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The Star Wars Trilogy Storyline -- In Legos
-homb- writes: "This Japanese Star Wars fanatic has done a series of 180 pictures telling the whole story of the Star Wars Trilogy, illustrated entirely in Legos. Even the massive explosion of the Death Star is there. It took him 155 weeks to make it. One episode a year!"
If only he knew the power of the dark side.
3prong
Okay, this is cool and all -- I mean, really I'm impressed. But, how can I say this ...
GET A LIFE!!!!!!
Don't get me wrong, but I think that maybe past a certain point just something being "neat" is not enough. To spend 155 weeks building what is essentially 30 seconds worth of "hey, that's cool" is just downright freakish. Maybe we should encourage slashdot readers to get outside and socialize, or do, essentially ANYTHING more productive than this.
That said, the scenes of the close-up death star with all the big sheets laid out are pretty cool looking, The bumps on the legos look like machinery detail.
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Thank you ever so much. That poor sever is probably got smoke comming out of it right now. :)
"That's the sort of blinkered, philistine pig ignorance I've come to expect from you non-creative garbage."-Monty Python
It just doesn't work.
Then try "Hand me some Lego..." or "Hand me that pile of Lego..." etc.
"Hand me them Lego" is CmdrTaco English, regardless of the plural of Lego.
TWW
"Encyclopedia" is to "Wikipedia" what "Library" is to "Some people at a bus stop"
Not to toot my own horn, but check out linuxdoc.org for the Lego+ Linux mini-HOWTO, which lists 7 different languages that one can program the Mindstorms in from Linux. That's the first place to go :)
~luge
IAAL,BIANLY
Troll?
You moderators are idiots. This is *funny*.
Hint for the clueless - this post is flamebait.
If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
and it seems that they have even figured out how to pronounce L's correctly. ie, Herro!
Nah, honest, it was a case of, "ah, rats, I forgot to add this, too..."
--- Jump!! Fire!! Bullet time!! - Lego version of the Matrix
A few posts above, someone noted that if you take the "sworde.htm" out of the link, it works with no problems. "What's that?" you say.. "experiemnt?" Just like a newbie, you try the obvious, it doesn't work, then you complain that the whole thing's broken and go into a rant about how nothing works, or in this case, about how Slashdot is a DOS attack waiting to pounce upon unsuspecting websites.
The site is fine... it hasn't been slashdotted... and for those of you who are deriding the guy who did the Leg(o) work... seems like a bit of jealousy to me.
grow up.. if you can. :o)
Mr.Moonlight
Time to pull the head out of the butt, posters
This is just a me too message. I really admire that guy. He has made some of the best Star Wars models out of Lego that I have seen, especially his Millenium Falcon and his (ESB) Star Destroyer.. Wow! (I am not even comparing his work with the models that LEGO is selling now... they mostly suck)
"We mustn't be caught by surprise by our own advancing technology" -- Aldous Huxley
A lawyer wrote Star Wars? Excellent!
"When it rains, it pours." --Morton's Salt
PayPal just went international - Japan is included. Now you can can send him a dollar! Denise
Yes, they think its a TOS error because any site that gets a SLASHDOT worth of traffic must obiously be warez. This is true because there is hardly any site on geocities worth the space it takes up.
I have their secret algorithim:
if( $high_traffic ) $luzer_page = $__WAREZ__;
I don't really mind double posts on
but he mentioned tentacle rape which is automatically going to get modded up due to the first moderator guideline:
"1) Promote Tentacle Rape, Discourage Crap."
i wonder if slashdot has ever asked an author permission to mirror a website while it is on /. so people can actually view the article instead of trying to comment one something they can't view...
well i was lucky enough this time to see it. the lightsabres are the yellow and red legos that are like those straight antennas... i don't know much about legos, but the trees and scenery this guy created was pretty good looking. luke in one screen was a yellow lego man with a yellow shirt on and a white circle in the center(?). sometimes he had brown hair on his head.. well that's about all i saw.
I have started a mirror here:
Here
I'm sure you've spent more time on Slashdot that that per week, and for what?
Drag n' Drop DVD Recommendations
He has WAY too much time. And way too many Legos.
