Economics can generally be broken down into: macroeconomics, which concentrates on the behavior of the aggregate economy; and microeconomics, which focuses on individual consumers. Economics is often referred to as the dismal science .. Next Up.
Bitmap (CompuServe) GIF, or Graphic Interchange Format, is a file extension for an often animated raster graphics file and is the second most common image format used on the World Wide Web after JPEG. GIF uses the LZW compression algorithm and is owned by Unisys.
Itâs official: GIF has been named the Oxford American Dictionaryâs word of the year. The word--and the computer science behind it--has been around since the 1980s, but the GIF has gained popularity in the past few years as a popular means of expressing internet memes.