Jed sez: ...
> I used to know a guy who developed Intel CPU chips. > This was before the Internet exploded. He said: > "We are in a race with Microsoft. We make the CPUs > faster and faster so that Microsoft can bog them down > with more and more useless code." Nowadays we make > the Internet ever faster so that inept programmers > can waste bandwidth. LOL! I'm sure the gods employed over in DoE (Department of Evolution) have similar issues. It would seem that most of our genes have been commented out. A good compression scheme would probably reduce our chromosomes down to two or three average size strands. This is understandable. When it comes to writing computer code it is often prudent to comment out no longer used code rather than delete it. You just never know. Perhaps the need for gills or a tale will once again come in handy in another million years or so. Unfortunately, all of that commenting-out turns code maintenance into a messy task. I also suspect... somewhere... embedded in a string of commented out code is the following statement: (C) Copyright Zeta Reticuli, all rights reserved. Version 3.4.11.34272 currently activated. Next revision slated for 3047, plus or minus a few hundred years. This will include a few bug fixes, like actively filtering out genetic combinations that have a tendency to produce biological containers that think like Rush Limbaugh. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
