"The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion." - John Adams
"...Thirteen governments [of the original states] thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretence of miracle or mystery, and which are destined to spread over the northern part of that whole quarter of the globe, are a great point gained in favor of the rights of mankind." - John Adams
"...an amendment was proposed by inserting the words, 'Jesus Christ...the holy author of our religion,' which was rejected 'By a great majority in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and the Mohammedan, the Hindoo and the Infidel of every denomination.'" - Thomas Jefferson
"Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions, more than on our opinions in physics and geometry....The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." - Thomas Jefferson
"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise....During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution." - James Madison
"All natural institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit." - Thomas Paine
"Ipex has been supplying computer components to the technology industry for over 10 years with the goal of providing quality products and services to our customers. Recently we were referenced in connection with some counterfeit Intel Core i7 920 Microprocessors sold within the US market. While we purchased these products in good faith from a supplier we are very disappointed to learn of the questionable status of these products and are taking appropriate action to resolve the issue for any impacted Ipex client as well as are fully cooperating with Intel's investigation in to determining the original source."
I just want to clear up something Paul keeps bringing up in this thread: Ipex is a division of ASI. Ipex isn't ASI.
Full disclosure: I worked for ASI for some time back in the 90's (God, I feel old).
ASI is a legit Intel distributor (one of only a small handful) and is one of Newegg's biggest sources for Intel CPU's. Ipex, on the other hand, is the division that deals in gray market CPU's, RAM, etc.
Is there ANY place to buy equipment with assurance of getting it through a 100% manufacturer authorized supply chain?
If there's humans making less money for their work than they think they should, then there will be no place with 100% authorized (secure) supply chain.
If IPEX was tossed out, I'm guessing it was someone at IPEX who was swapping processors out for dummies (for sale elsewhere, I assume) and then sending the fakes to Newegg.
They're distributor screwed everyone and Newegg is trying to fix it all. That's plenty. That's loyalty and doing the right thing as quickly as possible. That's all that's needed.
Read the article you linked. It's the distributor D&H that these sites accused without evidence and as such it was the D&H lawyers that sent the cease and desist. As it turns out it was a completely different distributor (IPEX).
"A company called D&H Distributing doesn’t consider it legitimate for the free press took umbrage to this. In fact, the legal beagles over at D&H Distributing got so worked up over the horrifying gall and chutzpah of Icrontic and HardOCP for daring to ask a question that the company slapped both publications with a “cease and desist” order.
Sent by the lawyers representing D&H, Creim Macias Koenig & Frey, it reads in part..."
Yep. Newegg has never done me or anyone I know any wrong. They've done a couple things incorrectly over my massive number of purchases with them (like sending me some ddr266 instead of ddr300 ram), but the day I told them was the day they told me to send it back and they'd replace it.
This entire ordeal has only further solidified my loyalty to checking them first and giving their products a premium preference.
You need a Master's degree so that you actually learn theories of education, history of the sub-cultures you're teaching, how to teach, how to create curricula. You don't need one to teach, but if we're preparing good teachers, then we just can't slap a simple "understanding the concepts of state standards" sticker on their jacket and expect the best of them.
High standards for teachers starts with high levels of investment IN teachers.
Having taught middle school, run higher education outreach programs, and currently working in higher education, I say...
Bill Gates still has no clue about education.
His first attempt at "fixing" education comprised of giving tons of money to brilliant high school students so they wouldn't have to pay for college. Useless why? Because brilliant kids already get tons of money to go to college.
His second attempt was to inject massive amounts of money into certain schools, or sponsor entire schools, to bring them "up to date" with technology. Useless why? Because he was still targeting the wrong students with computers-- things that more frequently harm a student's mind and concentration in education than helps.
Now, he's going to spend a ton of money trying to find out what makes a great teacher and then try to create a method to make great teachers. Useless why? Because great teachers are few and far between. Teaching K-12 is not monetarily rewarding so the best teachers are actually there just to teach and to survive. They don't jump out and give talks or invite multi-billionaires to their classrooms (disrupting their teaching). They have a passion for the education of our youth, have a personality that resonates with the students, and they're personally brilliant themselves. You can't simply duplicate that with training! Instead, you have to make it easy for people who already have these qualities to become teachers.
I've said it once and I'll say it a billion times over and over again: When America brags about having the brightest students and the best schools in the world, they're actually talking about their *best* students and they're best schools (typically universities). When America talks about how education is "broken", they're talking about the students coming from poor socio-economic background and schools that have severely lacking facilities. It's these students, the teachers and administrators in these schools, and these buildings that need the most attention.
