- Industry: 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.
Lossy compression that takes advantage of limitations in human perception. In perceptual coding, audio data is selectively removed based on how unlikely it is that a listener will notice the removal. MP3 and MPEG-2 AAC are popular examples of perceptual coding. See also lossy compression.
Industry:Software; Computer
In the Ink Services technology, a mouse event that contains tablet data.
Industry:Software; Computer
A flag that you can use to customize the build process of source files of a particular type.
Industry:Software; Computer
In BSD, a set of attributes governing who can read, write, and execute resources in the file system. The output of the ls -l command represents permissions as a nine-position code segmented into three binary three-character subcodes; the first subcode gives the permissions for the owner of the file, the second for the group that the file belongs to, and the last for everyone else. The left-most position is reserved for a special character that says if this is a regular file (-), a directory (d), a symbolic link (l), or a special pseudo file device. The execute bit has a different semantic for directories, meaning they are searchable. See also ACL, authorization, UID.
Industry:Software; Computer
A set of properties specifying the kinds of devices a driver can support. This information is stored in an XML matching dictionary defined in the information property list (Info.plist) file in the driver’s KEXT bundle. A single driver may present one or more personalities for matching; each personality specifies a class to instantiate. Such instances are passed a reference to the personality dictionary at initialization.
Industry:Software; Computer
A sample J2EE application from Sun Microsystems, which showcases the power and flexibility of the J2EE platform.
Industry:Software; Computer
A symbol defined to adjust the pronunciation of an individual phoneme. Phoneme modifiers are also called prosodic control symbols.
Industry:Software; Computer
A distinct unit that serves to distinguish between meanings of words.
Industry:Software; Computer
