But in hard drives where we actually have these moving platters, here is in fact, how we get from electricity and magnetism to those zeros and ones.

但是在传统硬盘中我们确实有高速运转的磁盘，这就是事实，但问题是我们如何,把电磁信号转化为0和1的。

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But what's amazing is that the hard drives we have today in a desktop or in a laptop, a hard drive and a laptop is only about--yey big!

现在你可能对在笔记本或者,台式机中存在的硬盘更感兴趣，其实硬盘仅仅是容量大了一些！

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Now this is mostly irrelevant to what we're talking about except for the fact that there are magnetic particles involved and they're really small because it turns out what's inside most of your laptops and desktop computers are these things called hard drives.

其实这与我们现在谈论的话题没什么关系,除了这里的磁性粒子有关系外,它们是很小的因为它们要放在,你的笔记本电脑或者,台式机中被称为硬盘的里面。

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It's actually a much cheaper example than handing out hard drives.

比起硬盘拿软盘做例子,可能更实用一些。

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I actually do get worked up over these things because it drives me nuts because these are not hard problems to solve and yet consistently throughout society and your own laptops there are dozens of examples I'm sure of poorly designed software.

我确实对这些东西很生气,因为它令我发狂,因为这不是很难解决的难题,然而贯穿整个社会,在你自己的笔记本上，我确信有很多这样,设计地很挫的软件的例子。

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