Muddiest Point: What exactly is the point of being able to encode extra bibliographic information onto the chip? You still need a reader to access that information, and you can link a barcode to a record in the computer system that has all that information.
Inside the Google Machine
What a great video! I really enjoyed the peek inside Google. I think its really great how involved with charities they are and how much they obviously care about their employees. Sergey and Larry certainly made me wish I had the skills to get a job there! Also, the 20% rule is good idea. If 20% of the time, your employees are working on something they think is important or that they want to do, they are going to be more satisfied with the 80% of crap they have to do. This is the kind of company I can get behind.
Dismantling Integrated Library Systems
I am not 100% sure that I completely understood what this article was talking about, but it seems to discuss how libraries are facing a much greater demand for online services, and the technologies they are obtaining to help cope with that demand don't work with the technologies they already have in place. Which means they either have to switch everything over to new systems that are super expensive (and may not all work together either) or sort of just "make it work." Either option includes headaches and frustration. So what's the point of getting this fancy new technology that doesn't work with what you've already got? Isn't there some way to just make what you've already got a little better? Or do current library systems just not have the capabilities for handling increased online services or other things today information consumer is looking for?
How Internet Infrastructure Works
Everything is a part of a network!
POP=point of presence-where local users access large networks
NAP=network access point-connects really big networks to each other
So I guess the internet is just lots of really huge networks all connected to each other through NAPs. Internet needs routers to control traffic. A router is a lot like a traffic light or police officer directing traffic, making sure there aren't any traffic jams or accidents.
Where does all the information on the internet live? Does is all just exist on someone's server somewhere? Who numbers the ports on a server? How do you know what the numbers are?
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with the info saved in the RFID chip, the info can be read by a reader no matter whether the book is at library or at some other places. whereas the suggestion you made works in the library, but would not be so in other place where that computer is not available
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