Sunday, July 02, 2006

SOTA

This is just a guess, but I think that when a web site says that something it does is 'state of the art'....it probably isn't.

4 comments:

Rach said...

You can't just say that without showing an example. :P
I need to see, I need to see!

(sorry, I think I've had my quota of coffee this morning)

Cerulean Bill said...

Well, I really can't -- the thought occurred to me as I was looking for information on knowledge capture; one site said they had a SOTA system but the site was clearly old -- but just doing a search on the phrase turned up this:

In the coming decades, state-of-the-art spacecraft-based instruments that can detect key components associated with life as we know it on Earth

from www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/98/3/797.

Now, does that sound like people who really are out there on the leading edge? Let alone what the people in my business call the bleeding edge?

Rach said...

Hmm, I think you've got a valid point there.

Cerulean Bill said...

In that case, I deem you an honorary us citizen. Take tomorrow off and go to the beach.