Re taxes, just making the point that Cooper Union is really free at no cost to anyone, while public schooling is free only with minor costs to everyone....
Also, it's FREE...as in beer. Unlike the Defense Academies, which are also technically free and even give you something extra, we do not have ANY kind of bond/obligation to Cooper Union after we graduate.
By the way, it's free because that was the founding principle of the college. The founder, Peter Cooper, wanted to provide education to "the boys and girls of this city", that was "as free as the water and air."
2. They don't make money off students. Zero. Nada. Zilch. They subsist off of their endowment, donations from alumni and grants for research.
3. If you will look here, you will see that the Cooper Union is ranked third in the list. The top school in the list, the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, has a sticker-value tuition price of $33k. Considering that, I think $25k is a very fair assessment of Cooper's yearly tuition fee, assuming they charged one!
4. Your taxes pay exactly zero cents of my education. My taxes PAID a chunk of you public school education. Your analogy sounds makes as much sense as the UDP block I talked about in the original post.
My school/univ, The Cooper Union, is supposed to be a top-ranking undergraduate engineering college (per US News rankings), but in the dorms (aka "student residence") here, ANY kind of file sharing is banned. The admins have taken proactive measures, including blocking ALL inbound access, and blocking ALL one/two-way UDP traffic. Only outbound TCP is allowed...and "criminal" ports like 1214 (Kazaa), 6699 (WinMX) and a host of other ports are blocked.
What also sucks is that the UDP block also cuts down ICMP ECHO (aka "Ping") packets...it is a crying shame that an Electrical Engineering student at "one of the best engineering schools" cannot verify network response times!!
Let me add, however, that I understand the file-sharing thing...our pipe is just 3xT1, and they wouldn't want to bog it down with pr0n and mp3s. Ideally, they would use Packeteer or some other program to prioritize non-file-sharing traffic and/or throttle bandwidth to and from "criminal" ports. The UDP/ICMP block, however, is inane.
But hey, in case you didn't know, the Cooper Union is the only 4-year private univ in the US that gives a full-tuition scholarship worth about $100k over four years to every student admitted!
You're always going to have the unethical/innocent geek kid who downloads an MP3 and listens only to it since his PC, MP3 player and PDA are the only things he uses for listening to music.
You're always going to have the normal guy who doesn't care about "branded" CDs or the slight (and sometimes perceptible) quality loss of MP3s over CDs...he goes ahead and burns his MP3s to a 5-cent CDR and listens to it anyway.
You're always going to have the fellow who likes to support artists, and buys original CDs. Catch? He now listens to MP3s to sample new albums. He doesn't like the sample...he doesn't buy the CD. Whereas earlier he would be stuck with the CD as a sample (no CD returns!), he is now a "loss" to the music company.
The movie is what the collector lusts after... the extras (documentaries, trailers, etc) don't have too much repeat value, IMHO. Get the first edition ASAP, and rent, or borrow the special edition from a friend who chose to wait for it (for the extras).
True about laches. OT, but was just reading a case brought in 2001 by the guy who supposedly owned James Bond movie rights, etc., before Eon Productions and was suing them for ALL the 007 films made before 2001. Was dismissed using the laches defense.
Say you download an MP3 from a P2P network. Isn't that streaming too? Or is streaming defined only as content delivered at its real-time rate and/or content that the user cannot directly control (i.e., requests are allowed, but not directly manipulating the stream-er to deliver a specific song)
One wonders whether non-realtime "streaming" (read: downloading) can also be made illegal by RIAA/CARP
No, as of December 2001, I don't think the College Board forces you to wipe memory, etc from your calc. Of course, they only allow certain calcs (no QWERTY devices...), and make sure you keep your calc inside during the verbal sections (oh...dictionary!), but besides that, you can pretty much put any math formula/custom func/custom program for the math section and get away with it.
