- Branche: Computer; Software
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Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer, Inc., is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software and personal computers.
A file that contains a packaged or unpackaged product. The two container types are disk image and ZIP archive.
Industry:Software; Computer
A first-in-first-out stack where events pertaining to a thread are stored. Each preemptively scheduled thread has its own event queue.
Industry:Software; Computer
The process by which an entity such as a user or a server gets the right to perform a privileged operation. (Authorization can also refer to the right itself, as in “Bob has the authorization to run that program.”) Authorization usually involves first authenticating the entity and then determining whether it has the appropriate permissions. Compare authentication.
Industry:Software; Computer
The file-system directory that contains a project file, the project’s source code and resources, and the build directory.
Industry:Software; Computer
An I/O object that corresponds to a type of event that a device driver can be expected to handle; there are currently event sources for hardware interrupts, timer events, and I/O commands. The I/O Kit defines a class for each of these event types, respectively IOInterruptEventSource, IOTimerEventSource, and IOCommandGate.
Industry:Software; Computer
In WebObjects, a component that can be nested within other components and acts like a dynamic element.
Industry:Software; Computer
A parameter or field that instructs the Security Server how to proceed with a request. Options include requesting preauthorization, requesting partial authorization, appending rights, and interacting with the user.
Industry:Software; Computer
An object to which an event is sent. An event target is typically a user-interface element, such as a control or a window.
Industry:Software; Computer
The frequency with which key frames are placed into temporally compressed data sequences. See also key frame.
Industry:Software; Computer
An installation package that contains all the components of a product. Product packages with multicomponent products contain or reference component packages. See also installation package.
Industry:Software; Computer
