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This is supposed to be funny, damnit! ([info]gloria_mundi) wrote in [info]fandom_wank,
@ 2005-03-03 15:20:00
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Clock Wank
Not precisely wank, but not non wank either. Baby wank?

Anyways, so Microsoft holds its own internal tech fair to keep employees up to date on all the electronic goodies being developed in MS labs worldwide. Some engineers have designed a clock based on the Weasley family clock and since the blurb isn't gushing over with praise for the fact that the clock was originally JKR's idea, fans air their disgust.

http://www.activewin.com/awin/comments.asp?HeadlineIndex=28471

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[info]miss_kitten
2005-03-04 01:31 am UTC (link)
That is a direct rip-off of the clock generated by Mrs. JK Rowling's brilliant imagination. There is no other explanation. I am sure the techies who "inevnted" it proably didn't read the books or they would have given her credit. I bet they saw it in the movie and figured it was just put there by the director so it didn't really count as intellectual property. This is insanity. The very least they could have done would been to aknowledge it was JK's idea and not their's. Lousy Microsoft theives!!!!!!

I like it when folks who have no knowledge of intellectual property law--or copyrights, business, invention, patents, spelling, computers, clocks, basic brain functions, the value of keeping one's mouth shut--try to educate the general public on such matters, especially in relation to the courtesies involved. Because that is just classic. And, Lilison? STFU.

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[info]renata_hpjc
2005-03-04 05:03 am UTC (link)
Not to mention the brilliant logic of "I bet they don't even know it was JKR's!" all of two sentences away from "at least they could have given JKR credit!"

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[info]lurker32
2005-03-04 01:47 am UTC (link)
i think that ms should just gve up wit this idea cause its JK's idea and because it probley will not work correctly

Pshhhh. Skeptic.

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[info]kaen
2005-03-04 01:57 am UTC (link)
So, are all the people who use this thing going to need to carry around a GPS system with them or something? Come on Seattle Times, give us details!

I'm just disappointed that there's no spot for Mortal Peril. I know that it would never actually be used (unless it was set to go there when whatever tracking thing they have on you's destroyed), but what's the point of having a Weasley-style clock if visitors aren't always wondering if it's seconds away from telling me that my dog's about to get hit by a car or something.

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LJ user silverchild2
(Anonymous)
2005-03-04 01:59 am UTC (link)
Damn my lack of activation code... *grumbles*

If I recall, I've seen a couple other clocks like the Weasley's before in other fantasy books... Not to mention having thought of something similar myself before the books were even written.

Fans make me very, very sad...

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Re: LJ user silverchild2
[info]tangentialone
2005-03-04 08:16 am UTC (link)
How do you get a code? I've looked at the FAQ but there wasn't anything that said how you generate invites, or whether that's only available to paid users(I've only got a free account), or what. I'm sure I saw someone send someone else to create a new account recently.

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Re: LJ user silverchild2
(Anonymous)
2005-03-04 09:10 am UTC (link)
I don't know, I assume it needs an activation code because to create a journal it asked for a code... *shakes fist and scowls* I know on LJ and DJ there was a special page to show codes users already with journals could generate codes and send them to a friend...

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Re: LJ user silverchild2
[info]tangentialone
2005-03-04 09:35 am UTC (link)
I thought there might be such a page, but it hides from me, if it exists.

Maybe someone who's done it will comment here...?
*hope hope hope*

Apparently there used to be a help entry about it(it's linked to from another help topic), but it's gone now, and I remain,
--Clueless

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Re: LJ user silverchild2
[info]fatesarchitect
2005-03-04 02:31 pm UTC (link)
I was ALSO wondering about that. *nod* perfect timing you have.

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Re: LJ user silverchild2
[info]shylu
2005-03-04 10:12 pm UTC (link)
I just registered not long ago (during the Naruto license wank I think), didn'tneed codes, it's just... open. Maybe I'm just lucky.

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Re: LJ user silverchild2
[info]tangentialone
2005-03-05 05:21 am UTC (link)
...Yep, it's turned off. Or broken. Or whatever.

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Re: LJ user silverchild2
(Anonymous)
2005-03-05 05:48 am UTC (link)
DAMMIT. *cries*

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Re: LJ user silverchild2
[info]tangentialone
2005-03-05 08:10 am UTC (link)
Sorry. :( Wish I could've helped.

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Re: LJ user silverchild2
(Anonymous)
2005-03-05 08:44 am UTC (link)
=) I appreciate it, thank you anyways. *will now stalk JF until it reopens*

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Re: LJ user silverchild2
[info]tangentialone
2005-03-05 09:02 am UTC (link)
Reminds me of sitting outside a store, waaaaiiiiiting for them to open... only with no idea what hours they keep or whether it's a holiday or what.

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Re: LJ user silverchild2
(Anonymous)
2005-03-05 09:47 am UTC (link)
DDDDD: Yeaaaaaaargh I've done that before, in the mall, it sucked so bad... And they didn't have what I wanted either *frothseethefallover*

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Re: LJ user silverchild2
[info]tangentialone
2005-03-05 09:59 am UTC (link)
That'd be like... if you finally were able to get an account, and then FW got shut down right after...

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(Anonymous)
2005-03-04 02:11 am UTC (link)
haha
I saw this and wondered how long it took before the wank showed up here.

