Although it was already pointed out that the author was talking about the novels, there were a few doors in Metal Gear that didn't require a keycard, as well as one that required the Enemy Uniform. They may have eliminated the keycard-less doors in the NES version... I last played the MSX2 version.
Key card management was simplified in Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake by having red, blue, and green cards that replaced keycards 1-3, 4-6, and 7-9 once you found them. It's not a surprise that they required keycards 3, 6, and 9 to find.
Metal Gear Solid simplified it even further by having higher cards also open the lower card doors. For example, Keycard 2 opens up doors requiring keycards 1 or 2.
Personally, I think that Metal Gear Solid was the best game in the series and that you should give it a try.
Shh, don't mention the forest of Metal Gear to Hideo Kojima. It didn't exist in the original version of Metal Gear.
Metal Gear's appearance on the MSX2 system coincided with the most successful years of the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). The game later made its way to the NES but in an entirely different form than Director Kojima intended, who thinks of the NES version as an inferior adaptation of his much-loved series. Now you can experience the Metal Gear saga's landmark opus for yourself!
--Konami's MGS3: Subsistence Metal Gear site
For that matter, we also never got the real Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake until MGS3: Subsistence. Instead, we got Snake's Revenge, a cheap knock-off created specifically for English speaking audiences.
We're giving away some of our services that you've enjoyed for years for free... to everyone who isn't currently an AOL customer! AOL customers will continue to pay $25.90/month for these features plus basic dial-up!
Personal experience. I've seen it get over 700MB in a matter of minutes while browsing Home of the Underdogs's Hall of Belated Fame. This was while I had two tabs open, the other was looking at this weird site I found called/.
You are aware that you can place more than one HTML file control on a document, right? Of course, a smarter fix would be to allow an HTML file control to select multiple files. That would require a change to the standard, though. Since the w3 is currently pushing XForms, I doubt that'll happen.
I personally have never had a problem with Java in Firefox (Note: Don't ask about Adobe Flash 9 with Firefox or Opera). JUpload is also cross-browser compliant, assuming that you're using Sun's JVM.
Then again, that's why you have the static method getByInetAddress().
If you don't know the IP address you want, you "can use getNetworkInterfaces()+getInetAddresses() to obtain all IP addresses for this node." (Quoted because it's in the Javadoc for getNetworkInterfaces().)
It's a moot point. If you're messing with NetworkInterfaces, the end user should know which one they want, or you should ask them which NetworkInterface you want it to bind to during some sort of first time initialization.
I don't know about everyone else, but the instructors that I've had for programming will read through the code first before compiling and running it.
There's 3 reasons for this. 1. To make sure you followed coding standards. 2. To make sure you weren't doing something destructive. 3. To make sure you were actually using the programming constructs that the instructor wanted you to.
To expand on 3, for simple programs like you run into in an Introduction class, it's possible to do a recursion assignment using iteration. Or to use if/else if/else where you were asked to use switch/case. Reading the code will catch these things. Just checking the output won't.
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I noticed that, despite your diatribe, you never actually said that the grandparent was wrong.
The original poster has a point. I can think of a number of language features that were just plain bad ideas.
1. Providing an inconsistant programming environment, based on INI settings. This exacerbates the next two problems.
2. Having register globals turned on by default. First "fixed" in php.ini-recommended for PHP 4. Later fixed in php.ini-dist for PHP 4.2. Scheduled for removal from the language in PHP 6.
3. Having magic quotes GPC turned on by default. First "fixed" in php.ini-recommended for PHP 4. Scheduled for removal from the language in PHP 6.
4. Lack of a good database abstraction layer shipped with PHP. Although dbx and Pear DB both ship with PHP, neither is that commonly used. dbx due to being disabled by default; Pear DB due to its slowness. This is fixed in PHP 5.1 with the addition of PDO. Unfortunately, this is a case of too little, too late, as anyone who writes things for multiple DBs already uses ADODB or hand-rolls their own abstraction layer (coughphpBBcough).
Rather than waiting for a perl programmer to come along and post this url, I will: PHP in contrast to Perl. I know very well that this is slanted against PHP, but that doesn't make a lot of the comments in it any less true. Particularly since PHP 1 was written in Perl 5.
