Posts by Joerg

Fake hackers for a fake contest.. hackers don't exist.

It's all marketing.

Hackers don't exist. It's a marketing myth.

Whoever seriously believes that viruses get coded by hackers and not companies themselves so that then antivirus programs can be sold must be really naive.

The same goes for jailbreak firmwares for smartphones and consoles and so on and on. It's all viral marketing created by companies themselves (and yeah Sony with the PS3 it's just showing that their current managers are out of mind and don't know what to do anymore).

These contests are a silly marketing joke.

These people are not the smartest programmers in the world, they are just a companies marketing ploy.

Wake up people, real programmers are not these ones and hackers don't exist. The only real hackers are: 1) Real programmers paid companies employees paid to steal critical data info and projects from other companies; 2) Secret agencies/military spies

Sony managers are out of mind..stop this b*s*it!

George Hotz is a Sony employee. Just like so called "hackers" releasing PSP jailbroken firmwares are Sony employees too. It's all marketing. But now Sony managers got so dumb that want to scare actual and potential customers.. inside Sony there are some really dumb managers that have no clue what they are doing and instead of increasing market share thru the usual trick of mod-chips like on PS1 and PS2 (and like everyone else including Apple,Microsoft,Nintendo do with their products)..now they want to start suing real people turning the marketing hacking thing from farce into nightmare for people.. when after all there is no really working hack for PS3 because if it was a real hack that Sony didn't plan it all by itself then they wouldn't have had any possible way to ban whoever used the hack. The fact is that with PS1 and PS2 they didn't really do anything legally wise against whoever bought the modchips..of course them producing those "hack tools" under Chinese names..why would they want to kill themselves? But now inside Sony there are clearly two group of managers and the end result is going to be the demise of Playstation3 market share in the not so long run.

Screw with actual and potential customers once.. you might get away with it.. screw with them again using some retarded scare tactics abusing the justice system and your business is going to collapse sooner than later.

Barack Hussein Obama is a disgrace

Along with US Democrats Left Wing party.

What is DoJ under Obama order going to do then? Are they going to kill MPEG LA and crush the whole IT industry to defend their Google managers because now Google is to their new puppet?

What? Lower taxes to big business groups? Why?

This is just crazy. So big companies want to pay less than 30% to Apple because they are big and "not as dumb as" smaller publishers and single developers,uh? That's just CRAZY!

It's small developers that Apple should charge less and it's big companies that should pay more to Apple. Otherwise it's better for Apple to change nothing at all and keep asking 30% to everyone.

Surely forcing single developers to pay 30% tax and giving discounts to big groups publishing apps on iOS would be the best way to kill single developers completely and turn the Apple App Store into just another shop for big businesses. The big ones can pay more, small developers need to grow in order to be able to afford paying more on royalties and taxes to Apple or any other group. So giving a discount to big groups it's only the best way for Apple to kill their own market quickly.

Another bad iPod clone... with Linux Android it sucks...

The whole Linux Android thing is a real nightmare to both developers and users.

Programming on Android any application it's just crazy, it doesn't matter that Google approves any garbage application submitted to them no question asked when a developer has to deal with nonsense lack of clear standard specifications among devices and a disgusting Java like virtual machine using web oriented languages like Javascript instead of good plain C/C++ with a proper set of APIs. And running all of that on top of a Linux system doesn't help either.

With all the Apple limitations programming on Apple iOS OSX Unix Mach-BSD based it's way easier. And the end user experience it's guaranteed to be better as well even with garbage apps when they get approved.

So Amazon is owned by US Military,CIA,NSA thru NASA....

That seems pretty obvious. Are they using those servers and these services exactly to do what? That is the big question.

Apple hacks itself as usual and as all other manufacturers do...

..but people still buy the marketeers mantra that would be little computer wiz kids hacking and cracking DRM encrypted hardware and earning nothing out of it... like it was ever possible... Common people don't get how complex things are and how much it would cost to do any real reverse engineering. Unless secret agencies and militaries were behind any hacking or cracking thing... it's just a marketing stunt, manufacturers hack/crack themselves in order to sell more hardware, it's just as simple as that.

