Buffer in a sentence as a noun

The OS can use those buffers to implement flow control.

If buffer is equal to url's scheme's default port, set buffer to the empty string.

That's pretty much the financial code we have now, as far as I can see. Good thing I have to deal just with segfaults and buffer overruns...

The virtual buffer is where the story really gets interesting.

So, for the screen reader, there are two single points of truth: the DOM, and the virtual buffer representation.

And then capturing the following 2000 lines or so, assuming that would be a sufficient buffer.

Several screen reader vendors made a stab at solving web accessibility, and thus the virtual buffer was born.

If you have a slow connection and the video start to buffer a lot, there is a banner that appear right under the video linking to the video quality report.

Buffer in a sentence as a verb

Any shim that collects that information still has non-trivial work stuffing it into a buffer, and the overhead of drawing anything with more than a few hundred triangles soon becomes absurd.

The screen reader needs to, hopefully without making me lose my current place on the page, diff your changes against its current buffer, update its buffer, and somehow indicate to me that the content has changed, without interrupting my current task.

I have a lot of friends that move every couple years, and the idea that they have to change their address at the same time is silly: that is the most stressful moment to be trying to move mail delivery and you can't usually overlap the old and new addresses to buffer mistakes.

Plenty of environments have safe/efficient zero-copy chained byte buffer implementations/libraries.> loads of internal consistency checksLibrary correctness isn't a unique feature.> patterns like pub/sub and request/reply, batchingAh-ha!

Ah kids, they crack me up!Lot of fun reading that, I looked around briefly but couldn't find my email archive from Sun, but I was in the kernel group when folks got the idea that "Gee if you shared the text segment of libraries, that would give you more memory for your buffer cache or user pages!

Some bored member of staff just didn't like the look of this American weirdo with a video camera for an eye, a piece of paper that he waves around and an attitude that he is entitled to buffer everything he sees anywhere in the world and then publicly blame an entire multinational for a minor, local incident.

I think the number of applications which had buffer overflows at least at some point is statistically indistinguishable from 100%.Try this hotel analogy: you go to a hotel in which you once stayed, and tell them that you're going to dump every bit of possessions and furnishings in all the rooms outside on the street, rifle through them, set them on fire, then photograph all their guests in the nude and distribute the pictures.

Buffer definitions

noun

(chemistry) an ionic compound that resists changes in its pH

noun

a neutral zone between two rival powers that is created in order to diminish the danger of conflict

noun

an inclined metal frame at the front of a locomotive to clear the track

See also: fender cowcatcher pilot

noun

(computer science) a part of RAM used for temporary storage of data that is waiting to be sent to a device; used to compensate for differences in the rate of flow of data between components of a computer system

noun

a power tool used to buff surfaces

See also: polisher

noun

a cushion-like device that reduces shock due to an impact

See also: fender

noun

an implement consisting of soft material mounted on a block; used for polishing (as in manicuring)

See also: buff

verb

add a buffer (a solution); "buffered saline solution for the eyes"

verb

protect from impact; "cushion the blow"

See also: cushion soften