Author Archives: Nicolae Sfetcu

The inside name and address Numele şi adresa destinatarului At the top a letter, below the references and the date, the secretary types the ,,inside name and address”. This is the name and address of the person to whom the … Read More

“SDH” is an American term the DVD industry introduced. It is an acronym for “Subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing”, and refers to regular subtitles in the original language where important non-dialog audio has been added, as well as speaker … Read More

The best hand in badugi, a four-high badugi. Badugi (also known as Badougi or Padooki) is a draw poker variant similar to triple draw, but with differing hand values than traditional poker. The betting structure and overall play of the … Read More

A KMail folder full of spam e-mail messages collected over a few days. Spamming is commonly defined as the sending of unsolicited bulk e-mail – that is, email that was not asked for (unsolicited) by multiple recipients (bulk). A further … Read More

Letters of introduction Scrisori de prezentare Peel & Rose Ltd 5 Ryder Street London EC2 Tel 01-602-5413 15 Ian. 19… Dear Sirs, This will introduce Mr Ronald Blair, the Head Buyer for the Silks and Linen Department of our firm. … Read More

Racino is a portmanteau for a combined race track and casino. In some cases, the gambling is limited to slot machines, but many locations are beginning to include table games such as blackjack, poker, and roulette.In 2003, Joe Bob Briggs … Read More

As part of the Human Language Technologies Program, the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) created a methodology to evaluate machine translation systems, and continues to perform evaluations based on this methodology. The evaluation programme was instigated in 1991, and continues … Read More

The WSOP logo. The World Series of Poker is the most prestigious set of poker tournaments in the world. Links Official WSOP Site World Series of Poker Event Champions List World Series of Poker Retrospective WSOP Photo Gallery 2005 World … Read More

Billboards and street advertising in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, (2005) Generally speaking, advertising is the promotion of goods, services, companies and ideas, usually by an identified sponsor. Marketers see advertising as part of an overall promotional strategy. Other components of the … Read More

The set-up Tiles are randomized on the table, and are stacked into eight stacks of four tiles each. This assembly is known as the woodpile. Various ritualistic “shuffles” are made, rearranging the tiles in the woodpile in standard ways that … Read More

One of the constituent parts of the ALPAC report was a study comparing different levels of human translation with machine translation output, using human subjects as judges. The human judges were specially trained for the purpose. The evaluation study compared … Read More