These students are surrounded by hopelessness (at home, around their homes, and at school), they're feared, and they're looked down upon. The society around them gives up on them at first sight. They know only poverty, struggle, and dishonesty as norms. So they give up early in life.
Because the students are of such poor quality, the various responsible governments do not see them worthy of investment. The buildings leak when it rains. The classrooms are small. What computer labs that exist for typing out papers are defunct because of the lack of proper care (because proper care is expensive!).
Now, consider being a hopeful and brilliant teacher trying to get a job with no experience. This is often the only school within your first year of applications that will give you a shot. You go in and you deal with the complete lack of student support and students that KNOW you won't be around long... so they torture you. We call that "Teach for America". You go in, you do your time, you get your better job offer in two years, and you get the fuck out of Dodge. That's the norm.
And what of the teachers that don't do a TFA program? There's two methods of becoming a teacher:
Method A: Quick, no training, cheap (here's where the bad teachers come from) 1) Be competent at baby sitting 2) Apply for "emergency credentials" 3) Do your time 4) Apply for a credential program, skip a bunch of training, do some night school, and you're a full teacher.
Method B: The right way -- Education, training 1) Apply to a 4-year university ($), get accepted 2) Complete your 4-year education ($$$$$) 3) Apply for a 2+ year Masters-Credential combination program, get accepted ($$) 4) Complete your program, receive your credentials ($$$$), and hope that by the time you complete your program some $$ debt is knocked off by *re-instated* teachers' debt forgiveness 5) Search for teaching positions (~6 months to 1 year), dodging non-full time positions because you want medical benefits 6) Fi
The Germans and their willingness to fall in step with just about anything should not be assumed to be a universal characterization of Western civilization.
Apparently, I forgot some words: "Computers are devices upon which we rely greatly, but not so much as our bodies and as such it follows that they don't require the same universal care."
We may *refer* to it as computer "care" and computer "health", but that doesn't mean it's anywhere near the importance of human healthcare. I think it's more in line with vehicle care than human health care and in that same vein, should we then have universal car repair? Computers are devices upon which we rely greatly.
There should be no universal tax for someone (oh, gee... maybe Microsoft?) to delve into our computer, stumbling across private information, all in the name of "health". If I can fix my own car without cost to anyone, if I can fix my own computer without cost to anyone, then I will do it.
I think the previous posters have it right: Tie an optional service to the ISP and call it a day. Have such a service provide regular scans and alerts. In severe cases, quarantine the computer. But it should ALL be optional.
If there was literally no change, then time could not be observed. Aside front outward objects not moving (including clocks), the synapses in your brain would not fire because that would be "change".
Your descriptions assume too many things. For example, you say that a point moves. But points don't move. They're abstract. You're talking about an "object"... in 3-dimensional space. Since it's moving, you're already taking into consideration time.
That's like saying to build a house, you don't need wood, nails, roofing, etc. because all you have to do is get a house.
People aren't the only things we could have roaming. Satellites and rovers are in full use now. Should we not decide on limits of interaction with those?
Actually, I think you're trying to describe "civilization" (which I agree is a more important thing to measure than sentience). Even then, though, you're ruling out a bunch of tribes that were killed on Earth by Europeans.
I would suggest these 2 progs for determining the existence of a civilization: 1. Can/do they care to pass on history from generation to generation? 2. Do they have an established, learnable form of communication?
That's about all you need to describe a civilization.
Ya, totally. Foresight and preparation are completely overrated.
Let's not bother ourselves with intellectual discussion regarding fire prevention until there's a fire. You see, once there's an emergency, the tough people with no brains, no patience, and knee-jerk reactions take over and make everything worse. But I guess that's good... because we didn't have to take the time out of our lives to think before a problem existed.
I think the article looks at da Vinci in the wrong light. He never tried to sell himself as a anything but a brilliant innovator. That gets R&D jobs. He fully understood the reality of espionage and took care in encrypting his plans just as any high-level corporation or governmental organization would require.
He may not have been a team player, but he was also centuries ahead of his time. If DARPA found someone centuries ahead of *our* time, they'd suck it up and bring the guy on.
The majority of people don't want multi-tasking? Do they have the option to use it and choose not to? Because I was under the impression that the "majority of people" don't even have such an option on their smart phones.
