Posted on 04/17/2017 10:17:26 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Maybe Microsoft was special enough to get college students to work unpaid internships, but anyone in a technical degree program typically got paid around double the minimum wage at the time for co-op or other intern type jobs. It's not like journalism or grievance studies majors having to work for free.
For years I had a solitaire program on my computer at work. Never once clicked on it.
Then one day I stumbled across this website
It’s a great site. It lets you reload the game and play it again, it lets you back up and find out where you went wrong. It has many different solitaire games and it has a series of challenge games, easy to hard, and they’re all guaranteed to be winnable. It’s a really good learning site.
I had thought solitaire was a dumb game of chance. Boy was I wrong.
I confess...I am addicted to Spider Solitaire, and only play the 4 suit version. I win about 3% of the games I play.
I still use the original version that came with XP, which is by far the best. It still runs on Windoze 7, but the graphics get flaky sometimes.
There is no installation required-it doesn’t use the registry. All you need is the spider.exe file.
yup that’s the one i use- I do the 4 suits too- 3%? That seems kinda low- playing regular card solitaire- i can usually win sorta often- The linux one wins a bit more- but ya really gotta do some unintuitive moves at times to make it work-
That is about what Microsoft's version of solitaire is worth.
The author, not the subject...
Even if it wasn’t a paid internship, it paid in experience. Also, having programmed through the 90s, nearly every employer mimicked Microsoft’s policy that if you developed it on their machines, or their time, it was their property. He would have signed it away before he ever created it.
At all, or for Solitaire specifically?
“Also, having programmed through the 90s, nearly every employer mimicked Microsoft’s policy that if you developed it on their machines, or their time, it was their property. He would have signed it away before he ever created it.”
Every employer I’ve ever worked for had the same policy. If you created an idea or invention while in their employ, they owned it.
Not on 4 suits. If it was that easy, I would have kicked the habit long ago.
Unless a work for hire provision or an assignment is embedded in a contract that binds the employee (and a company policy signed off by the employee may be such a contract), an employee still owns the copyrights of his work and is an inventor of a patentable items.
“Unless a work for hire provision or an assignment is embedded in a contract that binds the employee (and a company policy signed off by the employee may be such a contract), an employee still owns the copyrights of his work and is an inventor of a patentable items.”
While employed I secured a patent for an invention. The company automatically obtained the rights to the invention. All new hires signed an agreement the company owned any inventions or ideas the employee produced while on payroll. In addition the employee handbook reinforced the policy.
I had the boss key for some program but now I can’t remember. And yes, it had a spreadsheet.
Well, that I what I said. You signed your rights away.
I have a few things I've learned over the years.
Now, the worst scenario is getting stiffed on the final deal after you make a good setup. THAT always annoys me.
What I shoot for these days is making an 1100+ on the four suit. :)
It’s not nice to taunt old people....but I guess I had that coming for throwing that post up there.
One of these days, I’d like to see a Jimmy Cannonesque thread titled, “Nobody asked me, but.......” }:^)
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