One of my high school teachers once told me that pretty much everything can eventually be traced back to Shakespeare or the Bible.
Actually I doubt that Shakespeare was original either on everything. He was just so good that lazy people don't go further back than that to some one like say Homer, or Ovid, who perhaps only wrote down what previous people only spoke about.
I get the impression that these books mean much more to her than as something that got her out of poverty and made her one of the richest women in the World.
You've bought into the myth (drunk the Kool Aid) that JKR was poor. While she may have been personally at the moment she sat at that Edinburgh coffee shop with her young child and started HP1, her family isn't and she was never in any danger of starving or being homeless. But then that spoils a great story now, doesn't it?
1) I fail to see how JKR is "damaged" by this lexicon, unless it misrepresents her books, which there is no argument that ever did.
2) For JKR to claim that this "discouraged" her from writing her own encyclopedia (and giving all that money to charity, which is supposed to melt our hearts in sympathy for her), appears spurious and said to bolster her case is simply because it is so hard to prove false. One is left to believe that JKR has killed a superior work because she fears she can't compete with a better author here.
3) Despite the large amount of copying that weighed against the lexicon author I find his work transformative rather than mere cut & paste because:
a) A huge amount of original research, organization, and sheer effort was put into its creation.
b) How can you write any lexicon without referring directly to and quoting the original facts in their most original (hence correct) form?
c) This is not intended to, nor would it ever be confused with, being a new, unauthorized HP novel.
4) JKR is a very controlling author. You need only refer to her tightly demanded release dates for each new book and their draconian enforcement of early released copies for no apparent reason more than to bring additional fame to herself and allow her to read a couple chapters to a few children on the first night of official release.
5) How could this have ever been infringement at all when it was never published due to prior restraint shown here? There should have been no statutory damages at all!
To me, when JKR put HP out in the world (and was rewarded more than handsomely for it) it became part of the world at large. It succeeded because we cared about it so much. To then say that only JKR can dictate who is allowed to comment on it afterwards defys logic, humanity, and reason.
That JKR found a judge to agree with her is equally sad.
Today is not a good day to own Nvidia stock - or apparently many of their graphic cards.
A big lawsuit, and ATI's new 46xx series being launched, which at the $68-$79 price range competes very effectively with Nvidia's (now former) $150 price range cards. Yeah Nvidia can and has cut prices to be competitive, and bye bye profits since you are, at best, now selling those cards at cost.
Gee J.K., aren't you rich enough already? The only thing you personally can't buy in England these days is Royalty, and that's somewhat overrated anyway.
And Warner Brothers, why is it your name on the suit? Oh right, you really Really REALLY hate fair use and derivative works now, don't you?
And back to you J.K., why is it that you never even hinted about your own encyclopedia until publication of this lexicon was announced? And why was it never a problem when it was available for the low low price of FREE on the web, which is even more compelling competition than a published version?
But most of all J.K. do you believe even for a moment that anyone is going to choose someone else's version over the version with Your Name On It? Get fsking real here! When yours comes out all your little fans will buy it even if they have everyone else's version already on their bookshelf. YOU AREN'T, AND NEVER WERE, DAMAGED BY THIS BOOK COMPETING AGAINST A BOOK YOU'VE NEVER EVEN WRITTEN, AND PROBABLY NEVER WILL. IF ANYTHING, A GOOD LEXICON *HELPS* YOUR SALES!
J.K. Rowling, you suck! (And I don't mean it in the British sense.)
Mr. Judge, you suck too! Go back to law school and actually learn something about fair use, derivative works, and copyright law!
'd appreciate it very much if someone could please explain to me, how is it possible that one company sells something at a loss and it's called "dumping" (which you can get in trouble for, IIUC), and another company sells something at a loss and it's called a "loss leader?"
For starters it's not sold. If it were sold you could do what you want with it, mod it to your particular desires, run what you want on it. As it is, it's like buying a record or CD player from one of the 4 big music companies and finding out that it only plays records/CD's from that company, which they sell you at immense profit!
