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Developer Posted 15 years ago
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Packed with state of the art

Hi

Would you please tell me what is the exact meaning of this paragraph ?

"You might think a huge corporation worth billions of dollars would have data centers packed with state of the art, high-tech servers and machines that go ping"

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You probably believe that a rich corporate has a lot of very new, very modern equipment. state-of-the-art = the newest, most modern technology. ")

  • You probably believe that a rich corporate has a lot of very new, very modern equipment.
  • state-of-the-art = the newest, most modern technology.
  • ")
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You probably believe that a rich corporate has a lot of very new, very modern equipment.

state-of-the-art = the newest, most modern technology.

(The reference to the machines that go ping is to a Monty Python sketch which probably not a lot of the readers would get directly, but sitll understand it meant "fancy machinery.")
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Thanks "Grammar Geek ". Emotion: wink

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