- 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 part of Mach that determines when each program (or program thread) runs, including assignment of start times. The priority of a program’s thread can affect its scheduling. See also task, thread.
Industry:Software; Computer
The determination of when each process or task runs, including assignment of start times.
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
In Mach, how a thread’s priority is set and under what circumstances the thread runs. See also priority.
Industry:Software; Computer
In AppleScript, a parameter that need not be included for a command to be successful.
Industry:Software; Computer
An operation that creates a new object and then establishes a connection between that object and a rendering context.
Industry:Software; Computer
A setting defined on a speech channel that affects the characteristics of the spoken output for a subset of voices or for all voices associated with a particular synthesizer.
Industry:Software; Computer
A hardware or software conduit for the conveyance of a data stream or an analog signal.
Industry:Software; Computer
A file package containing the code and other resources that make up a Mac OS X application. Application packages make it easy for users to move applications in their file systems. The contents of an application package are visible to users only when they Control-click the package and choose Show Package Contents.
Industry:Software; Computer
The component of a URL that identifies the type of resource it represents or the protocol to be used for accessing it, such as http, ftp, mailto, or file. See also document URL object.
Industry:Software; Computer
