These features allow AFS to be known as the granddaddy of distributed file systems even after so many years of development.

这些特性使得AFS被公认为是分布式文件系统的鼻祖，虽然AFS已经开发了很多年。

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Companies that want to take the next step and adopt XML technologies are unlikely to throw away the results of many years of development and replace it with an NXD.

即使公司希望采用XML技术，也不太可能愿意放弃多年来在关系数据库上的开发成果并用NXD替代它。

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Despite substantial improvements over the past 20 years in many key areas of sustainable development, the world is not on track to achieve the goals adopted in Rio de Janeiro in 1992.

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Indeed, while flashy, shoot 'em up adventures such as "Halo 3" require years of development time and enormous budgets, many of the developers at the show were more excited about Web sites such as Kongregate, which encourage users to build much less ambitious games.

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