- 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.
A buffer that holds image information in graphics card memory. In Core Video, you manipulate OpenGL buffers using the CVOpenGLBufferRef type, which is a wrapper around the standard OpenGL buffer type.
Industry:Software; Computer
Pulse code modulation. A lossless encoding technique widely used for working with audio, invented by Alec H. Reeves in 1937. Sometimes called LPCM for linear pulse-code modulation, which distinguishes the process from ADPCM. In pulse-code modulation, an analog signal is linearly encoded to a series of binary numbers by sampling an analog signal at regular intervals. See also encoding, linear, quantization.
Industry:Software; Computer
Preferred Executable Format. The format of executable files used for applications and shared libraries in Mac OS 9; supported in Mac OS X. The preferred format for Mac OS X is Mach-O.
Industry:Software; Computer
An arbitrary data item available for use by a program to convey information for its own purposes in an operation or data structure.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Core Audio, for a panner unit, a parameter that specifies the real or apparent distance of an audio source from the listener beyond which the source’s level attenuates.
Industry:Software; Computer
In AppleScript, the syntax for identifying an object or group of objects in an application or other container—that is, the syntax for constructing an object specifier. AppleScript defines reference forms for arbitrary, every, filter, ID, index, middle, name, property, range, and relative.
Industry:Software; Computer
The user on a UNIX system with a UID of 0. A process running with an EUID of 0 is said to be running as root. The root user owns many of the primary system processes and has unlimited access to the file system objects on the devices attached to the computer. Also called the superuser.
Industry:Software; Computer
