The vast majority of my uploading has come about with the torrents I started, where it *has* to be me providing the uploading bandwidth, even at my crappy ~50KB/sec. (I get better upload bandwidth with garden-variety HTTP uploads) Talk about getting in on the torrent early.
For my rare torrents, I'm still a useful seeder, but I've not really needed after that for the big ones. Similar applies for the stuff I download. Nevertheless, I keep the torrents around (unless it's something I want to relocate to fit my sorting system). However, I sometimes am only seeding the new and/or rare stuff (which I mark in uTorrent with the 'Initial-Seeding' flag for easy classification, not mention that Initial-Seeding actually does get my new stuff out a little faster)
Some side areas of the Innovation Center on the RIT campus are dedicated to that purpose. Sometimes separate walled-off rooms, sometimes an open area on the edge of the big room. While walking around, I've noticed: The tables were trapezoidal and on wheels (easily reconfigurable arrangement) * They seemed to be relatively normal tables; not sure fi what you're doing would require ones that could handle a lot of weight under them.
Probably could use more outlets and Ethernet ports than we already have.
Small personal lockers in addition to the storage racks for tools
[These particular hackerspaces seemed more suited to software AFAIK; not sure if hardware stuff would require more space.]
Do you want to play around with oldschool equipment, or focus on up-to-date stuff?
In addition to technical resources, time spent collecting and assembling the stuff into easily and usefully distributable form, and telling people about it.
All ones save for a 3 at the end is a valid Starcraft key (it won't get you on battle.net, but if you like the campaigns and were still challenged by the AI...
Funny, that's what I think when I hear "corporation."
A common trait amongst assorted large organizations, and people with a certain political slant indeed focus on a particular subtype of "large organization".
Analogous to how indie musicians can now at least stand a chance of getting started off cheap home equipment, if their other factors are in order?
The big mainstream stuff is in many ways still going strong, but it's fascinating how the little guy now has a chance to make it, albeit likely not make it as far as the big mainstream (though maybe being $next_megahit isn't even their goal anyway)
As one of my positive characteristics, that I'm not an IT type, but I have enough of an understanding of the issues to understand those who are IT types.
Once I get around to bringing headphones to the office, I'm going to plug it into my portable music player rather than fire up Pandora or something. Fair enough. I suppose understanding/appreciation of basic IT stuff form non-IT types like me is useful.
My music player has a 2.5mm headphone jack rather than the standard 3.5mm, but I've been meaning to buy a special set or a conversion dongle anyways.
Ooh, we have a literal water cooler in the office too.
This came up in a business book I recently read, a hallmark of inefficient work processes - spending lots of time waiting between handoffs of work units, rather than actually completing the work. Sometimes it seems that an order of magnitude more time is spent on waiting. That analysis looked at the time ti takes a particular work unit to make its way through the chain, rather than the capacity utilization for particular employees; I'm analogizing.
'Maybe it's just a case of particularly boring work making such distractions more attractive,' they suggest, since the report blames most of the discovered cases on one-time incidents of poor judgment."
I'm here posting this instead of doing some data entry. Yeah, it helps blow off steam, but it's also easy to fall into a timesink.
I knew that counteracting the Beliebers' spamming was the cause for the revision of the trending topics system, but interesting to see complaining about the TT system coming from someone besides aggrieved popstar fans. Yeah, it's somewhat of an annoying black box at any rate.
"Real men don't use backups. They just upload their stuff via BitTorrent & one-click hosting sites and file, and let the rest of the world mirror it."
Well, this would be useful for collections of creative content that would be a PITA to rebuild. That reduces your backup challenge towards mainly smaller-size personal document files, which can't hurt.
I do like the 1TB Western Digital mybook I have (best gift received for Christmas 2009)
However, I want that on-site because it serves a dual purpose: in addition to backing up stuff on C:\, I also use it as expansion capacity for stuff that can't fit on C:\. Likewise, I keep my USB drive handy (which backs up some files) because I also use it for file portability.
