Heh. I was actually thinking of suggesting that cell phones be permitted in the lavatories, but then I realized that it would end up with 4 assholes monopolizing the bathrooms for hours while the other 200 people held their crotches while jumping up and down and moaning uncontrollably.
I would go crazy if I had to spend the entire flight listening to moron number one talk to moron number two about their party plans for the upcoming weekend.
Don't forget moron #3 in seat 12A calling moron #4 in seat 14C to talk about what they're going to do when the plane lands.
I agree 100% on maintaining the cell phone ban on planes in flight as a matter of simple common courtesy. I don't see any reason to ban other wireless devices though, as long as they are quiet and don't interfere with flight electronics.
Yeah, I know it can be a pain in the ass; I just would have thought that an organization the size of UNC would have netadmins capable of doing it themselves instead of having to call in a vendor to hold their hands.
However, production costs are very different in the modern porn and music industries. A typical photo gallery or single-scene video you'd download off a porn site is shot in an hour or two, with the models getting a couple hundred dollars for their trouble, and little to no post production editing. As a result, there is so much cheap, fresh content entering the scene that piracy isn't much of a concern.
A typical mass market CD is far more expensive to get to market, what with A&R, studio time, mixing, mastering, cover artwork, promotion, distribution, video production, etc. And then 90% of albums fail to recoup the artist's advance. Movie and TV production is similarly high-cost and high-risk.
The trick is, except at the extremes, low-quality porn is pretty close to high-quality porn in terms of satisfying the market's demands. A video of some chick giving a blowjob doesn't lose much value if we hear the cameraman telling her to pull her hair out of the way. The same cannot be said of the music industry - imagine a site full of mp3s produced in Cousin Jimmy's garage on an old 4-track, complete with the sound of Mom's car pulling into the driveway in the middle of the track. Who's going to pay to listen?
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I believe you mean pedant alert.
Heh. I was actually thinking of suggesting that cell phones be permitted in the lavatories, but then I realized that it would end up with 4 assholes monopolizing the bathrooms for hours while the other 200 people held their crotches while jumping up and down and moaning uncontrollably.
I would go crazy if I had to spend the entire flight listening to moron number one talk to moron number two about their party plans for the upcoming weekend.
Don't forget moron #3 in seat 12A calling moron #4 in seat 14C to talk about what they're going to do when the plane lands.
I agree 100% on maintaining the cell phone ban on planes in flight as a matter of simple common courtesy. I don't see any reason to ban other wireless devices though, as long as they are quiet and don't interfere with flight electronics.
Yeah, I know it can be a pain in the ass; I just would have thought that an organization the size of UNC would have netadmins capable of doing it themselves instead of having to call in a vendor to hold their hands.
Exactly. Just to clarify though, this only makes sense if they are deployed in series or on opposite edges of a DMZ. For example:
[internet]->[firewall A]->[DMZ]->[firewall B]->[internal network]
Jesus. They had to get outside help to figure out how to follow the CAT5 from the switch to the server? Amazing.
However, production costs are very different in the modern porn and music industries. A typical photo gallery or single-scene video you'd download off a porn site is shot in an hour or two, with the models getting a couple hundred dollars for their trouble, and little to no post production editing. As a result, there is so much cheap, fresh content entering the scene that piracy isn't much of a concern.
A typical mass market CD is far more expensive to get to market, what with A&R, studio time, mixing, mastering, cover artwork, promotion, distribution, video production, etc. And then 90% of albums fail to recoup the artist's advance. Movie and TV production is similarly high-cost and high-risk.
The trick is, except at the extremes, low-quality porn is pretty close to high-quality porn in terms of satisfying the market's demands. A video of some chick giving a blowjob doesn't lose much value if we hear the cameraman telling her to pull her hair out of the way. The same cannot be said of the music industry - imagine a site full of mp3s produced in Cousin Jimmy's garage on an old 4-track, complete with the sound of Mom's car pulling into the driveway in the middle of the track. Who's going to pay to listen?