Mmm, as an alternative, you could tell them to try Opera. After getting fed up with Firefox over its tab memory leak "feature" and a few other things, I finally gave Opera a serious try.
I spent about 10 minutes changing options, and now it acts just how I want it. I do miss Adblock, though...
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Great. Opera 9 is currently taking up 31.3MiB (That's 32,040KiB in the task manager) displaying this thread. Care to explain that one?
I see a flaw in that logic. If people can run OSX flawlessy using VMWare on any computer, why would they buy Mac hardware? If it runs under VMWare, but not flawlessly, they may think it's an OS problem and still not buy Mac hardware.
Since hardware is Apple's money-maker, not OSX, it's a lose-lose situation.
I've also found out the hard way that Windows XP original edition won't install on some newer PCs, even those with HDs smaller than 137GB.
The Windows XP installer kept bombing with either protection errors or divide by zero errors (I can't remember which) until I used another computer to create a slipstreamed copy of XP with SP2.
I should make a column called this, and put pages like this one on it... pretend the next paragraph is a header.
Not Including Links to Other Articles in the Same Series
If an article is the seventh in a series, why aren't there links to the other six articles? How about a link to a page that has links to all of them without having to sort through Gamasutra's other features? Even a separate page for the Developer's Diaries series of articles would be an improvement over what we have now.
Seriously, A List Apart's Stylesheet Switcher uses onunload to set cookies, so you get the same stylesheet next time. It works in Microsoft Internet Explorer and Firefox, but Opera support is iffy.
Why? Because Opera doesn't fire the unonload event if the user
clicks the back or forward buttons. I can see not firing when hitting forward... but when hitting back?
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"why not use AMD... They're cooler..."
AMD cooler? What alternate dimension are you from?
I suspect that episode 2 will introduce a clone army, have one of the main characters get revenge after his mother dies, and have a secret marraige.
Oh, wrong Episode 2?
Add to that the confusion over the Internet's birthday... is it measured from when the Internet was started or when ARPAnet was started?
In fact, it's usually better to let a kid do it. They know more about computers than their parents.
Although it was already pointed out that the author was talking about the novels, there were a few doors in Metal Gear that didn't require a keycard, as well as one that required the Enemy Uniform. They may have eliminated the keycard-less doors in the NES version... I last played the MSX2 version.
Key card management was simplified in Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake by having red, blue, and green cards that replaced keycards 1-3, 4-6, and 7-9 once you found them. It's not a surprise that they required keycards 3, 6, and 9 to find.
Metal Gear Solid simplified it even further by having higher cards also open the lower card doors. For example, Keycard 2 opens up doors requiring keycards 1 or 2.
Personally, I think that Metal Gear Solid was the best game in the series and that you should give it a try.
Shh, don't mention the forest of Metal Gear to Hideo Kojima. It didn't exist in the original version of Metal Gear.
For that matter, we also never got the real Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake until MGS3: Subsistence. Instead, we got Snake's Revenge, a cheap knock-off created specifically for English speaking audiences.
I interpretted this press release as follows.
I take it that you didn't like the Pentium III? Or is there some other reason that it's missing from the list? :D
Now you've given away the secret to our pipe-switched network! :O
They didn't always. I know, I live in a GM town.
Unfortunately, times change.
Personal experience. I've seen it get over 700MB in a matter of minutes while browsing Home of the Underdogs's Hall of Belated Fame. This was while I had two tabs open, the other was looking at this weird site I found called /.
So, yeah, memory problems.
You are aware that you can place more than one HTML file control on a document, right? Of course, a smarter fix would be to allow an HTML file control to select multiple files. That would require a change to the standard, though. Since the w3 is currently pushing XForms, I doubt that'll happen.
I personally have never had a problem with Java in Firefox (Note: Don't ask about Adobe Flash 9 with Firefox or Opera). JUpload is also cross-browser compliant, assuming that you're using Sun's JVM.
Considering that Koster was one of the original developers for both games and left later on, how have his changes affected the game?
I don't know UO's history, but Raph Koster left SWG's team less than a year after launch, before the dreaded CU and NGE updates.
