Ex. 4. Translate the following sentences, paying attention to the italicized words.

1. A warning message appears on the display when there is an error in the program.

2. Modern washing machines, microwave ovens and other appliances are manufactured with embedded microchips to manage their operation.

3. The crime level has dropped since the security video cameras were installed in the city centre.

4. Most of the translation done by the computer was complete nonsense.

5. The software company has placed a bug fix [êîððåêòîð îøèáîê] on its website. A bug fix is a program that will remove the error from the program.

6. Home page is the main page of a Web site used to greet visitors, provide information about the site, or to direct the viewer to other pages on the site.

7. Your phone can be plugged into the cigarette lighter socket in your car.

8. This model has hardware problems and a high price that is why it is in poor demand.

9. I’ll run a diagnostic test to see why the server keeps crashing.

10. To debug the program means to detect and correct programming mistakes, which are commonly called bugs. The term bug was coined in the early 1940s, when programmers looking for the cause of a strange malfunction [ñáîé, íåèñïðàâíîñòü] in the huge Mark I computer discovered a moth in one of the electrical switches. Thereafter, the programmers referred to their activity as debugging.

11. Different business computer games include such tasks as to stay in the business the longest, to make the most profit, etc.

12. Disk Operating System (abbreviated DOS) is a term describing any operating system that is booted from disk devices.

13. I should warn you in advance that I am not a very experienced user.

14. Since anyone can enter your folder on a computer, you'd better protect important files with a password.

15. Technological advances allowed computer programmers to create computer games with ever more sophisticated graphics.