I think lots of other people are mis-reading the e-mails. I can't see anything in there that pretty much any company wouldn't try.
And that guy that was heading up the Mac team - I'd have him leading my team any day. If that is what most MS engineering people are like then there is a lot that could be learned from them.
My brother bought a C-64 when I was about 13, and figured I might know what to do with it so asked me to go over and have a look to get the games running.
I was so excited to finally get to use a computer! I read the books (it came with 4 thin, colourful books about programming it), typed in the games, etc, and my mother bought it off him because it was obvious I had an aptitude for it.
From then on, I did very little except muck around with the computer... about a year later mum bought me the 1541 for my birthday and I was set:) It was obvious the BASIC was pretty ordinary so I got into assembly before too long, and a neighbour loaned me a cassette from a magazine series with a tape-based assembler on it, and I hacked it to work with the 1541.
I was beside myself when I got a raster routine going to have two parts of the screen acting independently of each other, one of them under joystick control. Never got much further than that though as I didn't have the patience to put together a whole game. Also, how many D&D character generators were written for the C-64? Must have been thousands...
Spent a huge amount of time playing Elite too.
I didn't think much about school after that and left as soon as possible, and got a "traineeship" as a programmer when I was 16. Not a course I'd recommend and I probably did it as late as you could still get away with it (1988).
As others have mentioned, the beauty was having a simple computer you could understand, and that flicked on instantly. It was just so much fun! And a machine that is simple enough to teach you about assembly language coding, ISRs, etc is no bad thing. When I started learning C (on the Amiga:) I kept wondering why people seemed to have so much trouble with pointers... the C-64 taught me how computers work at a low level so these concepts were already in place.
It all came back a couple of years ago when I bought a single-board-computer for robotics projects designed by a prof at the Uni of Wollongong (in NSW, Australia). It is powered by a Motorola 68HC11 which has the same arch as a 6510! With the things I learned on and since the C-64 I put together a small pre-emptive multi-tasking kernel with intertask signalling in less than 1024 bytes in assembly:)
The C-64 (and its peers) must be responsible for a huge number of IT professionals today. Unfortunately I don't think we'll see something so simple and fun again:(
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This dress code even applies on trips on weekends and if you come in on a Saturday. Their work hours are strict 8 to 5. Those rules don't apply to us, YET ! There are rumblings in the Boeing group to force us to comply with those rules since they hold the purse strings.
When in Rome... The Boeing guys probably don't like having their noses rubbed in your inviolable independence. The rumblings are not because they hold the purse strings, they are because you go out of your way to upset the natives!
I take Thursday and Friday afternoons off just about every week but Monday and Tuesday are long days though. I also wear jeans everyday as well. We are in one of the top outdoor recreational states of Colorado.
Do you work as an island? If not, you should consider whether your absence affects other workers. It isn't just about how many hours you work, it is about which hours you work. You're not as useful if you're not there when everyone else is. Colorado isn't going anywhere.
Back in June/July, I took 4 weeks vacation to do some traveling, go see family and one of the Managers in Boeing told me to cancel my vacation since my focus should be on working instead of taking time off that I have earned and I told him I did not answer to him and he got irate.
He probably didn't say what he meant. He may have deadlines whose outcomes are affected by you, and he felt you just didn't give a damn. Telling him where to get off wouldn't have helped change that.
The same person got pissed when I happen to be around on Friday all day that they cannot get any work done because of our flex time policy. One of their computers at 4pm went down and the person who can call in left at 11 am. He was demanded that the computer get fixed this instant. He made the comment that we are lazy since we take Friday afternoon off. He fired off some complaints to their top executives.
It sounds like you spend a lot of your time getting up people's noses. If you didn't do so much of this, perhaps even the dress code issue would not have come up.
You don't seem to be interested in helping these guys - you sound like you just want the money, and to do whatever you want, when you want. You ARE working for them, and you should play by the rules that work for them.
Microsoft is part of the MDC (Metadata Coalition) which has a standard called Open Information Model (OIM) for storing metadata about various things. Each OIM sub-model has an XML DTD used for importing and exporting metadata from a repository and a mandates using SQL to query the repository.
