Easter egg traditions

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Easter tradition in Slovakia In Christian countries, the Easter egg is the preferred gift distributed on Easter Sunday. In Belgium and in the south -west of France, it is the Easter bells that bring the Easter eggs. Since Holy Thursday, … Read More

Internationalization and localization in translation

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Internationalization is a pre-requisite localization. It consists in separating, in the source code of a program, what is independent of language and culture of what is dependent (usually in files called translation tables). But internationalization does not require a single … Read More

About video poker

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Video Poker is a game that is played on slots and is offered in many casinos and amusement arcades. It is based on the variant of five-card draw. History The earliest models were introduced to coincide with the first PCs … Read More

e-Readers or tablet computers, for e-books?

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An e-book reader is a mobile device designed primarily for reading digital books. The device is equipped with a screen for reading and should allow the storage of digital publications in order to make personal digital library. The digital format … Read More

Gambling games

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Beatable casino games A good player can beat the casino creating a positive mathematical expectation, using an adequate strategy, for the following games: Poker (already recognised as a game of skill) Blackjack — using card counting Video poker — exploiting … Read More

Undead

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Undead is, in popular culture, dead being that continue to act. Strictly speaking, the term refers to a reanimated corpse, usually by magic, like zombies and, extended sense, the spirits of dead people coming back as ghosts. The reanimated corpses … Read More

Ezra Pound

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“A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.” ~ Ezra Pound “O mare epocă pentru literatură este probabil întotdeauna o mare epocă pentru traduceri” ~ Ezra Pound

Google SEO: Importance of the structure of URLs

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Simple-to-understand URLs will convey content information easily Creating descriptive categories and filenames for the documents on your website can not only help you keep your site better organized, but it could also lead to better crawling of your documents by … Read More

Easter, the most important Christian holiday

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Observed by Christians Meaning: Commemoration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ Date 2014: April 20 (East and West) Celebration: Vigil Observances: Prayer, communion Easter commemorates the resurrection of Jesus Christ laid down by the Bible, the third day after his … Read More

Edgar Allan Poe, “Annabel Lee”

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 It was many and many a year ago,  In a kingdom by the sea,  That a maiden there lived whom you may know  By the name of Annabel Lee;  And this maiden she lived with no other thought  Than to … Read More

Problem gambling and gambling addiction in European Union

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PROBLEM DETECTION The notion of the problem needs to be defined and for this a better understanding of ‘problem gambler’ is needed as a term used in referring to problem-related gambling behaviour. Another term used is ‘pathological gambling’ and this … Read More

Database song: Beatles – “Yesterday”

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Yesterday, All those backups seemed a waste of pay. Now my database has gone away. Oh I believe in yesterday. Suddenly, There’s not half the files there used to be, And there’s a milestone hanging over me The system crashed … Read More

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