Posts by katrinab 6396 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Aug 2016
But rain is very common in the English Lake District. That can carry dust particles in it, and over time, those get deposited where the rain lands.
Obviously not relevant to Mars, but leaves tend to fall on things as well, and rot. And that leads to stuff getting buried.
If you are going to produce hydrogen using electrolysis, then would it not be better, in most cases, to just use the electricity directly?
It is a lot more efficient to distribute the electricity over the grid and use it for heating in a resistive heater or heat pump.
The range of a vehicle with a battery pack or a hydrogen tank is about the same, and the battery pack is a lot more efficient.
The value to me of an iPhone is that lasts a lot longer than a typical Android, so the cost per year is lower in exchange for a higher up-front cost.
My 8+ is still a very useable phone that is getting the latest software updates. Probably there will be another year of feature updates followed by 2 years of security updates before it becomes obsolete.
The actual reason why you make more money on the Apple store is because iPhone users tend to have more money than Android users.
I believe there's some people who only have the choice of the Huawei store, and not the Play Store, and obviously you would lose them by not being listed there, but where people do have a choice between Play and some alternative, they probably installed the alternative to get software that isn't available on Play or is cheaper somewhere else, but they would likely look in both places.
Well the re-purposed gaming desktop under my desk has had outages, but never a 12 day outage.
Even if there was 1 hour of outage per day, which there hasn't been, that doesn't have anything like the same impact as a 12 day outage.
There is usually about 30 minutes of outage per month when I reboot to install Microsoft security updates. That is planned downtime, so has less impact. Then there's been some unplanned downtime of up to 4 hours, maybe once every two years.
Previously, new standards came out about every 7 years, so the next one would have come out in 2021.
But it doesn't look like we are pushing the limits of USB-C yet. We can 80Gbps/240W, with the possibility that it could be pushed further, and I don't think any phone is going to need that for a while.
But remember that EU regulations do apply in Northern Ireland, which is part of the UK.
And of course they also apply in Ireland, and retailers such as Currys/Carphone Warehouse and Vodafone sell in both countries and would likely want to place a single order for all their outlets in both countries.
The correct answer, is, it depends on the sending server, and how long it is down for.
Servers will keep trying to transmit the message for a while, at decreasing frequencies, then send a delivery failure message to the sender.
The default settings for Exchange are 24 hours before it gives up and returns to sender. Most people don't change those.
I don't know what the defaults for other mail servers, eg Gmail are.
Twitter is a very tiny proportion of most companies advertising budget, on average about 0.9%. The vast majority of it goes to Alphabet[Google] and Meta[Facebook].
This really is not at all about the money, or it being too expensive. It is because they think advertising on Twitter will bring negative returns on investment.
Blockchain doesn't solve the double-spend problem. Proof of work or similar solves that. But if it is on a centralised server, then there are other far more efficient ways to solve it.
The big problem here is proving that the blockchain or other database entries actually reflect what is happening on the ground, and that is not a problem that bitcoin or similar needs to address.
"In this specific case, the prime suspect was earning [they most likely mean gross turnover before expenses] up to [i.e. less than] Є150,000 ($155,000) a month, living in a fancy house, driving expensive cars and "embarking on extravagant vacations all over the world," we're told."
For a retail business, gross takings of less than €150,000 really isn't a lot of money.
A cryptocurrency transaction uses in the order of 10,000,000 times as much electricity as a regular banking transaction.
Also, remember that most of what a bank does is not moving money between accounts, and would still need to be done regardless of the underlying currency. For example, if you want a mortgage, the process is the same whether it is denominated in USD or Bitcoin.
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