4. Arrange the following sentences as they appear in the text and translate them into Russian:

1. It's confusing, but it appears that the rewritable HD-DVD-RW will go up 32GB, while the recordable HD DVD-R discs will only be 15GB.

2. Real or not, the biggest knock against Blu-ray is that the discs—are more costly to produce than HD-DVD media.

3. Blu-ray will go up to 50GB at launch, and Sony is reportedly working on a quad-layer 100GB disc.

4. Technologically, the biggest edge Blu-ray appears to have over HD-DVD is that it offers 30 percent more capacity and is designed for recording high-def video.

5. Blu-ray and HD-DVD are two competing high-capacity disc technologies backed by various consumer electronics and computer manufacturers (yes, they are a computer storage media as well).

6. Both formats use blue laser technology, which has a shorter wavelength than red, allowing it to read the smaller digital data "spots" packed a lot more densely onto a standard-size disc.

7. So, from a marketing standpoint, HD-DVD appears to be positioning itself as the more practical high-def DVD solution, an extension of the format rather than a leap beyond it.

8. The Blu-ray group, for better or worse, is taking the bait and campaigning on technological superiority.

5. Mark the following statements as True or False:

1. Blu-ray and HD-DVD are two different high-capacity disc technologies backed by working together consumer electronics and computer manufacturers.

2. Both formats use blue laser technology, which has a shorter wavelength than red, allowing it to read the smaller digital data "spots" packed a lot more densely onto a standard-size disc.

3. Camp Blu-ray’s fight song is: "We're evolutionary, not revolutionary."

4. Technologically, the biggest edge Blu-ray appears to have over HD-DVD is that it offers 50 percent more capacity and is designed for recording high-def video.

5. The biggest knock against Blu-ray is that the discs are more costly to produce than HD-DVD media.

6. HD-DVD team’s fight song is: "We're better, you know it."

7. HD-DVD is far more consumer-friendly than Blu-ray as HD-DVDs carry the same basic structure as current DVDs.

8. The Blu-ray’s downside is that with Sony holding the rights to Columbia Pictures and MGM movie and television libraries, there will probably be a hole in Blu-ray’s content offering.

6. Choose one quotation you agree or disagree with. Use at least 10 sentences to prove your point of view:

• A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad. Samuel Goldwyn

• Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo. Mary Pickford

• Every great film should seem new every time you see it. Roger Ebert

• It's the movies that have really been running things on our planet ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it. Andy Warhol.

Text 10. Linux

1. Translate these definitions:

kernel - the central component of most computer operating systems (OS). Its functions include managing the system’s resources (the communication between hardware and software components);

Linux kernel  - Unix-like operating system kernel;

VFS(Virtual file system) - an abstraction layer on top of a more concrete file system;

GNU - a computer operating system composed entirely of free software, initiated in 1984 by Richard Stallman;

GPL - a widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project;

Minix - free/open source, Unix-like operating system (OS) based on a microkernel architecture;

Unix - a computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas Ilroy;

operating system - the software that manages the sharing of the resources of a computer and provides programmers with an interface used to access those resources.

buffer - a region of memory used to temporarily hold data while it is being moved from one place to another;

buffer cache - a collection of data duplicating original values stored elsewhere or computed earlier, where the original data is expensive to fetch (owing to longer access time) or to compute compared to the cost of reading the cache.