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Comment Re:Well, he's not wrong (Score 4, Insightful) 479

Again, you can engineer around how they burn. That is not the issue. The issue with hydrogen as a fuel is that it's a stupid idea: Just process fossil fuels again, and have cars the "burn" the product using a remarkably complex machine. No wonder it's taking decades to get to market. Batteries are far simpler, can be recycled, and don't require us to build any new infrastructure.

Comment Well, he's not wrong (Score 4, Insightful) 479

But the danger of fuel cells is not so much from the hydrogen storage part, you can engineer around that - ffs lithium batteries can burn too, and they carry their own oxidizers to do it, it's more from the fact that the cheapest source of hydrogen will be from gasification of fossil fuels, and from the fact that hydrogen via electrolysis is horribly inefficient, and then you actually have to build an infrastructure for the hydrogen distribution...

Comment Re:ditch windows? (Score 1) 304

One part of it is the gamers, but the other part of it is tools. The tools on windows are better. The only safety you have in the FOSS tools world is a potential to solve a tool bug yourself, which is not something people do on a practical level - it's hard to justify the time and cost to do so to an employer. This is actually a non-trivial hurdle: Why would companies build AAA titles for a platform with minimal adoption, all the while using a hodge-podge of tools with massive variation in quality to build it? Game devs are on windows because they generally don't have to fight the toolset to get things done. It's bad when you can say Emacs or Vim (with all the necessary plugins) is about the best "IDE" you can get on Linux. Anyone who thinks Eclipse is fantastic, I don't want to hear it - I've just had my workspace file corrupted - again - because Eclipse had an "error" while I modified some project settings. Fucking pile of garbage.

Comment Re:Slashdot... (Score 2) 442

iOS's UI and metro are two peas in the same pod. One uses icons, the other uses tiles. There's more power in the metro interface, but it's all tucked away and you need to be trained to find, but that's not an issue for some. On iOS, it's not there to find, but at least it makes for a very simple interface - More limited, but simpler, which for some is better. However, at least on non-iOS systems you can do obvious things like, plug it in to a computer and copy an mp3 to it just using OS tools. iOS requires iTunes for this most basic function. iTunes is a terrible piece of software, and the crap it drags on to your system with it and hijacks your media settings by default (bonjour service, quicktime, airplay service) makes it completely unacceptable as a medium just to copy your music to your device. The iTunes requirement make iOS less simple than Android or Win8.

Comment Re:The best thing about Tesla so far (Score 3, Insightful) 452

In the case of a full EV like a Model S, you're also paying for all the fluids, belts, parts changes, spark plugs, oil, oil filters, starters, alternators, clutches, hoses, wires, brakes (if you know what you're doing), rotors, 12V batteries, mufflers, catalytic converters, etc. and all the associated labor. People don't actually get how expensive it is to actually maintain a gas vehicle, especially as it ages. Also, in the case of the model S, it is priced in the same range as the cars it competes with. People spending that much on a car are already not very concerned about the price.

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