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Internet-related prefixes such as e-, i-, cyber-, info-, techno-and net-are added to a wide range of existing words to describe new, Internet- or computer-related flavors of existing concepts, often electronic products and services that already have a non-electronic counterpart. The adjective virtual is often used in a similar manner. [1] [2]
self-destruct from self-destruction (cf. self-destroy) [3] [4] semantic (adjective) from semantics; sharecrop from sharecropper [2] shoplift from shoplifter [2] sightsing from sightsinging; sightsee from sightseeing [5] sipid from insipid [5] sleaze from sleazy [2] sleepwalk from sleepwalking [5] smarm from smarmy [2] sorb from sorption (also a ...
Computer kits include all of the hardware (and sometimes the operating system software, as well) needed to build a complete computer. Because the components are pre-selected by the vendor, the planning and design stages of the computer-building project are eliminated, and the builder's experience will consist solely of assembling the computer ...
A computer system is a nominally complete computer that includes the hardware, operating system (main software), and the means to use peripheral equipment needed and used for full or mostly full operation.
CAD—Computer-aided design; CAE—Computer-aided engineering; CAID—Computer-aided industrial design; CAI—Computer-aided instruction; CAM—Computer-aided manufacturing; CAP—Consistency availability partition tolerance (theorem) CAPTCHA—Completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart; CAT—Computer-aided ...
The Tampa Bay Rays are getting money to build a new ballpark — apparently whether the team wants it or not.. The St. Petersburg City Council voted to approve bonds that would help fund a new $1. ...
PDP-1 PDP-6 PDP-7 PDP-8/e PDP-11/40 PDP-12 PDP-15 (partial) PDP-15 graphics terminal with light pen and digitizing tablet. Programmed Data Processor (PDP), referred to by some customers, media and authors as "Programmable Data Processor," [1] [2] [3] is a term used by the Digital Equipment Corporation from 1957 to 1990 for several lines of minicomputers.
A Honduras gang member who was illegally in the US “giggled” as he admitted kidnapping a young Texas woman at gunpoint and threatening to pimp her out and sell her organs, according to cops.