I thought Britain had better privacy laws than in the USA where, while the RIAA is still getting data as we speak, it's getting harder and harder for them and many defendants are able to challenge at the initial John Doe stage.
What would happen if every one of these cases decided to go to court over this?
When you consider the intrinsic benefits of anything built on solid-state technology versus anything mechanical, it doesn't take a degree in physics to understand the obvious advantages.
I don't find a benefit or obvious advantage in a device that requires wear-leveling to keep from wearing itself out. The fact that it degrades its storage capacity gracefully instead of all at once doesn't offset that swap files can really work over mass storage devices and the first bad sectors have been known to start showing up after only weeks of use in some cases.
How about a solid-state non-volatile storage device with good speed, low power, dense packing, competitive price, and effectively unlimited read/write cycles? Then I'll be a convert.
So you need to have this USB key to play the movie (some hidden key file or internal serial number one suspects). That means we're back to hard to replicate dongles. Clearly the USB stick is of little use otherwise singe the movie takes up the bulk of the space on it (unless it's compressed down to crap quality), you can't plug it into your DVD player or television, and you need to take another one for each additional movie. Do you really want to go on a trip with 20 dongles just so that you can watch 20 movies? And I doubt it plays on your iPod.
any single patent violation and I see both companies jumping on this company and preventing its sale in as many countries as possible.
And all China has to do is declare this chip is in their vital national interests (which they can justify by the export ban on advanced microprocessors) and that they won't obey any foreign patents regarding this processor. This will kill much of their export market for this chip, but their domestic market alone will be enough to sustain them.
Once you don't support x86 instruction set, you aren't a threat to Intel at all.
Intel patents cover far more than the instruction set. The whole reason for so much cross-licensing in the industry is that a whole pile of patents are involved in a single modern CPU chip. If China uses Intel patents (say for floating point computation, or an effective front-side bus, or even chip packaging) to market a competing CPU, ever socket filled by that CPU is one more displaced Intel chip. The x86 instruction set is only one small piece of the puzzle.
There must be domain name appraisal services out there that can tell you the reasonable value of your domain. Then you have something to respond as in:
Such & such company values my domain at $XXX,XXX.
And be sure that the price includes a night or several with the model on their opening animation!
If you name a price and they have a legitimate claim (e.g. trademark etc. not even in this country) - especially if you aren't using the name for a valid purpose already - then you can easily lose through WIPO for domain-squatting. Even if they make you a ridiculously low-ball insulting offer and you counter you can lose your domain this way with no compensation at all.
Your safest course of action is to continue to use the domain for a legitimate purpose that does not in any way attempt to make money off of anyone who types in your domain.COM instead of theirs.NL. Tell them you're not interested and let them raise their offer until it does interest you - but never counteroffer back. Just go along your way until the right thing happens.
Be aware that this person contacting you may also be a domain name broker who intends to buy low and sell high, cutting you out of all the profits for being a nice guy. You don't really know.
This whole domain name thing is fucked in the first place. It started as first-come-first-served and should have remained that way. But then big money got involved and changed the rules to suit themselves and screw out the little guy with more brains and foresight than the dinosaur companies had. Now it's highly tilted in their direction and you really have to toe the line on the rules or you'll end up with nothing!
And be exceptionally vigilant not to let your registration lapse for even 5 minutes. Expired domains are immediately snapped up and you may have to pay extortion to get it back again.
Hey, is Microsoft trying to steal a march on Google Chrome and its multiple independent processes? Hey, if Google can do this we can do it twice as well - just count our threads!
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There's a story about Washington D.C. that if you want a friend when you go there to serve in government, bring a dog.
The amended version is that you need to bring 2 dogs, since one of them will surely turn on you.
JKR may be about to find out how quickly fans can turn on you as well. If so, it will be a great life lesson for her.
