- 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 system of public key cryptography, named for its inventors: Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman. The RSA algorithm takes two large prime numbers, finds their product, and then derives asymmetric keys from the prime numbers and their product. Because the public key includes the product, the private key could be derived from the public key if the product could be factored. No easy method for factoring products of large prime numbers is currently known, but it has not been mathematically proven that no such method is possible. Therefore, the discovery of a fast way to factor such numbers, or the development of quantum computers, would break RSA.
Industry:Software; Computer
Really Simple Syndication. A lightweight XML format used for displaying changes frequently updated websites.
Industry:Software; Computer
Text usually used to provide annotations or indicate pronunciation for Asian languages. Ruby text is displayed using a smaller font size than the text it annotates.
Industry:Software; Computer
Real user ID. The UID inherited from the user or process that executes a process.
Industry:Software; Computer
A set of attributes used to set security policies for applications and for the system. See also policy database.
Industry:Software; Computer
(basketball term) occurs when one team scores several field goals in quick succession while its opponents score few or none.
Industry:Sports
The fundamental mechanism for event monitoring in Mac OS X. A run loop registers input sources such as sockets, Mach ports, and pipes for a thread; it also enables the delivery of events through these sources. In addition to sources, run loops can also register timers and observers. There is exactly one run loop per thread.
Industry:Software; Computer
A collection of input sources, timer sources, and run loop observers associated with a particular name. When run in a specific mode, a run loop monitors only the sources and observers associated with that mode.
Industry:Software; Computer
An instance of the NSRunLoop class or CFRunLoopRef opaque type. These objects provide the interface for implementing an event-processing loop in a thread.
Industry:Software; Computer
A recipient of notifications during various phases of a run loop’s execution.
Industry:Software; Computer
