People have been modifying the text on these signs for almost a decade. Most companies don't even bother to change the password from the default.

This is the most insane, paranoid thing I've ever seen posted on Slashdot. And that's saying a lot.

The average user doesn't know not to click pop-up ads for fake antivirus. That's why so many people feel comfortable with an "app store" experience like that of iOS or the game consoles, because it protects the average user from himself.

It's not relevant that those users are ignorant or don't make any effort to protect themselves. They're still users and they still deserve a positive user experience. Autosave helps them have that positive user experience. Antiviruses help them have that positive user experience. Windows features that help protect them from themselves (but annoy the hell out of informed power users) help them have that positive user experience. Using software should be as easy as using a microwave or driving a car. People don't have to know how those machines work, mechanically or theoretically, or how to fix them, in order to have positive user experiences with them and use them as tools to accomplish their goals. Software should be the same way.

Do you honestly believe the average user has a UPS? Or that they never try to use their laptop away from an outlet at very low battery life? These kinds of assumptions are what make for bad user experiences.

Perhaps you've heard of a thing called a power outage. I just had one last night. Or maybe you've had a cat step on your keyboard and somehow manage to close the window you were working in. There are enough acts of god and human error that still exist regardless of how flawless the program you're working in is to make autosave highly valuable. The 1000 times you don't need autosave are not nearly as critical as the 1 time you do.

That works for Descent. Now explain why the Doom guy does the same thing.

Specifically in Doom, there was an additional bug beyond the general sqrt(2) bug where if you were pressing up against an axial wall and facing either North or East, you could obtain a speed increase greater than 100%.

http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Wal...
http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Str...

This isn't really a surprise because an interstellar impact is probably what placed it into the path of our orbit to begin with. But hey, I'm no astronomer/astrophysicist/whatever.

Supposedly in the German version they completely changed the plot so it's about a mad cult instead of Nazis. I can't verify this for myself.

There have been like 100 id tech games without Carmack. What the hell do you think they were licensing for almost 20 years?

Don't be ridiculous. They'll survive just fine. Their property holdings may not. It's not going to flood overnight. There will be ample warning.

Most of these games are being shut down because they relied on GameSpy's master servers and matchmaking systems, which are finally being shut down. A lot of these servers are actually fairly simple, and new master servers could be set up, but most of these games are also 10+ years old and it's not seen as worth the effort. I don't know much about the other games, but I'm fairly sure the Battlefield games all can still be played online if you know the address of the server you're trying to connect to.

No. HL2 actually hides the inside of the building as long as the entire vis area is properly blocked off. It's a shame you're posting AC so you won't be notified of my reply and probably never see it.

http://www.optimization.interl...

I had to read it about 4 times before I realized what it was trying to say, but the math works out. It says there are 132 people. 12 are secretaries (all women), 12 report directly to Bezos (all men). If you cut out the secretaries and Bezos himself, you're left with 119 people, only 18 of whom are women.

Half-life 2 actually has a flag you can set on windows so that at a distance they're opaque and as you approach them they become transparent.