- 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.
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
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
A reference used by the Security Server to access an authorization session associated with a process.
Industry:Software; Computer
A data field in an access control list (ACL) that specifies an operation that can be done with that keychain item, such as decrypting or authenticating.
Industry:Software; Computer
An interruption to the normal flow of program control that occurs when an error or other special condition is detected during execution. An exception transfers control from the code generating the exception to another piece of code, generally a routine called an exception handler.
Industry:Software; Computer
A 3-by-3 matrix that defines how to map points from one coordinate space into another coordinate space.
Industry:Software; Computer
An operator that derives a new value from a pair of values.
Industry:Software; Computer
A C construct for encapsulating inline code and data so that it can be performed later. You use blocks to encapsulate tasks you want to perform, either inline in the current thread or on a separate thread using a dispatch queue.
Industry:Software; Computer
The maximum number of factors in an equation. For example, the equation x 2 + x + 1 has an order of 3 because there are three distinct factors in the equation ( x 2, x, and x 0).
Industry:Software; Computer
A two-way connection between the objects of a data model and the views of a user interface. Cocoa bindings provide automatic synchronization between data objects and the views displaying information about those objects.
Industry:Software; Computer
