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Comment: Re:Application for anonymity (Score 1) 249

by tepples (#46505913) Attached to: The Era of Facebook Is an Anomaly

You realize, don't you, that Facebook's terms of service are classed and restricted as far as who can have an account, and who cannot

During its 30-month field trial, Facebook was only for college students, but it appears to have opened to all adults and teens with an Internet connection and a cell phone by the fourth quarter of 2006.

at Facebook, you are the product, not the customer

This is true of any web site that carries advertisements, including The Huffington Post itself.

one may very well have excellent reasons to stay far, far away from Facebook

Granted. You have the right to speak. But this right to speak doesn't necessarily grant a privilege to do so specifically through any particular web site.

Comment: Re:Bad example plus silly model (Score 1) 335

by tepples (#46505815) Attached to: Measuring the Xbox One Against PCs With <em>Titanfall</em>

Actually a DS is much more powerful than my example, and has dedicated sound hardware as well.

The original DS's CPU is a 67 MHz ARM, which doesn't even have a floating-point unit, unlike your Pentium. And the only "dedicated sound hardware" in a DS is a 16-channel mixer and ADPCM decoder, not an MPEG audio decoder.

There's an emulator of a real multitrack synth that runs on the DS

Which synth? Different synth algorithms have different computational complexities.

Comment: Graphics My @$$ (Score 1) 335






Comment: When CL pickups turn violent (Score 1) 77

Now I separately address the cost of hardware:









Comment: Re:Why sell one copy when you can sell four? (Score 1) 77





Comment: It's a design around (Score 1) 77

by tepples (#46496871) Attached to: Steam Controller Drops Touchscreen

The seperate buttons instead of a good D pad is why I hate the all Sony controllers.

I don't have a PS3 or PS4, but the directional pad on at least PlayStation, Dual Shock, and Dual Shock 2 controllers is all one piece of plastic. It has four separate raised segments to avoid Nintendo patents on the cross shape. And in practice, with the thumb lying flat across a PlayStation directional pad, the feel of rolling the thumb from one direction to the next isn't that different from Nintendo's design.

Comment: There are some local multiplayer PC games (Score 1) 77

by tepples (#46496843) Attached to: Steam Controller Drops Touchscreen

Eh, that doesn't really fit many games on Steam though. Local multiplayer is a rare thing on PC games. Damn shame.

I've been collecting links to Slashdot comments that recommend local multiplayer PC games. Mostly the problem has been that very few people are willing to either A. carry a desktop PC back and forth between the desk and the living room or B. buy and maintain a second computer that lacks consoles' advantage in ease of use.

You're already carrying the sphere!