Yep pretty much, but private use of modified apps without code release is allowed. Otherwise you'd have to release code for every webcam driver and server daemon that you had to tweak slightly for your own private use. If you sell or distribute the app then you'd have to release the code along with it.
They're two different kinds of freedom, the GPL, like liberalism, uses rules that are technically anti-freedom to actively defend the (in-practice) freedom of the parties involved. The BSD license, like libertarianism, is like setting out a very barebones set of rules (theoretically very free) and hoping for the best.
How does it work in practice? Well which license gets its softeware incorporated into closed commercial products while the developers get a big fat nothing, and which one was updated with new rules when a loophole allowed similar behavior? So you have to choose whether you want freedom in theory or practice.
You only have to return changes back to the community if you redistribute the resulting program. You're free to use the altered app privately, including within a company.
Incompatibility with GPL licenses, disincentive to release gratis software, inability to freely run and distribute custom apps, inability to compete with native apps, app content censorship, app functionality censorship (tethering)...I think that's enough for now.
I think we can sure as hell stop pushing graphics quality. If you have a hi-res screen and every game looks like Crysis and runs at 60fps, the limiting factor of graphics quality is going to be your eyeballs. We've reached "good enough." Is there that much of a difference between Quake 3 or the original Ghost Recon and today's flashiest game? Compare that to going another 10 years back, the difference is massive.
Exactly. Consumers and developers are in a Mexican standoff over price. Consumers say they'll buy more and will have less incentive to buy used if the games are cheaper, developers say they'll drop the prices if you give them control over used sales via DRM.
Which party do you think is more likely to go back on their word?
Electric cars aren't lighter (yet, but this new battery may change this). Gasoline will have an advantage on the track longer than for short-run events or daily driving because running electric cars at wide open...motor controller causes them to burn through all their energy FAST. Gasoline in your tank doesn't heat up and become less efficient when you burn it quickly.
Well you're technically correct (the best kind!) but O2 can accelerate combustion so it needs to be handled somewhat like a flammable gas - except instead of keeping it away from oxygen and flame you need to keep it away from fuel (almost anything) and flame.
I do 10 hour offroad rallies without taking a dump, only a piss at the 1 hour break between 5 hour stretches of driving. You just avoid eating large meals the day before and take a dump before you start.
Definitely true, we're not going to see anything more powerful than a 220V charger at home for the foreseeable future, you'll need to go to a station for a charge. But consider that there isn't even a low-flow gasoline tap on your house right now...
What about the danger of explosion? As it recharges it release oxygen. You wouldn't want to leave your Lithium-oxygen EV in your garage but outside so the O2 can safely escape rather than build up.
Garages might need an extractor fan but I guess it depends on how quickly the oxygen is released. If it's not too high it should be able to safely dissipate.
With this battery, sure why not. The only thing preventing it now is energy density, you couldn't carry anything of meaningful capacity. At this energy density you could carry extra packs that wire up to terminals in the trunk.
So what's wrong with more charging stations? Have one at each parking spot at the station, once the infrastructure is there the individual terminals are relatively cheap.
Goes boom? It'll catch fire but I don't know of any battery that can go up in a movie-style explosion. And just like a gas tank, if you manage to damage your battery you've just been in one helluva accident and the track crew should be by with extinguishers shortly.
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Yep pretty much, but private use of modified apps without code release is allowed. Otherwise you'd have to release code for every webcam driver and server daemon that you had to tweak slightly for your own private use. If you sell or distribute the app then you'd have to release the code along with it.
They're two different kinds of freedom, the GPL, like liberalism, uses rules that are technically anti-freedom to actively defend the (in-practice) freedom of the parties involved. The BSD license, like libertarianism, is like setting out a very barebones set of rules (theoretically very free) and hoping for the best.
How does it work in practice? Well which license gets its softeware incorporated into closed commercial products while the developers get a big fat nothing, and which one was updated with new rules when a loophole allowed similar behavior? So you have to choose whether you want freedom in theory or practice.
You only have to return changes back to the community if you redistribute the resulting program. You're free to use the altered app privately, including within a company.
Incompatibility with GPL licenses, disincentive to release gratis software, inability to freely run and distribute custom apps, inability to compete with native apps, app content censorship, app functionality censorship (tethering)...I think that's enough for now.
I think we can sure as hell stop pushing graphics quality. If you have a hi-res screen and every game looks like Crysis and runs at 60fps, the limiting factor of graphics quality is going to be your eyeballs. We've reached "good enough." Is there that much of a difference between Quake 3 or the original Ghost Recon and today's flashiest game? Compare that to going another 10 years back, the difference is massive.
Exactly. Consumers and developers are in a Mexican standoff over price. Consumers say they'll buy more and will have less incentive to buy used if the games are cheaper, developers say they'll drop the prices if you give them control over used sales via DRM.
Which party do you think is more likely to go back on their word?
Crushing authoritarianism leads to lower crime, worth the misery? Film at 11.
The Mitusbishi i is closest to what you want but it costs about $20k.
Electric cars aren't lighter (yet, but this new battery may change this). Gasoline will have an advantage on the track longer than for short-run events or daily driving because running electric cars at wide open...motor controller causes them to burn through all their energy FAST. Gasoline in your tank doesn't heat up and become less efficient when you burn it quickly.
Well you're technically correct (the best kind!) but O2 can accelerate combustion so it needs to be handled somewhat like a flammable gas - except instead of keeping it away from oxygen and flame you need to keep it away from fuel (almost anything) and flame.
I do 10 hour offroad rallies without taking a dump, only a piss at the 1 hour break between 5 hour stretches of driving. You just avoid eating large meals the day before and take a dump before you start.
That's one way to look at it but I would call it a supply problem at that point...
I don't like them either but they're no longer the worst influence or biggest bully.
Not a bad idea, but if the car already has a battery cooling system it could just run at full capacity from the station's power.
A number of employers are starting to mention free charging as a perk, in part to draw people in and in part to show off how 'green' they are.
Suckers, I've been charging my phone from my office PC for years :-P
You don't want too much oxygen, especially since it's flammable.
True for autocross/drift/drag and other sports with short runs, but for track use gasoline will have an advantage for quite a bit longer.
They do charge that fast but it does shorten the battery's life. One quick charge is the equivalent of 10-20 220V charges in wear IIRC.
Definitely true, we're not going to see anything more powerful than a 220V charger at home for the foreseeable future, you'll need to go to a station for a charge. But consider that there isn't even a low-flow gasoline tap on your house right now...
Lithium can be recycled, pulling gasoline out of the air isn't so easy.
What about the danger of explosion? As it recharges it release oxygen. You wouldn't want to leave your Lithium-oxygen EV in your garage but outside so the O2 can safely escape rather than build up.
Garages might need an extractor fan but I guess it depends on how quickly the oxygen is released. If it's not too high it should be able to safely dissipate.
With this battery, sure why not. The only thing preventing it now is energy density, you couldn't carry anything of meaningful capacity. At this energy density you could carry extra packs that wire up to terminals in the trunk.
So what's wrong with more charging stations? Have one at each parking spot at the station, once the infrastructure is there the individual terminals are relatively cheap.
Enough that it will be a better deal than gas in the future, for sure
Current cars are doing an 80% quick charge in half an hour, use your imagination
If it's anything like today's lithium batteries, many months
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Goes boom? It'll catch fire but I don't know of any battery that can go up in a movie-style explosion. And just like a gas tank, if you manage to damage your battery you've just been in one helluva accident and the track crew should be by with extinguishers shortly.