Hey! Legoland isn't far from me, maybe I should turn them on to this guy. Wait that probably means I have WAY too much time...
"That's the sort of blinkered, philistine pig ignorance I've come to expect from you non-creative garbage."-Monty Python
I've seen this before, and while it's old... I still love it! It's great.... Inspiration.. just think what could come next..
Userfriendly in Lego form.
Slashdot crew in legos
Presidential election in lego form! WOAH! it's amazing.. maybe I'll try to make a major motion picture! Bet it would make millions.
oh, it doesn't mean you're not wasting your life, it just means you're not doing it so blatantly frivolously. :)
eudas
Blessed is he who expects the worst, for he shall not be disappointed.
Let me think about this....when someone built Mt. Rushmore from legos, everyone was really impressed with the skill and art and patience and all..but when someone builds star wars scenes, it is a waste of time from someone that has way too much time on his hands.
I, for one, would like to congratulate this achievement...nothing I would put a bumper sticker on my car for though...and i wouldn't want to be the proud father that has to be proud of their child....
The anti-salmon
"What?!"
"That's what I'm telling you kid, it's been totally blown away."
"When it rains, it pours." --Morton's Salt
heh .. yeah .. thats a copywrite thing :P
at my currant job - we are told to do the same thing.
if a word becomes widly used to decribe an object (noun) you can loose your patent on it.
IE: Snakelight, or WhiteOut, or ScotchTape etc.
*I* still say legos, but then again, I voted Illegally too :(
I'm hungry, wheres the paste
--Ne auderis delere orbem rigidum meum, non erravi pernicose!
It's still available, but the orig. link does not work. It can be found here.
Mmmmmmm. Floor pie!
The admins seem to have killed the sight... "Forbidden, you do not have permission to access this site" Somebody's in trouble...
Is your idea of "good" photography for there to be no shadows and no planar focus?
Free Hans!
The asciimation is great, but even better is the "Die Jar Jar" asciimation on the same site
http://www.asciimation.co.nz/diejarjar.html
Hilarious
Steven
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He doesn't have Mark Hammil shout out "Carrie" when calling Leia.
In Australia, Lego is the collective noun of Lego. In the US, it would seem to be `Legos'. Since the stuff is European [Dutch is it?] in origin, what do Europeans use?
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getting a 404 today!=-_... anyone know of a mirror? domo
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
Did he say, "Put Mozilla on a leash?"
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Legos and star wars, a classic toy combined with a classic story. There should be other combinations like that, i.e. the U.S. Government and intelligence, and the politician and the bar of angry voters.
I am !amused.
People have posted this before and will post it again. There is a direct reference to the correct way to state this on the lego website and you lot continue to get it wrong.
ObLegoThreadFlame: It's 'Lego' or 'Lego bricks'. 'Legos' ought to be what the Lego robotic controller module thing runs, except I don't think it is, so I guess it's just another infuriating Merkinism.
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its not a waste of time, hes created something that now many people are enjoying. what have YOU done?
- Joe
-Joe
It's difficult to mirror what you can't access in the first place.
How's that for important?
-atrowe: Card-carrying Mensa member. I have no toleranse for stupidity.
no reply from www.tanukikoji.or.jp *doh*
slashdot effect strikes again
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are wrong. One would think he'd have matched the characters better after spending so much time on this. I guess I could have said "Why is the biker from the Village People playing Obi Wan?"
Now make a full length Lego Starwars movie and I'll be impressed.
-atrowe: Card-carrying Mensa member. I have no toleranse for stupidity.
Star Wars leads to Legos. Legos lead to link on Slashdot. Links on Slashdot - lead to suffering.
Troll?
just goes to show that any John Q. Moron can be a moderator.
And this TOO was flame-bait!
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
it really is a fantastic site and a magnificent achievement. i dunno why some ppl here are criticising though. jealousy i think.
No...I think they were smiling all the time. But I'm positive that was at least 5 years ago, so I could be mistaken. I don't think Lego came out with the non-smiling technology until a few years ago.
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new zealand who wanted a faster/cheaper view.
http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/starwars/legostarwa
sorry, viewable in AU/NZ only.
