The old look may have been ugly, but at least it was clean and obeyed my font preferences. Soon we'll all be swimming in a sea of gradients and badly chosen fonts. This new design has too many horizontal lines to be easily read too.
I think that kind of defeats the purpose of having a cell phone for most people though. I'm not saying that you don't have a very good reason for the way you use it (although I'm a little curious about what it is), but your battery life example means almost nothing to me. I've found that battery life is extremely variable anyway. In an area where I get a strong signal, my battery can last for days with the phone always on. Where I live, the battery lasts a few hours. It's pretty frustrating actually, because I live in the middle of the city, where I would expect a strong signal, but I frequently get absolutely nothing.
Gradually. The idea of species is one we invented because we like to classify things. It doesn't have a one-to-one correspondance with anything. Over time, populations can diverge, and after a while we would probably consider them different species, based on criteria such as their ability to interbreed. Actually, it's their ability to produce fertile offspring that we look at; horses and donkeys can clearly breed, but aren't considered the same animal. Regardless, the ability to interbreed isn't the only thing that determines whether two populations are considered the same species. It's really a fuzzy boundary. When everybody agrees that two animals are different enough to be considered a different species, then they are.
It's interesting to consider the relationship of the "almost chicken" and the chicken it gives birth to. They would probably be considered the same species, even if the almost chicken wouldn't be considered the same species as a modern chicken. Your choice of classification depends a lot on where you divide up the lineage. We can look at a chicken and give it a name, and we can look at one of its non-chicken ancestors and say "This is not a chicken", but if you look at the whole family tree (I'm referring to individual animals -- the whole lineage), you'd be hard pressed to decide where chicken starts and not chicken ends. It's a continuum of chickenhood, and dividing it up is very subjective. When we look at the fossil record we see a bunch of different species, but all we're seeing is a few samples of a creature's lineage. If the whole thing were all laid out before you, then the idea of species would lose some of its meaning. Clear divisions are a result of our limited perspective and our desire to categorize.
To answer the question of interbreeding, there is no point at which an organism switches to the next species and is unable to breed with its parents. There are just organisms that are so distantly related that they would not be able to breed. Just like you can read modern English just fine, read Shakespeare but miss some undertones, work through Chaucer with a little difficulty, and so on, back to Old English, which you probably can't understand at all. It's not that your English is far removed from the previous generation's, but that the language has changed gradually to its present form.
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Maybe it is.
Technically, yes, but in practice, no one would have to give it away either. Plain old secrets are just as closed as legally protected ones.
It's more like reading books in the store without buying them. You got the content without paying, but the original media is still there to be sold.
Come on... at least he had an excuse for being off-topic.
Why can't you troll on topic?
The old look may have been ugly, but at least it was clean and obeyed my font preferences. Soon we'll all be swimming in a sea of gradients and badly chosen fonts. This new design has too many horizontal lines to be easily read too.
I'm not an expert, but the new design uses an image for that.
A few more for FPS lovers: Warsow Cube and its successor: Sauerbraten Of the three, Warsow is my favorite.
I'm afraid you will have to submit an "Ask Slashdot" before I can answer this.
Jazzy Jinx?
For that matter, jackrabbit and joey would go well with jumping.
Jaguar, jay, jellfish? I'm looking forward to running Jittery Jellyfish.
I like your hair too -- both of you. I also like GP's hair.
I'm proud to have been a part of making it happen.
People love penguins?
That makes sense.
I think that kind of defeats the purpose of having a cell phone for most people though. I'm not saying that you don't have a very good reason for the way you use it (although I'm a little curious about what it is), but your battery life example means almost nothing to me. I've found that battery life is extremely variable anyway. In an area where I get a strong signal, my battery can last for days with the phone always on. Where I live, the battery lasts a few hours. It's pretty frustrating actually, because I live in the middle of the city, where I would expect a strong signal, but I frequently get absolutely nothing.
Mods, don't be silly. No one could argue that ass dildos don't exist.
Oh, I see. ID must be part of the advanced curriculum.
If the fourth graders are better, maybe we can just wait until they make it to high school and the problem will go away.
Gadgets of the *future*. We already have ass dildos for all.
Gradually. The idea of species is one we invented because we like to classify things. It doesn't have a one-to-one correspondance with anything. Over time, populations can diverge, and after a while we would probably consider them different species, based on criteria such as their ability to interbreed. Actually, it's their ability to produce fertile offspring that we look at; horses and donkeys can clearly breed, but aren't considered the same animal. Regardless, the ability to interbreed isn't the only thing that determines whether two populations are considered the same species. It's really a fuzzy boundary. When everybody agrees that two animals are different enough to be considered a different species, then they are.
It's interesting to consider the relationship of the "almost chicken" and the chicken it gives birth to. They would probably be considered the same species, even if the almost chicken wouldn't be considered the same species as a modern chicken. Your choice of classification depends a lot on where you divide up the lineage. We can look at a chicken and give it a name, and we can look at one of its non-chicken ancestors and say "This is not a chicken", but if you look at the whole family tree (I'm referring to individual animals -- the whole lineage), you'd be hard pressed to decide where chicken starts and not chicken ends. It's a continuum of chickenhood, and dividing it up is very subjective. When we look at the fossil record we see a bunch of different species, but all we're seeing is a few samples of a creature's lineage. If the whole thing were all laid out before you, then the idea of species would lose some of its meaning. Clear divisions are a result of our limited perspective and our desire to categorize.
To answer the question of interbreeding, there is no point at which an organism switches to the next species and is unable to breed with its parents. There are just organisms that are so distantly related that they would not be able to breed. Just like you can read modern English just fine, read Shakespeare but miss some undertones, work through Chaucer with a little difficulty, and so on, back to Old English, which you probably can't understand at all. It's not that your English is far removed from the previous generation's, but that the language has changed gradually to its present form.
My life is now complete.
I believe they also have wings.
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