My wife and I play lots of co-op multiplayer games on PS2 and GC. Neither of us like fighting games and my wife doesn't like driving games so I have spent some time digging out the best co-op games I could find.
If you like 3rd person hack and slash games, you will be well catered for, check out: Baldurs Gate: Dark Alliance 1 & 2 Champions of Norrath
Lego star wars is the sequel/prequel featuring the orginal films is due out this year.
We are currently playing 'Ratchet: Gladiator'. This is a co-op platformer/shooter which is absolute mayhem with 2 players and I recommend it highly.
The most useful feature of Copernic is its ability to search network drives. I use it to index my company server. It is invaluable when searching through piles of specifications for a particular term.
I tried google desktop search but without the ability to search PDFs or network drives it isn't much use at the moment.
What I'd really like is something that runs on our linux server, indexing and serving the results through a web interface.
The mechanical voting machines as used in Florida aren't a great idea. What's wrong with a piece of paper and a pencil?
In a recent UK parliamentary election the winner had a majority of three votes. Would you trust an electronic system that gave this result, with no possibility of a recount?
Indeed. The current war in Iraq is an excellent example.
Problems on the groud are not caused by a lack of technology. In the field of bombing the crap out of things the US is second to none. In fact some of the technology caused problems, such as electronic countermeasures being useless against guerillas with AK47s and RPGs.
Winning the peace is of course another matter. What you need is boots on the ground, preferably not people who look like Stormtroopers.
There is currently a debate in the UK over troop numbers. The government want to downsize the military by several batallions and spend the money on high texh weaponry. In Iraq the most significant contribution from the UK has been their experience dealing with people, rather than our ability to fire cruise missiles.
It is worth noting that Skype has particuarly good echo cancellation.
We use it at work for conferencing with another office, using just a cheap microphone and some speakers.
I've been using Skype on Windows 98SE for a while.
Version 0.98.0.68 completely locks up the machine and requires a hard reset. I recommend version 0.98.0.28 though, there are certainly less of the problems with call competion in that version.
Note though that the option to ring the PC speaker can cause problems with Windows 98.
Indeed, some of the 'faults' are absurdly pedantic. In my opinion an interesting movie mistake is one that almost everyone sees the first time they watch the movie.
Godzilla is the best example. The speed of Godzilla is inversely proportional to the importance of the character. At the beginning of the film she can catch a helicopter because it contains an extra. At the end of the film she is unable to catch a reversing taxi because it contains key actors.
Not to mention the wildly varying size of the monster throughout the film.
As well as annoying people who buy TVs, they send letters and pretend policemen to every address which doesn't have a TV licence. They often send letters to addresses which don't even exist.
At work we have received licence demands for the following: A car park An orchard A barn A storage cupboard
The big difference is weight.
Many late 80's cars weighed under a ton. My last car was a 1.6L petrol Vauxhall Astra.
It was a compete shed but did 40mpg commuting and 45mpg long distance at 80mph.
UK ballots have a fairly large box (over 1 inch square) with which you have to draw a cross. They are counted by hand and are much less likely to cause problems than a strange mechanised voting system that gives rides to hanging chads.
I actually voted online a few years ago in a UK trial. It wasn't very effective though, the software was so poor (IE only etc.) that it would have been quicker for me to to walk to the polling station.
The problem I see with electronic voting is the lack of evidence. The good thing about online banking is the audit trail.
For example, a while ago I was charged six times for the same item due to a webserver problem. Obviously I noticed the discrepancy on my credit card bill and it was quickly rectified.
I'm not sure I would trust a company such as Diebold to correctly accumulate votes. How do I know whether my vote was counted?
Your figure of '99%' presumes that all software is aimed at a desktop environment.
If you need to interface to hardware, or you are developing for an embedded target, Java is not a good choice.
The main problem relates to the higher temperatures needed to melt lead free solder. These higher temperatures can stress components and are particuarly worrying in products that have to last 20 years.
The Register has an article with more info.
A flip-chip package currently contains 0.4 grams of lead. A tiny amount compared to that in the solder in a motherboard, let alone a monitor.
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I really cannot see the problem in riding in rain.
I cycle to work year round in the UK, where it rains loads.
Add fenders to your bike and carry a change of clothes in a plastic bag in your panniers.
My wife and I play lots of co-op multiplayer games on PS2 and GC.
Neither of us like fighting games and my wife doesn't like driving games so I have spent some time digging out the best co-op games I could find.
If you like 3rd person hack and slash games, you will be well catered for, check out:
Baldurs Gate: Dark Alliance 1 & 2
Champions of Norrath
Lego star wars is the sequel/prequel featuring the orginal films is due out this year.
We are currently playing 'Ratchet: Gladiator'. This is a co-op platformer/shooter which is absolute mayhem with 2 players and I recommend it highly.
