Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 29th Aug 2007 12:14 UTC, submitted by stonyandcher
"The next-generation of the KDE open source project, version 4.0, has been touted as the beginning of a new era in desktop computing, but only two months from the first release some users are wondering if it's just all hype. KDE 4.0 will bring a collection of new technologies to the Linux and Unix desktop, but there are uncertainties around how much of it will be included in the initial release. KDE user Andreas Pakulat expressed doubt about how the release will take shape in a blog post titled 'Where's the KDE4 desktop?'." KDE's Aaron Seigo also shares his thoughts on this.
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2005-07-07
The point is that over the course of millions of years, species barely change. And then, probably due to external pressure, they change rapidly. This explains partly why so many 'missing links' can't be found. And those are the jumps I'm talking about. Again, if you read up on it, you'll see this is a pretty accepted fact in biology.
And yes, jump is relative - we're still talking a long time. But you know, Computers do everything faster than biology does ;-)
And of course, this analogy doesn't have any real value, it's just a way to explain stuff, I guess ;-)