Which means you're either a capture freak:) or a pro/semi-pro. Which means this is not the right camera for you. This camera is for the masses, not us cognoscenti
Except for the pro, and some of the prosumer digicams out there, no consumer digicam does a good job of interpolating an optical resolution to a higher resolution...just as a "9600 dpi" scanner with a 600 dpi optical resolution cannot give you true 9600 dpi images. Photoshop's bicubic interpolation for enlarging stuff is 99% of the time the best choice if you want to enlarge images...I'd stay away from the built-in interpolation that some proprietary digicam transfer/edit utilities provide...go with Paint Shop Pro or Photoshop.
For Real, I've found this enterprising workaround I discovered to be pretty OK with most sites.
1) Force RealPlayer to stream both RTSP/PNM over HTTP (Find it out yourself in Preferences....)
2) Get a proxy that can log requests (Proxomitron is a rare, good, free one for those of us on Windows; lots available for Linux). Config Real to use that proxy. Which means, ALL RealMedia requests go through the proxy...
3) Click the movie link once with proxy logging enabled. This will give you the http-accessible address of the RM file (i.e., the GET request and the Host header)
4) Concatenate the above two details and use an HTTP downloader....voila!
5) Sites like film88 WILL most probably require the custom http headers RealPlayer supplies. The quick and dirty way if you choose to use Proxomitron is to add header filters that add the required headers to EVERY request (GET) sent out to EVERY site (of course, each filter can individually en/disabled). Now, use your downloader through the proxy to get the file. For the adventurous, just write a custom HTTP proxy that does the dirty work of forging headers...
i.e., the URL is http://cache36.film88.com//movies/13146_300.rm.
Not test-able because of the/. effect...!
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Re taxes, just making the point that Cooper Union is really free at no cost to anyone, while public schooling is free only with minor costs to everyone....
First check my reply to the other guy with the same question here.
Then for the official line, go here (brief), and here (complete history).
Also, it's FREE...as in beer. Unlike the Defense Academies, which are also technically free and even give you something extra, we do not have ANY kind of bond/obligation to Cooper Union after we graduate.
By the way, it's free because that was the founding principle of the college. The founder, Peter Cooper, wanted to provide education to "the boys and girls of this city", that was "as free as the water and air."
1. It's NOT public, but private.
2. They don't make money off students. Zero. Nada. Zilch. They subsist off of their endowment, donations from alumni and grants for research.
3. If you will look here, you will see that the Cooper Union is ranked third in the list. The top school in the list, the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, has a sticker-value tuition price of $33k. Considering that, I think $25k is a very fair assessment of Cooper's yearly tuition fee, assuming they charged one!
4. Your taxes pay exactly zero cents of my education. My taxes PAID a chunk of you public school education. Your analogy sounds makes as much sense as the UDP block I talked about in the original post.
My school/univ, The Cooper Union, is supposed to be a top-ranking undergraduate engineering college (per US News rankings), but in the dorms (aka "student residence") here, ANY kind of file sharing is banned. The admins have taken proactive measures, including blocking ALL inbound access, and blocking ALL one/two-way UDP traffic. Only outbound TCP is allowed...and "criminal" ports like 1214 (Kazaa), 6699 (WinMX) and a host of other ports are blocked.
What also sucks is that the UDP block also cuts down ICMP ECHO (aka "Ping") packets...it is a crying shame that an Electrical Engineering student at "one of the best engineering schools" cannot verify network response times!!
Let me add, however, that I understand the file-sharing thing...our pipe is just 3xT1, and they wouldn't want to bog it down with pr0n and mp3s.
Ideally, they would use Packeteer or some other program to prioritize non-file-sharing traffic and/or throttle bandwidth to and from "criminal" ports. The UDP/ICMP block, however, is inane.
But hey, in case you didn't know, the Cooper Union is the only 4-year private univ in the US that gives a full-tuition scholarship worth about $100k over four years to every student admitted!
MP3s will allow you to decide if the entire album is worth buying...a radio will just show you the hit single...
You're always going to have the unethical/innocent geek kid who downloads an MP3 and listens only to it since his PC, MP3 player and PDA are the only things he uses for listening to music.
You're always going to have the normal guy who doesn't care about "branded" CDs or the slight (and sometimes perceptible) quality loss of MP3s over CDs...he goes ahead and burns his MP3s to a 5-cent CDR and listens to it anyway.