Actually I doubt that Shakespeare was original either on everything. He was just so good that lazy people don't go further back than that to some one like say Homer, or Ovid, who perhaps only wrote down what previous people only spoke about.
You've bought into the myth (drunk the Kool Aid) that JKR was poor. While she may have been personally at the moment she sat at that Edinburgh coffee shop with her young child and started HP1, her family isn't and she was never in any danger of starving or being homeless. But then that spoils a great story now, doesn't it?
By the points:
1) I fail to see how JKR is "damaged" by this lexicon, unless it misrepresents her books, which there is no argument that ever did.
2) For JKR to claim that this "discouraged" her from writing her own encyclopedia (and giving all that money to charity, which is supposed to melt our hearts in sympathy for her), appears spurious and said to bolster her case is simply because it is so hard to prove false. One is left to believe that JKR has killed a superior work because she fears she can't compete with a better author here.
3) Despite the large amount of copying that weighed against the lexicon author I find his work transformative rather than mere cut & paste because:
a) A huge amount of original research, organization, and sheer effort was put into its creation.
b) How can you write any lexicon without referring directly to and quoting the original facts in their most original (hence correct) form?
c) This is not intended to, nor would it ever be confused with, being a new, unauthorized HP novel.
4) JKR is a very controlling author. You need only refer to her tightly demanded release dates for each new book and their draconian enforcement of early released copies for no apparent reason more than to bring additional fame to herself and allow her to read a couple chapters to a few children on the first night of official release.
5) How could this have ever been infringement at all when it was never published due to prior restraint shown here? There should have been no statutory damages at all!
To me, when JKR put HP out in the world (and was rewarded more than handsomely for it) it became part of the world at large. It succeeded because we cared about it so much. To then say that only JKR can dictate who is allowed to comment on it afterwards defys logic, humanity, and reason.
That JKR found a judge to agree with her is equally sad.
Today is not a good day to own Nvidia stock - or apparently many of their graphic cards.
A big lawsuit, and ATI's new 46xx series being launched, which at the $68-$79 price range competes very effectively with Nvidia's (now former) $150 price range cards. Yeah Nvidia can and has cut prices to be competitive, and bye bye profits since you are, at best, now selling those cards at cost.
Sux to be you today.
Gee J.K., aren't you rich enough already? The only thing you personally can't buy in England these days is Royalty, and that's somewhat overrated anyway.
And Warner Brothers, why is it your name on the suit? Oh right, you really Really REALLY hate fair use and derivative works now, don't you?
And back to you J.K., why is it that you never even hinted about your own encyclopedia until publication of this lexicon was announced? And why was it never a problem when it was available for the low low price of FREE on the web, which is even more compelling competition than a published version?
But most of all J.K. do you believe even for a moment that anyone is going to choose someone else's version over the version with Your Name On It? Get fsking real here! When yours comes out all your little fans will buy it even if they have everyone else's version already on their bookshelf. YOU AREN'T, AND NEVER WERE, DAMAGED BY THIS BOOK COMPETING AGAINST A BOOK YOU'VE NEVER EVEN WRITTEN, AND PROBABLY NEVER WILL. IF ANYTHING, A GOOD LEXICON *HELPS* YOUR SALES!
J.K. Rowling, you suck! (And I don't mean it in the British sense.)
Mr. Judge, you suck too! Go back to law school and actually learn something about fair use, derivative works, and copyright law!
For starters it's not sold. If it were sold you could do what you want with it, mod it to your particular desires, run what you want on it. As it is, it's like buying a record or CD player from one of the 4 big music companies and finding out that it only plays records/CD's from that company, which they sell you at immense profit!
You mean the NSA's entry hasn't arrived yet?
I suggest that the drive to be tested be the one with all the Chinese gymnasts original birth certificates on it.
How does rank with the original Infiniti Rocks & Trees ads?
Too bad that Do No Evil has so obviously fallen by the wayside, although the search engine does remain good.
It never was about getting more money to the artists, and the article now confirms it.
