Pai Gow Strategy

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The basic decision to be made in Pai Gow is how to arrange one’s hands. Given any four tiles, there are always three ways to arrange them into two hands (although some arrangements may be functionally identical to others). Sometimes … Read More

Adware applications and controversies

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Application Adware is software integrated into or bundled with a program. It is usually seen by the programmer as a way to recover programming development costs, and in some cases it may allow the program to be provided to the … Read More

CAT Overview

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Computer-assisted translation is a broad and imprecise term covering a range of tools, from the fairly simple to the more complicated. These can include: Spell checkers, either built into word processing software, or add-on programs; Grammar checkers, again either built … Read More

Kuhn poker

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Kuhn poker is a simplifed form of poker developed by Dr. Harold W. Kuhn, it is a zero sum two player game. The deck includes only three playing cards, for example a King, Queen, and Jack. One card is dealt … Read More

History and development of spyware

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The first recorded use of the term spyware occurred on October 17, 1994 in a Usenet post that poked fun at Microsoft’s business model. Spyware later came to refer to espionage equipment such as tiny cameras. However, in early 2000 … Read More

Covering letter with literature and samples

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Covering letter with literature and samples Scrisoare de ofertă cu material publicitar şi eşantioane Dear Sirs, Please find enclosed the latest literature and samples of our new range. I have also included a display kit for your window or counter … Read More

Kot bo sitah

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Kot bo sitah is a card game famous in the Arab world. It depends on putting a cap on a number and it is played by six people. The spades is usually the strongest thing to play with. The game … Read More

E-mail spam

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E-mail spam is by far the most common form of spamming on the internet. It involves sending identical or nearly identical unsolicited messages to a large number of recipients. Unlike legitimate commercial e-mail, spam is generally sent without the explicit … Read More

Fidelity vs. transparency in translation

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Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher Fidelity (or “faithfulness”) and transparency are two qualities that, for millennia, have been regarded as ideals to be striven for in translation, particularly literary translation. These two ideals are often at odds. Thus a 17th-century French … Read More

Community card poker

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About the time of World War II, many modern poker games used community cards (also called “shared cards” or “window cards”), which are cards dealt face up to the center of the table and shared by all players. In these … Read More

Early search engines

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SEO began in the mid-1990s, as the first search engines were cataloging the early Web. Initially, all a webmaster needed to do was submit a site to the various engines which would run spiders, programs to “crawl” the site, and … Read More

Introduction

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Introduction Prezentare 1. This is to introduce my friend/a great friend of ours Mr…, who is visiting… for the purpose of… 2. The bearer of this letter Mr…, has been with us/ known to us for many years. 1. Prin … Read More

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