Fax

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Fax (short for facsimile or telefacsimile) is a telecommunications technology used to transfer copies of documents, especially using affordable devices operating over the telephone network. Such faxes became affordable and very popular in the 1980s. They transfer one or a … Read More

FIT members (Europe & the Americas)

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International Federation of Translators has as members: American Translators Association Canadian Translators, Terminologists and Interpreters Council Argentine Association of Translators and Interpreters Australian Institute of Interpreters and Translators Literary Translators’ Association of Canada Cuban Association of Translators and Interpreters Asociación … Read More

Googletestad

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Googletestad appears to stand for Google’s Test Ad which is used for live testing of their AdWords and AdSense pay-per-click (PPC) advertising system. At the moment there are no define: googletestad definitions in Google’s database for this keyword. The Google … Read More

Outline of information technology

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Information technology (IT), as defined by the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA), is “the study, design, development, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems, particularly software applications and computer hardware.”[1] IT deals with the use of electronic computers … Read More

Letter of apology for delay

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Letter of apology for delay Scrisoare exprimând scuze pentru întârziere Dear Sir, We much regret that we have been unable to complete your order by the fifteenth, as promised. Unfortunately, we have experienced considerable difficulty in obtaining raw materials, owing … Read More

Treatment of racing dogs

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Living Conditions In many of the countries where there are large greyhound race tracks with gambling, the dogs live in kennels at or near the track or by their trainers. In the United States, the kennels are indoor crates stacked … Read More

Search engine marketing

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In Internet marketing, search engine marketing, or SEM, is a set of marketing methods to increase the visibility of a website in search engine results pages (SERPs). The three main methods are: Search engine optimization, or improving rankings for relevant … Read More

Web development as an industry

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Since the mid-1990s, web development has been one of the fastest growing industries in the world. In 1995 there were fewer than 10,000 web development companies in the United States alone and in 2005 there are over 30,000 such companies.[1] … Read More

Example of drawing outs

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The unseen cards principle states that to calculate the probability (from the point of view of a player about to act) that the next card dealt will be among a certain set, he must divide the number of cards in … Read More

Anti-spyware programs

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Lavasoft’s Ad-Aware, one of a few reliable commercial anti-spyware programs, scans the hard drive of a clean Windows XP system. Many programmers and some commercial firms have released products designed to remove or block spyware. Steve Gibson’s OptOut, mentioned above, … Read More

Satellites

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A satellite is an object that orbits another object. With sufficient tangential velocity, the object does not collide with the primary object it orbits, but maintains a distance from that object as the rate at which it falls towards that … Read More

Piquet

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French Piquet deck Piquet is a card game for two players. It is considered by many to be one of the best two player card games. Pronounced “pee-kay” in France, it is usually pronounced “picket” in English speaking countries. Piquet … Read More

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