Fingerprint recognition technology for "smart guns" is still
vaporware. "Smart gun box" technology of the same sort is here, with the Bio series.
Such pending product fixes or enhancements are often referred to as "
vaporware," as they may never happen.
But if big banks are capable of being sold this kind of
vaporware, God knows what kinds of flaws are hiding in catastrophe risk investment vehicles being sold to investors.
The Prius is practical (midsize family car), affordable (just over $20K to start), economical (45 miles per gallon), reliable (Toyota), and unlike Chevy's
vaporware Volt, available.
Generally speaking, when the subject of organizational culture comes up in a military context, members dismiss it as soft, squishy
vaporware, quickly dispatching it to that netherworld of undiscussibles.
We don't focus on technology for the sake of bells and whistles--"
vaporware," I think you call it--but on those things such as tracking and tracing off of fedex.com that resonate the most with our customers.
"Distinguishing between 'real-ware' and '
vaporware,'" wrote one logistics manager.
And
vaporware is still as common as real software; beware the "feature in the next release" if it is a feature you need right now.
It contained a good deal of copy about what's right and what's
vaporware about the new XYZ system and promised the next issue would have an extensive user report on the new product.
This is not
vaporware. This can be implemented today.
"They sold
vaporware." Determined to get peer review of what she was finding, Jekot approached David Dill, the Stanford computer science professor.
Last in ranking, but second in growth, is online food retailing, which has grown at the hands of brick-and-mortar retailers who are slowly filling the local needs of those abandoned by the
vaporware dot-com flashes in the pan of yesteryear.
