Conservative: Persistent with existing social states; Conservative. The notion of conservatism derives from the Latin conservare, which means "to protect, preserve in an unblemished state". It often implies that a person who is conservative is doing everything according to tradition, that which one is accustomed to maintaining.
The Deutsches Institut FÃ ¼ R Normung (abbreviated DIN) is the German national standardization body. The probably best known DIN standard is that of sensitivity of photographic material (counterpart of the American designation: ASA). This is a logarithmic unit. Each increase with 3 indicates a twice as sensitive film. Usual film sensitivities are 21 and 24 DIN.
The European Union or EU is an intergovernmental and supranational organisation of majority of European States, which currently consists of 27 Member States. The Union was established under this name by the Maastricht Treaty in 1993.
The. eu domain is an important way for the European Commission to strengthen the infrastructure of the European Internet. It must give further impetus to the image of Europe as one whole. Citizens and businesses should also be able to use the. eu domain and thus increase Europe's recognisability.
PCM can have different meanings, the most common is probably that of the publisher. In the Dutch language, PCM Publishers is a leading media publisher in a wide field of news, background, art, culture, economics, science, education and leisure. The current PCM publishers have emerged from a series of mergers and acquisitions. For more information and news, go to the website of PCM.
PCM is also a Dutch monthly magazine about personal computers. The magazine contains articles for both the novice hobbyist/home user and the advanced Computeraar or professionals. The magazine has more focus on Windows than on other platforms. to the website.
It can also still mean: pulse Code manipulation, a well-known codec for voice sound.
Webciety is a contraction of the words web and society. This means that the Internet today has a lot of influence on the economy, politics and society. The CeBIT 2009 pays special attention to this so-called ' Webciety ' for the first time. Go to the Cebit Youtube channel to see videos about webciety.
Kumo is a working name for the new version of Microsoft Live Search. Microsoft employees have received a memo on this. Kumo.com is available in the internal network and can be used to search. When Kumo will be accessible to the public is not yet known.
Meanwhile, this site has gone live under the name Bing.
Stock dividend is dividend paid in shares. An enterprise can proceed to this if it still has shares in reserve. In practice, the individual shareholder usually chooses how to receive the dividend.
Dividend is a part of the profit of a company that is paid to (among others) the shareholders. The primary purpose of an enterprise is to make profit for the owners/shareholders. Dividend is the main way in which this profit is paid. Paying dividends has a negative effect on the amount of cash available to the company. Companies strive for a stable or slightly increasing dividend amount. It is not unusual to still pay dividends from the reserves in the case of loss.
If the dividend is not paid in cash but also in shares, this is called stock dividend.
CMM stands for Capability Maturity Model and is a model that identifies the level of software development of an organization. The starting point is that we need to be constantly working on improving the development process. The CMM assumes that the execution of projects by an enterprise is at a certain stage of maturity, this is made clear by specifying in which of the 5 maturity levels the process is located. The five stages are:
FTE is a unit of account that can be used to express the magnitude of a function or the staff strength. A full working week is equal to 1 FTE. The number of hours of a work week is per employer different, for one employer it is 40 hours, for the other 36.