"Capsicum" is the British/Australian English term for the fruit known in American as the bell pepper. The chemical in chillies is actually called capsaicin.
Turning a steering wheel right to go right is intuitive, because the wheel is on the end of the pinion of a rack and pinion
It often strikes me as odd when people talk about turning a circular object right or left (GP specifically said clockwise). It is only intuitive in as far as we consider the top of the circle the natural reference point (and of course it is the closest point to our eyes on a steering wheel, or even on a document since we read top to bottom).
As for the mechanism, if the pinion was underneath the rack then turning the steering wheel clockwise/right would actually make the car go left. The location of the wheels to the rack (forward or behind) can invert this too.
I've never understood those kinds of people. It's been proven over and over again that homosexuality is perfectly normal among animals, yet when people do it it's suddenly unnatural?
Answering your question (rather than presenting an argument), this is two different senses of the term 'natural'. The first being "occurs in nature" and the second being "does not fit with some ideal of humanity".
All sorts of behaviours occur amongst animals, such as theft, rape and murder. Rape, in particular, we would shy from describing as 'only natural' for humans.
I like the irony. You say you are offended that they think you will infringe their copyright, so to teach them how wrong they are you are going to infringe their copyright?
Also, taking a business decision personally as an individual consumer is not really healthy.
In this case, Rumblefish thinks that it's God, so it claims the bird chirping as their property
I think a more reasonable explanation is that their algorithm mistakenly flagged the audio track as a match, then when the poster challenged this their system automatically sent a "please listen and compare" message to the copyright holder of whichever work it is. The copyright holder has not done their due diligence (at all, it seems) and has simply clicked the "yes it is ours" button.
In my opinion music is sold DRM-free because of the rise of portable mp3 players/smart phones. It was not possible to run arbitrary code DRM schemes on the myriad of devices, so the industry followed the money. Also, mp3s were more easily pirated and their radically smaller size, compared to movies, made them easily distributed. All up, forcing DRM on this environment was not going to work. Perhaps tablets will achieve the same thing for movies, but it seems very unlikely.
From the submission it's not clear that the current price is $10,000. It could even be an editor-tweaked piece of slashbait to invoke the "if it was a reasonable price they wouldn't pirate it" argument.
Nevertheless, software priced like this does exist, usually because it is used in an industrial market with only a handful of large players (i.e. customers), and the software is heavily tailored for the industry.
The difference from real life is that is a dating site is a much larger community. Real life is constrained by physical movement. Therefore men can 'bombard' the top 10 attractive women out of 10s of thousands rather than the 100s they encounter in person.
Crushed dynamic range and signal clipping are not a "style" or "part of the music itself" [...] They are production errors.
As much as it might be poor style, it is still style. Loudness contributes to the feel of the music and bands have been getting that effect through instrumentation and arrangement forever. In particular I find it suits some modern metal styles - without it the music lacks some 'oomph', and because metal is not known for dynamics then this sort of compression sits better.
Don't get me wrong, overall I think it is childish, but children exist and need entertainment appropriate to them.
You might as well laud WoW for being a Linux game because it works well under OpenGL and Wine, even though the vast majority of its userbase is Windows.
I agree with your point about Java, but out of interest the WoW developers are rumoured to take care that it does work under Wine, so it's a Linux game of sorts.
You are currently at +4 Interesting. That alone says enough for me that your first and last sentences are just plain WRONG
Well now that the thread has finalised the post is at 0 Flamebait. This is disappointing as, while it's an angry rant, at least it comes across as genuine.
As someone who generally reads threads after they are done and dusted (Australian time zone) the GP rings true to me. Calm and well-reasoned anti-piracy posts are often modded down while sarcastic one-liners get +5 Insightful if they are against copyright.
Slashdot has plenty of great discussion, even on this topic, but taken as a whole the piracy mods seem to forget the guideline that disagreeing isn't a reason to downgrade.
This isn't relevant as no one is creating a name-and-shame website on 'youth misconduct' that corrupt police may use to illegally harass youth at their homes.
If they were, I presume (perhaps naively) that the French courts would ban this also.
I seem to be particularly sensitive and, no matter how much I eat, have not become desensitised. A researcher here mentioned that people with a better palette (basically more taste buds) are likely to be more affected, I'd like to believe that:)
It's a shame, as I can smell the amazing flavour of a habanero, and haven't succeeded in growing the mild-heat versions yet.
Further, this is part of the reason that daylight savings time is implemented by changing the clocks one hour rather than everybody agreeing to start work/close the shop at a different time.
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"Capsicum" is the British/Australian English term for the fruit known in American as the bell pepper. The chemical in chillies is actually called capsaicin.
