Exactly - the parent poster is implying that birds and fish are the same, but not other organisms; the logical extension of his arguments would be that all animals are the same. Perhaps there are intrinsic similarities between locomotion between animals (which is what the OP is saying), not what the Parent Poster is saying, that is:
Are Bird and Fish the same or different?
...
For me thought the answer is yes they are [the same]. They both can move 3 dimentally in they fuild mediums... Air and Water. Just one is just more dense then the other.
He implys that animals are the same if they move 3 dimensionally through fluid mediums. We have both shown that ALL organisms move 3 dimensionally through fluid mediums. I'm not saying that penguins and fish are entirely dissimilar, I'm saying that a penguin is != a fish, that's all.
And even if you don't buy the transportation argument, there are a host of other criteria that prove birds and fish aren't the same.
I'm sorry, my failure to include The Horta is only due to my best attempts to uphold the Prime Directive.
Seriously though, even there, they're corroding things first and then moving through the hole or the goop left where they've melted whatever else away.
Moles and related animals create holes in the solid medium to move through - they don't travel through the solid medium, they make room for them to travel and then they travel through the empty room.
Regardless of how penguins fly through water, that doesn't make penguins fish.
"Can't we do that already, as in... Oh look, the animal weighs 100 lbs and has two legs on the ground at any given point, so each leg has an average of 50 lbs of force on it?"
As far as I'm aware, fish have gills and lay squishy (scientific term) eggs, while birds lay solid eggs and have lungs. Birds also have feathers, and I'm not aware of any feathered fish.
And heck, if you're going to define our atmosphere and our ocean as a fluid medium, then you're saying that ALL animals are the same - name a single animal that travels through a completely SOLID medium.
and how rapidly and forcefully they step, flap or paddle in relation to their mass.
Can't we do that already, as in... Oh look, the animal weighs 100 lbs and has two legs on the ground at any given point, so each leg has an average of 25 lbs of force on it?
a) How well does it function? These things in the past have had dubious functionality, I'm not about to buy one now... coupled with b) It costs a LOT - Lets face it, this better be one amazing product if it costs 600$. And I haven't exactly seen any reviews yet, either.
Another poster did mention that the apple market is trend-driven, but this is different. It's unlikely that this'll get the publicity needed to get off the ground, and unlike other apple products, this isn't immediately "hip". It's not visually appealing, it's not white or shiny, and it's not branded heavily with snappy commercials touting the apple logo.
On the rare occasion that I do have to sort through a large number of google results, there are only two common results:
A) I find what I'm looking for after a few pages and realize I could've found it better with a better articulated query (i.e., it was my fault) B) I don't find what I'm looking for at all (i.e., not enough data)
I almost never find that after sorting through 20 pages on a search like "Jefferson Slavery Declaration Independence Ignore Cotton Gin" do I find what I'm looking for after 5 or so pages.
"Who wants to read through a tone of IRC logs to find one line of matching relevance?"
Here's the thing:
As long as our technology that sorts through content (think search engines, directories, etc) grows fast enough to match the content it's sorting through, we'll be fine
So far I see NO indication that the content is outgrowing our ability to sort through it - Rarely, if ever, do I do a google search and think, "Gee, I'm getting way too many blogs/wikis/random sites in this search!". More often, I think "Wow, this website is ALMOST what I want, but it's doesn't quite have enough information about topic X." The proliferation of information is only a GOOD thing as long as we've got tech to sort it all out, regardless of the quality of the information.
The only problem with that is: The light blue properties cost just a little more, houses and hotels cost the same, you get three of them, and they have a much larger payoff.
Does this have anything to do with the Adlai Stevenson incident?
" "Do you, Ambassador Zorin, deny that the U.S.S.R. has placed and is placing medium- and intermediate-range missiles and sites in Cuba?... Don't wait for the translation! Yes or no?" Zorin responded, "I am not in an American courtroom, sir, and I do not wish to answer a question put to me in the manner in which a prosecutor does-" Then Stevenson interrupted and said, "You are in the courtroom of world opinion right now, and you can answer yes or no. You have denied that they exist, and I want to know whether I have understood you correctly.... I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over, if that's your decision. And I am also prepared to present the evidence in this room." "
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I'm sorry, my failure to include The Horta is only due to my best attempts to uphold the Prime Directive.
Seriously though, even there, they're corroding things first and then moving through the hole or the goop left where they've melted whatever else away.