Android is a scam worse than the 3D with glasses...

Android is the Linux scam of the mobile world. Corporate managers are pushing a badly engineered architecture on the market like it was better than anything before it... the fact is that it is the worst possible option.

SymbianOS is the only real viable platform that could be better than iPhone if only Nokia pushed it properly.

But no.. there is the low quality Android from Google everywhere now... which just sucks.

Google couldn't even define a real and proper hardware specifications standard for manufacturers.. so application developers have to deal with a real nightmare trying to support an increasing number of incompatible devices.. it's the Linux anarchy.. a real mess with no real engineering plan.. that is the opensource scam for the masses...

HDMI does work. This new standard is going to fail consumer wise

It will be very useful only in business environments without the need to buy multiple HDMI->Ethernet switchers/converters although for years still converting will be needed to attach current HDMI ports equipped hardware until the new HDBaseT ports will be included too.

@Christian Berger: you should use a properly shielded HDMI cable certified for 1.3a or 1.3b. I have a 12meters 1.3b Atlona HDMI flat cable for my 1080p Sony projector and it works flawlessly, no repeaters needed, no dropouts, HDCP is working smoothly with no disconnections.

"George Hotz, aka geohot"=Sony employees

And that's it. Isn't it enough to explain it all?

It's kinda obvious. It's 2010 and people are still so naive and ignorant about anything involving IT that still believe that hacking and cracking complex DRM protection schemes and decrypting encrypted codes would be so easily that either a bunch or a single teenager or little kid would be able to do it... Yeah, sure.. in your urban myth dreams maybe...

Reverse Engineering of DRM protected and encrypted codes it's one of the most difficult and expensive things to do and it would usually require a team of talented, very well paid professional designers,programmers and engineers with many years of experience in the field.

But people nowadays still believe that hacked/cracked/jailbroken firmwares and such for PSP, iPhone and now PS3 would be made by so called "hackers".. the marketeers myth of teenagers computers wiz to hide the viral marketing tactics of Companies/Corporations spreading cracked firmwares and modchips to let their customers and potential customers play "pirated" copies in order to just sell more hardware=higher profits.

This is the only truth. But you can keep believing the myth dreams and see pink cows flying around if you wish...

There is a huge quality difference when the size gets bigger...

@"By Anonymous Coward Posted Wednesday 4th November 2009 15:26 GMT @Nigel Callaghan : Unless you get a big screen (e.g. 50 inch) and sit quite close you're not going to be able to tell the difference between 1080p and 720 p - at 26" you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference between HD and DVD ! " --- You are absolutely wrong. There is a huge difference in quality between 720p and 1080p on 40" or bigger displays. Actually even on smaller ones it's possible to tell the difference.

The best HD experience is achieved with a 90" or 100" either HD 1080p projector and a proper 1.2 or 1.3 gain quality screen or with LCD/Plasma of the same size.

At that size the viewer can get a lot more spatio-temporal details in his/her eyes cones/rods...

Apple is at fault here and politicians should do something about it

Apple must pay its employees, period. And accusing and attacking non-paid employees that need to be paid for their job it's the worst marketing tactic that Apple could have ever done.

There is nothing else to do, Apple must pay and that's it. Period.

Seagate HDUs quality got worse than ever. Higher fault rate with Chinese drives...

Since they moved the main production to China the quality of Seagate HDUs went downhill like never before. I never ever got so many defective Seagate HDUs like in the last year or so. Even 1TB 7200.11 32MB SATA-II Barracuda HDUs were defective when testing--I always pre-test HDUs,RAM and GPU before installing for safety and to avoid installation errors.

In the last 3 months I got 3 Seagate 500GB EIDE models with errors reported by Seatools in a row. Then a 1TB 7200.11 32MB SATA-II drive with many errors. A 320GB 7200.10 16MB SATA-II failed with errors after just 2500 PowerOnHours approx. Just yesterday I had to service a PC with a new Seagate 500GB 7200.11 32MB SATA-II drive that failed with errors after just 1260 POH, bought on last August.

All the drives were manufactured in China.

That is bad, really bad for Seagate. They better quit from China and deliver their once was outstanding quality back to customers or they will have to file for bankruptcy in a few years...

