2024年4月12日 星期五

storage. reorder, reordering, sequential. The cost of storage was collapsing. What a marvel. What a mess.


Behind Gmail was an astonishing technological triumph. The cost of storage was collapsing. In 1985, a gigabyte of hard drive memory cost around $75,000. By 1995, it was around $750. Come 2004 — the year Gmail began — it was a few dollars. Today, it’s less than a penny. Now Gmail offers 15 gigabytes free. What a marvel. What a mess.


Is American Retail at a Historic Tipping Point?

By MICHAEL CORKERY

The profound reordering of New York's shopping scene reflects a broad restructuring in the American retail industry.

Chip Sales Rise for Ninth-Straight Month
Global semiconductor sales rose 3.7% in November from the previous month—the ninth-straight month of sequential gains—as global demand continued to improve.




The global reordering 新排序 of the auto industry took a big step forward on Friday as an unlikely alliance led by Magna International, a Canadian auto parts maker, and Sberbank of Russia tentatively agreed to buy the European operations of General Motors.


Global Server Sales Still Weak
The world-wide server market declined year-on-year for the fifth straight quarter during the summer but posted its first sequential growth of 2009.


The EU approved a wish list to take to next week's Washington summit on reordering the global financial system, including international supervisory boards for major international banks and a more "central" role for the IMF.



reorder

v., -dered, -der·ing, -ders. v.tr.
  1. To order (the same goods) again.
  2. To straighten out or put in order again.
  3. To rearrange.
v.intr.
To order the same goods again.
n.
A further order of goods from the same supplier.

ordering

IN BRIEF: n. - The act of putting things in a sequential arrangement; Directing or commanding to be done.

pronunciation I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. — Harold S. Geneen



sequential ━━ a. 続いて起る, 継続的な; 結果として生ずる; 【コンピュータ】順次的な.

sequential access 【コンピュータ】順次アクセス.
sequential access storage device 【コンピュータ】順次アクセス記憶装置.
sequential computer 【コンピュータ】逐次処理計算機.
sequential device 【コンピュータ】順次記録装置.
sequential file 【コンピュータ】順アクセス・ファイル.
sequential flow 【コンピュータ】逐次(データ)フロー.
sequential list 【コンピュータ】逐次リスト.
sequential logic 【コンピュータ】順序論理(回路).
se・quen・tial・ly ━━ ad.
sequential machine 【コンピュータ】順序機械.
sequential organization 【コンピュータ】順編成.
sequential processing 【コンピュータ】逐次処理.
sequential search 【コンピュータ】逐次探索.
sequential storage 【コンピュータ】(磁気テープなどの)逐次記憶装置.

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