So, I brought up this idea, "What if we could just use SMS? You could send what you're doing. It will go out in real time to all the people who are interested in hearing it. And then, it would be archived on the Web. You could also enter it from the Web and it would be device-agnostic.

所以我提出了这样的想法，如果我们只使用短信息会怎么样？,你可以发送你正在做的事，它会立即,让每个有兴趣听的人都看到，接着，它会在网上存档，你还能再网上读到它,而不需要设备支持。

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Now this is a rain gauge, and it's sitting on a roof of a building, and when the water falls into this gauge, it sends a signal to the logic unit of the computer, which immediately notifies the memory bank of the computer to seek out its instructions for a rainy day.

这是一个雨量测量器，安装在一个楼房的,屋顶上，当水流入到这个测量器，它就给计算机的逻辑部件发送一个信号，计算机立即通知内存条,为下雨天找出相应的指令。

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