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http://www.aynrand.org/site/News2?id=6177 is good for general quotes from the Founding Fathers regarding religion. I like:
"The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion." - John Adams
"...Thirteen governments [of the original states] thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretence of miracle or mystery, and which are destined to spread over the northern part of that whole quarter of the globe, are a great point gained in favor of the rights of mankind." - John Adams
"...an amendment was proposed by inserting the words, 'Jesus Christ...the holy author of our religion,' which was rejected 'By a great majority in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and the Mohammedan, the Hindoo and the Infidel of every denomination.'" - Thomas Jefferson
"Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions, more than on our opinions in physics and geometry....The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." - Thomas Jefferson
"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise....During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution." - James Madison
"All natural institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit." - Thomas Paine
http://www.crn.com/hardware/223300173;jsessionid=B1V040G2ULN1LQE1GHPSKH4ATMY32JVN
"Ipex has been supplying computer components to the technology industry for over 10 years with the goal of providing quality products and services to our customers. Recently we were referenced in connection with some counterfeit Intel Core i7 920 Microprocessors sold within the US market. While we purchased these products in good faith from a supplier we are very disappointed to learn of the questionable status of these products and are taking appropriate action to resolve the issue for any impacted Ipex client as well as are fully cooperating with Intel's investigation in to determining the original source."
http://hardforum.com/showpost.php?s=d01ac05d09e4f3d3bfb4364cdbc5d2af&p=1035432866&postcount=927
From [H] Forums:
I just want to clear up something Paul keeps bringing up in this thread: Ipex is a division of ASI. Ipex isn't ASI.
Full disclosure: I worked for ASI for some time back in the 90's (God, I feel old).
ASI is a legit Intel distributor (one of only a small handful) and is one of Newegg's biggest sources for Intel CPU's. Ipex, on the other hand, is the division that deals in gray market CPU's, RAM, etc.
http://web.archive.org/web/20071020045918/http://www.ipexinfo.com/
Oct 20, 2007 wayback cache
Is there ANY place to buy equipment with assurance of getting it through a 100% manufacturer authorized supply chain?
If there's humans making less money for their work than they think they should, then there will be no place with 100% authorized (secure) supply chain.
If IPEX was tossed out, I'm guessing it was someone at IPEX who was swapping processors out for dummies (for sale elsewhere, I assume) and then sending the fakes to Newegg.
Thank you!
They're distributor screwed everyone and Newegg is trying to fix it all. That's plenty. That's loyalty and doing the right thing as quickly as possible. That's all that's needed.
Read the article you linked. It's the distributor D&H that these sites accused without evidence and as such it was the D&H lawyers that sent the cease and desist. As it turns out it was a completely different distributor (IPEX).
"A company called D&H Distributing doesn’t consider it legitimate for the free press took umbrage to this. In fact, the legal beagles over at D&H Distributing got so worked up over the horrifying gall and chutzpah of Icrontic and HardOCP for daring to ask a question that the company slapped both publications with a “cease and desist” order.
Sent by the lawyers representing D&H, Creim Macias Koenig & Frey, it reads in part..."
Yep. Newegg has never done me or anyone I know any wrong. They've done a couple things incorrectly over my massive number of purchases with them (like sending me some ddr266 instead of ddr300 ram), but the day I told them was the day they told me to send it back and they'd replace it.
This entire ordeal has only further solidified my loyalty to checking them first and giving their products a premium preference.
You need a Master's degree so that you actually learn theories of education, history of the sub-cultures you're teaching, how to teach, how to create curricula. You don't need one to teach, but if we're preparing good teachers, then we just can't slap a simple "understanding the concepts of state standards" sticker on their jacket and expect the best of them.
High standards for teachers starts with high levels of investment IN teachers.
Having taught middle school, run higher education outreach programs, and currently working in higher education, I say...
Bill Gates still has no clue about education.
His first attempt at "fixing" education comprised of giving tons of money to brilliant high school students so they wouldn't have to pay for college. Useless why? Because brilliant kids already get tons of money to go to college.
His second attempt was to inject massive amounts of money into certain schools, or sponsor entire schools, to bring them "up to date" with technology. Useless why? Because he was still targeting the wrong students with computers-- things that more frequently harm a student's mind and concentration in education than helps.
Now, he's going to spend a ton of money trying to find out what makes a great teacher and then try to create a method to make great teachers. Useless why? Because great teachers are few and far between. Teaching K-12 is not monetarily rewarding so the best teachers are actually there just to teach and to survive. They don't jump out and give talks or invite multi-billionaires to their classrooms (disrupting their teaching). They have a passion for the education of our youth, have a personality that resonates with the students, and they're personally brilliant themselves. You can't simply duplicate that with training! Instead, you have to make it easy for people who already have these qualities to become teachers.
I've said it once and I'll say it a billion times over and over again: When America brags about having the brightest students and the best schools in the world, they're actually talking about their *best* students and they're best schools (typically universities). When America talks about how education is "broken", they're talking about the students coming from poor socio-economic background and schools that have severely lacking facilities. It's these students, the teachers and administrators in these schools, and these buildings that need the most attention.
