I have the reverse story from most folks. I had no inspiring teacher. In fact, it was exactly those teachers who attempted to address my special needs that I found most oppressive. If you like at my high-school grades, I got an A in every class where teachers left me alone to learn the material my way, and did dismally in every class where teachers interferred in my education.
In America, teachers believe in voodoo education. There are lots of "systems" floating around that have as much scientific basis as the MakeMoneyFast systems you see advertised on late night infomercials. The fundamental assumption held by all American teachers is that students will be unable to learn unless the teacher helps them. For people like me who have a huge passion to learn, this ends up being the most oppressive environment you can think of. At the same time I am winning essay contests, math, and chemistry competitions, I am flunking those same classes.
Teachers are terribly conceited -- they have their way of teaching, but it doesn't apply to every student. For each student they find where their method clicks, they oppress ten other students that don't match that style.
The thing that bugs me the most is that teachers think that since they are on some noble quest to help the nation's youth that they are beyond reproach.
In short, I think I would have been better off if the teachers left me alone and didn't try to help me.
I doubt that any site has objective information on the Pentium4. When the PentiumPro was released, Intel carefully managed expectations downwards. When the PentiumPro was released, it actually was the fastest CPU in the world (as measured by SPEC); faster than all the RISCs (for a short period of time, of course). Everyone is still talking about how cool the PentiumPro was. (This article even mentions that).
Intel already did a good job spinning this. They released a cacheless Celeron in order to damage the Celeron brand name among the techies. When they released the real Celeron that was really faster than the daddy Pentium II in many cases, people believed it was slower, and would continue to pay more for the inferior Pentium II.
What does Intel want to spin here? Do they want to lower expectations, so that when really units start shipping people start exclaming how fast it is? Or do they want to manage expectations upwards to sell more and hurt AMD? For example, have they purposely designed the core for higher MHz despite lower IPC in order to simply get the MHz crown, which will fool the unwashed?
What I'm trying to say is that:
are those claiming the Pentium4 is fast just mindless stooges echoing what Intel wants them to say?
or are those saying its SLOW the ones that are the mindless stooges?
My bet is that the way they've described things that they are trying to manage expectations lower.
We are a small ISP with Network ICE Sentry monitoring one of our backbones. We see regular events from people infected by the Sub7 trojan. you can change your IP address, but you can't hide. (I hear you can get a desktop version of this IDS as well with a personal firewall).
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In America, teachers believe in voodoo education. There are lots of "systems" floating around that have as much scientific basis as the MakeMoneyFast systems you see advertised on late night infomercials. The fundamental assumption held by all American teachers is that students will be unable to learn unless the teacher helps them. For people like me who have a huge passion to learn, this ends up being the most oppressive environment you can think of. At the same time I am winning essay contests, math, and chemistry competitions, I am flunking those same classes.
Teachers are terribly conceited -- they have their way of teaching, but it doesn't apply to every student. For each student they find where their method clicks, they oppress ten other students that don't match that style.
The thing that bugs me the most is that teachers think that since they are on some noble quest to help the nation's youth that they are beyond reproach.
In short, I think I would have been better off if the teachers left me alone and didn't try to help me.
Intel already did a good job spinning this. They released a cacheless Celeron in order to damage the Celeron brand name among the techies. When they released the real Celeron that was really faster than the daddy Pentium II in many cases, people believed it was slower, and would continue to pay more for the inferior Pentium II.
What does Intel want to spin here? Do they want to lower expectations, so that when really units start shipping people start exclaming how fast it is? Or do they want to manage expectations upwards to sell more and hurt AMD? For example, have they purposely designed the core for higher MHz despite lower IPC in order to simply get the MHz crown, which will fool the unwashed?
What I'm trying to say is that:
My bet is that the way they've described things that they are trying to manage expectations lower.
We are a small ISP with Network ICE Sentry monitoring one of our backbones. We see regular events from people infected by the Sub7 trojan. you can change your IP address, but you can't hide. (I hear you can get a desktop version of this IDS as well with a personal firewall).