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Just a heads up guys: discussion on how to obtain pirated content is not allowed on LTT. Feel free to talk about the legal sourcing of game ROMs and which emulators you can use etc, but please keep it at that. If pirating game ROMs is discussed in this thread, it will be locked. Thanks.

Thread reopened. I've removed a lot of posts in this thread. Just a reminder - it is against the Code of Conduct to insult other users. If further arguing and insult throwing happens in this thread, it will be permanently locked. Keep it civil.

Do you believe that a government or company can be trusted with access to the personal data of millions of people? Do you believe that they can be trusted to only seek out the data of those who commit crime, only use the data for those who break the law? Do you think that any group of people in this world can be trusted with such an absolute position of power? We, as citizens of evolved and cultured nations, are supposed to have the right to privacy and free speech. We are supposed to be protected by the legal principle that we are "innocent until proven guilty". When our governments decide that mass-surveillance is an acceptable means to track down those who break the law, they destroy those rights. By surveilling every citizen, they declare that they believe us all to be potentially guilty. No longer are we innocent until proven guilty, instead we are surveilled under the expectation of guilt. One may think that they are safe after having done nothing legally or morally wrong, but that is because they know what they have done in full detail and have full insight into their own actions and intentions. By searching through your emails, text messages, personal documents and web browsing history a third party will not have such insight and consequently they may well come to an inaccurate conclusion as to your actions or intentions based on circumstantial evidence. No-one is safe from such a system.

I completely agree with Apple. If they have the ability to unlock a bad guy's phone, they have the ability to unlock a good guy's phone. They would have the ability to access every device and consequently hand over the data of every device. No company, and certainly no government, can be trusted with such a position of absolute power. If only the bad guys could be targeted, then having a backdoor to provide access to their data would be a good idea. But we do not live in such a world.

Then stop perpetuating it. A joke is usually only funny for a finite amount of time. The #PCMasterRace rubbish has been going on for years. It makes us look like a group of egotistical asses trying far too desperately to justify our personal purchasing decisions by arguing about how superior they are to everyone else's. It's juvenile.

Because for the majority of people, having an ugly external hard drive enclosure that requires both an extra data cable and power cable to an outlet to power it is ugly and inefficient. The PS4's internal storage can be upgraded by sliding a piece of plastic, undoing a screw and slotting in a drive. It's as simple as it gets. If someone can't do that then I'm not sure how they can play games in the first place.

For this console generation, asking which is better is like asking whether purple or yellow is better. Neither is inherently 'better' - they each have their strengths and weaknesses, and both can provide an enjoyable gaming experience. Which is better depends on what specifically you are looking for. If you're only interested in playing third-party titles, the PS4 is ever so slightly ahead owing to more consistent performance in games and a generally higher resolution and framerate target across titles. (Contrary to popular belief from the PC gaming community, the majority of titles on the PS4 are rendered natively at 1920x1080, with a large number also targeting a framerate of 60fps) Short summary of plus points for each: Xbox One Xbox Live is more mature than PlayStation Network The controller is generally regarded as being better than the DualShock 4 The media functionality is significantly better. Upcoming locally-based (not streamed) backwards compatibility with Xbox 360 titles Exclusive titles such as Halo, Forza, Fable, Gears of War and Crackdown PlayStation 4 More powerful hardware, generally better performance in multi-platform titles Storage can be upgraded more easily PlayStation Now offering backwards compatibility with previous PlayStation titles (not local, streams online) Exclusive titles such as Gran Turismo, The Order: 1886, inFamous, Bloodborne, DriveClub, Uncharted and The Last of Us Ultimately, only you and your friend can decide which is best for you. They're both decent consoles and both have a good selection of games to choose from, so you shouldn't worry about making the wrong decision - there isn't such a thing this generation.

If you still have the option, I'd advise against buying a TurtleBeach headset. They are, unfortunately, very cheaply made and very poorly designed products - they are notoriously unreliable, have very poor sound quality compared to competing products and are just generally not very good. If you plan on using the headset for communicating with users on Xbox Live, I'd suggest looking around to see which headsets are the best regarded which are compatible with the Xbox 360. If you don't care about having a mic and just want to use the headset for listening to game audio, you should look into buying a pair of decent headphones instead. They'll be compatible out of the box with basically anything that has a 3.5mm headphone port and will sound much better than a TurtleBeach headset.

Disgusting. They are annihilating every UK citizen's right to online privacy - there is no justification whatsoever for the police being granted this much power. Why stop here? Why not mandate that each citizen must outfit their homes with CCTV cameras which can be monitored by the police 24/7? It would mean the police can catch anyone doing anything bad across the entire country! Fantastic idea.

Disappointing, at least so far. The price is too steep and as someone who owns a BlackBerry 10 device right now the Priv is a bit of a downgrade in functionality, if anything. Having complete access to all Android apps is nice and all but I value having a stable, secure and responsive OS more than I do having all the apps in the world at my disposal. I'm sticking with my Z30 for quite a while yet.

Unprofessional? Blimey, what rubbish. His comments are perfectly fair. I'm sure there will be other developers and consumers who will disagree with them, but that doesn't make his comments 'unprofessional'.

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Now it looks even more like a Toys "R" Us app. I'm not impressed. I didn't much like the interface for the Play Store as it is now, and this is even worse.

Seems like a half-truth, to me. I'm certain he's only saying it to strike some brownie points. Remakes are an excellent thing when done correctly. See Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, for example. Instead of just being a literal re-release of the old game running at a higher resolution, they completely revamped the game's graphics and audio whilst keeping the physics and AI systems identical to the original. But not every game deserves a remake, and if a company wants to do a remake I feel they should give it a proper amount of work to ensure it's worthwhile. Considering how far EA push their development teams (whether that's a good or bad thing), it's not surprising that they don't have time to work on remakes of old titles too.

Sad news. It always sucks to hear of yet another person falling prey to this shitty disease.

I think it's more likely that Apple have intentionally implemented such lengthy animations and 'cheats' on the basis that it ensures the user always has a smooth and consistent UI experience rather than to hide their hardware's shortcomings. With one or two exceptions, iOS device hardware is usually very competent, at least at launch time. In other words it's clever design, and it's something I've always felt Android should have implemented. They may have improved things with Project Butter in Jelly Bean, but I don't think that it was enough personally. Most of the time Android's UI feels perfectly responsive, but it's the times when it stutters and stalls and freezes and chugs along that I get frustrated. I get the impression that the UI process on Android is given a relatively low process priority.

Ah, I guess I was mistaken then.

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