skinny
- 21 Jan 2015 06:30
Stan
- 13 Sep 2017 18:04
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Sign of the times Martini I'm afraid they bring virtually the same thing out tarted up with a few add ons and try and charge us for the privilege, if your generally happy with what you have then stick with it my motto.
Another scam their trying on is introducing their next OS which needs a load more hard drive/ram so we have to literally buy a new computer.
Something I am presently having to do, bloody annoying but not a lot of exceptable options for me
One thing I shall resist to the very end is signing up to the Cloud, the idea of having my OS and all my personal stuff on someone's else's server fills me with dread.
Fred1new
- 13 Sep 2017 22:15
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Never bought a new mobile phone.
Always grab the one's discarded by my grandkids.
I only need them in case my 40year old car breaksdown.
But have just spent 48 hours trying to sort out W10 crash.#
Why did I change down from 7.
skinny
- 19 Sep 2017 09:36
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kimoldfield
- 19 Sep 2017 12:00
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If I managed to get in I probably wouldn't care about getting out!😃
ExecLine
- 21 Sep 2017 18:12
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Your battery link is important news and actually well worth a 'C&P', skinny, IMHO:
A step towards new "beyond lithium" rechargeable batteries with superior performance has been made by researchers at the University of Bath.
We increasingly rely on rechargeable batteries for a host of essential uses; from mobile phones and electric cars to electrical grid storage. At present this demand is taken up by lithium-ion batteries. As we continue to transition from fossil fuels to low emission energy sources, new battery technologies will be needed for new applications and more efficient energy storage.
One approach to develop batteries that store more energy is to use "multivalent" metals instead of lithium. In lithium-ion batteries, charging and discharging transfers lithium ions inside the battery. For every lithium ion transferred, one electron is also transferred, producing electric current. In multivalent batteries, lithium would be replaced by a different metal that transfers more than one electron per ion. For batteries of equal size, this would give multivalent batteries better energy storage capacity and performance.
The team showed that titanium dioxide can be modified to allow it to be used as an electrode in multivalent batteries, providing a valuable proof of concept in their development.
The scientists, an international team from the University of Bath, France, Germany, Holland, and the USA, deliberately introduced defects in titanium dioxide to form high concentrations of microscopic holes, and showed these can be reversibly occupied by magnesium and aluminium; which carry more than one electron per ion.
The team also describes a new chemical strategy for designing materials that can be used in future multivalent batteries.
The research is published in the journal Nature Materials.
Stan
- 04 Oct 2017 15:54
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Depends on "his" definition of the future.
skinny
- 10 Oct 2017 04:47
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Mega Bucks
- 11 Oct 2017 17:46
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Just bought a brand new Samsung phone which is on the EE network and the sim card was registered on the phone this morning,but what i am trying to do is put a O2 sim card into the phone,the new O2 sim card arrived this morning as i needed a new micro sim card for the Samsung.
We are looking at keeping the same phone no that is on the O2 account and transfer it onto the new phone,so do i have to ask EE dor a pack no i think its called or o2 for this information so that i can transfer the No over.
Any help would be most welcome,i done it a few years back transferring a 3 account onto a Tesco phone,but forgot how i done it.
kimoldfield
- 11 Oct 2017 18:11
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Trouble with the latest iCan is, there are lots of cheap packages but there are always strings attached!😊