Comment Re:The death of homework (Score 1) 100
If school hours aren't long enough to allow this, why not make school hours longer!
First, because there are only 24 hours in a day.
Second: I took AP classes constantly. Compared to normal classes, there was not "more homework." The homework was MORE RIGOROUS. For students who were not equipped for it, it might have taken more time than the "standard" class homework.
Third - The quantity of homework has gone up significantly since I grew up in the 1970s. - Every time I see some senilefuck say things like this, I suspect they're either lying or just not remembering correctly. Time to change your Depends in the retirement home, grandpa.
Comment Re:The death of homework (Score 1) 100
Comment Re:A watershed moment (Score 1) 65
Doom was amazing tech, way ahead of its time,
I think Wolfenstein 3D was really the groundbreaking tech. It introduced the entire 2.5D fast-paced shooter FPS. Doom was just a big refinement and flushing-out of those concepts that Wolf 3D introduced and proved.
Really, from a technological standpoint, I argue that Quake was the biggest leap, most ambitious and largest technological breakthroughs id software (IE John Carmack) achieved. It is a full 3D game engine, with advanced internal scripting and tons of other capabilities, that is a quantum leap above the 2.5D rendering of Doom. Truly it set the stage for all modern FPS games. The rendering pipelines and so on were entirely different from anything in Doom so it was a total creation of itself, and not an incremental improvement (like Doom was to Wolf 3D).
I ported both Wolf3D and Quake (and Quake 2) to Pocket PC back in the day, so I was intimately familiar with the code, especially the software rendering pipelines.
Comment Re:Just no (Score -1, Troll) 77
Comment Re:Just no (Score -1, Troll) 77
Once a month it tries to force my browser default back to Edge. I tell it to fuck off.
A few times they've done it BEHIND MY BACK and I had to fix it manually after a fake "patch" to windows.
Before the days of Dumbass Fuckwit Trump and the Constitution Hating Treasonshit GOP, we had government entities that SUED Microsoft under Antitrust law for this shit.
Fuck the GOP. Fuck them for enabling this shit. Every crossburning Constitution-hating member of the GOP is a fucking shitrag.
Comment Re:Parent's phone gets dialog to approve .... (Score 1) 120
Comment Re:There is no way your data doesn't make it into (Score 3, Insightful) 77
but IIRC, Apple has iOS's iCloud backup on by default (and quickly runs out of space and then nags you to subscribe to a paid tier).
DUH. That's the play. They force you into a "service" as an "opt out." Then - oh, the free tier is insufficient. Or the free tier JUST GOES AWAY and then they're holding your computer hostage.
Retardican GOP failed utterly at governance, the government entities that were supposed to be watching out for us and enforcing antitrust law died under Trump. Every Retardican traitor to the Constitution helped cause this shit.
Comment Simple fact: Trump & TreasonShitGOP enabled th (Score 0, Flamebait) 77
If not for Treasonfuck Trump and the Shiteating GOP who hate the Constitution, this would never have been allowed, and the Federal agencies would actually be hauling MS's ass in for antitrust about this.
This is pathetic. The USA is over and dead.
Comment Re:Parent's phone gets dialog to approve .... (Score 2) 120
Comment Re:Parent's phone gets dialog to approve .... (Score 4, Informative) 120
Comment Re:"That trick never works." (Score 3, Interesting) 30
My Facebook account was assassinated a few years back for posting "#NEVERAGAIN" and a link to the British Holocaust Memorial Day Trust on May 6. Reason eventually given: the link to a HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE PAGE was supposedly "glorifying violent individuals or organizations."
That's right. Nazi Trash Filth Zuckerberg decided that saying "#NEVERAGAIN" about the Holocaust was somehow "glorifying" violent individuals or organizations...