| 1. | The system vendors flatter and deceive us in the same way that street sellers sell exclusive , stolen perfume , which is usually no more than bottled water
系统卖家阿谀奉承，使用欺骗的手段，与街上推销香水的小贩一样的伎俩，所谓的独一无二的至上香水并不比瓶装水好到哪里。 |
| 2. | What this means is that the kuro box is not very much like the evaluation boards you would get from a powerpc embedded systems vendor hoping to sell you on powerpc development
这意味着， kuro box与powerpc嵌入式系统供应商提供的用于powerpc开发的评估板（ evaluation board ）不非常类似。 |
| 3. | Some system vendors take advantage of the ability of the efi to access files and run programs from a hard disk filesystem to store diagnostics and efi based system management utilities on the hard disk
一些系统制造商利用efi的优点从硬盘文件系统来访问文件以及运行程序以保存一些诊断信息和efi的系统管理工具。 |
| 4. | System vendors can teach us how to market products , they can teach us how to write sales letters , they can teach us how to present , they can teach us many things , but they cannot teach us how to trade
系统销售员可以交我们怎么推销产品，可以教我们怎么写销售信，怎么展示产品，他可以教我们很多东西，但却不能教我们如何交易。 |
| 5. | System vendors , though , will continue to exploit our desire to believe that there really is some secret knowledge that will enable us to transform into super traders as soon as we expose ourselves to their secrets
尽管如此，系统卖家仍不断的开发我们的欲望，让我们相信确实有某种交易的秘密可以让我们变成超级交易者，只要我们肯出钱买下他的系统。 |
| 6. | Formed in 1996 by the merger of the x / open company and the open software foundation , the open group is supported by most of the world ' s largest user organizations , information systems vendors and software suppliers
X open组织是x open公司和开放软件基金会合并组建而成的国际开放系统组织。 x open主要为网络计算和分布式应用建立开放的标准，它被大多数的国际硬件生产厂家及软件提供商所认可。 |
| 7. | A typical project is likely to require the control and management of , among others : the main contractor , nominated sub - contractors , furniture suppliers , utility companies , management / landlord , telephone and computer system vendors , sub - consultants , government authorities
一个典型的工程很可能需要下列的各部门及其他人事的控制、管理和协调，包括：总承包商，分包商，家私供应商，公共事业单位，管理公司或业主，通信系统供应商，顾问及政府有关部门。 |
| 8. | For example , a system vendor could replace the transaction manager with one that uses proprietary software that hooks directly into os - level journaling , or an enterprise user could replace the security policy provider with one that integrates with their compliance and audit infrastructure
例如，系统供应商可能使用专有软件（直接依附于操作系统级别的日志）来替代事务管理程序，而企业用户可能使用集成他们自己的一致性和审计基础设施的安全策略来替代安全策略提供程序。 |
| 9. | Data warehousing and on - line analytical processing are essential elements of decision support , which has increasingly become a focus of the database industry . many commercial products are now available , and all of the principal database management system vendors now have offerings in these areas
数据仓库和联机分析处理是决策支持系统的关键因素，而决策支持系统已经迅速成为数据库业界的新热点，现在几乎所有的数据库厂商都开始提供这方面的服务，各种商业产品也不断出现。 |
