn't very good beer at all.
Well, all the beer _I_ brew conforms to the Purity Law. And it only costs me about $A2 per litre.
> Dogfish Head World Wide Stout (21% ABV)
Where can I buy this fine product?
The really nice thing about living in Australia is that even our cheap wines ($A15 for a 2 litre mylar bladder in a cardboard box) are close to drinkable, and you can get an excellent shiraz for under $A20 a bottle. Of course, there are some even cheaper wines that I wouldn't even cook with ...
I tried some guarana chewing gum once ... it tasted like dirt. I don't see the attraction.
You probably have to make them yourself ...
Chimay's not too bad, but the Westmalle trippel is rather better ... a 330ml bottle knocks you flat on your arse, but it tastes great.
12 quid a slab isn't bad - we pay about $A25, which is probably much the same (I forget what the Pom-to Oz exchange rate is, but I thinks it's a bit south of 1 for 2) but that's for shit like Fosters or VB. Decent beer is a fair bit more - over $A30 for Cooper's iirc.
I tend not to buy beer any more, I drink my own.
Australians tend to start ANZAC Day (our most important religious holiday) with a "gunfire breakfast" (coffee and rum) - they gave it to the lads at Gallipoli before they went over the top. It tastes pretty good (if it's decent rum). The beer and coffee concoction otoh couldn't possibly taste much worse than normal American beer, so I guess no-one will notice the difference.
> but you think out of 3000 students, one would have said "hey, neat. here's five bucks" or something. . .
...
You could have parlayed all that free publicity into a whole bunch of paid live gigs. Speaking from experience, playing in front of an appreciative audience is the most fun you can have with your pants on, and if you get money (or free beer) as well, it's a bonus. Plus if you get real lucky, you might have even more fun later in the evening
Part of the reason Australia is an earthly paradise is the 'roos. Damn, they're tasty! And they don't damage our ancient, fragile soils nearly as much as cows and sheep (having evolved here).
That's exactly how we do things in Australia. Combined with compulsory voting, preferential voting gives us an extremely robust, not particularly corrupt, democracy. Despite recent changes, Australia is still an earthly paradise.
The thing is this: your country is dominated by the fundamentalist christian Right, so of course they're going to be more upset about a president getting an illicit blowjob (and he didn't even use church funds to pay for it! Has he no shame?) than they will about one of their own telling a teeny little lie that enables them to restart the crusades, and ensure that the US keeps control of its Middle Eastern oil reserves.
WinXP is unbearably slow on anything south of 900MHz. I speak from experience (at various places of employment). I'm prepared to concede that _some_ of this might be because the machines have been poorly configured.
I'm currently running Red Hat (not the latest, but only a couple of years old) on a 120MHz (I think) with about 78MB of RAM at home, and while it's slow, it is almost usable and suprisingly stable. I wouldn't consider running even NT4 on it. (Assuming I had a copy. Which I wouldn't.)
That's pretty damn funny.
I'm Australian. I can assure you that the one thing that Family First isn't, is left wing. They are certainly of the lunatic right (yeah, I know, that's actually a tautology). Interestingly they have strong links to the Assemblies of God. It's unfortunate that, because of declining standards of education in this country, there are growing numbers of fundamentalist christians here, but at least there are nowhere near as many as in the USA.
Fucking lunatic.
Or country music ...
I must admit, I was thinking of (but too lazy to come up with myself) someything involving Microsoft more directly, but that's actually pretty good.
Nope, I don't think there's enough oil under Seattle ...