Hangman

Hello guys!

Joguinho de Hangman para descontrair com vocábulos de Directions, aula desta semana em COMEX 1.

Esta, também, é uma ótima forma de melhorar e expandir seu vocabulário na língua.

Have fun!!

No doubts – What’s bus?

Ontem, a partir do exercício de pesquisa sobre siglas, surgiu a dúvida do que significaria a palavra ‘bus’ do termo USB (Universal Serial Bus).

Neste caso, bus não é ônibus – acho que isso já está na cara. Porém as duas palavras têm relação. Let’s see.

According to Webopedia, bus means “A collection of wires through which data is transmitted from one part of a computer to another. You can think of a bus as a highway on which data travels within a computer. When used in reference to personal computers, the term bus usually refers to internal bus. This is a bus that connects all the internal computer components to the CPU and main memory. There’s also an expansion bus that enables expansion boards to access the CPU and memory.”

Mas e a relação com o outro bus?

This time, in conformity with WhatisIT “… the term derives from its similarity to autobuses that stop at every town or block to drop off or take on riders”.

Word of the week – Foreign Trade

Freight load

Freight

Goods in the process of being shipped or being designated for shipment from the seller to the buyer by a Common Carrier. (Cargo)

Word of the week – Computer Sciences

IT chargeback system

An IT chargeback system is a method of accounting for technology-related expenses that applies the costs of services, hardware or software to the business unit in which they are used. This system contrasts with traditional IT accounting models in which a centralized department bears all of the IT costs in an organization and those costs are treated simply as corporate overhead.

Read more at What is IT?

Reading of the week: What was your first game?

What was the first album you owned? A fairly inane question perhaps, but it’s one of those stock facts that all civilised human beings are expected to carry around, ready to whip out when awkward silence calls (for the record, my Mum GAVE me New Kids on the Block, Hangin’ Tough. It’s not like I liked it. Or listened to it. Much).

Being asked to recall your first videogame, however, is something that happens pretty rarely. This is probably due to the preference for discussion of music over gaming in polite company, but its actually a much more interesting question.

Games, for a variety of reasons, mean much more to most (male) children than music does – go to any playground today and I’ll wager you’ll hear 10 times as much talk about the new Call of Duty than the new Arctic Monkeys album (don’t actually go to a playground, you might get in trouble).

Continues.

Can you tell what’s this entry main idea?

Nationalities

Hello Guys,

Ótimo exercício online de Listening sobre nacionalidades européias.

Deem uma olhada, pratiquem e me contem se conseguiram completa-lo.

Good luck!

Skim Online

Para quem quiser praticar a técnica de Skimming online, este é um ótimo site.

O texto trata sobre as florestas canadenses e produção de maconha. Tópicos que parecem disparates, não? Leiam o texto e pratiquem o Skimming.

Good luck!

Inside a mouse

The main goal of any mouse is to translate the motion of your hand into signals that the computer can use. Let’s take a look inside a track-ball mouse to see how it works:

Check more at How Computer Mice Works.

Reading: What is a Pen Drive?

Pen drives are classified as NAND style data storage devices. Equipped with a large amount of memory capacity, the pen drive is considered to be an improvement on both the older floppy drive disks and the more modern compact disks that are often used to copy data and reload the files on a different hard drive. Even a pen drive with a relatively low storage capacity tends to provide plenty of space for a number of files. The types of files that can be loaded onto a pen drive are all the common types that can be housed on any hard drive. This makes it possible for persons to copy photos, spreadsheets, word processing documents, movie clips, music tracks, and just about any other type of file.

Read more here.

How pen drives are made

Vocabulary

USB stick

Solder part printer

SPI- solder past inspection

IC – integrated circuit

Chip shooter

Central database

Oven – where all the parts are sealed

AOI – automatical optical inspection, final check for the USB sticks

Case