chief executive officer
n. (Abbr. CEO)
The highest-ranking executive in a company or organization, responsible for carrying out the policies of the board of directors on a day-to-day basis.
chief executive officer
n. (Abbr. CEO)
The highest-ranking executive in a company or organization, responsible for carrying out the policies of the board of directors on a day-to-day basis.
Smiling Out Loud (or Sh*t Out of Luck)
standard operating procedure; SOP
A set of instructions covering those features of operations that lend themselves to a definite or standardized procedure without loss of effectiveness. The procedure is applicable unless ordered otherwise.
GNP is the GDP plus net factor income from abroad.
The GDP of a nation together with any money earned from investment abroad, less the income earned within the nation by non-nationals. compare with GDP. GNP per capita is calculated as GNP/population and is usually expressed in US dollars. It may be used as an indicator of development. In the mid-1990s, a per capita GNP figure of $10000 would indicate a more developed country, while for a least developed nation, the figure would be around $600. GNP is an imperfect measurement of a nation's economy because certain forms of production, especially subsistence production, are not recorded.
gross domestic product
n. (Abbr. GDP)
The total market value of all the goods and services produced within the borders of a nation during a specified period.
What is POP, and how do I use it?
POP, or Post Office Protocol, lets you download messages from mail servers onto your computer so you can access your mail with a program like Microsoft Outlook Express or Netscape Mail, even when you aren't connected to the Internet.
RSS is a format for syndicating news and the content of news-like sites, including major news sites like Wired, news-oriented community sites like Slashdot, and personal weblogs. But it's not just for news. Pretty much anything that can be broken down into discrete items can be syndicated via RSS: the "recent changes" page of a wiki, a changelog of CVS checkins, even the revision history of a book. Once information about each item is in RSS format, an RSS-aware program can check the feed for changes and react to the changes in an appropriate way.