-jason
I went to the URL listed, cut off the file name. And there was a link to this page. http://www5b.biglobe.ne.jp/~mbsf/sworde.htm
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Swearing is the crutch of inarticulate mother fuckers.
Just wondering.. Did these Star Wars thingies also contain "lego-heads" that weren't smiling al the time? It's a bit strange to see a scene were to people are about to kill eachother, with expressions on their face, as if the were drinking tea.
I went to the link specified by the article, cut off the file name from the URL and got a page with an "English Version" link that pointed to here. http://www5b.biglobe.ne.jp/~mbsf/sworde.htm- ----
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Swearing is the crutch of inarticulate mother fuckers.
Have you seen the destroyer droid? It is a technic work of art. Can't transform worth a darn, but it's very nice looking.
Some guy worked hard on a project and shared his stuff on the web, what does he get? Personal attacks and a couple of borderline racist jokes about the Japaness people? (Mod up as Funny I may add)
I guess next you are going to make fun of some Fin recreating UNIX on his 386! Think about it and be ashame of yourself.
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Yes, it did.
TWW
"Encyclopedia" is to "Wikipedia" what "Library" is to "Some people at a bus stop"
Not anymore.. appears that Geocities pulled the plug, as both links come up with an error:
..or corporations..)
"This page is not available.
We're sorry, but this page is currently unavailable for viewing."
The link on the error page hints strongly at a TOS violation.
(Gee, did the sudden traffic spike set off some internal alarm over there?)
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doesn't seem very important to me, but what do I know?
"Server Errors do not concern me, Admiral... I want those pages found!"
Oh well. I didnt like my Karma that much anyway. At some point Slashdot, and Im talking to you guys in charge of approving the content, needs to wake up and remember that they are in control of a lumbering internet beast. You can't just point hundreds of thousand of users to a small web site and not expect to kill it. Nevermind one in JAPAN for gods sake. The whole damn place is connected to the net with 4 AOL accounts, 2 deaf monks doing sign langauge and a very tiny guy in a suit that just got tired of the lag and decided to get out and push. Something really does need to be done here. Notify the admins before posting a story, mirror the site locally, have a mirror pool of users that will mirror sites before a story hits. Do Something! We wouldnt stand for it if CNN burned down the house of the person they just interviewed, why should /. be any different? Come on Rob, you have the bandwidth. Time to be one of the big kids and use it for something other then a DoS attack on unsuspecting Japanese lego maniacs.
Time to put the gorilla on a leash guys.
Jason
www.cyborgworkshop.com
...and the geek shall inherit the earth...
www.linux-skunkworks.com
I prefer the Jar Jar death scene :)
This site is fantastic. It certainly will help to combat the stereotype of the Japanese as little obsessive-compulsive types who fetishise anything related to technology and/or sci-fi, with strange hobbies and no lives. I mean, after seeing something like this, the notions we have about the Japanese just get shot to pieces. I mean, what better way to teach that on their own time, for R+R, the Japanese aren't insanely drawn to exceedingly complex, difficult, pointless and time consuming pursuits in an effort to achieve perfection in something with absolutely no practical value.
To the otaku-zoku who put this together, I stand up and salute you. Thanks for debunking the myths. Next week, a man who lovingly renders "tentacle-rapist alien attacks 14 year old schoolgirl anime" with a pointilist technique by cutting and pasting microscopic pieces of cloth from "used schoolgirl underwear" vending machine panties.
--- Jump!! Fire!! Bullet time!! - Lego version of the Matrix
It's a space station!
This is what's called a hobby. It's considered perfectly healthy and even recommended by psychiatric professionals for people who do nothing but sit around at home and wallow, or are singularly focused on their careers.
Those of you who say this guy needs to get a life or has too much time on his hands are just jealous because you haven't done anything this neat with your lives.
You can deny it, but when we get down to it really it's the heart of the matter.
Ever get the impression that your life would make a good sitcom?
Ever follow this to its logical conclusion: that your life is a sitcom?
"I don't care about the Constitution!" --Bill O'Reilly, November 17, 2009
> The link on the error page hints strongly at a TOS violation.
