E2 has 848762 nodes, writeups 465248, and 29384 users. An interesting thing about E2 is that everything is a node, so non-writeup things count too. And apparently the node_id numbering system does not start on zero, since there are 848726 nodes and the node-id reaches 1000000.
I am currently in high school and have various ideas about computers in the classroom. First of all, I don't like the idea. Through my experience I've learned that most old-school teachers are amazed with computers, find them technological miracles, and therefore don't understand them. In one class we had five computers in a classroom of about 30 students. The teacher would never let more than one person use the computers at a time and would hover over them making sure that no one broke anything or access something they weren't supposed. That was a couple of years ago, I've recently changed schools and am now attending a school were one is lucky to have one computer in the classroom.
In order to effectively use computers in the classrooms, several things need to happen:
1.Teachers need to start trusting students.
2.Computers have to become a matter of fact.
3.Curriculums must be developed with specific uses for computers in mind not just vague ideas.
However, this doesn't mean that computers should be used by every teacher in every classroom. Here, I apply the adage, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." I have an excellent engineering teacher and he abhors computers. He loves hand on labs and teaching conceptual physics first, then the mathematical portion of it. I feel the learning would in fact be hurt by computers in this class and I'm sure that there are cases aplenty like this one.
However, there is one place where I would absolutely love computers. In the lunchroom. Well not really in the lunchroom, but in a internet cafe style lounge where I could hang out with friends, type up documents, go around on the internet, perform mathematical computation, et cetera. That would be ideal in my opinion.
I'd like to know what measures are being taken to prevent fake votes. This is a tool that can work for democracy or against it. Leave it up to some 31337 script kiddie to make is counterproductive. Yeah, well...
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Would a Beowulf cluster speed up Seti@home? What would be the best implementation?
If there's a reason to build a small cluster, I'd say it'd be seti.
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In order to effectively use computers in the classrooms, several things need to happen:
1.Teachers need to start trusting students.
2.Computers have to become a matter of fact.
3.Curriculums must be developed with specific uses for computers in mind not just vague ideas.
However, this doesn't mean that computers should be used by every teacher in every classroom. Here, I apply the adage, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." I have an excellent engineering teacher and he abhors computers. He loves hand on labs and teaching conceptual physics first, then the mathematical portion of it. I feel the learning would in fact be hurt by computers in this class and I'm sure that there are cases aplenty like this one.
However, there is one place where I would absolutely love computers. In the lunchroom. Well not really in the lunchroom, but in a internet cafe style lounge where I could hang out with friends, type up documents, go around on the internet, perform mathematical computation, et cetera. That would be ideal in my opinion.
I'd like to know what measures are being taken to prevent fake votes. This is a tool that can work for democracy or against it. Leave it up to some 31337 script kiddie to make is counterproductive. Yeah, well...
Does anyone know what percentage of China uses the internet. Bet its less than AOL.
Give me one good reason why the internet shouldn't be anonmymous.