Those gentlemen had suggested December 26th instead ... retailers would have had a boom xmas

Start a revolution already, jeez

Definitely.

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They suck on more levels than that. Wish I got here earlier so more people could read this.
1) Their login form sends incorrect passwords so I can't login to print my tickets
2) they refuse to support me on this since I bought the tickets through a 3rd party (actually Ticktackticket, who they bought years ago)
3) I point this out, they still refuse to help because apparently the gig is in Mexico (it's in Spain)
4) I lost 60 euros on this bullshit and they still refuse to offer any level of support

Moral of the rant: ticketmaster suck, and interminably so.

There is no issue with "textspeak" or anything like that. A good command of a language is needed in order to convey meaning in an abbreviated manner.

The only problem is where the literacy level of the individual is low enough that they'll use this format in other forms of communication which don't necessarily require such heavy brevity. It's not Twitter's fault, or phone networks who limit SMS characters. It's education, pure and simple.

I wish I hadn't commented so I could mod you up ..

That would be down-right fantastically, orgasmically, innovatingly cool IF not for the fact that Apple would go just whore it out everywhere.

Mod me down, bitches.

I should probably mention I left after 4 months for different reasons, and I didn't have time or interest in extra-curricular projects during those 4 months anyway. Had I been seriously into spare-time development, there's no way I would have signed it without a lot of negotiations beforehand.

Fair point. Though - imho - they would only have ever chased it into a court room if there was valid reason, hence a case which they logically would expect to win. They weren't Google, but have a vaguely similar culture. People were often working on their jobs outside of work hours too.

I worked for a software dev company before, quite well known, and in my contract was a specific clause stating *anything* I produced, no matter where and when, would be considered the intellectual property of the company. They were pretty cool guys in general so I questioned the motivation behind it some months into my employment. Turns out they'd been burned badly before by having some of their assets reused and sold off, and henceforth used that clause as a contractual safety net. In practise however, things were generally totally open and innovative with a lot of devs working on separate projects; the enforcement of this clause depended on your own standing and relationship with the company. In other words, it's very possible he had this in his contract and for precisely the same reasons this case has gone to court.

http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-11-07/europe/30368594_1_shale-gas-fracking-process-tremors