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ssd. Bah Humbug! Bring back core memory.
Sin tack
the any key okay
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Modernist! Bring back the Jacquard Loom!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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David O'Neil wrote: doubt you'll find a single member of this site who will argue against adding an SSD
I agree.
David O'Neil wrote: Having said that, one or two will turn up...
You definitely know this site. Or people. Or People of The Internet (PITs) 
Here they come. 
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I still don't trust them 
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raddevus wrote: goes from zero to fully started in about 5 seconds
I'm glad I don't do any Android development then. My initial thought when reading that particular bit was that anything that requires a whole 5 seconds to load from an SSD is a massive pig.
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That's funny. It is an entire OS starting up though, so...
How fast does your phone actually start? At least 5 seconds, I'm guessing.
If your using an iPhone -- a lot, lot, lot longer time.
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So does the whole emulated OS have to start from scratch every single time you want to start your app?
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dandy72 wrote: So does the whole emulated OS have to start from scratch every single time you want to start your app?
Great question. No, it doesn't actually. But the initial time to start was painful in the past (without SSD).
Once you have the OS running on the emulator you can just deploy you app over and over without having to restart the OS.
The newer versions of Android Studio even has a cool feature that does a hot update so that your app recompiles and does an instant update to the emulator without the long wait of copying and installing the .APK (android installation package for the app).
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University of Michigan unveils 1,500-pound Rubik's Cube[^]
This is insanity. Pure Insanity.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Exercise for the body and mind - bro, do you even twist? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Solved in 7 seconds 
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Imagine how big it would be if it included equipment to solve it like this one[^] (from an earlier news item, if I'm remembering correctly). (At those speeds, the centripetal forces would probably explode the cube at that size, without a heck of a lot more engineering!)
Sudden Sun Death Syndrome (SSDS) is a very real concern which we should be raising awareness of. 156 billion suns die every year before they're just 1 billion years old.
While the military are doing their part, it simply isn't enough to make the amount of nukes needed to save those poor stars. - TWI2T3D (Reddit)
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As I recall, they had to create a low-friction cube for the robot, so I guess the university students have to roll their mega cube back to the lab for a couple more years 
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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To get those same speeds, a LOT more than just low-friction will need to be achieved! Spinning up a 3x3 grid that weighs 1500 / 3 = 500 lbs (as an approximation) at 6' across will require MANY horsepower for sub-tenths of a second response! And the material will have to be strong, to counter centripetal force.
Feel free to send funding my way, and I promise I'll maybe look into it more! 
Sudden Sun Death Syndrome (SSDS) is a very real concern which we should be raising awareness of. 156 billion suns die every year before they're just 1 billion years old.
While the military are doing their part, it simply isn't enough to make the amount of nukes needed to save those poor stars. - TWI2T3D (Reddit)
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Well, if it ain't got a machine gun, I ain't calling it "Sir"!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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My past laptop allowed me to quickly pop out the main drive and image it (I have a SATA to SATA disk duplicator). The new laptop is a little more difficult to get into - I actually have three SSDs in it:
c: OS, application sw, etc
d: main development SSD, project files
e: virtual machines
The C drive is one of the new pci m.2 form factor beasts, so it's not like I can pop it out like I used to do. Suggestions for backup software that will:
(1) allow me to image an OS drive
(2) background incremental backups - I'm thinking a 4 TB drive hung off my usb 3.0 hub.
thanks
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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OneDrive for all but code and movies.
Dropbox for code.
(This due to not having enough space on either for all of it. I prefer OneDrive, so might spring for an Office 360 subscription.)
I periodically xcopy/robocopy stuff to an external drive (which also holds my video collection as MP4s.)
Years ago, I did backups using a program. Upgraded everything and suddenly couldn't read my backups, so I reverted to xcopy/robocopy. For long term compressible stuff, I 7-Zip it.
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I'm going to ignore the others. It's Friday, and they are clearly drinking. Somehow I have to image my OS drive. The other stuff I can handle, but I shudder at the agony of rebuilding the OS drive....
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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charlieg wrote: but I shudder at the agony of rebuilding the OS drive....
Yeah, but by the time it truly dies, your backup may already be polluted.
BTW, I've briefly used a bundled version of Acronis, and it worked okay, but didn't see the point for my home system. Haven't used any others in years.
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clonezilla. Ugly interface, but it works.
"Abstract art? A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered."
Al Capp
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this is very attractive to me. I will try it.
diligent hands rule....
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...waiting for Griff to answer this one. Can anybody guess?
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Seriously? How much data can you get into a sheep? One mega-baa-yte. 
Sorry - it sounded funny in my head.
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Oh oh oh... you need to go to confession... so bad
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Before Griff gets his bit about AOMEI in, I am going to shout: "I use Macrium's Reflect!"
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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