This DVD and its recorded content is the______property of Universal Entertainment corporat
A.intelligent
B.intellectual
C.intelligence
D.intelligible
A.intelligent
B.intellectual
C.intelligence
D.intelligible
Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?
A.The U.S. economy is gradually recovering from the steep declines.
B.The Fed should take in account the shift in its outlook on economy.
C.It is not the proper timing for the Fed to consider rate interests.
D.It is necessary that the Fed make adjustments to its monetary policy.
A.straight-line.
B.declining balance.
C.units-of-production.
What is learned about Big Buy Electronics?
A.It has more than 100 stores across the nation.
B.It is considering closing its unprofitable stores.
C.It is the largest electronics retailer in the country.
D.It makes its largest profit from sales of computers and DVD players.
A.Because the anti-piracy protection has been granted to some films.
B.Because the system cannot comply with high-quality DVD player.
C.Because the system may need additional equipment for proper operation.
D.Because there is flaw in its design.
A.A firm sells a box of cereal at $10 when the average cost of producing it is $6.
B.Thomas buys a new stock issued by a firm on the stock exchange
C.A local salon charges 5 percent more for all its services than a competing salon in the same locality.
D.Romi buys a DVD from Walmart at $10 and sells it on eBay for $20.
W: Movie's certainly faced with the grave challenge from the DVD industry,that's why I think we have to revolutionize our concept of movie showing. As I said,the movie theatre should not be a place to watch films,hut a place to meet people.
Q: What does the woman think of the movie theatre?
(13)
A.It is being forced out of the entertainment industry.
B.It should change its concept of operation.
C.It should revolutionize its technology.
D.It is a very good place to relax.
Next year, for the first time, sales of movies in DVD format are forecast to outsell those on video cassette in America, reaching a total of $9.5 billion, according to Morgan Stanley, an investment bank. Already, 80% of American households have DVD players. With a DVD recorder now in the shops as well, something that can record from the TV as well as play the discs, Christmas sales are expected to be strong. A technology considered a flop when it was launched in 1997 is now the basis for the fastest-growing consumer appliance ever.
Some in the film business complain that people are simply buying DVDs instead of video cassettes: there is no net gain. Yet DVDs can do things that the cassette cannot, such as offer a choice of language in which to watch a movie, not to mention a clearer picture. And the studios have cleverly stuffed DVDs full of lively extra features, such as new clips or interviews with the director.
Moreover, people appear to want to build up collections of DVDs, rather as they do of recorded music. The DVD is steadily gaining shelf space, even in the movie-rental store, and it should overtake (赶上,追上) the cassette even there within three years. And shops like DVDs, not least because they take up less space. The DVD could well boost the size of the overall home-video market.
Already, recent releases on DVD, such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Star Wars Episode One, have sold millions of copies each. At a time when any revenue growth in the media industry is startling, DVD sales at AOL Time Warner jumped by 44% in the third quarter this year, compared with the same period of 2000, to $279 m.
But how lasting will the DVD effect be? Some 80% of a film's revenue comes from its distribution after the cinema release: to home video, pay-TV and the like. "The largest single portion of that revenue will be the DVD business," says Christopher Dixon of UBS Warburg, an investment bank, which in turn will help to reduce the risk involved in making movies. "The DVD is the most exciting development in the film industry," he adds, "but every eight years there has been a new distribution platform. in the entertainment business. None of them lasts forever. "
It is predicted that movies in DVD format ______ .
A.will sell better than those on video cassette
B.can't compete with those on video cassette
C.will face a tough market
D.will become good Christmas gifts
A. You are backing up to tape and your tape device performs its own compression.
B. You are making image copies, and you have not enabled tablespace compression.
C. You are using disk-based backups and disk space in your Flash Recovery Area, or other disk-based backup destinations are limited.
D. You are performing your backups to some device over a network where reduced network bandwidth is more important than CPU usage.
E. You are using some archival backup media, such as CD or DVD, where reducing backup sizes saves media costs and archival storage.
听力原文: Big Buy Electronics, the nation's second largest electronics chain, is blaming its larger than expected loss in the first quarter on poor sales at 15 of its stores. Those 15 stores were undergoing major renovations, and were closed for most of the quarter. Sales of computers and DVD players, the company's major profit-makers, dropped 20 percent at those locations. The net loss was deeper than analysts had expected, widening to 13.1 million dollars instead of the 5.9 million dollars the company had estimated earlier in the year. A company spokesperson said sales at its other stores were unchanged. The company's stock fell 4 percent on the news, closing the day at 17 dollars and 52 cents per share.
What is Big Buy Electronics' first quarter loss blamed on?
A.A slowing economy
B.Strong competition from rivals
C.Poor sales at stores undergoing renovations
D.Costs associated with opening new stores
The Net Cost of Making a Name for Yourself
Companies are paying up to $10,000 to register a domain name on the Internet even though there is no guarantee that they will get the name they want.
The task of registering domains ending in. com, org, .edu and. net is at present contracted out by the US government to the Virginia-based company Network Solutions. The contract runs out this year, and the government wants to bring in a different scheme.
But last year, an ad hoc committee of the Internet's great and good revealed its own plan. This involved setting up seven new domains, each indicating the kind of business or organisation using that name. The committee recruited 88 companies around the world to act as registrars for its firm, . shop, . web, . arts, . rec, . info and. nom domains. The US government has still to give the system its blessing, and may yet push ahead with its original scheme. Despite this, the 88 registrars have been taking applications for several months. They are due to start registering names this month with the Internet Council of Registrars, which grew out of the ad hoc committee.
To prevent conflicting names from being registered, the council will take one name from each registrar in mm before going back for the second name in their queues, and so on. This has led to a flourishing trade, with companies trying to buy a place near the head of the queue. Global Names of Singapore is charging $10,000 to make sure a request for a name is the first one it sends off to the central database. Other registrars are charging nonrefundable deposits for places at the top of the queue. David Maher, chairman of the Policy Oversight Committee that is helping to set up and oversee the system, says that all registrars are subject to local laws regarding consumer protection and competition. But he says that the committee "will not act as an enforcement body in this area."
The domain .name ". edu" is operated by
A.the US government.
B.the company Network Solutions.
C.Internet Council of Registrars.
D.both A and B
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