An application is a software program that lets users do a task -- like listen to music or find directions.

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It's because the programmer or programmers that wrote that software might have been pretty specific but not specific enough.

这是因为程序员写的软件,可能已经相当具体,但还是不够具体。

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To be honest, especially those of you less comfortable here, if you've ever struggled with some program or struggled with some piece of software, oh it's alright, it's not your fault.

说实话，尤其是对那些在这里上课有些吃力的同学，如果你曾经使用哪个程序或软件有困难,好吧，那不是你的错。

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Toyota says it found a software problem that could briefly affect the "feel" of the anti-lock brakes on rough or slippery roads.

VOA: special.2010.02.05

My mom may take a taxicab in New York City and may touch my software or buy a ticket to Alcatraz and may touch my software.

我母亲可能会在纽约城里坐出租车,这就可能会接触到我的软件,或是买票去阿尔卡特拉兹时接触到我的软件。

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In our business, you got to be inventing new things because software doesn't wear out, it doesn't break, or at least if it breaks it was broken when you finished it, it doesn't break over time the way physical goods do.

在我们行业，你需要不断发明新事物,因为软件并不会磨损，不会坏，或者至少如果坏了,也是在你运行完之后，它并不像物理上的东西会随着时间磨损。

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There is a bias toward boys or a bias against girls there So you have to look at a lot of things about websites and software You have to look at gender, you have to look at nationality, language, accessibility, so major for issues.

一种对于男孩偏爱却对女孩偏见的态度,因此对于网页和软件,我们必须仔细观察,必须观察性别，国籍，语言，可接近性等一系列重要的问题。

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Once that's clear, we will send it to the necessary application, be it a search engine or anti-virus software, or a stock search, or shopping, or FriendFinder - anything that can be plugged into this kind of platform.

结果一出,页面将会转到相应的应用，像，搜索引擎，或者，杀毒软件，或是，股票搜索，购物，交友网站,任何能够接入平台的东西。

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And it turns out-- a little teaser for our security discussion as time passes that a lot of the times when software is compromised and you download Photoshop like a cracked version of Photoshop or something like that.

这对于即将讨论的安全性问题来说,只是一个小插曲，随着科技的发展,很多时候，如果工具受损,你会下载到一个版本不全的,或其他类似的东西。

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If I am going to use this for my child Are there different types of children being represented I have several parents who come to me at the regular basis Asking me:"what software is out there that would be fun for my child And is also not biased towards, or just kids of one nationality represented?

如果我买来给我的孩子,这款软件有没有各种不同类型的孩子的形象？,有几位父母经常来拜访我,他们问我说：“现在市面上都有什么好软件,对孩子来说会很有趣,而且没有偏向，或者说不仅仅面向一个国籍的？

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It's a little more involved on a PC but it's all free, the software you can download, and Linux in similar operating systems generally come with a compiler or you run a simple command to get it.

在PC机上有点复杂，但是它是免费的，你一般下载的软件，类似Linux的操作系统等等通常都需要,一个编译器，或者你可以运行一些简单的指令来获取。

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And if you've ever heard the word driver software that you install in your computer so that your computer, your operating system, Windows or Mac OS, knows how to talk to that piece of hardware, it's that driver software that then empowers the operating systems to send those commands as well, up, the data is laid out on the disk.

并且如果你听说过安装到,电脑中的驱动软件这个词的话，你的操作系统，比如Windows或者是苹果操作系统，通过这个驱动软件我们的电脑，才能知道如何与这个硬件进行通信,正是因为这个驱动软件，操作系统才能根据数据，左右移动的指令来读取磁盘里的数据。

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