You're going to laugh so hard when your graphics card outperforms two of your quads handily! Also, I would start by limiting WCG on the quad that also runs PS3grid to 50%, instead of leaving WCG off altogether. At half speed, you're not going to have a heat issue. Or if you're really concerned, set it to 25% power. And watch it the first day. My case has awesome cooling (7 CASE FANS!), but running PS3grid has had literally no impact on the heat of the machine. Remember, your quad will only process 3 work units. The other core will be feeding the graphics card. On my pc, I run 3 cores at max speed and PS3grid at max speed simultaneously.

This one has 4 ... plus the big <deleted> floor fan in front of it that approaches the wind speed of a tropical depression. I usually do not have problems getting the heat out of the machine. I've trouble getting it out of my office.



Didn't know that ... see I'm learning already.

Seeing the young attempt to acquire wisdom rather than just information is amusing too.

Hey all, I remember a few of you asking me to post the first "sermon" I preached at Harvard's Andover Chapel this year. Here it is. Spoken it ran about 5 minutes.


Having heard the other reflections, I can now assure you that my reflections will in all liklihood be the least reflective, and the most off-topic. However, we Humanists are practical people, hence, I want to start with a question and answer it – a question that every atheist or agnostic gets asked with great frequency when they inform people that they are attending Harvard DIVINITY School. “You're an atheist, why are you going to Divinity school?” I'm sure you all tired of the question as quickly as I did, but it is a fundamentally good question that deserves an answer. The question is answered best in Douglas Adam's The Salmon of Doubt, where Adams writes, “I am fascinated by religion. (That's a completely different thing from believing in it!) It has had such an incalculably huge effect on human affairs. What is it? What does it represent? Why have we invented it? How does it keep going? What will become of it?” It is the intellectual curiosity here, as much as the snappy answer, that I want to accentuate.

I'm sure that some of you are curious why an atheistic Humanist is attending, never mind speaking at a noon service. However, I am pleased that I am. When I first sat down to write this speech, I thought that I it would be a great idea to attempt to introduce students new and old to Humanism at Harvard. But then I realised that perhaps instead of trying to introduce the personal philosophy I call Humanism, I might instead talk about my own time at HDS and attempt to weave some sort of narrative that might cast some light on who we Humanists are.

When I began my studies at HDS, I was an aggressive atheist. I remember one night at an HDS social night before classes had even started I detained several friends with a not terribly sober rendition of the case against classical theism. After all, I had chiefly come to HDS in order to find new debate partners on the subject of the existence of God. In retrospect, however, this was hardly a propitious plan. And then, about halfway though first semester I had one of those eureka moments – a flash of divine inspiration, if you will. I realised, for the first time that religion is often more a matter of culture and community than it is about beliefs.

I'm sure that some of my classmates from last year, and surely some first years as well, are wondering why this discovery was so ground-shaking. You see, those of us of the non-religious, atheist, agnostic, Humanist, non-theist, rationalist, “Bright,” secularist, etc. persuasion, religion appears to be exclusively a matter of belief – after all, we find ourselves under attack from intolerant religious ideologues for our very lack of belief. However, I soon realised that it shouldn't have been surprising that there was an essentially social function being played by religion, nor should it have been surprising that many of my non-theist friends felt like something significant was missing from their lives. I realised that even I could recall with nostalgia my childhood religious experiences, not the dogmas and theologies, but the relationships and community of which I had been a part.

This year, I will serve as President of H.A.S.H., the Harvard Atheists, Sceptics, and Humanists, otherwise known as the Harvard Graduate Humanist Community. I will work with Greg Epstein, our Humanist Chaplain and an alum of this distinguished institution in bringing his vision of creating a community for those of us who are, shall we say, religiously disinclined. It is my hope that those of you who share our convictions or are interested in finding out more about them, put aside temporarily your fear of group membership and join us in creating our community at Harvard.

While I agree with you on the existence of some nebulous god, I must say that, to me, it reads more like a resume’ rather than a sermon. But then it is not like my opinion will get you into “heaven”. Good luck with it!