Here is the TOS < http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/geoterms.html>
What part did he violate ? hateful content ?
Cheers,
--fred
1 reply beneath your current threshold.
Yea they canned my account, oh well I made a new account at 50megs.com...
I present Slashdot Mirror.
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From: Aaron "PooF" Matthews
My oh my, I can actually contribute to Slashdot! My goldfish must be so proud. For those too lazy to find the proper link themselves here you go. http://www5b.biglobe.ne.jp/~mbsf/sworde.htm
Yes, the mini-blind striping technique was stunning ;)
Dear starwars obsessive lego artists May I please take the time to point out on your work that the George Lucas, horendously bombing, teddy bear merchandise race more commonly know as ewoks, should be portrayed in a somewhat different light that to place micky mouse ears on the head of a standard sized lego figure. I would suggest removing the legs, for not only will it promote a more realistic size ratio, but being the standard evil overlords the empire is, it makes them a easier target to hit, and may give a few of their troops the ability to aim within at least ten feet of a 'main' character. My second suggestion would be in the form of changing the 'ears' to anything other than a headdress that makes me think their about to break out into a round of "M-I-C-K-E-Y...". It has come to the point of artistic genius in the field of legos is only understood by the true artist.
--And the penguin looked towards me and said: "Slide!"
Slashdot can not mirror websites becouse it's copyriten matereal...
They'd get sued...
Side note...
at one time Slashdot itself ran on one computer.. and it was allready unleashing the Slashdot effect.
Yes Slashdot can take down websites... Known as the Slashdot effect...
However they are not alone...
Rush Limbaugh won't announce websites anymore becouse of his own Slashdot effect..
User Friendlys Ufies produce a Ufie Slashdot effect..
On the other hand...
Web sites who survived the Slashdot effect with no ill side effects include a Linux 386...
Web sites who died include Windows NT clusters..
I don't mean to say that Linux is allways on the surviver side and NT allways on the death side... the 386 was all static links and the NT cluster had an AI...
But more often than not if it dies it's NT if it dosn't even notice it's Linux... (And if it dies it's got dynamic pages)
It's up to the webmaster to ammor his website against the Slashdot effect not Slashdot to protect them...
People shouldn't be complacent about how fast dynamic pages can be generated...
An OS/2 box running on a 286 can run a website... you throw out for a Xenon or a Pentium pro for a reason...
Your using Linux, BSD, Solarus or Windows NT/2K for a reason...
You have mega bandwith for a reason...
It's not for deathmatches... it is for larg amounts of traffic...
The Slashdot effect may nock down websites.. sorry.. But for those who are preparied... geocitys, ZDnet, etc.. the traffic means banner hits... money... thats the name of the game..
if a small website run by two monkeys gets nocked down.. ok so someones going to have a "bad day".. to bad...
if I got Slashdotted ZenToe would be FRIED.. I know this.. (I'm working on code to prevent it).. But it's my problem.. Not Tacos..
If I were Slashdotted (into DUST) I'd say "ThankYouThankYouThankYou" and fix my website...
I don't actually exist.
So the main page and the mirror are down :( Does any one else want to commit Hurry Curry and post a mirror they might have made
It was moderated UP Funny... and one down "troll" (someone didn't see Space balls and didn't know what the poster was saying)
One idiot moderator and thousands of idiot posters...
[No wonder Microsoft has 90% of the market... people are to stupid to try anything new]
I don't actually exist.
It just doesn't work.
Perhaps it should be 'Legs Godt' (like courts martial).
(LEGO = Leg Godt = Play Good - apparently, although I stand open to correction from Danish speakers)
andy.
So how long will we have to wait for EpisodeI, twenty years or just another 155 weeks??
John Carmack fan, browsing at +5 since 1999.
Use the mirrors, Luke, use the mirrors...
Trust the Computer. The Computer is your friend.
"Have you found anything yet?"
"We aaaaain't found shit!"
Whoops! Spaceballs! What was I thinking?
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everyone references them as "Legos", but according to the company, that is incorrect. They are "Lego Construction Bricks". Lego is the company name.
a life would be good here...