Honestly, I haven't.
Then again, that's why you have the static method getByInetAddress().
If you don't know the IP address you want, you "can use getNetworkInterfaces()+getInetAddresses() to obtain all IP addresses for this node." (Quoted because it's in the Javadoc for getNetworkInterfaces().)
It's a moot point. If you're messing with NetworkInterfaces, the end user should know which one they want, or you should ask them which NetworkInterface you want it to bind to during some sort of first time initialization.
I don't know about everyone else, but the instructors that I've had for programming will read through the code first before compiling and running it.
There's 3 reasons for this. 1. To make sure you followed coding standards. 2. To make sure you weren't doing something destructive. 3. To make sure you were actually using the programming constructs that the instructor wanted you to.
To expand on 3, for simple programs like you run into in an Introduction class, it's possible to do a recursion assignment using iteration. Or to use if/else if/else where you were asked to use switch/case. Reading the code will catch these things. Just checking the output won't.
I noticed that, despite your diatribe, you never actually said that the grandparent was wrong.
The original poster has a point. I can think of a number of language features that were just plain bad ideas.
1. Providing an inconsistant programming environment, based on INI settings. This exacerbates the next two problems.
2. Having register globals turned on by default. First "fixed" in php.ini-recommended for PHP 4. Later fixed in php.ini-dist for PHP 4.2. Scheduled for removal from the language in PHP 6.
3. Having magic quotes GPC turned on by default. First "fixed" in php.ini-recommended for PHP 4. Scheduled for removal from the language in PHP 6.
4. Lack of a good database abstraction layer shipped with PHP. Although dbx and Pear DB both ship with PHP, neither is that commonly used. dbx due to being disabled by default; Pear DB due to its slowness. This is fixed in PHP 5.1 with the addition of PDO. Unfortunately, this is a case of too little, too late, as anyone who writes things for multiple DBs already uses ADODB or hand-rolls their own abstraction layer (coughphpBBcough).
Rather than waiting for a perl programmer to come along and post this url, I will: PHP in contrast to Perl. I know very well that this is slanted against PHP, but that doesn't make a lot of the comments in it any less true. Particularly since PHP 1 was written in Perl 5.
Mmm, as an alternative, you could tell them to try Opera. After getting fed up with Firefox over its tab memory leak "feature" and a few other things, I finally gave Opera a serious try.
I spent about 10 minutes changing options, and now it acts just how I want it. I do miss Adblock, though...
Great. Opera 9 is currently taking up 31.3MiB (That's 32,040KiB in the task manager) displaying this thread. Care to explain that one?
I see a flaw in that logic. If people can run OSX flawlessy using VMWare on any computer, why would they buy Mac hardware? If it runs under VMWare, but not flawlessly, they may think it's an OS problem and still not buy Mac hardware.
Since hardware is Apple's money-maker, not OSX, it's a lose-lose situation.
I've also found out the hard way that Windows XP original edition won't install on some newer PCs, even those with HDs smaller than 137GB.
The Windows XP installer kept bombing with either protection errors or divide by zero errors (I can't remember which) until I used another computer to create a slipstreamed copy of XP with SP2.
I think some poor editor forgot the & in — Which is a shame, because — looks OK.
I should make a column called this, and put pages like this one on it... pretend the next paragraph is a header.
Not Including Links to Other Articles in the Same Series
If an article is the seventh in a series, why aren't there links to the other six articles? How about a link to a page that has links to all of them without having to sort through Gamasutra's other features? Even a separate page for the Developer's Diaries series of articles would be an improvement over what we have now.
I'm using Opera 9 right now, and it looks and acts like a normal Windows program.
Of course, I changed the appearance to Windows Native, so that might have something to do with it...
Seriously, A List Apart's Stylesheet Switcher uses onunload to set cookies, so you get the same stylesheet next time. It works in Microsoft Internet Explorer and Firefox, but Opera support is iffy.
Why? Because Opera doesn't fire the unonload event if the user clicks the back or forward buttons. I can see not firing when hitting forward... but when hitting back?
Here's the official guidelines for story requirements handed out to all /. staff.
I hope they can all remember it. ;P