Too many using drugs and commenting excited of an insane liberalization

Any drugs including alcohol and smoke actually destroy cells brain neurons and alter the correct flowing and use of chemical elements in the brain and whole body. What people think is pleasure it's actually the body in pain and requesting you to stop it, failing to do so it's what causes your mind to get confused because not just the brain but the whole body keeps sending out of order signals of pain an warnings for what you are doing to yourself and the living tissues that let you be alive.

People commenting here don't understand interlacing...

Nor they do understand signals theory and what it appears on their displays after all the calculations.

Claiming that 1080i would be equal to 540p it's a wrong assumption.

Interlacing was created to halve the needed bandwith yes but the real resolution it's not half the source, the full source still gets reconstructed.. Interlacing was an analogue compression of the signal, a compression in the analogue domain in the '40s while the SDTV standard was invented and when digital devices still didn't exist and when transmitting the whole signal would have been too expensive.

What interlacing causes a serious distortion of the optical flow axis, the image looks fuzzy because information got discarded more in the time domain than in the spatial domain.

People will buy everything for Christmas despite any financial crisis

The quality difference between native HDTV 1080p content on Blu-Ray discs is huge compared to the outdated ancient SDTV DVD one (and no, upscaling doesn't compare).

Prices are falling down very quickly, from Japan you can buy BD-R 25GB discs for even less than 5.00 Euros(3.8GBP) each. It's just the price of DVD-R discs around 2002-2003. Blu-Ray burner drives like the LG GGW-H20L now cost around 160Euros(124GBP), no more than what DVD-R 4x burners were priced at around 2004-2005.

Firefox 3.0.3 still full of serious bugs.. it crashes on sites with Flash contents

And it crashes continously on many sites. For example the C|Net www.tv.com it's really unusable.

@Jodo Kast: Are you a Microsoft or Toshiba employee, I wonder...?

No, really... do you really believe that consumers ever chose HD-DVD that was just selling a bunch of disc copies and hardware devices worldwide?

Since when Microsoft has political, legal and military powers ?

In practice Microsoft is spreading out viruses with which they can control people machines claiming that they are using a pirated copy and everyone knows that thanks to many documented false positives that's going to happen to those that paid for the insanely priced OS license and not just using copies.

Vista SP1 is available everywhere on the 'net.. just look at torrent sites and P2P networks.. there are hundreds versions fully cracked and fully working being spread daily and with which WindowsUpdate works perfectly. So, why Microsoft doesn't care about "protecting Vista users" but wants to be so helpful towards XP customers?

If only Microsoft wasn't a monopoly allowed to do whatever they want to and completely out of control like no other business in the world and if only their products prices were fair then there wouldn't have been so much people using cracked copies, and that's for sure.

If a product is priced right then 90%+ of people will buy it. There is no reason why an OS license must cost 4-5 up to 20 times more than a blockbuster high budget movie DVD or BD disc release. Really, there is none.

The right price for a Vista Ultimate license should be $69 while basic versions should be priced in the $29 - $59 range.

The same applies to XP and Windows2003/Windows2008. Instead their license are so expensive that even a profitable business risks to go bankrupt paying the Microsoft monopoly those insane prices.

@Martin Huizing: And you would be the one judging others,uh?

Right? Because you are so cool and smart and with many degrees, uh? You are a realy pro, right? You have full knowledge of everything,right?

A simple quote like that means nothing, you don't have a clue of what are you are talking about. How old are you, five ?

@Tom

You are correct except for the fact that the CPU number of cores is going to increase pretty quickly as well. By Q2 2009 Intel should have released the 8-core Nehalem version, at least the Xeon server one and maybe a desktop Extreme as well. By Q4 2010 the first CPU derived from the Terascale project (which is a twin project of the Larrabee one) should be released and feature up to 32 cores. And then that number of cores is going to double and then double once again up to 128+ cores by 2012-2014 timeframe or sooner.

@Anonymous Coward

You keep dreaming, insulting and acting in a childish way. Do you really believe that the world is full of hackers and crackers able to break DRM protected code?

You live in your own personal fantasy world. What you see on movies it's not always true, you know..?