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Dude! 155 weeks to make, 10 minutes to slashdot. Sometimes I feel bad following links posted here...
Posted from the wireless couch.
I verified all the images and they all look the same. Get it here. Note that I only mirror the english, not the Japanese.
Or get the whole thing zipped here.
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I saw a program once, had some guy on it whos counting to a million on a little calculator-with-a-printer-on-it. He was going 1, return,2, return,3 etc..
He had a basement full of printouts lab, labelled like 1 - 1000, 1001 - 2000... the whole room was full of these boxes.
Now THATS sad.
And in the u.k. we have `trainspotters` - people who`s idea of fun is to wear really geeky clothes and stand at the end of platforms at train stations, making notes about which trains turn up, and when. Amazing.
why doesnt lego have star trek toys , a borg cube made out of lego would be great then you could go visit people and " assimulate " there lego into your lego colective, and when nobody invites you over anymore you can just throw your huge borg lego cube through there windows to gain access to there precoius lego pieces . but lego luke skywalker's one black hand is very cool
This is how i go , when i go like this
'm still waiting for Lego to make non-Windows (oh, wait, I think around here that's Windoze - though that really is more accurate....) Mindstorm. Really, how hard can it be to make a *nix version...
Umm, have you looked at lugnet? There are a lot of people using Linux and Mindstorms, mind you the RCX works best, as you can download the firmware and software.
You don't use the Lego software though, you use pbForth or NQC, I believe.
In a similar vein......
telnet to blekko.com and type starwars
Episode IV : A New Hope in Ascii............
"Lego" used as an adjective, be it singular or plural, is always "Lego." This is demonstrated below:
"May I have a Lego, please, mother?"
"Those Lego houses certainly look outstanding."
This guy has been stuck on the tractor beam scene for months now. I guess he got his sanity back.
BTW, that site is hypnotizing. My boss busted me when I was watching it and he ended up watching the rest over my shoulder. Dare I release this productivity leech on my collegues? I think so.
Remember, You are unique...just like everyone else.
"Thirty minutes until Rebel base is in firing range!"
MIRROR
http://while1.org/~xm/SWlegos/sworde.htm
Nothing more needs to be said.
Langorious Sigh.
You quitting proves that the karma kap worked. The most annoying of the whores shut up. --CmdrTaco
Uh, the good ol days of 2 years ago? 1998 was the first year LEGO had anything to do with Star Wars and vice-versa. Perhaps you're thinking of Space Lego series?
Pope
Freedom is Slavery! Ignorance is Strength! Monopolies offer Choice!
It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.
I don't get these sites that collapse when you give them a slight push.
Speaking of stupid... What a stupid thing to say.
You see any banner ads or something else that indicates that this is anything other than a guy with a hobby who decided to share his efforts with like-minded people on the net?
....I thought not... And you want him to be running a distributed network of robust web servers on the off chance the he might get slashdotted to hell one day.
Stupidity is pointing your way I'm afraid.
'sapientia potestas est'
You've got it all wrong. The geeks shall internet the earth!
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Amen.
I am become Troll, destroyer of threads
what kind of drug is "kettle"?
There are probably more shot for shot remakes of Star Wars in lego in production than you can shake a stick at.
come for the naked robots, stay for the zombies
Dude, I hope your happy, the Ewoks are running rampid again.... what could possess a guy to do this lego thang.
I propose starting the Slashdot Mirror Mafia. A group of people not including myself shall monitor the main page and wget the story URL's as they are posted, placing them on a publically accessible page somewhere. To hell with the legal ramifications, that's why they'll be called 'Mafia'.
Not that this story was particularly interesting...nice lego work but awful photographing. Much ado about nothing.
Is it just me or does this article have a nintendo icon?
http://www.asciimation.co.nz/
Equally nuts, I'd say.
The only certainty is entropy.
Its moment's like this when I realize my own obsessions are not so extreme.
Japanese fandom is frightning, but amusing.
no
how hard could it possibly be to hack up a squid proxy to link through? That should be a lot less work than coordinating a bunch of mirrors, and it might work better with dynamic content...
I am very impressed w/this guy's patience, time, and artistic skill. Time to move on to more exciting and important things in life.
