Did you bother to read the thread or did you just go into auto knee jerk reaction mode?
GP claims, once something has been released as GPL it cannot be undone. I gave a counter example showing his argument was invalid. So 1. my argument does in fact not fail and 2. up modding it is spot on, so there. Now go troll some kids instead.
At first I thought it was a bad move by Blizzard, but then I realized this is going to be good for the game.
Fact is, people are going to trade items for real money on eBay, doing this Blizzard removes much of the trouble one can get in and make a nice sanctioned way of dealing with those *I WANT* items.
I used to play D2 a lot and I won't be playing D3 - this has nothing to do with that though, rather I've grown up and found other fun things to do...
So by your argument, an employee at Microsoft could publish the entire Windows source code as GPL and Microsoft would have no way of pulling that back?
Try again mister...
If you are the original copyright holder and publish under GPL, then that publication remains so, but you can always choose to re license your work. However, if you did not condone the release as GPL, then it sure as hell can be revoked.
The author changes his story, he stated early that it was done as a we in the company, therefore, it belongs to the company - that statement alone will cause him to lose any trial.
It is pretty standard that any IP conjured up during employment belongs to the company. In order for you to retain rights you need to prove that you at no point thought about the project on company time.
Usually I get amendments to my contract specifying any ongoing home projects as my own (granted, they must never compete with the company). So far I've never had trouble - trick is to deal with it up front, not after a termination.
Indeed, in fact the more I read his rebuttals, it seems to me he might actually be in for a suit by his former employer since he apparently released something under a license the company didn't grant.
He might have GPL'ed proprietary software, in which case he could be liable for damages...
If I where him I'd let it slide, he is already in hot water for something since he got terminated, stirring up muddy water might just end up backfiring.
Yes, but from the same article and comments, he refers to the project as WE where working on.
He also writes the last two years of his employment was spent on this project - by his own statements, he at least worked some of the time on company time on this project.
So you worked for them and where paid by them. You decided to release something as GPL (your post doesn't say if this was sanctioned by the powers that be), but considering your termination, one would think you stepped out of line?
But, the fact is, you where working for them, earning money producing something *they* own. If they decide to revoke a license on something *they* own, they are squarely in their rights to do so.
"Problem 2: That coin will sure be a tasty target for a vault heist...."
Yeah, but try and ask for change down at your local 7-11...
Around here, you usually get a 10% reward when finding lost money, was actually thinking that coin would be a nice "ohh, I found this on the sidewalk" situation.
10 million rows? That should fit in most database servers main memory.
Oh, and if your I/O is the trouble, NoSQL wont magically make it disappear.
The only thing NoSQL has solved is doing multimaster cheap, yes those are hard to solve in traditional databases, however, you can only solve it, if your datamodel is ok with eventually correct, most business aren't.
Not only that, around here at least (Denmark) it is illegal to insult a uniformed officer; granted they are not in the habit of throwing the books at you for minor offenses and they are relatively forgiving - however, if you piss them off they will come after you...
Following your argument, humans can successfully mate with a tiger, since we at some point originated from the same primordial soup.
Also, the reason for the h1n1 scare, was we humans have tried that interspecies thing before, notably during ww1 where millions died of the Spanish flu.
Also, the h1n1, unlike most virii, did more damage to young people than normal, suspicion is our immune system had not seen this strain before, where as older people might have been primed in outbreaks before 1970.
Yes, but those solving them did it by using well understood algorithms. The problem with MySQL is the developers chose to look at the best practice, what other people did and said: "meh".
MySQL is not a database suited for anything with critical information.
My opinion doesn't matter, (IANAL etc) but if you don't have the physical media and/or whatever paper the license is printed on, then yes, you are in fact violating the copyright laws. How do you expect to prove rightful ownership if you can't produce anything but some some obscure backup *you* claim to have made from an original?
Even if the CD can't be read any more, it still is a valid proof of ownership (jewel case isn't going to cut it though, need the original media).
If you still have the original, then I'm pretty sure you are still legally sound (provided local laws allow for those rips) - but in the GP case, a fire claimed his stuff; if you are insured, you are reimbursed for those losses, but you don't get both, you can't both claim it was destroyed and cash out and also claim you still have those licenses.
