机械钟表发明后，人们开始认为他们的大脑是在“像钟表一样”运行，在今天这个软件时代，我们开始认为我们的大脑是在“像电脑一样”运转。
When the mechanical clock arrived, people began thinking of their brains as operating "like clockwork. " Today, in the age of software, we have come to think of them as operating "like computers.
早在计算机尚未普及的时代（约1980年），他们就创办了软件公司。
Back in the dark ages of computing, in about 1980, they started a software company.
而这个时代，则是依靠设备制造商和软件开发商。
In this age, it's the device makers and software developers.
大量的产品，从任天堂的“大脑时代”到复杂的计算机辅助软件，营销对象都是针对担心失去大脑敏锐度的客户群。
A slew of products, from games like Nintendo's Brain Age to more sophisticated computer-assisted software, are marketed at consumers worried about losing their mental sharpness.
构建和交付静态软件和产品的时代已经结束。
The days of building and delivering static software and products are over.
对于软件作者而言，免费乘车的时代已经真正结束了。
For shareware authors, the era of the free ride is well and truly over.
比尔·盖茨和保罗·艾伦抓住了机会，他们将早期的个人电脑变成了时代的突破——“牵牛星”需要软件，它需要一个执行有价值运算任务的程序语言。
Bill Gates and Paul Allen seized the opportunity to transform this early PC into a breakthrough — the Altair needed software, a programming language that could make it perform useful computing tasks.
可即使是他也无法摸清因特网的脉搏——如何将微软这个软件业垄断巨头转型，进而在网络时代继续蓬勃发展。
But even he couldn't figure out how to beat the Internet-how to transition his grand old monopoly software company, Microsoft, into a business that thrives on the net.
除了转化成为大量的服务之外，云计算时代的软件还会以什么形式出现呢？
What shape will the software cloud take, other than being a vast collection of services?
桑尼尔领先于他的时代，因为大多数IT主管，尤其是大型机构的IT主管，通常对那些面向消费者的技术表示怀疑，甚至完全禁止该类软件的使用。
Mr Sannier is ahead of his time because most IT bosses, especially at large organisations, tend to be sceptical of consumer technologies and often ban them outright.
想Windows这样的办公软件可能是这个信息时代最好的发明之一。
Office software like Windows might be one of the best inventions in this information age.
截至现在，Google买下了很多小的技术公司，常常会激怒控制着PC时代和第一代互联网的软件巨头——微软公司。
So far, Google has bought tiny technology firms, often to annoy Microsoft, the software giant that dominated the PC era and the first generation of the web.
一些观察家认为Vista和Office 2007将成为最后一个我们司空见惯的软件系统了——它将成为伟大的个人电脑时代的遗物。
Some observers suggest that Vista and Office 2007 will be the last monolithic software releases—a sort of hangover from the great age of PC computing.
“娱乐软件新的黄金时代已然来临，超过2/3的美国人都在享受我们的产品所带来的乐趣，”ESA的CEOMichael D.Gallagher这样说道。
"This is the new golden age of entertainment software. Our products are now being enjoyed by over two-thirds of Americans, " said Michael D. Gallagher, CEO of the ESA.
假如办公桌前的人们可以通过浏览器来享受云服务，那么诞生于web2.0时代的软件将会变得越来越不重要，逐渐被淘汰。
Software written for the Web 2.0 era, assuming services in the cloud are consumed by people sitting at desks with browsers, will be increasingly less relevant and used less often.
软件和系统交付空间的波动确定了我们不断变更的时代，创始人StephenR .Covey把它比作穿越河流的急湍。
The turbulence of the software and systems delivery space defines our era of constant change, which author Stephen R. Covey compares to steering through a river's whitewater rapids.
坦白说，这才是许多观察者(包括软件开发时代杂志)所关心的地方。
This is, quite frankly, what many observers (including SD Times) were concerned about.
在1991年一个芬兰的软件工程师，LinusTorvalds，重新编写了一个适互联网时代的Unix。
In 1991 Linus Torvalds, a Finnish software engineer, reinvented Unix for the Internet age.
但在这个3.1 .x.x稳定版和安全补丁随处可见的时代，我很认同Jackson关于软件“永远没有完成”的观点。
In a world of constant 3.1.x.x maintenance and security releases, however, I can see Jackson's point of software "never being finished."
这种模型适用于未出现 SaaS 的时代，组织会购买一个软件应用程序供自己的成员使用。
This model is fine for the pre-SaaS world where an organization would purchase a software application for use by its members.
在云计算时代提供免费的office软件是一个重要的战略转移。
Offering free Office software from the cloud is a major strategy shift.
尽管许多软件公司正在努力适应多核芯片时代的来临，但Google对这种芯片使用起来得心应手。
Many software companies, accustomed to better performance from ever-faster chip clock speeds, are struggling to adapt to the multicore approach, but it suits Google just fine.
当我们回忆软件开发的进程，在21世纪的头10年间，可能是Agile时代。
The first ten years of the 21st century may go down as the Agile decade when we look back at the progress of software development.
就个人而言，我很喜欢这一章中ibm对于软件业的影响这部分内容，特别是在主机时代和个人计算时代初期。
Personally, I really enjoyed this chapter's discussion of IBM's impact on the software industry, particularly in the mainframe and early personal computing eras.
但是，在现在这个时代，这个清单完全可以扔掉，取而代之的是在其他人的基础设施上以运行服务的形式使用相同的软件包。
Yet, in this day and age, this inventory can be easily jettisoned in favor of using the same software packages as a service running on someone else's infrastructure.
作家回到打字机时代，因为文字处理软件不存在。
Writers are back to typewriters, for Word Processing is no more.
作为互联网时代南非成功的企业家，他希望开源软件的发烧友们抛弃他们无谓的追求，专注于软件的易用性。
A successful South African entrepreneur during the dotcom era, he wants open-source zealots to lose their religion and concentrate on ease-of-use instead.
这与20年前塔南特担任软件测试经理的时代大不相同了。
That is a far cry from when Ms. Riley Tennant began working as a software-testing manager 20 years ago.
对于认真的博客作者或者站点管理者，你需要做一些站点维护任务来跟上你的站点，适应软件中的变化，广告，以及时代。
For the serious blogger or website administrator, there are some site maintenance tasks you should do to keep up with your site, changes in software, advertising, and The Times.
大约二十多年前，软件工程业被比喻成旧时代的打铁。
Around 20 years ago software engineering was compared to old-time blacksmithing.
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