We in Australian are _very_ aware that free trade only goes one way. Think about heavily subsidised and protected US agriculture. Not that I think that laissez faire capitalism is such a hot idea, btw.
In my view, Helvetica and Arial are both uglier and less readable than Times New Roman. As an earlier post has already pointed out, sans-serif fonts are intrinsically less legible than serif fonts, and Helvetica in particular is extremely ugly to boot.
While 14pt probably is a bit big (although it's about the smallest I can read without my glasses), Times New Roman is both more attractive and more legible than Courier (which I've always thought was an exceptionally ugly font). I can't think of too many fonts which look appreciably better than Times New Roman, except for a couple of custom-designed ones which don't come with word-processors.
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Every time I've accidentally done something like this, the compiler has barfed. Doesn't matter if it's gcc, one of the Sun compilers, the one that comes with AIX,...
So sure I should know better by now, but when you also write code in languages which do support this type of string comparison, it's easy to forget it 'til compile time.
When I was a young bloke, I spent some years working in various machine shops, at about the time Australia was going through the conversion to Metric. I always thought it was pretty funny when someone would send in a request for, say, a bunch of 19mm Whitworth nuts and bolts. See what they'd do is think 'I need some 3/4" Whitworth bolts', then, because the Metric system was mandated, convert it to metric to order it. The boss would then convert it back to Imperial, and fill the order (taking care to _label_ them in mm, not inches).
The best part of the joke is, of course, that there's no such thing as a 19mm Whitworth thread - there is a metric standard thread which is quite different.
Actually, if you have the device adjusted correctly (ie, set to your interpupil distance, in focus, squint prisms rotated to compensate for your eyes, pitch, yaw and roll taken account of, etc), they don't cause eyestrain. I used a photogrammetric instrument (big machine - like the size of a desk - it was an 8-man lift if you had to move it) over about 12 years on and off in the army. Some of the smaller ones can be a bit unpleasant, though, as they don't have the adjustments that photogrammetric instruments do.
Here in Australia, 'entrepeneur' and 'scum-sucking bottom feeder' are pretty much equivalent terms. (Think Alan Bond, Christopher Skase, John Elliot, etc).
My middle son had a very dificult time at school, and was eventually diagnosed with ADD. He was taking amphetamines for a while, and found they helped (but caused the expected side effects - he tended to take a bit more than he should've...).
He's now found that if he takes high doses of Vitamin B6 and eats a high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet, he manages almost as well as he did with the speed, but without the speed psychosis, heart damage, etc.
I've been looking for evidence - any evidence - of a creator for nearly 40 years (admittedly with a pretty sceptical eye) and I have seen none. Occam rules.
Yeah, it was Bertrand Russell - he quotes the story himself in one of his books (don't ask me _which_ book - it certainly wasn't 'Principia Mathematica' - it'd be about 40 years since I read it).
Yeah... about that OLAP thing... Oracle has been providing that capability for a loooong time now. I dispute that MS does too much interesting, innovative stuff.
All that a data cube is, is a fucking huge, highly de-normalised table with a shitload of indices, btw.
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It means "shameful joy" (more or less).
At least you _have_ a ponytail. All my hair fell out about 20 years ago, while I was in the Army.
We in Australian are _very_ aware that free trade only goes one way. Think about heavily subsidised and protected US agriculture. Not that I think that laissez faire capitalism is such a hot idea, btw.
In my view, Helvetica and Arial are both uglier and less readable than Times New Roman. As an earlier post has already pointed out, sans-serif fonts are intrinsically less legible than serif fonts, and Helvetica in particular is extremely ugly to boot.
While 14pt probably is a bit big (although it's about the smallest I can read without my glasses), Times New Roman is both more attractive and more legible than Courier (which I've always thought was an exceptionally ugly font). I can't think of too many fonts which look appreciably better than Times New Roman, except for a couple of custom-designed ones which don't come with word-processors.
Every time I've accidentally done something like this, the compiler has barfed. Doesn't matter if it's gcc, one of the Sun compilers, the one that comes with AIX, ...
So sure I should know better by now, but when you also write code in languages which do support this type of string comparison, it's easy to forget it 'til compile time.
Eastasia is probably Iraq, or maybe Terror, at this stage. It doesn't matter, really, because we've always been at war with it.
When I was a young bloke, I spent some years working in various machine shops, at about the time Australia was going through the conversion to Metric. I always thought it was pretty funny when someone would send in a request for, say, a bunch of 19mm Whitworth nuts and bolts. See what they'd do is think 'I need some 3/4" Whitworth bolts', then, because the Metric system was mandated, convert it to metric to order it. The boss would then convert it back to Imperial, and fill the order (taking care to _label_ them in mm, not inches).
The best part of the joke is, of course, that there's no such thing as a 19mm Whitworth thread - there is a metric standard thread which is quite different.
Bush is unbelievably stupid, but some of the evil fuckers who run him are reasonably bright.
Moretti is OK too.
In case it needs explaining to non-Australians:
1. The Foster brothers were Americans.
2. Foster's Lager is truly horrible catpiss - most people I know won't drink it.
You forgot to shove your thumb up its arse to see how much you could piss it off.
> I'd regard running everything as the equivalent of "root" as a pretty massive bug
No, it's a feature.
Actually, if you have the device adjusted correctly (ie, set to your interpupil distance, in focus, squint prisms rotated to compensate for your eyes, pitch, yaw and roll taken account of, etc), they don't cause eyestrain. I used a photogrammetric instrument (big machine - like the size of a desk - it was an 8-man lift if you had to move it) over about 12 years on and off in the army. Some of the smaller ones can be a bit unpleasant, though, as they don't have the adjustments that photogrammetric instruments do.
Wrong. You need both eyes to see a 3D image, through a stereoscope or any other way.
It's similar in Australia. My youngest son is alarmingly homophobic (he's 20). The other two seem to have grown out of it, however.
Does its petrol tank explode?
Yeah, but microsoft are expecting you to be using Word, not some crazy setup like emacs + TeX, so you're being punished.
Here in Australia, 'entrepeneur' and 'scum-sucking bottom feeder' are pretty much equivalent terms. (Think Alan Bond, Christopher Skase, John Elliot, etc).
My middle son had a very dificult time at school, and was eventually diagnosed with ADD. He was taking amphetamines for a while, and found they helped (but caused the expected side effects - he tended to take a bit more than he should've ...).
He's now found that if he takes high doses of Vitamin B6 and eats a high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet, he manages almost as well as he did with the speed, but without the speed psychosis, heart damage, etc.
The only sentences anyone needs to know in a foreign language are:
1. Is this edible?
2. Can I please have a glass of beer?
3. I suppose casual sex is out of the question.
Although being able to tell Darl to fuck off would be pretty good too.
I've been looking for evidence - any evidence - of a creator for nearly 40 years (admittedly with a pretty sceptical eye) and I have seen none. Occam rules.
Yeah, it was Bertrand Russell - he quotes the story himself in one of his books (don't ask me _which_ book - it certainly wasn't 'Principia Mathematica' - it'd be about 40 years since I read it).
Yeah ... about that OLAP thing ... Oracle has been providing that capability for a loooong time now. I dispute that MS does too much interesting, innovative stuff.
All that a data cube is, is a fucking huge, highly de-normalised table with a shitload of indices, btw.
Don't be too hard on Adam Smith. Unlike Ayn Rand, he recognised there was a moral dimension to life.