On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Kilian CAVALOTTI wrote:
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 01:37:16 pm Robert G. Brown wrote:
But show me a "programmer" who cannot work without their mouse
and a GUI-based text editor, who has to scroll slowly up and down or
constantly move hands from the keys to the mouse and back to select
even elementary functions, and I'll show you somebody that will take
a month to do the work I did in 3 days...
That's exactly why human species will evolve to grow a third hand. We
*need* it, so we won't have to take our hands off the keyboard to reach
the mouse. I see no other way.
A Lysenko-Lamarcian heretic, I see.
Sigh. Well, the way natural selection works, we have to create
selection pressure. Either humans have to preferentially select three
handed mates (which is a somewhat interesting idea, hmmm, but it seems a
bit unlikely) or we have to go out and start killing people who have
only two hands, ideally before they reproduce.
So ('ching-kachink' as he chambers a round) -- if you want to survive
the very first round of "selection", please raise your hands...;-)
rgb
P.S. -- maybe genetic engineering is a better option...
Cheers,
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