- 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 ability of the computer to convert text into spoken words.
Industry:Software; Computer
In OpenGL, the process of applying a texture to a primitive.
Industry:Software; Computer
A 4 x 4 matrix that OpenGL uses to transform texture coordinates to the coordinates that are used for interpolation and texture lookup.
Industry:Software; Computer
In OpenGL, an opaque data structure used to store all data related to a texture. A texture object can include such things as an image, a mipmap, and texture parameters (width, height, internal format, resolution, wrapping modes, and so forth).
Industry:Software; Computer
The area between the margins; it is the length available for displaying a line of text.
Industry:Software; Computer
A flow of execution in a process. Each thread has its own stack space but otherwise shares memory with other threads in the same process. A thread consists of a program counter, a set of registers, and a stack pointer. See also task.
Industry:Software; Computer
Ticket-granting ticket. In Kerberos, a credential presented to the ticket-granting server in order to obtain a ticket. The ticket can then be used to gain access to a secure server. The use of TGTs and tickets enable the single signon feature, whereby the user need authenticate only once, after which they can access additional services without reauthenticating (by reentering their password, for example). See also authentication, identification.
Industry:Software; Computer
A kernel port that represents a thread and is used to manipulate that thread. See also kernel port, task port.
Industry:Software; Computer
Code that can be executed safely by multiple threads simultaneously.
Industry:Software; Computer