And if you aren't insured then tough luck - you don't get to take a new couch from the store because the old one was destroyed.
That's easily solved, run a script that flips a bit at the end of the ID3 tag (or in the music, shouldn't matter - any bit changed will yield a new hash) (or just add a letter or whatever to the tag).
Normally I'd side against RIAA in anything, but not here - either you had fire insurance, in which case you have been reimbursed for the lost LPs; which means you no longer own those licenses. Alternatively you just basically lost everything to the flames - no one is going to give you a new couch because you can no longer sit in the old one.
Also, we got rid of 1,2, 5 and 10 Ãre coins here in Denmark many a years ago - 25 Ãre is about to be officially EOL - but prices for groceries are still listed as 3.95 - when you total everything up, you round to nearest 50 Ãre.
hot damn, I should look into that, public healthcare here in Denmark sucks and the private clinics aren't all that good. Slight inconvenience going to Germany, but insurance + air/train to Germany would still be less than what I paid last year for MRI and a broken foot.
Going to try the Kindle next week - iPad definitely didn't get me sold on anything (on a side note, what exactly is the point of an iPad? So far I haven't found a single use case where it trumps whatever else gadgets I have at my disposal).
I was given an iPad 2 and tried it for book reading - gave up on it. Granted I haven't tried the Kindle, but if it is anything like the iPad for reading it is not going to kill books any time soon.
For traveling the iPad/Kindle books are awesome, but at home I'm never going to give up on a normal book, coming generations might not want books, but I don't think it will be because of digital books, rather it would just be out of ignorance - I suspect coming generations will find it hard to sit still long enough to complete a book.
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Did you bother to read the thread or did you just go into auto knee jerk reaction mode?
GP claims, once something has been released as GPL it cannot be undone. I gave a counter example showing his argument was invalid. So 1. my argument does in fact not fail and 2. up modding it is spot on, so there. Now go troll some kids instead.
At first I thought it was a bad move by Blizzard, but then I realized this is going to be good for the game.
Fact is, people are going to trade items for real money on eBay, doing this Blizzard removes much of the trouble one can get in and make a nice sanctioned way of dealing with those *I WANT* items.
I used to play D2 a lot and I won't be playing D3 - this has nothing to do with that though, rather I've grown up and found other fun things to do...
So by your argument, an employee at Microsoft could publish the entire Windows source code as GPL and Microsoft would have no way of pulling that back?
Try again mister...
If you are the original copyright holder and publish under GPL, then that publication remains so, but you can always choose to re license your work. However, if you did not condone the release as GPL, then it sure as hell can be revoked.
The author changes his story, he stated early that it was done as a we in the company, therefore, it belongs to the company - that statement alone will cause him to lose any trial.
It is pretty standard that any IP conjured up during employment belongs to the company. In order for you to retain rights you need to prove that you at no point thought about the project on company time.
Usually I get amendments to my contract specifying any ongoing home projects as my own (granted, they must never compete with the company). So far I've never had trouble - trick is to deal with it up front, not after a termination.
Indeed, in fact the more I read his rebuttals, it seems to me he might actually be in for a suit by his former employer since he apparently released something under a license the company didn't grant.
He might have GPL'ed proprietary software, in which case he could be liable for damages...
If I where him I'd let it slide, he is already in hot water for something since he got terminated, stirring up muddy water might just end up backfiring.
Yes, but from the same article and comments, he refers to the project as WE where working on.
He also writes the last two years of his employment was spent on this project - by his own statements, he at least worked some of the time on company time on this project.
So you worked for them and where paid by them. You decided to release something as GPL (your post doesn't say if this was sanctioned by the powers that be), but considering your termination, one would think you stepped out of line?
But, the fact is, you where working for them, earning money producing something *they* own. If they decide to revoke a license on something *they* own, they are squarely in their rights to do so.
"Problem 2: That coin will sure be a tasty target for a vault heist...."
Yeah, but try and ask for change down at your local 7-11...
Around here, you usually get a 10% reward when finding lost money, was actually thinking that coin would be a nice "ohh, I found this on the sidewalk" situation.