I could also put the core of my files collection (i.e cut down on the space-guzzling files) on USB flash drives, and put them at other convenient locations. Other rooms of your own house / your other PCs might be useful in cases of really localized damage.
Fine for reverting to good versions of specific files, too.
Frankly, local backup at least seems to be a good consumer-grade solution if you're not paranoid.
Just go look at racist sites from all sides of the aisle and you'll probably see better examples as well - sites that wouldn't see the light of day in Europe.
Yeah, reading stuff on Stormfront (hosted in Florida AFAIK) shocked the sh*t out of me.
Now, even if you hate the hate (heh), should that stuff be allowed on the grounds of free speech and related principles, like how y'all advocate for Wikileaks on such principles?
"Don't hate nothin' at all 'cept hatred" - Bob Dylan - It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
Product differentiation does interfere with a perfectly comeptitive market's concept of a uniform product, yes. (And congrats on the Big Bang Theory shoutout - that show is consistently hillarious, and I've purposely avoided the trashiness of "Jersey Shore")
Natural scientists do this too sometimes - abstraction central. Ever hear of the physicist whose mind works in a frictionless vacuum, for instance? (obligatory XKCD: http://xkcd.com/669/)
I did call out an econ professor one quarter on all the abstractions; his response was to the extent that they're necessary to make any progress in thinking about the problem, rather than get bogged down in detail calculations (one quote went along these lines was "I've seen everyone form freshman undergrads to PhD's have their research bog down because their project scope had too many details")
Slashdot Mirror
The vast majority of my uploading has come about with the torrents I started, where it *has* to be me providing the uploading bandwidth, even at my crappy ~50KB/sec. (I get better upload bandwidth with garden-variety HTTP uploads) Talk about getting in on the torrent early.
For my rare torrents, I'm still a useful seeder, but I've not really needed after that for the big ones. Similar applies for the stuff I download.
Nevertheless, I keep the torrents around (unless it's something I want to relocate to fit my sorting system). However, I sometimes am only seeding the new and/or rare stuff (which I mark in uTorrent with the 'Initial-Seeding' flag for easy classification, not mention that Initial-Seeding actually does get my new stuff out a little faster)
+1 Informative. I'll have to try that. The relatively few times I've used *nix, that *has* made it harder to work in the terminal.
for those who don't want to click, that's simply the IP for slashdot.org itself.
Interestingly, the Firefox URL bar displayed "http://slashdot.org/" once I actually went to the link.
Some side areas of the Innovation Center on the RIT campus are dedicated to that purpose.
Sometimes separate walled-off rooms, sometimes an open area on the edge of the big room.
While walking around, I've noticed:
The tables were trapezoidal and on wheels (easily reconfigurable arrangement)
* They seemed to be relatively normal tables; not sure fi what you're doing would require ones that could handle a lot of weight under them.
Probably could use more outlets and Ethernet ports than we already have.
Small personal lockers in addition to the storage racks for tools
[These particular hackerspaces seemed more suited to software AFAIK; not sure if hardware stuff would require more space.]
Do you want to play around with oldschool equipment, or focus on up-to-date stuff?
D'oh!
That doesn't seem like the best system design choice in their part
Is turning on the English language subtitles, a classic shortcut on closed-captioning issues, available here?
In addition to technical resources, time spent collecting and assembling the stuff into easily and usefully distributable form, and telling people about it.
All ones save for a 3 at the end is a valid Starcraft key (it won't get you on battle.net, but if you like the campaigns and were still challenged by the AI...
Funny, that's what I think when I hear "corporation."
A common trait amongst assorted large organizations, and people with a certain political slant indeed focus on a particular subtype of "large organization".
If that's New York the city, the cost of living makes nearly-six-figures analogous to a good but more sane mid-5-figure job elsewhere.
Analogous to how indie musicians can now at least stand a chance of getting started off cheap home equipment, if their other factors are in order?
The big mainstream stuff is in many ways still going strong, but it's fascinating how the little guy now has a chance to make it, albeit likely not make it as far as the big mainstream (though maybe being $next_megahit isn't even their goal anyway)
As one of my positive characteristics, that I'm not an IT type, but I have enough of an understanding of the issues to understand those who are IT types.
