The sales or conversion funnel is a metaphor used in marketing or business administration to refer to the phases of the sale. It is the process by which potential sales opportunities are qualified and selected to turn them into real opportunities that end up in real transactions. The concept is represented as a graphical tool that shows the business opportunities (and their amounts) at each step … [Read more...]
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Explanation of different terms used for computer hardware, computer software and in the Internet.
What is a Compiler?
A compiler is a computer program that translates source codes of a particular programming language into a form that can be executed directly by a computer (microprocessor or microcontroller). The process of translation is also known as compilation or transformation. The opposite, i.e. the retranslation of machine language into the source code of a particular programming language, is called … [Read more...]
What is Document Object Model (DOM)
The Document Object Model (DOM) is a W3C standardized programming interface that allows scripts to examine and modify the contents of the web browser. By the DOM, the composition of an HTML or XML document is represented as a set of objects – which can represent a window, a sentence or a style, for example – linked in a tree structure. Using the DOM, a script can modify the document present in the … [Read more...]
What is the Difference Between Apache License 2.0 and GNU GPL 3.0
This article is about free software licenses which can be used to release your works including bash scripts, and complete software for almost any creative work. In the face of dispute, whether the particular country's court will respect all the written sentences or not mainly depends on the bare acts of that country plus the judges as humans. Essentially the result of a quarrel or "dispute" can … [Read more...]
Difference Between macOS, OpenBSD and GNU/Linux
macOS, OpenBSD and GNU/Linux are great operating systems. They are inspired by UNIX and are stable. These three operating systems have many things in common, including many of the GNU tools. In this article, we will discuss the key differences between these operating systems. macOS is based on NetBSD Unix (Darwin). It is open-source. Apple adopted this in the early 2000s. However, some parts of … [Read more...]
What is Stable Diffusion? Basic Details of AI text-to-image Generator
Stable Diffusion is a machine learning model for generating photorealistic digital images from natural language descriptions. The template can also be used for other tasks, such as generating an enhanced image from a sketch and text description. It can work on most consumer hardware with even a mid-range graphics card. Unlike competing models like DALL-E and Midjourney,, the source code for … [Read more...]
Why The Big Tech Companies Are Laying Off Workers
The big difference between a job at a larger company and a small tech consultancy is in two words - "job security". Earlier, it was a well-known fact that the larger companies (and government in some countries) provide secure jobs. But in recent times, there is an alarming increase in lay off in the tech sector and some layoff tracker websites have been launched, such as layoffs.fyi. It is … [Read more...]
What is Knowledge Management?
Knowledge management is a multidisciplinary managerial approach that brings together all the initiatives, methods and techniques for perceiving, identifying, analyzing, organizing, memorizing, sharing the knowledge of the members of an organization – the knowledge created by the company itself (marketing, research and development) or externally acquired (economic intelligence) – in order to … [Read more...]
What is Context Sensitivity
Context awareness refers to the behavior of application programs that use information about their context, i.e. their environment, to adjust their behavior accordingly. The basis on which these systems work is information provided by a wide variety of sources or sensors. This information is used to draw conclusions about the context. The discovered context is used by the application to … [Read more...]
What is Digital Divide?
The digital divide describes inequalities in access to, use and impact of information and communication technologies. At least two levels of the digital divide are generally accepted: access (first-degree divide) and use (second-degree divide). Public policies generally aim to reduce the digital divide by extending the coverage of the Internet, promoting physical access to the network and the … [Read more...]
How an Air Purifier Works
An air purifier is a device designed to reduce domestic and industrial pollution. It filters the air, removes certain pollutants, as well as bad odors. Air purifiers are used by industry to filter and remove toxic residues, in hospitals and airlines to prevent the spread of viruses and bacteria. They are also used in offices and homes to improve hygiene, the quality of life of each individual and … [Read more...]