10 million rows? That should fit in most database servers main memory.
Oh, and if your I/O is the trouble, NoSQL wont magically make it disappear.
The only thing NoSQL has solved is doing multimaster cheap, yes those are hard to solve in traditional databases, however, you can only solve it, if your datamodel is ok with eventually correct, most business aren't.
Having an opinion is all fine and dandy, however, it will always bias the way we think of each other.
If a scientist believes in intelligent design, those of us believing in evolution will naturally disregard anything coming out of said scientist.
Not only that, around here at least (Denmark) it is illegal to insult a uniformed officer; granted they are not in the habit of throwing the books at you for minor offenses and they are relatively forgiving - however, if you piss them off they will come after you...
Following your argument, humans can successfully mate with a tiger, since we at some point originated from the same primordial soup.
Also, the reason for the h1n1 scare, was we humans have tried that interspecies thing before, notably during ww1 where millions died of the Spanish flu.
Also, the h1n1, unlike most virii, did more damage to young people than normal, suspicion is our immune system had not seen this strain before, where as older people might have been primed in outbreaks before 1970.
Yes, but those solving them did it by using well understood algorithms. The problem with MySQL is the developers chose to look at the best practice, what other people did and said: "meh".
MySQL is not a database suited for anything with critical information.
My opinion doesn't matter, (IANAL etc) but if you don't have the physical media and/or whatever paper the license is printed on, then yes, you are in fact violating the copyright laws. How do you expect to prove rightful ownership if you can't produce anything but some some obscure backup *you* claim to have made from an original?
Even if the CD can't be read any more, it still is a valid proof of ownership (jewel case isn't going to cut it though, need the original media).
If you still have the original, then I'm pretty sure you are still legally sound (provided local laws allow for those rips) - but in the GP case, a fire claimed his stuff; if you are insured, you are reimbursed for those losses, but you don't get both, you can't both claim it was destroyed and cash out and also claim you still have those licenses.
And if you aren't insured then tough luck - you don't get to take a new couch from the store because the old one was destroyed.
That's easily solved, run a script that flips a bit at the end of the ID3 tag (or in the music, shouldn't matter - any bit changed will yield a new hash) (or just add a letter or whatever to the tag).
Normally I'd side against RIAA in anything, but not here - either you had fire insurance, in which case you have been reimbursed for the lost LPs; which means you no longer own those licenses. Alternatively you just basically lost everything to the flames - no one is going to give you a new couch because you can no longer sit in the old one.
Actually, in this case you can - when paying with card they also charge you the exact amount rather than the rounding here in Denmark.
Actually it does fool people.
Also, we got rid of 1,2, 5 and 10 Ãre coins here in Denmark many a years ago - 25 Ãre is about to be officially EOL - but prices for groceries are still listed as 3.95 - when you total everything up, you round to nearest 50 Ãre.
So you are claiming a penny today can buy the same as it could in 1930?
hot damn, I should look into that, public healthcare here in Denmark sucks and the private clinics aren't all that good. Slight inconvenience going to Germany, but insurance + air/train to Germany would still be less than what I paid last year for MRI and a broken foot.
Did you bother to rea he thread or just felt like random trolling?
I agree, big numbers are a bit of a problem since the naming scheme isn't the same around the world.
There can be 6 orders of magnitude difference between trillion and trillion depending on where you are.
Danish for instance goes.
million, milliard, billion, billiard, trillion (10^18)
vs. US:
million, billion, trillion (10^12)
Peta on the other hand has a somewhat more unified meaning.
Going to try the Kindle next week - iPad definitely didn't get me sold on anything (on a side note, what exactly is the point of an iPad? So far I haven't found a single use case where it trumps whatever else gadgets I have at my disposal).
I was given an iPad 2 and tried it for book reading - gave up on it. Granted I haven't tried the Kindle, but if it is anything like the iPad for reading it is not going to kill books any time soon.
For traveling the iPad/Kindle books are awesome, but at home I'm never going to give up on a normal book, coming generations might not want books, but I don't think it will be because of digital books, rather it would just be out of ignorance - I suspect coming generations will find it hard to sit still long enough to complete a book.