You're always going to have the fellow who likes to support artists, and buys original CDs. Catch? He now listens to MP3s to sample new albums. He doesn't like the sample...he doesn't buy the CD. Whereas earlier he would be stuck with the CD as a sample (no CD returns!), he is now a "loss" to the music company.
is Kanas City Taco's birthplace? I even wonder if he was taught proper edition and subtraction in grade school!
The movie is what the collector lusts after... the extras (documentaries, trailers, etc) don't have too much repeat value, IMHO. Get the first edition ASAP, and rent, or borrow the special edition from a friend who chose to wait for it (for the extras).
Uhmm...I sure use that floppy at least once a day...don't tell me you don't! :p
True about laches. OT, but was just reading a case brought in 2001 by the guy who supposedly owned James Bond movie rights, etc., before Eon Productions and was suing them for ALL the 007 films made before 2001. Was dismissed using the laches defense.
OT: Nice sig -- go EE Majors!
Say you download an MP3 from a P2P network. Isn't that streaming too? Or is streaming defined only as content delivered at its real-time rate and/or content that the user cannot directly control (i.e., requests are allowed, but not directly manipulating the stream-er to deliver a specific song)
One wonders whether non-realtime "streaming" (read: downloading) can also be made illegal by RIAA/CARP
No, as of December 2001, I don't think the College Board forces you to wipe memory, etc from your calc. Of course, they only allow certain calcs (no QWERTY devices...), and make sure you keep your calc inside during the verbal sections (oh...dictionary!), but besides that, you can pretty much put any math formula/custom func/custom program for the math section and get away with it.
Which means you're either a capture freak :) or a pro/semi-pro. Which means this is not the right camera for you. This camera is for the masses, not us cognoscenti
Except for the pro, and some of the prosumer digicams out there, no consumer digicam does a good job of interpolating an optical resolution to a higher resolution...just as a "9600 dpi" scanner with a 600 dpi optical resolution cannot give you true 9600 dpi images. Photoshop's bicubic interpolation for enlarging stuff is 99% of the time the best choice if you want to enlarge images...I'd stay away from the built-in interpolation that some proprietary digicam transfer/edit utilities provide...go with Paint Shop Pro or Photoshop.
For Real, I've found this enterprising workaround I discovered to be pretty OK with most sites.
/movies/13146_300.rm HTTP/1.0
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/. effect...!
1) Force RealPlayer to stream both RTSP/PNM over HTTP (Find it out yourself in Preferences....)
2) Get a proxy that can log requests (Proxomitron is a rare, good, free one for those of us on Windows; lots available for Linux). Config Real to use that proxy. Which means, ALL RealMedia requests go through the proxy...
3) Click the movie link once with proxy logging enabled. This will give you the http-accessible address of the RM file (i.e., the GET request and the Host header)
4) Concatenate the above two details and use an HTTP downloader....voila!
5) Sites like film88 WILL most probably require the custom http headers RealPlayer supplies. The quick and dirty way if you choose to use Proxomitron is to add header filters that add the required headers to EVERY request (GET) sent out to EVERY site (of course, each filter can individually en/disabled). Now, use your downloader through the proxy to get the file. For the adventurous, just write a custom HTTP proxy that does the dirty work of forging headers...
Sample excerpt from Proxomitron's log:
GET
Accept: */*
User-Agent: RMA/1.0 (compatible; RealMedia)
Icy-MetaData: 1
Bandwidth: 262200
GUID: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
RegionData: 0
ClientID: WinNT_5.1_6.0.9.584_play32_SF80_en-US_686_axembed
SupportsMaximumASMBandwidth: 1
Language: en-US, en, *
Host: cache36.film88.com
Accept-Language: en-US, en, *
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Connection: keep-alive
i.e., the URL is http://cache36.film88.com//movies/13146_300.rm
Not test-able because of the
I ALWAYS take PDFs of any web-receipts/TOS/policies etc (Acrobat 5). This way, I save on binders and papers, and have the proofs reasonably safe (even back-up to CDRs once in a while). Everyone may not have Acrobat, but I suggest you do atleast an HTML save for electronic soft copy.