Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 14:05:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 14:05:19 -0500 Received: from ns.ithnet.com ([217.64.64.10]:1042 "HELO heather.ithnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 14:05:08 -0500 Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 20:04:27 +0100 From: Stephan von Krawczynski To: Daniel Phillips Cc: mingo@elte.hu, riel@conectiva.com.br, torvalds@transmeta.com, yodaiken@fsmlabs.com, akpm@zip.com.au, lm@bitmover.com, hps@intermeta.de, jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Coding style - a non-issue Message-Id: <20011202200427.12ec0c33.skraw@ithnet.com> In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To:

Organization: ith Kommunikationstechnik GmbH X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.6.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2 Dec 2001 19:41:26 +0100 Daniel Phillips wrote: > One fact that is often missed by armchair evolutionists is that evolution is > not random. It's controlled by a mechanism (most obviously: gene shuffling) > and the mechanism *itself* evolves. That is why evolution speeds up over > time. There's a random element, yes, but it's not the principle element. You mean "controlled" up to the point where your small environment got randomly hit by a smaller sized stone coming right from the nowhere corner of the universe, or not? Regards, Stephan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/