write-once

This is not necessarily a negative, depending on the types of regulations you are trying to comply with – a number of standards require a write-once, read-many (WORM) type of archive.

RedGate targets disaster recovery Logan G. Harbaugh 2010

Other updateable presentations are obvious… But, all of these methods that exploit updatable technology require a different kind of journalism than is required by the write-once media of traditional newspapers…

The building block of journalism is no longer the article « BuzzMachine 2008

Additionally, I can highlight sections of them using transparent inks if I remember where I left the pens, and occasionally scribble notes in the corners, although it should be noted that this is all write-once.

Look At Me, I’m on the Cutting Edge « Whatever 2007

Even with its 9.5 mm high thin profile, the new Panasonic BD drive features double speed reading and writing for both write-once BD-R and rewritable BD-RE discs.

December 2007 - Fareastgizmos.com 2007

Firmware is write-once, read-many memory, and generally is just there to 'bootstrap' the computer -- do the initial hardware configuration, and look around for an operating system on a hard disk to load.

run install wizard for soul 2007

Any device resulting from their work would be a "write-once, read-many" format and could perhaps be used to store films or music.

Boing Boing: November 23, 2003 - November 29, 2003 Archives 2003

Goodbye optical discs, hello write-once memory cards!

Another Wireless Network Setup! 2004

Like GFS below it, Bigtable is mostly write-once, so changes are stored as appends to the table-which Google uses in applications like Google Docs to handle versioning, for example.

Ars Technica Sean Gallagher 2012

The dream of write-once, run-anywhere software is nothing new and, if history is any guide, Mozilla's WebAPI efforts may well be doomed.

Wired Top Stories Scott Gilbertson 2011

Most write-once, run-anywhere attempts have come from companies like Adobe and were built around proprietary frameworks.

Wired Top Stories Scott Gilbertson 2011