I had a 250Gb SSD used for just games only - LotRO, Firefall.& all steam (easy enough to move the library to be on the SSD)

Turn on PC, go make cuppa, return and check any updates done, play games from the fast...

Brought some 120Gb SSD as early Christmas present for myself to replace that boot HDD and another,

Also found that a Windows 8.1 touch laptop with only 2Gb memory is perfectly fine with an SSD - was forever swapping but usable with HDD.

Recently on the news in Australia. If they see drones operating near bushfire where water bombing aircraft/helicopters are flying they will ground them.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...

We use (currently) PartedMagic Linux distribution on a boot USB. The "Disk Health" tool happily reports on failing drives and gives reasons.

Added bonus is that Linux is better than windows at allowing data to be copied from a failing drive (and doesn't care about the NTFS file permissions)

What about your backup, restore to that.

Brisbane (QLD Australia) has last week had the coldest Winter morning in 102 years, many people are saying "what global warming?" :-(

From what I remember the star and planet creation happened through an algorithm, as you could visit the same location when playing Elite on a totally different computer, eg BBC Micro, or (eventually) PC version. There was some fluctuation on commodity prices but even that wasn't really random, more cyclic.

I guess you two are in Australia, seeing as Thunderdome was on TV last night - still fresh in your mind.

From another country (ie Australia) you cannot proceed through a red light or arrow at all, only on green can you go.

Past that one, 44 years and counting...

I work doing IT support in a school, talking with students and teachers all day though I am definetly an introvert.

I have no problems at social event - will happily go along - I don't need to be talky talky while there though.

I'm incredibly shy when I want to talk relationship questions with a girl. I just can't bring it up, or ask them out...

Also from Douglas

"“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”"

It's the penticostals (generally in America) that you need to convince.

From the wikipedia article about Ussher "Ussher is also popular amongst creationists, even though they reject his methodology of using the most up to date contemporary scientific, chronological, historical and biblical scholarship to date the age of the world."

And when we manage to blow ourselves back to the stone age, we'll never be able to leave it without 'external' help - for the same basic reason, all the easy to access resources that made advances possible are gone.

Wood and fire is about all that will be left.

We've destroyed the natural water sources, removed biodiversity from plants. Are there any naturally occurring grains anymore?

My friends are rarely in a hurry, else they would get a pizza delivered.

They're just too lazy to get out of the car to go inside and have to eat with the rabble.

I've even seen people use the drive-through, then park their car in the car-park and eat inside the car - leaving the engine and air-con running.

Myself, I prefer to eat at the place. I eat at home nearly all the time.

I like the locking feature, but would like it to be GPS based, or even phone tower / wifi name. When I'm at home I don't want (or need) a lock on my phone, but when I'm away from home I do. Work could be an options for people too, but I work in a school - there's no way I'm leaving that unlocked, even on my desk.

I would be happy if there were options of:
"If I see this WiFi network ....., then don't require a password to unlock the phone (also turn volume up)" for at home
"If I see this WiFi network ....., then don't require a password to unlock the phone (also turn volume off)" for at work