You could creation an OIM class model and DTD.
You could also look at the OMG equivalent.
XML on it's own is not enough - it's a data encoding standard, not a storage mechanism for a repository!
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I think lots of other people are mis-reading the e-mails. I can't see anything in there that pretty much any company wouldn't try.
And that guy that was heading up the Mac team - I'd have him leading my team any day. If that is what most MS engineering people are like then there is a lot that could be learned from them.
The company I work for has an incentive program for employees to buy green cars: http://www.hyperion.com/driveclean/
Hmm, no matter what I do that space won't go away. Sorry.
You got a space in there somewhere... try
= /library/en-us/dnwxp/html/winxpicons.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url
My brother bought a C-64 when I was about 13, and figured I might know what to do with it so asked me to go over and have a look to get the games running.
:) It was obvious the BASIC was pretty ordinary so I got into assembly before too long, and a neighbour loaned me a cassette from a magazine series with a tape-based assembler on it, and I hacked it to work with the 1541.
:) I kept wondering why people seemed to have so much trouble with pointers... the C-64 taught me how computers work at a low level so these concepts were already in place.
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I was so excited to finally get to use a computer! I read the books (it came with 4 thin, colourful books about programming it), typed in the games, etc, and my mother bought it off him because it was obvious I had an aptitude for it.
From then on, I did very little except muck around with the computer... about a year later mum bought me the 1541 for my birthday and I was set
I was beside myself when I got a raster routine going to have two parts of the screen acting independently of each other, one of them under joystick control. Never got much further than that though as I didn't have the patience to put together a whole game. Also, how many D&D character generators were written for the C-64? Must have been thousands...
Spent a huge amount of time playing Elite too.
I didn't think much about school after that and left as soon as possible, and got a "traineeship" as a programmer when I was 16. Not a course I'd recommend and I probably did it as late as you could still get away with it (1988).
As others have mentioned, the beauty was having a simple computer you could understand, and that flicked on instantly. It was just so much fun! And a machine that is simple enough to teach you about assembly language coding, ISRs, etc is no bad thing. When I started learning C (on the Amiga
It all came back a couple of years ago when I bought a single-board-computer for robotics projects designed by a prof at the Uni of Wollongong (in NSW, Australia). It is powered by a Motorola 68HC11 which has the same arch as a 6510! With the things I learned on and since the C-64 I put together a small pre-emptive multi-tasking kernel with intertask signalling in less than 1024 bytes in assembly
The C-64 (and its peers) must be responsible for a huge number of IT professionals today. Unfortunately I don't think we'll see something so simple and fun again
When in Rome... The Boeing guys probably don't like having their noses rubbed in your inviolable independence. The rumblings are not because they hold the purse strings, they are because you go out of your way to upset the natives!
Do you work as an island? If not, you should consider whether your absence affects other workers. It isn't just about how many hours you work, it is about which hours you work. You're not as useful if you're not there when everyone else is. Colorado isn't going anywhere.
He probably didn't say what he meant. He may have deadlines whose outcomes are affected by you, and he felt you just didn't give a damn. Telling him where to get off wouldn't have helped change that.
It sounds like you spend a lot of your time getting up people's noses. If you didn't do so much of this, perhaps even the dress code issue would not have come up.
You don't seem to be interested in helping these guys - you sound like you just want the money, and to do whatever you want, when you want. You ARE working for them, and you should play by the rules that work for them.
Microsoft is part of the MDC (Metadata Coalition) which has a standard called Open Information Model (OIM) for storing metadata about various things. Each OIM sub-model has an XML DTD used for importing and exporting metadata from a repository and a mandates using SQL to query the repository. You could creation an OIM class model and DTD. You could also look at the OMG equivalent. XML on it's own is not enough - it's a data encoding standard, not a storage mechanism for a repository!
The above article implies Mindcraft concealing their email address was a bad thing.
I don't know why it was done but it may have been done so they were treated like an average user and not given special attention or extra help.
You think Jerry Pournelle gets the same level of support we do?
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David.