Moles and related animals create holes in the solid medium to move through - they don't travel through the solid medium, they make room for them to travel and then they travel through the empty room.
Regardless of how penguins fly through water, that doesn't make penguins fish.
"Can't we do that already, as in... Oh look, the animal weighs 100 lbs and has two legs on the ground at any given point, so each leg has an average of 50 lbs of force on it?"
*Fixed*
Sorry.
As far as I'm aware, fish have gills and lay squishy (scientific term) eggs, while birds lay solid eggs and have lungs. Birds also have feathers, and I'm not aware of any feathered fish.
And heck, if you're going to define our atmosphere and our ocean as a fluid medium, then you're saying that ALL animals are the same - name a single animal that travels through a completely SOLID medium.
and how rapidly and forcefully they step, flap or paddle in relation to their mass.
Can't we do that already, as in... Oh look, the animal weighs 100 lbs and has two legs on the ground at any given point, so each leg has an average of 25 lbs of force on it?
a) How well does it function? These things in the past have had dubious functionality, I'm not about to buy one now... coupled with
b) It costs a LOT - Lets face it, this better be one amazing product if it costs 600$. And I haven't exactly seen any reviews yet, either.
Another poster did mention that the apple market is trend-driven, but this is different. It's unlikely that this'll get the publicity needed to get off the ground, and unlike other apple products, this isn't immediately "hip". It's not visually appealing, it's not white or shiny, and it's not branded heavily with snappy commercials touting the apple logo.
Sorry, I'm writing this one off.
Content explains YOU!
;) )
( Although the content explains us here too
I'd agree with this assessment, and go so far as to say the parent poster is positively nonesevent.
But does it play Duke Nukem Forever?
Now THAT would make it an amazing console.
Ah, but you've forgotten the wonderful -ix suffix. Now the KDE Widgets app kan be kalled Konfabulatorix!
At the Samba School:
The Penetrada: It makes sex look like church.
Whoah. Hold up here.
/. with submissions and then marking my blog (Heavily ad-sensed, of course) under my name?
I can make money by spamming
This is like CHRISTMAS!
On the rare occasion that I do have to sort through a large number of google results, there are only two common results:
A) I find what I'm looking for after a few pages and realize I could've found it better with a better articulated query (i.e., it was my fault)
B) I don't find what I'm looking for at all (i.e., not enough data)
I almost never find that after sorting through 20 pages on a search like "Jefferson Slavery Declaration Independence Ignore Cotton Gin" do I find what I'm looking for after 5 or so pages.
"Who wants to read through a tone of IRC logs to find one line of matching relevance?"
Here's the thing:
As long as our technology that sorts through content (think search engines, directories, etc) grows fast enough to match the content it's sorting through, we'll be fine
So far I see NO indication that the content is outgrowing our ability to sort through it - Rarely, if ever, do I do a google search and think, "Gee, I'm getting way too many blogs/wikis/random sites in this search!". More often, I think "Wow, this website is ALMOST what I want, but it's doesn't quite have enough information about topic X." The proliferation of information is only a GOOD thing as long as we've got tech to sort it all out, regardless of the quality of the information.
Fixed
The only problem with that is: The light blue properties cost just a little more, houses and hotels cost the same, you get three of them, and they have a much larger payoff.
These would be good things to know...
I was submitting this story to /. =P
Actually, I prefer warping timespace and changing the frequency of the radiation of the cesium-133 atom myself.
That's not a word.
It's an abomination.
I had to look it up, unfortunately.
Way too young to know it from personal experience, and it's never something that's come up.
Great quote though, I'll definitely remember it.
Russian translates YOU!
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Seriously though:
Does this have anything to do with the Adlai Stevenson incident?
"
"Do you, Ambassador Zorin, deny that the U.S.S.R. has placed and is placing medium- and intermediate-range missiles and sites in Cuba?... Don't wait for the translation! Yes or no?" Zorin responded, "I am not in an American courtroom, sir, and I do not wish to answer a question put to me in the manner in which a prosecutor does-" Then Stevenson interrupted and said, "You are in the courtroom of world opinion right now, and you can answer yes or no. You have denied that they exist, and I want to know whether I have understood you correctly.... I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over, if that's your decision. And I am also prepared to present the evidence in this room."
"
(Hilarious site: http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/world_languag
They can if you're part borg like me.
.iso in your hard drive, or are you just happy to see me?"
"Is that an
I, being a monopoly purist, prefer to call them by their original names ;)
It was just a sidenote, anyway.