- 行业: 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 generic term applied to, among other things, lossy and lossless audio compression technologies implemented in hardware or software. Encoded data can be wrapped in a file format appropriate for the data, or decoded from such a file format. For example, the MP3 file format is a wrapper that can hold perceptually encoded audio data.
Industry:Software; Computer
(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
A three-dimensional visualization of a signal’s frequency content. Typically, a sonogram’s horizontal axis is time, its vertical axis is frequency, and the visual intensity (in terms of color or dot size) of each plotted point represents energy. Also called a spectrogram.
Industry:Software; Computer
(1) In DVD-Video, a division of a title. Technically called a part of title (PTT). (2) A method of organizing different scenes of a movie for easy navigation and access. DVDs are indexed by chapter, similar to the way a CD has a track. DVD players allow you to skip to a particular chapter or scene.
Industry:Software; Computer
An atomic unit of content for text data. A character is an abstract entity without any particular appearance; characters include letters, digits, punctuation, and symbols. Compare character code, glyph.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Audio Queue Services, describes one of two ways to stop an audio queue. Synchronous stopping happens immediately, without regard for previously buffered audio data. In digital communications, a transmission method that requires the clock frequency of the sender and receiver to be the same. Compare asynchronous.
Industry:Software; Computer
A combination of hardware, renderer, and pixel format that OpenGL selects as suitable for an imaging task. When the current virtual screen changes, the current renderer typically changes.
Industry:Software; Computer
The graphics state parameter that Quartz uses to determine how to composite newly painted objects to the existing page. At full intensity (alpha =1.0 ), newly painted objects are opaque. At zero intensity, newly painted objects are invisible (alpha =0.0 ).
Industry:Software; Computer