These students are surrounded by hopelessness (at home, around their homes, and at school), they're feared, and they're looked down upon. The society around them gives up on them at first sight. They know only poverty, struggle, and dishonesty as norms. So they give up early in life.
Because the students are of such poor quality, the various responsible governments do not see them worthy of investment. The buildings leak when it rains. The classrooms are small. What computer labs that exist for typing out papers are defunct because of the lack of proper care (because proper care is expensive!).
Now, consider being a hopeful and brilliant teacher trying to get a job with no experience. This is often the only school within your first year of applications that will give you a shot. You go in and you deal with the complete lack of student support and students that KNOW you won't be around long... so they torture you. We call that "Teach for America". You go in, you do your time, you get your better job offer in two years, and you get the fuck out of Dodge. That's the norm.
And what of the teachers that don't do a TFA program? There's two methods of becoming a teacher:
Method A: Quick, no training, cheap (here's where the bad teachers come from)
1) Be competent at baby sitting
2) Apply for "emergency credentials"
3) Do your time
4) Apply for a credential program, skip a bunch of training, do some night school, and you're a full teacher.
Method B: The right way -- Education, training
1) Apply to a 4-year university ($), get accepted
2) Complete your 4-year education ($$$$$)
3) Apply for a 2+ year Masters-Credential combination program, get accepted ($$)
4) Complete your program, receive your credentials ($$$$), and hope that by the time you complete your program some $$ debt is knocked off by *re-instated* teachers' debt forgiveness
5) Search for teaching positions (~6 months to 1 year), dodging non-full time positions because you want medical benefits
6) Fi
The Germans and their willingness to fall in step with just about anything should not be assumed to be a universal characterization of Western civilization.
Apparently, I forgot some words: "Computers are devices upon which we rely greatly, but not so much as our bodies and as such it follows that they don't require the same universal care."
We may *refer* to it as computer "care" and computer "health", but that doesn't mean it's anywhere near the importance of human healthcare. I think it's more in line with vehicle care than human health care and in that same vein, should we then have universal car repair? Computers are devices upon which we rely greatly.
There should be no universal tax for someone (oh, gee... maybe Microsoft?) to delve into our computer, stumbling across private information, all in the name of "health". If I can fix my own car without cost to anyone, if I can fix my own computer without cost to anyone, then I will do it.
I think the previous posters have it right: Tie an optional service to the ISP and call it a day. Have such a service provide regular scans and alerts. In severe cases, quarantine the computer. But it should ALL be optional.
If there was literally no change, then time could not be observed. Aside front outward objects not moving (including clocks), the synapses in your brain would not fire because that would be "change".
Your descriptions assume too many things. For example, you say that a point moves. But points don't move. They're abstract. You're talking about an "object"... in 3-dimensional space. Since it's moving, you're already taking into consideration time.
That's like saying to build a house, you don't need wood, nails, roofing, etc. because all you have to do is get a house.
time is a description of change or lack thereof.
ding ding ding!
Time is just another dimension, but one we can only experience shallowly.
Two points make describe line.
Two lines make describe plane.
Two planes make describe space.
Two states of space describe time.
Time as we experience time in the same way a single-cell organism on a slide experiences 3-dimensional space.
People aren't the only things we could have roaming. Satellites and rovers are in full use now. Should we not decide on limits of interaction with those?
Actually, I think you're trying to describe "civilization" (which I agree is a more important thing to measure than sentience). Even then, though, you're ruling out a bunch of tribes that were killed on Earth by Europeans.
I would suggest these 2 progs for determining the existence of a civilization:
1. Can/do they care to pass on history from generation to generation?
2. Do they have an established, learnable form of communication?
That's about all you need to describe a civilization.
The More You Know: It's not illegal to be a Communist.
Ya, totally. Foresight and preparation are completely overrated.
Let's not bother ourselves with intellectual discussion regarding fire prevention until there's a fire. You see, once there's an emergency, the tough people with no brains, no patience, and knee-jerk reactions take over and make everything worse. But I guess that's good... because we didn't have to take the time out of our lives to think before a problem existed.
I think the article looks at da Vinci in the wrong light. He never tried to sell himself as a anything but a brilliant innovator. That gets R&D jobs. He fully understood the reality of espionage and took care in encrypting his plans just as any high-level corporation or governmental organization would require.
He may not have been a team player, but he was also centuries ahead of his time. If DARPA found someone centuries ahead of *our* time, they'd suck it up and bring the guy on.
There's nothing anti-anything up there. There's no opinion.
I think *you* need to *read* the summary again without bias.
The majority of people don't want multi-tasking? Do they have the option to use it and choose not to? Because I was under the impression that the "majority of people" don't even have such an option on their smart phones.