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Comment Re: Reinventing /home ? (Score 1) 17

Of course, a lot of it is because until Windows NT, the DOS based versions were single user systems.

And because Microsoft didn't take the opportunity when they had it to get rid of the A:, B:, C:, drive naming scheme when they had the chance. They could have done it when Win95 shipped and few people would have complained.

Comment Re:Reinventing /home ? (Score 1) 17

All that said, I'm a bit surprised that they care so much about ChromeOS being able to reset without losing data -- I mean, the important stuff is stored by Google as a part of your account anyways. "Safety reset preserves local data and apps, as well as things like bookmarks and saved passwords" -- well, local data tends to mostly be caches, and the rest of what's mentioned is stored in one's Google account.

My guess would be that they're doing it at the request of school IT departments that are flooded with Chromebook support and need a way to reset/refresh them without wiping out the student's data.

Comment Re:Not any less ethical than any other money. (Score 4, Insightful) 300

Except for where the money's coming from.

It's pretty well known that most crypto (including BitCoin) is larger driven by the greater fool theory. So the last one left holding the bag loses. It's also pretty well known that a lot of the money that's propping BitCoin up is coming from illicit activities like money laundering. So if you're OK with getting money that's probably from drug dealing or human trafficking, then yeah it's not unethical.

Comment Re:Protectionism and National Security (Score 1) 170

When a long-lived LED display technology becomes cheap and so ubiquitous that very reliably hardware is readily available

I think you might want to look around. That day is already here. We're awash in cheap screen technology. It's so cheap, we're looking for new places to put them. And they've even gone so far down in price, they're significantly cheaper than those mechanical analog gauges you're mythologizing.

Comment Re:Why is this for a judge to decide? (Score 1) 112

The coffee machine at EVERY DAMN MCDONALD'S in the USA is an industry standard coffee machine, and DOES NOT HAVE SEPARATE SETTINGS FOR Temperature.

That's true now. You're suffering from recency bias. The old machines used to be able to be turned up to dispense super-hot coffee. And most of them were set that way nationwide.

The coffee machines McD's use now have a much more accurate temperature sensing system to ensure the coffee is always dispensed at the appropriate temperature. You can read my other comment above for a little more in-depth explanation.

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