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(Anonymous)
2005-03-04 02:38 am UTC (link)
This reminds me of those clocks you put on a dorm room door saying where you are or what you're doing. That's probably where the idea came from, not the Harry Potter books.

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[info]elfy
2005-03-04 09:38 am UTC (link)
that's what i hought. but you, know, it's JKR! of COURSE she was the first person to think of it! like vampires and werewolves and unicorns! they didn't exist prior to harry potter...

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[info]gal_montag
2005-03-04 11:42 am UTC (link)
They didn't! OMG! Are you suggesting that JKR didn't invent everything!?

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[info]elfy
2005-03-04 11:52 am UTC (link)
*looks shifty* nooooo...

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[info]gal_montag
2005-03-04 11:59 am UTC (link)
Oh good. Because that constellation? They totally named it after Sirius.

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[info]elfy
2005-03-04 12:03 pm UTC (link)
definitely. it's like... NOTHING existed, pre-hp times.

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(Anonymous)
2005-03-04 08:52 pm UTC (link)
How dare we suggest such a thing! The rains of burning fans will now fall upon our heads.



Majormeg7 (the same mouse from the above comment)

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(Anonymous)
2005-03-04 02:47 am UTC (link)
Those of us old enough to remember Visicalc are remarkably unsurprised at Microsoft stealing anything that's not nailed down, and coming back with a power nail puller for the stuff that is.

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[info]nights_mistress
2005-03-04 01:31 pm UTC (link)
Finally! I am not alone in the garden! Someone else knows of how Microsoft steals everything gleefully. *cough*Jet, anyone?*cough*

And yet, the wankers won't even let me burn music. DOUBLE STANDARDS, I CRY!

No, I've not been trying to create a backup copy of a friend's disc. Not at all. Now where did I put Nero...?

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(Anonymous)
2005-03-04 06:34 pm UTC (link)
OWN a Sinclair; been hanging around computer geeks since modems conected with telephone handsets and all printout was via teletype.

Remember when it was possible to drive through Redmond at 8am and not see a Porsch, or a stoplight.

Old. And Mac based.

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[info]alecto
2005-03-04 03:27 am UTC (link)
Dear HP fandom,

Get over yourself.

No love.

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[info]skarrow
2005-03-04 08:05 am UTC (link)
...shall we reserve them a seat on a space flight?

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(Anonymous)
2005-03-04 05:38 am UTC (link)
Why do these fangirls have to make my fandom look stupid?

If any of you is thinking of inventing a flying car, don't! Coz, you know, that's JKR's idea!

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[info]dommichan
2005-03-04 05:56 am UTC (link)
Not to mention magic, unicorns, werewolves, the ability to transform into animals from a human shape, the word Muggle... Yes, she is so much more original than anyone. ::rolls eyes::

You know actually, one time I got into an argument with someone who claimed that JKR didn't steal anything and came up with everything on her own. I then pointed them in the direction of The Arthurian Legend and promptly got an apology. ^_~

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[info]limyaael
2005-03-04 07:12 am UTC (link)
Hee! Reminds me of the anecdote I found on a webpage about a boy telling his friend in the bookstore not to read Lord of the Rings because it was a Terry Brooks rip-off.

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[info]crickets
2005-03-04 08:36 am UTC (link)
Ow.

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(Anonymous)
2005-03-04 09:52 am UTC (link)
That's worse than the time my boyfriend and I walked out of the cinema after having seen The Two Towers, and this kid says "What movie did you go see?" and the bf says "Lord of the Rings." The kid says: "Was it good?" BF says: "The books were better." Then the kid says (with look of horror mixed with incredulity): "It's a book?!"

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[info]alecto
2005-03-04 05:57 am UTC (link)
Really? I swore I saw that at the Epcot Center years ago... Then again, what would I know?

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[info]ichigatsu
2005-03-04 07:13 am UTC (link)
And here I thought that kind of clock was a lot like this dartboard my dad had on his desk years ago. You know, instead of numbers, it said stuff like "fire someone", "go to lunch", "squirm out of a meeting".

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Icon'd!
(Anonymous)
2005-03-04 07:19 am UTC (link)
Image

-- damnyellowcap on LJ

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Re: Icon'd!
[info]fatesarchitect
2005-03-04 08:27 am UTC (link)
Kaaaaaatie. *has your babies*

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[info]annepackrat
2005-03-04 08:16 am UTC (link)
I'm not normally one to defend Microsoft, but I think it's just a coincidence that it's close to the Potter thing. Again, I had something similar on my dorm door in college.

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[info]gloria_mundi
2005-03-04 11:02 am UTC (link)
. . . Your icon is a horror spawned from the deepest Stygian Pits. To gaze upon it eats my sanity and does unmentionable crimes upon my soul.

. . .

Can I have a full size version?

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[info]annepackrat
2005-03-04 03:52 pm UTC (link)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v603/annepackrat/special%20macros/bushkissu.jpg

Bush loves you all. In fact,

KISSU!

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[info]gloria_mundi
2005-03-05 04:58 am UTC (link)
You know, CafePress lets you sell stickers, you could probably make some money off that

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[info]annepackrat
2005-03-05 08:25 am UTC (link)
It's not mine though, I stole it offa 4chan.

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[info]gloria_mundi
2005-03-05 08:27 am UTC (link)
Ah well

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