- Industrie: 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.
(1) In programming, a data type whose value actually serves as a reference to a value stored in a specific location. (2) In a human interface, a cursor.
Industry:Software; Computer
The number that is multiplied to each of the factors in a polynomial equation. For example, in the equation x2 + 2x + 1, the coefficients are 1, 2, and 1.
Industry:Software; Computer
A control for one of a set of mutually exclusive, but related, choices.
Industry:Software; Computer
A scripting definition file (sdef) entry that describes a scriptable class, including its attributes and relationships and the KVC keys that Cocoa scripting uses to gain access to its values. When the sdef is loaded, the information is stored in an instance of NSScriptClassDescription .
Industry:Software; Computer
A stored sequence of character codes that represents a line of text. Characters in source text are stored in input order. Compare display text.
Industry:Software; Computer
A set of actions that is treated as a single operation that either succeeds completely (commit) or fails completely (rollback).
Industry:Software; Computer
(1) In the virtual-memory system, faults are the mechanism for initiating page-in activity. They are interrupts that occur when code tries to access data at a virtual address that is not mapped to physical memory. Soft faults happen when the referenced page is resident in physical memory but is unmapped. Hard (or page) faults occur when the page has been swapped out to backing store. See also page, virtual memory. (2) A type of object in Enterprise Objects that represents a partially formed enterprise object instance. Faults are proxy or stand-in objects that provide performance benefits by delaying the retrieval of data in an enterprise object until it’s absolutely needed.
Industry:Software; Computer
A QuickTime atom that contains no other atoms. A classic atom, however, may contain a table. An example of a classic atom is an edit list atom, containing the edit list table. Compare QT atom.
Industry:Software; Computer
The combination of text with both left-to-right and right-to-left directions within a single line of text.
Industry:Software; Computer
