Top things I've seen done with these tech grants are:
Laptop checkouts (IceBooks == sweet!)
Connectivity (wireless is great, but a chicken in every pot, or rather a RJ-45 at every library table or booth is excellent)
Multimedia (ahh, buzzword! I know, but having a dedicated lab with dual quicksilvers (733? can't remember), copius amounts of macromedia/adobe software and both weekly tutorials AND classes willing to use the stuff makes for happy students who are blending the ol' liberal arts with some more technical skills)
Bandwidth is an important one, but doing it properly is key. As has been suggested, smart routing to keep the filesharing users from taking all the bandwidth, but without shutting them down, is key
What Gould fails to mention is that the genome is not alone in its responsability for creating a living thing. Development takes place as an interaction between genes (the genotype) and the evironment (both internal to the organism and external) to create the living organism (phenotype.)
While the complex interaction between genes is an amazing example of an efficient design for storing information, it should not necessarily be taken as the sole source of human complexity.
Obviously we can't reduce development to just what is stored 1-1 in the genome. But explaining away reductionism by saying humans are too complex for a simple genome, ignores the known importance of the environment and makes for an incomplete argument.
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Top things I've seen done with these tech grants are:
Laptop checkouts (IceBooks == sweet!)
Connectivity (wireless is great, but a chicken in every pot, or rather a RJ-45 at every library table or booth is excellent)
Multimedia (ahh, buzzword! I know, but having a dedicated lab with dual quicksilvers (733? can't remember), copius amounts of macromedia/adobe software and both weekly tutorials AND classes willing to use the stuff makes for happy students who are blending the ol' liberal arts with some more technical skills)
Bandwidth is an important one, but doing it properly is key. As has been suggested, smart routing to keep the filesharing users from taking all the bandwidth, but without shutting them down, is key
-jon
While the complex interaction between genes is an amazing example of an efficient design for storing information, it should not necessarily be taken as the sole source of human complexity.
Obviously we can't reduce development to just what is stored 1-1 in the genome. But explaining away reductionism by saying humans are too complex for a simple genome, ignores the known importance of the environment and makes for an incomplete argument.