This website has more ideas:
http://charon.sfsu.edu/corey/ps2coop/
The good news is that you can get the security tab to appear under XP Home.
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More info here:
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_home_sectab.ht
In this case the police weren't just lobbying politicians.
They were appearing on TV programmes and writing in newspapers.
How about WinVi?
Then the next version can be WinEmacs.
A declaration in a for loop is valid in C99.
The most useful feature of Copernic is its ability to search network drives. I use it to index my company server.
It is invaluable when searching through piles of specifications for a particular term.
I tried google desktop search but without the ability to search PDFs or network drives it isn't much use at the moment.
What I'd really like is something that runs on our linux server, indexing and serving the results through a web interface.
The reason you are seeing this is because Windows keeps a copy of SP2 (600MB) and uninstall information (500MB) in the windows directory.
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If you are happy with SP2 and want to save disk space:
In the windows directory, delete:
$NTServicePackUninstall
SoftwareDistrib
This should bring your XP installation below 1.5GB (still stupidly big, but smaller than before).
The mechanical voting machines as used in Florida aren't a great idea.
What's wrong with a piece of paper and a pencil?
In a recent UK parliamentary election the winner had a majority of three votes. Would you trust an electronic system that gave this result, with no possibility of a recount?
Indeed. The current war in Iraq is an excellent example.
Problems on the groud are not caused by a lack of technology. In the field of bombing the crap out of things the US is second to none. In fact some of the technology caused problems, such as electronic countermeasures being useless against guerillas with AK47s and RPGs.
Winning the peace is of course another matter. What you need is boots on the ground, preferably not people who look like Stormtroopers.
There is currently a debate in the UK over troop numbers. The government want to downsize the military by several batallions and spend the money on high texh weaponry. In Iraq the most significant contribution from the UK has been their experience dealing with people, rather than our ability to fire cruise missiles.
It is worth noting that Skype has particuarly good echo cancellation. We use it at work for conferencing with another office, using just a cheap microphone and some speakers.
I've been using Skype on Windows 98SE for a while.
Version 0.98.0.68 completely locks up the machine and requires a hard reset. I recommend version 0.98.0.28 though, there are certainly less of the problems with call competion in that version.
Note though that the option to ring the PC speaker can cause problems with Windows 98.
Version 0.98.0.28 works on Windows 98, but compatibility was broken in version 0.98.0.68.
If you already have Word, PDFCreator can give better results.
Indeed, some of the 'faults' are absurdly pedantic.
In my opinion an interesting movie mistake is one that almost everyone sees the first time they watch the movie.
Godzilla is the best example.
The speed of Godzilla is inversely proportional to the importance of the character. At the beginning of the film she can catch a helicopter because it contains an extra. At the end of the film she is unable to catch a reversing taxi because it contains key actors.
Not to mention the wildly varying size of the monster throughout the film.
As well as annoying people who buy TVs, they send letters and pretend policemen to every address which doesn't have a TV licence. They often send letters to addresses which don't even exist.
At work we have received licence demands for the following:
A car park
An orchard
A barn
A storage cupboard
On the wall in the apartment that Fry and Bender rent together for one episode is:
10 HOME
20 SWEET
30 GOTO 10
The big difference is weight. Many late 80's cars weighed under a ton. My last car was a 1.6L petrol Vauxhall Astra. It was a compete shed but did 40mpg commuting and 45mpg long distance at 80mph.
A good turbo-diesel has equivalent performance to a petrol car of the same capacity.
New diesels with electronic engine management limit fueling based on manifold air pressure, resulting in no smoke (unless it is faulty).
I don't think you even have to go that far.
UK ballots have a fairly large box (over 1 inch square) with which you have to draw a cross. They are counted by hand and are much less likely to cause problems than a strange mechanised voting system that gives rides to hanging chads.
I actually voted online a few years ago in a UK trial. It wasn't very effective though, the software was so poor (IE only etc.) that it would have been quicker for me to to walk to the polling station.
The problem I see with electronic voting is the lack of evidence. The good thing about online banking is the audit trail.
For example, a while ago I was charged six times for the same item due to a webserver problem. Obviously I noticed the discrepancy on my credit card bill and it was quickly rectified.
I'm not sure I would trust a company such as Diebold to correctly accumulate votes. How do I know whether my vote was counted?
Your figure of '99%' presumes that all software is aimed at a desktop environment.
If you need to interface to hardware, or you are developing for an embedded target, Java is not a good choice.
The main problem relates to the higher temperatures needed to melt lead free solder. These higher temperatures can stress components and are particuarly worrying in products that have to last 20 years.
The Register has an article with more info.
A flip-chip package currently contains 0.4 grams of lead. A tiny amount compared to that in the solder in a motherboard, let alone a monitor.