Homophonic translation

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Homophonic translation renders a text in one language into a near-homophonic text in another language, usually with no attempt to preserve the original meaning of the text. More generally, homophonic transformation renders a text into a near-homophonic text in the … Read More

Pineapple – Crazy Pineapple – Tahoe hold ’em

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Pineapple hold ’em exists halfway between Texas hold ’em and Omaha hold ’em. Players are initially dealt three cards. Each player then discards one of the three cards, and the game proceeds exactly as in Texas hold ’em. In Crazy … Read More

Cost Per Thousand

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Cost per Thousand (known as CPM) is used in marketing as a benchmark to calculate the relative cost of an advertising campaign or an ad message in a given medium. Rather than an absolute cost, CPM estimates the cost per … Read More

Guidelines on accessible web design

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Web Content Accessibility Guidelines In 1999 the Web Accessibility Initiative, a project by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), published the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines WCAG 1.0. In recent years, these have been widely accepted as the definitive guidelines on … Read More

Openning of an irrevocable letter of credit

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Openning of an irrevocable letter of credit Deschiderea unei scrisori de credit irevocabilă 1. Please open an irrevocable letter of credit of… in favour of Messrs… available to them until…payable against documents in respect of a shipment of… 2. Please … Read More

Well known brand names

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Relationship between trade marks and brand Business Week magazine publishes an annual “brand scorecard” of the top 100 most valuable brands worldwide. Some results from the 2005 survey, which contained 53 American, 37 European, 7 Japanese, and 3 South Korean … Read More

Invention and history of radio

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Tesla demonstrating wireless transmissions during his high frequency and potential lecture of 1891. After continued research, Tesla presented the fundamentals of radio in 1893. The identity of the original inventor of radio, at the time called wireless telegraphy, is contentious. … Read More

Comparison of different CAT tools

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Tool Supported File Formats OS Price License Anaphraseus ODT, all OpenOffice Writer formats (DOC, TXT etc.) Cross-platform (StarBasic macro) GPL Attesoro Java properties Cross-platform (Java) GPL gtranslator PO POSIX GPL Okapi Framework PO, Windows RC, TMX, Wordfast, Trados, Java Properties, … Read More

Bad beat

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In poker, a bad beat occurs when a hand, which was at one time a big favourite to win, loses. Typically the term is only applied in this way when the player holding the eventual winning hand misplayed it spectacularly. … Read More

C2.LOP

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LOP, or Live Online Portal, is an adware component that is installed on computers. Lop.com is a web site owned by C2Media (NOTE: C2 Media is the name of a totally unrelated company from C2Media LTD which owns LOP.com). It … Read More

Personal digital assistants

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The Palm TX A personal digital assistant (PDA), also known as a palmtop computer, is a mobile device which functions as a Personal information manager and connects to the internet. The PDA has an electronic visual display enabling it to … Read More

Cerinţe minime pentru instalarea Joomla!

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Pentru a instala şi folosi Joomla! trebuie să dispuneţi de un server web complet operaţional (optim, Apache), o bază de date (optim, MySQL) şi limbajul scripting de server PHP, împreună cu modulele specifice activate în PHP pentru MySQL, XML, şi … Read More

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