Sure, if you have a stand-alone client application that works on a single data base one one machine, you probably don't care about this.

当然，如果在一台机器上有一个单独的客户端应用程序使用单独的数据库，你可能不用关心这个。

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In those days, the Dow Jones news ticker--a stand alone, upright machine--spilled out reams of broad tape financial news comparable with what comes across computer consoles today.

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Much the way Ethernet changed PCs from stand-alone terminals to local networks and the broadband Internet changed everything else, the full-scale networking of the slot machine will reshape the largest profit stream in the casino business.

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