.02
Just my worthless
http://www.c-60.org/starwars_legos /sw orde.htm
A communications breakdown can only mean one thing...
Invasion!
I've done some similar work (on a much, much smaller scale) around the X-COM universe.
You can go here to see it, if you wish.
So, I can tell you the time and patience it took to make this thing is incredible.
Let's take this shot for example. He had to build that entire wall sideways and the "lights" are actually the 1/3 wide plates. Then he had to line up the shot so you can't see anything in the background, light it properly, etc. That's for one shot.
This is a great bit of work. I ran into this site about a year ago, but it's great to see people liking his stuff.
Anyway, my $.02. I'm on to making movies now. It's amazing what you can do with the 1 or 2 hours a week you could have spent watching advertising spacer sitcoms on TV.
How come this was filled under games, and not lego or Star Wars. Not to pick a nit or anything.
JET Program: see Japan, meet intere
Does it have anything to do with "Tea, Earl Grey, hot"?
:-)
Maybe they read the FAQ. Maybe they understood it. Maybe they are disappointed that the top story at the time contains a link which is completely useless as posted and feel that this should somehow be remedied, because it lessens the effectiveness of Slashdot. As far as I can tell, stripping the page name away and starting from the raw directory works fine, though.
I do not have a signature
If you look at the dates, this has been around for a while, and if you've spent any time on Lugnet, you would have seen this already.
having said that, it's time to welcome a whole new crowd to this amazing feat. Didja notice the "behind the scenes" shots? This guy made things like real movie sets to get the shots he needed, and created a whole camera crew for the "making of" pictures! Now that's pretty damn cool
Now, as for the 2001 LEGO catalog, all I have to say is "Imperial Shuttle, plus guards"
Pope
Freedom is Slavery! Ignorance is Strength! Monopolies offer Choice!
It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.
TWW
"Encyclopedia" is to "Wikipedia" what "Library" is to "Some people at a bus stop"
The faithfully rendered sets made out of Legos notwithstanding, why this is so good is the PHOTOGRAPHS. The guy manages to get the lighting and the perspective right for most of the shots, which is why they evoke this uncanny similarity to the screen shots and make the sight gag so effective.
Without that skill the Death Star would be just one more project by my little brother
Goat sex free since 2001
Well, I could understand this story being posted under the heading of "toys" (for lego) or "star wars" ... but is there a good reason it's posted under the topic "games"? Did someone forget to hit the "preview" button? :)
Dear Mr. Tanukikoji,
It has come to our attention that you have made an unauthorized use of my copyrighted work titled the Star Wars Triology (the "Work") in the preparation of a work derived therefrom. My client has reserved all rights in the Work, first published in 1979, and have registered copyright therein. Your work entitled Lego Star Wars is essentially identical to the Work and clearly used the Work as its basis. Example of therein is the use of the Death Star (tm) and the explosion of said Death Star in the movie Star Wars, published 1979, and your work, published in 2000.
As you neither asked for nor received permission to use the Work as the basis for Lego Star Wars nor to make or distribute copies of same, we believe you have willfully infringed our client's rights under 17 U.S.C. Section 101 et seq. and could be liable for statutory damages as high as $100,000 as set forth in Section 504(c)(2) therein.
My client demands that you immediately cease the use and distribution of all infringing works derived from the Work, and all copies of same, that you deliver to me all unused, undistributed copies of same, or destroy such copies immediately and that you desist from this or any other infringement of my rights in the future. If we have not received an affirmative response from you by December 1st, 2000 indicating that you have fully complied with these requirements, we shall take further action against you.
Very truly yours,
Sam Litigand, LLC.
Litigand and Partners.
But what about if slashdot mirrored the small sites themselves before posting the link (as many many posters have suggested already)
I mean, if google can do it why not slashdot?
To be on the safe side, these mirrors should make it clear that they are temporary mirrors and have a link to the original site
See title.
This is hilarious!. Slashdot reading computer geeks (yes I'm one too) are now flaming this guy saying 'get a life'.
;)
Do the words Pot, Kettle and black mean anything to you guys?