And obviously this was coded by a 15years old kid, right?

Yeah, sure. Like console modchips and hacked firmware created by 12years old kids...

Apple knows nothing about this, of course. How could they ?

And anyone could decrypt DRM protected and encrypted binary code with no public technical documents available to use.. right ? Of course, a 5 years old could do that, yep! "hackers" ... the myth of...

In practice NASA/JPL debunked themselves and 60+ years of false claims and lies....

If asparagus can grow on Mars it clearly means, by simple logic, that there is life there, that plants, animals and alien beings of any kind surely exist there.

In practice now they have confirmed the existence of life and aliens but nothing happens. No one is questioning them. No one is requesting full raw data now and censoring to end. Why ? Humanity seems lost with no clue of what is really happening, no one seems to understand what is really going on and the fact that this is just like an official statement of the existence of aliens.

What a bad design. 180-260Watts? That's insane!

And it's a real waste of money to buy the first GPUs of a new family of products anyway. In a 4-6 months time Nvidia will surely start selling way cheaper GPUs based on the new architecture that will consume 40-80Watts of power.

The first generation product are only a waste of money for rich people that don't have anything better to do than waste money playing games.

As usual Microsoft will win thru bribery...

... and the judges will be happy thanks to the many "gifts" they will receive to rule in favor of the wanna-be-god Bill Gates and his gang.

Intel Terascale technology will allow to mix both IA64 and x86 cores...

..into the same package along with CPGPUs ones as well as cores for vector accelleration and core for FPU processing.

I expect to see Intel releasing various versions of Terascale based 32-core CPUs. Probably for the desktop segment there will still be mainly x86-64 core based ones but for the server market I expect them to push the IA64 into Terascale thanks to the architecture features allowing to mix various kinds of cores.

So, ripping people off with high prices it's a good thing ?

To those claiming that people don't bother and wouldn't be able to tell the difference between lossy and lossless audio.. so multinationals can keep selling MP3 lossy encoded audio tracks at high prices for maximum profits at a fraction of the cost they had for CD distribution? Remove the higher quality physical media from the market and sell only lossy encoded lower quality versions of the products which ensures no delivery, packaging, marketing costs ?

For current prices and to be fair towards customers they should offer APE/FLAC lossless encoded audio tracks along with high-resolution cover arts and a license to print them for personal use. Also, the license should state that the owner is allowed to make copies to his/her relatives and parents. Simply because they know that that would happen anyway, so why keep negating that ?

Anyway what is for sure is that current prices are too high for MP3 lossy encoded audio tracks. They should lower MP3 tracks to 10-30cents each and leave current prices for APE/FLAC lossless versions.

Cut the price to fight piracy, don't add DRM stuff !

If Microsoft wasn't the far from legal monopoly that is now and if there was some real competition on the market, they would never ever started using DRM tactics to force customers to buy their inflated product prices.

Politicians and judges all prefer Microsoft "gifts" to citizens and the law, so we got the biggest and worst monopoly ever appeared in history. The only way to change the current status quo would be to split Microsoft in 4-5 parts and force Bill Gates to sell all excluding one to the market so that that competition could exist once again in the industry.

The new locks on Vista are only going to raise adoption of XP even more. And if XP SP3 is going to use the same DRM tactics to spy on users, then even those who bought their legit copies won't upgrade. Anyone that is installing many machines each day and knows how to optimize a system should be using the famous WGA "cracks" found on the 'net to avoid troubles to their own customers. Just like killing all the useless services that slow XP and Vista systems down a lot. Disabling the useless Microsoft spy-on-customers stuff helps a lot.

The right price for Vista and Vista SP1 should be $99 for the Ultimate version and $39, $49, $59 for the other versions. Instead Microsoft is pricing its own products so high that it's just quite obvious that average people need to use a pirated copy.

Sarkozy is doing right on everything else but on this he is acting like communists always do...

...just like the '68 neo-communist Clinton did with the infamous DMCA in the USA which was mirrored worldwide by similar laws.

All this anti-customers campaign worldwide is just insane, along with the DRM stuff.

