WATCOM C includes SDKs and libraries from IBM, Microsoft and others. WATCOM's license to distribute these components does not give them the legal right to open source other people's software.
WATCOM C includes MFC, at least with the commercial version they used to sell. My copy has MFC 2.5 and MFC 4.1. I don't write software that uses MFC so I can't say how good WATCOM's support is for MFC.
From the descriptions in the news, it appears that the forward torpedo room blew up, shredding everything forward of the conning tower. The rest of the submarine is intact but flooded.
It's a decent quality compiler, can generate 16-bit code, cross-compiles to other platforms, supports DOS (16-bit and 32-bit), OS/2 (16-bit and 32-bit), Win16, Win32, Novell.
Risk management seems to be popular with banks and other financial institutions. It has one glaring flaw, it does not take into account the costs of security failures to customers. That's why bank are often sloppy and lax about security procedures when the customer's money is at risk.
It is cheaper for the bank to fix the results of security failures than it is to prevent them.
The problem is that many of these contracts have a severe lack of balance between the training being provided and the employee's obligation to stay. When I was in the military, they had a rule requiring 2 days of service for every day of training. For example, if you went to 6 months of training, you were expected to stick around for at least 12 months after the completion of training. That seemed fair to me. Somebody mentioned a company that wanted a 5 year obligation in exchange for 9 weeks of training. That is insane.
I have seen situations where employees leave immediately after receiving training, the company was such a shitty place to work that people were seriously talking about organizing a union. I don't think that a healthy company, that treats it's employees with respect, needs to ask for these kinds of contracts.
NASA tries to use metric when possible. The problem is that some things, like much of the aerospace industry and navigation practices, are stuck on the old units. For example, I fill my airplane with 50 gallons of avgas, set the altimeter to 29.92 inches of mercury, lift off the runway at 100 knots and climb to 10,000 feet. The whole US air traffic control system is based on English/Imperial units. How do you switch that to metric? It barely runs as it is.
The box has a built-in modem that you connect to your phone line. The current software polls a central server once a day for program guide and software updates. I would assume that they would download the new recording schedule to the box when it polls the server.
I don't know if they are still being manufactured, but there used to be a small pulse-jet engine, like the German V1 Buzz Bomb, suitable for use on model airplanes. The engine was very simple. The only moving parts were the flapper valves that admitted air into the combustion chamber.
I've heard of state laws being overturned in state supreme courts because they violate a rule in the state's constitution that restricts bills to a single subject. There doesn't appear to be a similar rule at the federal level.
It has been calculated that the normal human is host to about 10^12 bacteria on the skin, 10^10 in the mouth, and 10^14 in the gastrointestinal tract. The latter number is far in excess of the number of eukaryotic cells in all organs which comprise the human body.
Viruses, bacteria, fungii and other parasites live off the strength of the host organism. They weaking it in order to grow, a negative net sum game since they die when the organism succumbs.
Not all viruses, bacteria and fungii are parasites. Some perform useful services for their host.
You have more bacteria in your intestines than you have cells in your body. There are also large numbers of bacteria on your skin.
Liability for trade secret misappropriation is not limited to actual trade secret violators. A variety of third parties can get caught in the "web" of trade secret misappropriation if such persons knew or had reason to know that they are the recipients of unauthorized trade secret information. Third-party liability for trade secret misappropriation is a critical component of trade secret law because often third parties are the only ones with "deep pockets'" for the recovery of damages for trade secret violations.
My understanding is that if you have a trade secret that was obtained improperly, and you know it, you are not legally free to pass the trade secret on to other people.
A major reason for the development of Ada was that the Department of Defense was wasting large amounts of money on the support of hundreds of programming languages used in embedded systems. Maybe we need more than one programming language, but we don't need hundreds of them.
It reminds me of writing object oriented programs in C. Sure, it can be done, but it is inefficient and a waste of time, like doing text processing in FORTRAN.
You may want to document the situation in a written memo and send it to the people in the company who have the authority and responsibility to deal with the problem. Send a copy to the company's legal counsel, if they have one.
Hard copy documents tend to get people's attention since they may resurface (can you say discovery, boys and girls?) in court.
This may get you fired but it should cover your own butt.
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I saw one of these systems many years ago. It had an 8086 with custom MMU hardware. It ran Xenix.
Visual C++ is useless if you need to target anything other than Win32.
WATCOM C includes SDKs and libraries from IBM, Microsoft and others. WATCOM's license to distribute these components does not give them the legal right to open source other people's software.
WATCOM C is also useful when you need to call libraries or ROMs with unusual calling conventions.
WATCOM C includes MFC, at least with the commercial version they used to sell. My copy has MFC 2.5 and MFC 4.1. I don't write software that uses MFC so I can't say how good WATCOM's support is for MFC.
From the descriptions in the news, it appears that the forward torpedo room blew up, shredding everything forward of the conning tower. The rest of the submarine is intact but flooded.
It's FORTRAN-77. I know some people whu use it and they seem to be happy with it.
It's a decent quality compiler, can generate 16-bit code, cross-compiles to other platforms, supports DOS (16-bit and 32-bit), OS/2 (16-bit and 32-bit), Win16, Win32, Novell.
Risk management seems to be popular with banks and other financial institutions. It has one glaring flaw, it does not take into account the costs of security failures to customers. That's why bank are often sloppy and lax about security procedures when the customer's money is at risk. It is cheaper for the bank to fix the results of security failures than it is to prevent them.
I'm waiting for the ATI Psychotic Genocide 3000.
I have seen situations where employees leave immediately after receiving training, the company was such a shitty place to work that people were seriously talking about organizing a union. I don't think that a healthy company, that treats it's employees with respect, needs to ask for these kinds of contracts.
Many sensors are complex and expensive. It isn't realistic to replace them with larger numbers of cheap sensors. Some things just don't scale.
NASA tries to use metric when possible. The problem is that some things, like much of the aerospace industry and navigation practices, are stuck on the old units. For example, I fill my airplane with 50 gallons of avgas, set the altimeter to 29.92 inches of mercury, lift off the runway at 100 knots and climb to 10,000 feet. The whole US air traffic control system is based on English/Imperial units. How do you switch that to metric? It barely runs as it is.
The box has a built-in modem that you connect to your phone line. The current software polls a central server once a day for program guide and software updates. I would assume that they would download the new recording schedule to the box when it polls the server.
I don't know if they are still being manufactured, but there used to be a small pulse-jet engine, like the German V1 Buzz Bomb, suitable for use on model airplanes. The engine was very simple. The only moving parts were the flapper valves that admitted air into the combustion chamber.
I've heard of state laws being overturned in state supreme courts because they violate a rule in the state's constitution that restricts bills to a single subject. There doesn't appear to be a similar rule at the federal level.
Kenneth Todar University of Wisconsin Department of Bacteriology
Not all viruses, bacteria and fungii are parasites. Some perform useful services for their host.
You have more bacteria in your intestines than you have cells in your body. There are also large numbers of bacteria on your skin.
$799 is way pricey?
My understanding is that if you have a trade secret that was obtained improperly, and you know it, you are not legally free to pass the trade secret on to other people.
A major reason for the development of Ada was that the Department of Defense was wasting large amounts of money on the support of hundreds of programming languages used in embedded systems. Maybe we need more than one programming language, but we don't need hundreds of them.
That's pretty simple, huh?
Yech.
It reminds me of writing object oriented programs in C. Sure, it can be done, but it is inefficient and a waste of time, like doing text processing in FORTRAN.
Hard copy documents tend to get people's attention since they may resurface (can you say discovery, boys and girls?) in court.
This may get you fired but it should cover your own butt.