Thank you! I desperately scanned the comments list for an ounce of sanity and found it!
gadgetophile.com
Are you a moron?
Read the FAQ.
If you have read the FAQ, read it again.
You obviously didn't understand it.
wget (well, any web-based mirroring tool) is problematic. Can't deal with Java, DBs, Javascript, etc. For anything more than a static site..., you need a proper mirroring setup.
Open Source. Closed Minds. We are Slashdot.
I saw this page a couple years ago.
I am amazed in how he used pre-Star Wars lego pieces/figures for this. Like the Ghosts as snow troopers, for example. And i love the giant worm in the asteroid was a shark.
The millenium falcon was nice too. Someone else made it down to the T, using little minifig antennas(often used in LEgoland construction vehicles as control sticks) in the back of it to simulate little hydraulic pumps. So, including the official Lego version, there's been 3 millenium falcons made.
I know waaay too much of this from a Lego Maniac's perspective.
Can't reach the original site or the mirror? If you haven't seen it before, you might want to try the Ascimation version.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
a great disturbance in the Force... as if millions of /.ers cried out in an attempt to load the page... and were DoSed.
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I just read the article and damnit... I knew it had to be slashdotted already... I got a few pictures but damn... it's so gonna toast his site... I think slashdot should have to warn sites a week in advance or something... that's just ridiculous... just my opinion...
Oh yeah... and the pictures I saw were VERY cool so go to the site... hehehehe...
How in the world can you call getting Slashdotted a "slight push"?
Then I saw this page.
It's comforting to know that there are people who waste their free time in even lamer ways than I do. Now I can post comments on /. and debate the finer points of distros guiltlessly, free of the fear that I'm wasting my life.
This is so beautiful. There is something esoteric about this kind of art. Like the ascimation it makes me want to toss a coin or two their way for making life seem just that more sureal.
I wish there was a way to tip him a few bucks. I'll send a card, but there should be a web service for this.
Cheers Andrew
I can remember (back in the day, of course), when I had almost EVERY little Star Wars thingy that Lego came out with. Can't remember the name of the series, but it was great.
But really, when is someone going to do this with Mindstorms? Especially the flying objects?
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Next we'll hear he's been tapped to direct some Hollywood flick...
No idea how many people view slashdot in a day, but if they all spend 30 seconds going "hey that's cool" then that's a lot of man-hours spent in appreciation of your efforts.
http://www5b.biglobe.ne.jp/~mbsf/sworde.htm seems to work fine.
Unless you're the fat guy ;)
Bush isn't even in the whitehouse yet and look at the trouble he's causing.
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -David Hume
http://mindstorms.lego.com/darkside/ That just shows part of the Hoth battle, but it is animated.
All the creatures will die, And all the things will be broken. That's the law of samurai. (Jubai, 1605)
Right? You might as well do something other than watch tv and
masturbate.
So far we have 4 sites completely /.'d - The real site, two GeoCities sites and an independant mirror. Is this some sort of record? If I read about a new outbreak of DDoS incedents(aimed at Yahoo and a site in Japan, of course) on CNN, I'm really going to be ROTFLMAO.
Politics, Culture, Food?
Yeah, the bit about taking a few extra hours is
a good point... after all, slashdot is always there with the breaking news...
a few weeks later.
(ok, sometimes a few years later)
Then again, maybe it's a stupid point, but it would involve a little effort in a place where they can't even be bothered to use a spellchecker.
It's like the fat guy back in High School gym class. You may suck at gym, but the fat guy always makes you look good.
This guy is the fat guy of Star Wars fans.
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These aren't the droids you're looking for.
I'll bet Vader was pissed when he found out that the Death Star was delayed 155 weeks because they couldn't find any of those little pieces with the holes on both sides.
Sure, it's the worst of the series yet, but with a lego jar jar we can destroy him piece by piece.
...mirror things like this before it's posted...
Really, even if only temporarily... get permission, mirror it, and then post it.
BlackNova Traders
The exciting commentary at the side of one of the pictures...
I've been waiting for you,
Obi-Wan.
You don't look like you
used to be.
Neither do you,
Darth Vader.
This is the end for you.