I agree with most of your post except for your belief that non human forms of life lack the "divine spark" of humans, or as you have said, lack the ability to deny one's impulses, etc.
I think as time goes on, more rigorous scientific study will prove that animals possess many of these characteristics that were previously applied to humans only.
i wait for the day that scientific equipment is sensitive enough to measure someone's chi, q, vital life spark, or "divine spark". EEG's, brainwaves, or pulse are currently a brute force and gross way of oversimplifying that picture. That day might be a ways off. Probably about the time that quantum physics theory becomes more than a theory.
until then, we only have compelling stories such as these,
such as this story explaining that chickens practice self control
http://www.goveg.com/f-hiddenliveschickens.asp
or that cockroaches colllobarate, previously reported here on slashdot
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/0 4/1532235&from=rss
It seems the author of Cherry is really claiming 25% of speed or so. If it was really 80% your 3.2Ghz would yield 2.56Ghz not 800Mhz as he says below.
Funny math.
"CherryOS has been tuned for performance. You can expect to get about 80% of your processors power when working in the Apple Environment. For example a 3.2ghz P4 would run as fast as a 800 MHz G4 machine." http://www.cherryos.com/what.html
I have been pondering this myself. I have no answer but let me post my similar related idea about using linux, bsd or OSX as a hard disk based personal hi-fi audio recorder.
The reason I limited my selection to these OS's is I want a Tivo like stability. When I press record, I want to know it is recording.
What I want is a Olympus style dictaphone that will work in the confines of my home. A little 2" x 4" note taker. But unlike the Olympus, which records with crappy 8Khz or 11Khz sound, I want 44Khz, 16bit sound, so I figured why not carry around a small wireless transmitter with on/off switch. I figured I would plug the receiver in the audio inputs of a *nix box. Then I need to find
1) single channel 44Khz, 16 bit linux/bsd recording app
2) a wireless transmitter/receiver (which possibly has a serial port trigger).
3) The app needs to poll the voltage on the audio input jack and start/stop recording accordinly. This would have the added advantage that the little RED broadcasting LED on the transmitter would by definition correspond to the actual recording state of the linux box. Alternatively, use a transmitter that possibly has a serial port control, although it seems to me that you'd be sacrificing the LED.
Heck maybe the simplest thing is to just buy a 2nd tivo for this purpose, and a leapfrog for whole house use. Only downside is no LED so no visual confirmation on the transmitter that you are recording...
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I agree with most of your post except for your belief that non human forms of life lack the "divine spark" of humans, or as you have said, lack the ability to deny one's impulses, etc. I think as time goes on, more rigorous scientific study will prove that animals possess many of these characteristics that were previously applied to humans only. i wait for the day that scientific equipment is sensitive enough to measure someone's chi, q, vital life spark, or "divine spark". EEG's, brainwaves, or pulse are currently a brute force and gross way of oversimplifying that picture. That day might be a ways off. Probably about the time that quantum physics theory becomes more than a theory. until then, we only have compelling stories such as these, such as this story explaining that chickens practice self control http://www.goveg.com/f-hiddenliveschickens.asp or that cockroaches colllobarate, previously reported here on slashdot http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/0 4/1532235&from=rss
It seems the author of Cherry is really claiming 25% of speed or so. If it was really 80% your 3.2Ghz would yield 2.56Ghz not 800Mhz as he says below. Funny math. "CherryOS has been tuned for performance. You can expect to get about 80% of your processors power when working in the Apple Environment. For example a 3.2ghz P4 would run as fast as a 800 MHz G4 machine." http://www.cherryos.com/what.html
believe it. forward and backward buttons ARE useful. If you can get it to work in OS X 10.1.2, I'd be mighty happy.
I have been pondering this myself. I have no answer but let me post my similar related idea about using linux, bsd or OSX as a hard disk based personal hi-fi audio recorder. The reason I limited my selection to these OS's is I want a Tivo like stability. When I press record, I want to know it is recording. What I want is a Olympus style dictaphone that will work in the confines of my home. A little 2" x 4" note taker. But unlike the Olympus, which records with crappy 8Khz or 11Khz sound, I want 44Khz, 16bit sound, so I figured why not carry around a small wireless transmitter with on/off switch. I figured I would plug the receiver in the audio inputs of a *nix box. Then I need to find 1) single channel 44Khz, 16 bit linux/bsd recording app 2) a wireless transmitter/receiver (which possibly has a serial port trigger). 3) The app needs to poll the voltage on the audio input jack and start/stop recording accordinly. This would have the added advantage that the little RED broadcasting LED on the transmitter would by definition correspond to the actual recording state of the linux box. Alternatively, use a transmitter that possibly has a serial port control, although it seems to me that you'd be sacrificing the LED. Heck maybe the simplest thing is to just buy a 2nd tivo for this purpose, and a leapfrog for whole house use. Only downside is no LED so no visual confirmation on the transmitter that you are recording...