Lately, ideas have gone up in price from 1/10th of a cent to 10/12ths of a cent.
You really do need to think outside the box to realize those massive improvements. Sometimes a few percent is enough; sometimes it isn't.
Once I get around to bringing headphones to the office, I'm going to plug it into my portable music player rather than fire up Pandora or something. Fair enough.
I suppose understanding/appreciation of basic IT stuff form non-IT types like me is useful.
My music player has a 2.5mm headphone jack rather than the standard 3.5mm, but I've been meaning to buy a special set or a conversion dongle anyways.
Ooh, we have a literal water cooler in the office too.
This came up in a business book I recently read, a hallmark of inefficient work processes - spending lots of time waiting between handoffs of work units, rather than actually completing the work. Sometimes it seems that an order of magnitude more time is spent on waiting.
That analysis looked at the time ti takes a particular work unit to make its way through the chain, rather than the capacity utilization for particular employees; I'm analogizing.
'Maybe it's just a case of particularly boring work making such distractions more attractive,' they suggest, since the report blames most of the discovered cases on one-time incidents of poor judgment."
I'm here posting this instead of doing some data entry. Yeah, it helps blow off steam, but it's also easy to fall into a timesink.
I knew that counteracting the Beliebers' spamming was the cause for the revision of the trending topics system, but interesting to see complaining about the TT system coming from someone besides aggrieved popstar fans.
Yeah, it's somewhat of an annoying black box at any rate.
"Real men don't use backups. They just upload their stuff via BitTorrent & one-click hosting sites and file, and let the rest of the world mirror it."
Well, this would be useful for collections of creative content that would be a PITA to rebuild. That reduces your backup challenge towards mainly smaller-size personal document files, which can't hurt.
I do like the 1TB Western Digital mybook I have (best gift received for Christmas 2009)
However, I want that on-site because it serves a dual purpose: in addition to backing up stuff on C:\, I also use it as expansion capacity for stuff that can't fit on C:\. Likewise, I keep my USB drive handy (which backs up some files) because I also use it for file portability.
I could also put the core of my files collection (i.e cut down on the space-guzzling files) on USB flash drives, and put them at other convenient locations. Other rooms of your own house / your other PCs might be useful in cases of really localized damage.
Fine for reverting to good versions of specific files, too.
Frankly, local backup at least seems to be a good consumer-grade solution if you're not paranoid.
Just go look at racist sites from all sides of the aisle and you'll probably see better examples as well - sites that wouldn't see the light of day in Europe.
Yeah, reading stuff on Stormfront (hosted in Florida AFAIK) shocked the sh*t out of me.
Now, even if you hate the hate (heh), should that stuff be allowed on the grounds of free speech and related principles, like how y'all advocate for Wikileaks on such principles?
"Don't hate nothin' at all 'cept hatred" - Bob Dylan - It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
Now, how you gonna answer the question Paul Simonon posed here? http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Guns-of-Brixton-lyrics-The-Clash/C2A3732B03DA609A48256D98000F45F6
(whatever the British equivalent of fantasizing about Second Amendment Remedies is, this makes for one of the great punk songs.)
Rapidshare? I tell ya, MediaFire is easier to use. ;)
Product differentiation does interfere with a perfectly comeptitive market's concept of a uniform product, yes. (And congrats on the Big Bang Theory shoutout - that show is consistently hillarious, and I've purposely avoided the trashiness of "Jersey Shore")
Natural scientists do this too sometimes - abstraction central. Ever hear of the physicist whose mind works in a frictionless vacuum, for instance? (obligatory XKCD: http://xkcd.com/669/)
I did call out an econ professor one quarter on all the abstractions; his response was to the extent that they're necessary to make any progress in thinking about the problem, rather than get bogged down in detail calculations (one quote went along these lines was "I've seen everyone form freshman undergrads to PhD's have their research bog down because their project scope had too many details")