90% of copies online are spread by the producers themselves or against a competitor, because with no copies available they know that they couldn't sell much hardware and given the high prices for originals the number of units sold wouldn't increase much. This is the only truth. Just like all the fuss about the console modchips coming from China... no modchips available=few consoles sold. It would be just too capitalistic and fair for multinationals managers nowadays to avoid DRM completely and put no locks on customers.

HD-DVD is going to implement Region Lock pretty soon since its specs have been approved, Blu-Ray had it since the beginning. It wasn't stupid enough to put Region Lock on original DVD discs to prevent customers who legally bought an original copy to play it in other countries, the Hollywood unions stuff managed to force adoption of this dumb DRM thing once again against customers.

The truth is way different...no one uses Linux other than on servers...

...that's the only truth. What growth rate ? There is no adoption growth rate among the general public. Those using Linux for anything different than a server are just a a few thousands worldwide, a very small percentage, absolutely smaller than OS X (which is a real Unix) on Apple hardware.

The PS3 is already selling better than the XBox360...

... and it's only going to shift to a real mass market adoption.

The XBox360 it's nearing the 3 years on the market since its release while the PS3 has been on the market for just a bit more than 1 year and it managed to sell half as many XBox360 at its previous high price point. Now with the PS3 40GB at a lower price point things are only going to improve for Sony. More and more people will consider buying the PS3 for X-Mas...

Everyone is buying Blu-Ray hardware, that's the point.

Just look at how many manufacturers are releasing HD-DVD drives and burners for PCs. Practically none. Just some slim type Toshiba units for notebooks and the XBox360 USB2 add-on.

It's practically impossible to buy HD-DVD burners and media on the market. Manufacturers have been producing Blu-Ray burners since the beginning, media is getting cheaper and cheaper. The recently announced 4-layer 200GB Blu-Ray capable discs that could be compatible with current hardware at least at the reading level is just going to increase popular demand.

It's all about available space in the first place. The best optical format is the one which offers more space and since 500GB-1TB holographic discs are still far away, then Blu-Ray is the best option for the years to come.

And 90% of those buying a PS3 are going to use it as a Blu-Ray player and as soon as Sony will have included more codecs and containers support, the DiVX one has just been announced, it will start selling more among HTPC enthusiasts and those usually buying or wanting to buy mediaplayers like Netgear EVA8000,Pixel Magic MediaBox, TViX 5100/4100 and similar units. If Sony adds more support then the PS3 sold for multimedia playback purpose will just increase and so more actual Blu-Ray movie players will be on the market.

Many people are selling their HD-DVD XBox360 units nowadays... and more PS3 40GB are getting bought overall... more BD-ROM players are going to be released on the market for PCs .. Toshiba lacks manufacturers support in the first place. Manufacturers prefer Blu-Ray technology and that is only good for people because it's the technology offering more space to end users.

Better Joss Whedon sticks with quality and forgets trash style, or it will get cancelled...

...way before 11 episodes like Firefly did..

The movie Serenity based on Firefly was pretty good, if only the serie had the same quality level then it would still get aired.

If instead Joss Whedon will pursue the awful seasons 6,7 of Buffy and the last couple of Angel seasons.. if the new serie will be anything like that then it will be a failure for sure.

Recreating the same quality of Michael Bay's The Island sci-fi movie in the serie it's not simple to achieve, it all depends on Joss Whedon crew.. if he hires people that really work or just want the money delivering a poor job. That's what is all about.

The concept is great but it needs people that know what they are doing. A bit of Butterfly Effect (the first original one) style in such a serie would help a lot.

@Mark : What are you talking about ? You have some very confused ideas...

..really.

A government that doesn't control and protect its own country is just useless. If it's the pseudo-anarchy or full anarchy that you want then that's something Left Wing people (and now many of them became very rich burocrats and leaders, go figure...) theorized in the infamous '68 era. It's just a way to use/abuse people dumb enough to give them power, it's still communism, it's the same thing the communistic regime in China is enslaving its own population, by using a fake capitalistic market that actually owns and control and making a fool of everyone, its population above all which thinks to have got democracy,freedom and capitalism...