Turning a steering wheel right to go right is intuitive, because the wheel is on the end of the pinion of a rack and pinion
It often strikes me as odd when people talk about turning a circular object right or left (GP specifically said clockwise). It is only intuitive in as far as we consider the top of the circle the natural reference point (and of course it is the closest point to our eyes on a steering wheel, or even on a document since we read top to bottom).
As for the mechanism, if the pinion was underneath the rack then turning the steering wheel clockwise/right would actually make the car go left. The location of the wheels to the rack (forward or behind) can invert this too.
I've never understood those kinds of people. It's been proven over and over again that homosexuality is perfectly normal among animals, yet when people do it it's suddenly unnatural?
Answering your question (rather than presenting an argument), this is two different senses of the term 'natural'. The first being "occurs in nature" and the second being "does not fit with some ideal of humanity".
All sorts of behaviours occur amongst animals, such as theft, rape and murder. Rape, in particular, we would shy from describing as 'only natural' for humans.
I like the irony. You say you are offended that they think you will infringe their copyright, so to teach them how wrong they are you are going to infringe their copyright?
Also, taking a business decision personally as an individual consumer is not really healthy.
In this case, Rumblefish thinks that it's God, so it claims the bird chirping as their property
I think a more reasonable explanation is that their algorithm mistakenly flagged the audio track as a match, then when the poster challenged this their system automatically sent a "please listen and compare" message to the copyright holder of whichever work it is. The copyright holder has not done their due diligence (at all, it seems) and has simply clicked the "yes it is ours" button.
In my opinion music is sold DRM-free because of the rise of portable mp3 players/smart phones. It was not possible to run arbitrary code DRM schemes on the myriad of devices, so the industry followed the money. Also, mp3s were more easily pirated and their radically smaller size, compared to movies, made them easily distributed. All up, forcing DRM on this environment was not going to work. Perhaps tablets will achieve the same thing for movies, but it seems very unlikely.
From the submission it's not clear that the current price is $10,000. It could even be an editor-tweaked piece of slashbait to invoke the "if it was a reasonable price they wouldn't pirate it" argument.
Nevertheless, software priced like this does exist, usually because it is used in an industrial market with only a handful of large players (i.e. customers), and the software is heavily tailored for the industry.
This is really no different from real life.
The difference from real life is that is a dating site is a much larger community. Real life is constrained by physical movement. Therefore men can 'bombard' the top 10 attractive women out of 10s of thousands rather than the 100s they encounter in person.
Crushed dynamic range and signal clipping are not a "style" or "part of the music itself" [...] They are production errors.
As much as it might be poor style, it is still style. Loudness contributes to the feel of the music and bands have been getting that effect through instrumentation and arrangement forever. In particular I find it suits some modern metal styles - without it the music lacks some 'oomph', and because metal is not known for dynamics then this sort of compression sits better.
Don't get me wrong, overall I think it is childish, but children exist and need entertainment appropriate to them.
CD/DVD demagnetizer
Wow, that's incredibly brazen. Can't wait to hear how crisp my mp3s sound once I demagnetise my hard drive.
He was equating the use of euphimisms, not the actual acts of those two euphimisms.
You might as well laud WoW for being a Linux game because it works well under OpenGL and Wine, even though the vast majority of its userbase is Windows.
I agree with your point about Java, but out of interest the WoW developers are rumoured to take care that it does work under Wine, so it's a Linux game of sorts.
You are currently at +4 Interesting. That alone says enough for me that your first and last sentences are just plain WRONG
Well now that the thread has finalised the post is at 0 Flamebait. This is disappointing as, while it's an angry rant, at least it comes across as genuine.
As someone who generally reads threads after they are done and dusted (Australian time zone) the GP rings true to me. Calm and well-reasoned anti-piracy posts are often modded down while sarcastic one-liners get +5 Insightful if they are against copyright.
Slashdot has plenty of great discussion, even on this topic, but taken as a whole the piracy mods seem to forget the guideline that disagreeing isn't a reason to downgrade.
He's not implying it's ok. The analogy would be listing nations by frequency and severity of rape, so the 'littleness or bigness' is important.
You are confusing the separate realms of armchair discussion and the court of law.
This isn't relevant as no one is creating a name-and-shame website on 'youth misconduct' that corrupt police may use to illegally harass youth at their homes. If they were, I presume (perhaps naively) that the French courts would ban this also.
I seem to be particularly sensitive and, no matter how much I eat, have not become desensitised. A researcher here mentioned that people with a better palette (basically more taste buds) are likely to be more affected, I'd like to believe that :)
It's a shame, as I can smell the amazing flavour of a habanero, and haven't succeeded in growing the mild-heat versions yet.
Further, this is part of the reason that daylight savings time is implemented by changing the clocks one hour rather than everybody agreeing to start work/close the shop at a different time.