Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 14:20:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 14:20:20 -0500 Received: from dsl-213-023-038-056.arcor-ip.net ([213.23.38.56]:39688 "EHLO starship.berlin") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 14:20:13 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Daniel Phillips To: Stephan von Krawczynski Subject: Re: Coding style - a non-issue Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 20:17:33 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] 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 In-Reply-To:

<20011202200427.12ec0c33.skraw@ithnet.com> In-Reply-To: <20011202200427.12ec0c33.skraw@ithnet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On December 2, 2001 08:04 pm, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > 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 principal 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? See "principal" above. There's a random element in the game of bridge, too, but it's not the principal element. -- Daniel - 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/