It's true of Windows, it's true of the Sequel Databases from guys like Oracle, the Google guys were at it for a number of years before that thing really took off.

视窗“系统就是这样，甲骨文公司的关系数据库也是这样，谷歌公司的创立者花了很多年,才让一切走上正轨。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

They can buy into it if they buy into a $15,000 point-of-sales system.

他们可以买入这些数据0,比如价值15000美元的销售网点系统。

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You can take a problem that might be relatively intuitive to solve but when you scale this thing up as is increasingly the case in the web, in large data systems, and so forth, you actually have to now think smart, you actually have to think efficiently and you have to solve this problem effectively.

你可以把一个问题用比较直观的方法解决,但如果你把此类问题的数量增大,正如越来越多的互联网，和大规模数据系统中出现的问题等等,你应该考虑怎样才能更简便，怎样才能更高效,你应该用行之有效的方法处理问题。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

We did it for silly purposes just to see how big each data type was, but on most systems the size of a char is what?

只是为了很傻的目的,来看看每个数据类型多大，但是在大多数的系统中char的大小是多少呢？

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

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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