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First Nintendo IQue Reviews
Major Payne writes "I have found two reviews for the exclusively in china released Nintendo IQue Player which is capable of emulating Nintendo64 as well as SNES Games hardwarewise.
English one is located over at Dextrose.com and is a bit more technically advanced than the German one. Both reviews are very detailed though and interesting to read. I also think those two are the world first reviews for this new hardware and there is also some interesting leads on how to hack the device to make it even more interesting to the rest of the world."
Isn't it just easier to download a nice N64 emulator (Project 64, (Nemu64), same with SNES (ZSnes), and if you know where to search, you can find every game for the systems, not all of them work perfectly, but hey it's emulation.
I'll accept the OT moderation but how exactly is this flamebait?
/. need to take some responsibility for the effect that their referential traffic has on other systems?
The editors here post stories that then bring down smaller/slower web servers with excessive traffic before the story even has 8 posts.
Surely the folks that run
Its not like this isn't a known issue so it continues to bewilder me why something hasn't been done about it.
And discussing this certainly doesn't seem to me to be "flamebait". This is a problem, a well known problem, and it seems to me to be something worth discussing.
Certainly the folks that run and read this site have the technical chops to build a caching system.
The parent wasn't modded down for noting that the link was Slashdotted. He was modded down for implying that Slashdot actively attempts to create DoS's (Denial of Service) crashed on various servers by "slashdotting" them.
/.ers can't tell the difference between "corporation" and "a number of corrupt execs in a number of companies")
It's like my personal opinion on Gulf War II. There are many legitimate reasons to disagree with it (think there was lack of proof, lack of support, lack of a concerte plan, simply being anti-war, etc.) but there are also the "conspiracy theorists" - people who think Bush is out there "simply to kill non-whites" or he and other rich americans are twiddling their thumbs going "Mwah hah hah!"
Same thing with the parent (unless he was just trying to be funny/troll). Just because Slashdot-links often cause DoS's, it doesn't mean that there is some "evil-purpose" to it. (and while I'm at it people - just because a company makes it to the Fortune 500, perhaps for being a does not necessarily mean that they are an "evil" corporation. Some are, but many
-- He was modded down for implying that Slashdot
/. *might* have on a site.
-- actively attempts to create DoS's (Denial of
-- Service) crashed on various servers by
-- "slashdotting" them.
Well I wasn't intending to imply anything nefarious on the part of the editors here. Not really sure why that is being assumed but I really can't see any other way to describe what happens here as anything other than an *inadvertent* and accidental DoS.
I'm not trying to say that someone is doing this deliberately but what other term is there to describe a situation where traffic brings down a site?
But one has to ask, at what point does this continued lack of action in response to a known problem become negligence?
The editors know this problem exists. Its a pretty common joke on the site. The term has entered common geek parlance.
Yet nothing appears to have been done to mitigate the potential effect that posting a story on