Re: Skillful and Conspicuous Cow release of GNOME is out.

[Kevin Miller <sar 403forbidden net>]

On 9 Feb 1999, Miguel de Icaza wrote:

> 
> > Ok.. just out of curiousity, what being is being evolved here?  Started
> > out like a cute evolution from ape to gnome/man.  Now its mutated into
> > some cowlike troll..  A bit of nuclear waste exposure?
> 
> Well, all scientific proof seems to imply that although we share a
> common ancestor with Bonobos, macaques and the other apes, we have
> diverged quite a bit.  We were not going in the right direction to
> reach the human.

I see.

> 
> Lets give the cow a chance to reach us.
> 
> btw, did you know that it was recently measured that the mutation
> per-generation for some apes and humans is of about 100 genes?

Wow!  GNOME with scientic backgrounds. =P

> 
> Bonus point question: how many generations we need to make this cow
> develop a language instinct?

Probably somehow proportional to the number of applets available compared
to the number of GNOME apps that support DND.  :)

> 
> Miguel.
> 

sar

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