When performance testing relies on server response time to predict user experience in Web 2.0 applications, a question that usually crops up is, "What is taking so long?"

当性能测试依赖服务器响应时间以预测Web 2.0程序中的用户经验时，通常会遇到的一个问题是，“什么程序持续了这么长的时间？”

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While many companies and LABS have been using x86 architectures for quite some time and don't anticipate variations, disruptive changes in technology are always difficult to predict.

尽管许多公司和实验室在很长时间内一直使用x86体系结构，并且不希望有任何变化，但是技术上的变化总是难以预测的。

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Therefore, we are not able to predict the TIME of an impending earthquake in a useful way.

因此，我们不能有效地预测一场即将发生的地震发生的准确 时间 。

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And if you are looking at a keyboard, we can predict in the real time very rapidly that beat your very single finger typing speed, exactly the letters you like to type and hit, therefore provide a communication mechanism that Christopher Reeve and those similar with him can benefit from.

如果你在看电脑键盘，你可以十分快速地,实时预知自己手指敲击键盘的速度，预知你想录入的字母，这样便为克里斯托弗·里夫,和其他你说熟悉的人提供了一种沟通机制，使他们从中受益。

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By "Present," We mean-- we will pick some part of the universe we want to study and we will ask, "What information do I need to know for that system at the initial time, like, right now, in order to be able to predict the future?"

我们所说的"现在",意思是,我们会选取客观世界某一部分来进行研究,然后我们就会问,我们需要什么信息去了解,初始时刻的系统,比如现在,进而能使我们能够预测未来呢

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Multiply that by millions of customers in a metro area, and a smart grid can produce a data set large enough to monitor power demand in real time and predict probable outages before they occur.

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It will probably not remain the biggest economy in the world - some predict China will overtake it in three years' time.

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It rubbed them the wrong way at the time, but in a week I predict most will be forgotten, and fanboys will be bowing down to them at E3 in a month.

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