It's absolutely true that copyright promoters behind DRM and associations of lawyers and burocrats tied in with politicians like MPAA,BSA,RIAA and such are ,almost all of them at least, Left Wing supporters/leaders/theorists but that doesn't mean that copyright is evil per se nor that it has anything to do with communism.

Communism basic rule is to destroy and conquer, it's the same tactic that '68 neo-communist people use to raise taxes in every country they get in charge of worldwide. They have some puppets telling that the rich ones must pay more, the poor must not pay unless "it's absolutely needed for the country", which just means that they raise taxes and the population has got to obey in silence and be happy with it, and then they have many other puppets and leaders in their machine that are put in key roles to take control over society.

Microsoft, Apple, Sun .. are all Left Wing minded machines owned by '68 theorists, leaders and so on. In order to force insane anti-capitalistic copyright DRM rules on customers and turn customers into slaves with money that must be given to their masters, they needed to take control over society. Many famous books on communism with its basic rules to follow just tell that, taking over key roles in a country is the best way to take control of everything over time. And this tactic worked perfectly. The whole open-source/GNU/Linux stuff with its hype and myth are part of this tactic and mentality.

This is just what happened in the last 30 years or so.

If the price will drop quickly the will sell a lot, otherwise...

..well, they won't. Didn't Asus managers do some proper market research? There are 15" Core Celeron Notebooks in the $400-499 price range nowadays which are way faster and have an internal big enough HDU.

So, if they want the Eee to sell a lot they better lower prices quite a bit soon. They better sell it at a loss and they could sell many units, otherwise if they keep these prices they won't sell much and it will be considered a failure.

The top of the line model should cost $299-$349 with the cheaper one in the $179-$209 price range. With those prices they would sell a lot, I'd buy a couple if there were those prices on the market already.

People still believe that this happens thanks to reverse-engineering?

Isn't it all that obvious that manufacturers simply want "piracy" to exist because this way they can earn a lot more ?

Just like consoles modchip... they are freely sold and used on all major consoles (and the PS3 will follow,either that or a modified firmware...) ... if they were so illegal, how comes they can get freely imported into countries and sold by shops? Why multinationals just don't do anything serious to stop them ?

Well, isn't it pretty obvious ? Selling CD/DVD and soon BD burners in large quantities as well as selling hundreds of millions of blank media ensures way higher profts than selling a few originals at high prices.. that's pretty obvious, isn't it ?

Also, all the fuss about DRM technologies ensures more money flowing thru industry agreements and such. And once the money got collected, the protective "anti-piracy" measures are no longer needed, so they ensure the obvious happens, they manage to give average Joe the needed tools to copy whatever he wants to and they will get huge profits thanks to that due to many more people buying burners, modchips, blank media than originals...

Does anyone really believe that, just for example, the PSP hacked firmwares that add tons of new features along with a PS1 emulator are coded by some amateurs that can't have access to the source code and all needed development tools and that would be able to decrypt and disassemble the code even in just a week to create an hacked version ?

This is all part of the pseudo-capitalistic viral marketing strategy that multinational marketing people pursue to ensure some large profits.

Do people seriously believe that 12-18 year old "hackers" can reverse engineer encrypted firmwares like nothing and without having seriously studied the architectures on official white papers and service/developer manuals ? (which isn't something you can download on the 'net.. believe it or not but the way expensive DVD White Paper specification document can't be downloaded from anywhere, you still have to buy it just like for the BD and HD-DVD ones...).

That's a clever tactic..that's what it is.. and you and others here just prove their point

@Anonymous Coward: The best way to hide something is to put in a clear or almost clear view such that either no one would really notice, which seems a paradox but it happens continously, or the majority of people would dismiss it as nothing strange and would trust any official statement that is given to them about it.

Also, by applying heavy digital censoring they ensure that even the most obvious artificial objects like huge spacecrafts and buildings that can be seen on official NASA/JPL/ESA images can't be clearly identified and the majority of people would simply accept the "natural rocks formations" and such explanations given to them. And since there is not a clear public knowledge of alien races nor technologies then no one could give a clear statement to have identified something that no one knows for sure and it's more or less partially hidden/distorted by using some clever AI-drive digital censoring.