I thought Britain had better privacy laws than in the USA where, while the RIAA is still getting data as we speak, it's getting harder and harder for them and many defendants are able to challenge at the initial John Doe stage.
What would happen if every one of these cases decided to go to court over this?
Are you speaking of a binary order of magnitude, or a decimal order of magnitude?
And human years, dog years, or Internet years?
I don't find a benefit or obvious advantage in a device that requires wear-leveling to keep from wearing itself out. The fact that it degrades its storage capacity gracefully instead of all at once doesn't offset that swap files can really work over mass storage devices and the first bad sectors have been known to start showing up after only weeks of use in some cases.
How about a solid-state non-volatile storage device with good speed, low power, dense packing, competitive price, and effectively unlimited read/write cycles? Then I'll be a convert.
Comcast fails to realize that they're a regulated monopoly, and have to abide by a set of rules that non-regulated businesses don't.
Instead of accepting their reality they want to toss all their toys out of the param and throw a crying fit to get their way.
Do the math. Tens of thousands of pages @ $750.00 minimum statutory damages per work infringed - Hey, California just balanced its budget!
So you need to have this USB key to play the movie (some hidden key file or internal serial number one suspects). That means we're back to hard to replicate dongles. Clearly the USB stick is of little use otherwise singe the movie takes up the bulk of the space on it (unless it's compressed down to crap quality), you can't plug it into your DVD player or television, and you need to take another one for each additional movie. Do you really want to go on a trip with 20 dongles just so that you can watch 20 movies? And I doubt it plays on your iPod.
I'm not impressed.
And all China has to do is declare this chip is in their vital national interests (which they can justify by the export ban on advanced microprocessors) and that they won't obey any foreign patents regarding this processor. This will kill much of their export market for this chip, but their domestic market alone will be enough to sustain them.
Only because we keep insisting on having the fastest processors available to run Microsoft Office, check e-mail, and browse the web.
Intel patents cover far more than the instruction set. The whole reason for so much cross-licensing in the industry is that a whole pile of patents are involved in a single modern CPU chip. If China uses Intel patents (say for floating point computation, or an effective front-side bus, or even chip packaging) to market a competing CPU, ever socket filled by that CPU is one more displaced Intel chip. The x86 instruction set is only one small piece of the puzzle.
Because you can't steal Windows software if your processor doesn't have the x86 instruction set.
Excellent wisdom!
There must be domain name appraisal services out there that can tell you the reasonable value of your domain. Then you have something to respond as in:
Such & such company values my domain at $XXX,XXX.
And be sure that the price includes a night or several with the model on their opening animation!
If you name a price and they have a legitimate claim (e.g. trademark etc. not even in this country) - especially if you aren't using the name for a valid purpose already - then you can easily lose through WIPO for domain-squatting. Even if they make you a ridiculously low-ball insulting offer and you counter you can lose your domain this way with no compensation at all.
.COM instead of theirs .NL. Tell them you're not interested and let them raise their offer until it does interest you - but never counteroffer back. Just go along your way until the right thing happens.
Your safest course of action is to continue to use the domain for a legitimate purpose that does not in any way attempt to make money off of anyone who types in your domain
Be aware that this person contacting you may also be a domain name broker who intends to buy low and sell high, cutting you out of all the profits for being a nice guy. You don't really know.
This whole domain name thing is fucked in the first place. It started as first-come-first-served and should have remained that way. But then big money got involved and changed the rules to suit themselves and screw out the little guy with more brains and foresight than the dinosaur companies had. Now it's highly tilted in their direction and you really have to toe the line on the rules or you'll end up with nothing!
And be exceptionally vigilant not to let your registration lapse for even 5 minutes. Expired domains are immediately snapped up and you may have to pay extortion to get it back again.
Hey, is Microsoft trying to steal a march on Google Chrome and its multiple independent processes? Hey, if Google can do this we can do it twice as well - just count our threads!