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And You Thought The Xbox Controller Was Big

Posted by timothy on from the antiportable dept.

dereferenced writes: "For those of you that think the GameBoy Advance is too small, has this guy got something for you! Introducing the three-feet-tall GameMan. Created as an art design project, the GameMan is a fully working, life-size, replica of an original Nintendo GameBoy. It is made from the guts of an old computer and a new flat-panel monitor. The creator has detailed its creation both in pictures and in this development journal."

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  1. /. mirror by President+Chimp+Toe · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well, a site slashdotted yet again, so I cant stay on topic.

    Why dont slashdot set up a temporary mirror system? When a site looks like it wont hold up to the slashdot effect, the editors (with permission, of course) stick up a copy of the relevant pages on the slashdot servers.

    To offset costs, they could make this part of the subscription service. I would be quite happy to pay for this. It would count as one of your "page impressions" instead of having adverts removed.

    1. Re:/. mirror by Drakin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      It would need the authors permission. Now that would delay the posting for days potentially. Which would result in the multitude of "I saw this in site x days ago." not to mention add to the work to be done by the editors.

      Then what do you do if you're told no? post anyway and slashdot the page, or not run a potentially interesting story?

    2. Re:/. mirror by mnordstr · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      The copyright problems concerning this would be just too messy to be worth the trouble of coding something like a mirror system. And getting permission by the author of the page would really take too long.

      It's really not Slashdot's headache...

    3. Re:/. mirror by redink1 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Why would you need the author's permission? Doesn't Google do essentially the same thing without requesting permission at all? Sure, you can modify some server files that makes it so Google doesn't index your site, but it still mirrors the web by default. Same thing with the Internet Wayback Machine.

    4. Re:/. mirror by Sc00ter · · Score: 1, Offtopic
      From the slashdot FAQ:



      Slashdot should cache pages to prevent the Slashdot Effect!


      Sure, it's a great idea, but it has a lot of implications. For example, commercial sites rely on their banner ads to generate revenue. If I cache one of their pages, this will mess with their statistics, and mess with their banner ads. In other words, this will piss them off.



      Of course, most of the time, the commercial sites that actually have income from banner ads easily withstand the Slashdot Effect. So perhaps we could draw the line at sites that don't have ads. They are, after all, much more likely to buckle under the pressure of all those unexpected hits. But what happens if I cache the site, and they update themselves? Once again, I'm transmitting data that I shouldn't be, only this time my cache is out of date!



      I could try asking permission, but do you want to wait 6 hours for a cool breaking story while we wait for permission to link someone?



      So the quick answer is: "Sure, caching would be neat." It would make things a lot easier when servers go down, but it's a complicated issue that would need to be thought through in great detail before being implemented.



      Answered by: CmdrTaco

      Last Modified: 6/14/00

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    5. Re:/. mirror by Qrlx · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Yeah, I agree completely. WHAT HE SAID. Or maybe, take five seconds to update the story on the front page and say Update: Site Slashdotted. Google cache Here.

      I mean, really, people bitch when you make comments but don't read the story. Well then cache the site and I'll be able to read it. Otherwise I'm gonna get involved in "off-topic" threads like this one.

      CmdrTaco are you listening??

  2. Meanwhile, the Xbox is launched in Finland... by haggar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    (Well, I know it's in the whole Europe, but I can only live in one country at a time.) So, what I have seen here in Finland, is mild to cold reception. I didn't see anyone buying them during the time I spent in the shops, and very few playing the demo console. No queue at the demo, either.

    This in sharp contrast to queues that formed at demo machines when FF 10 or Diablo were released.

    What is the experience of other fellow European gamers with regards to the Xbox launch?

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