Do you enjoy being poor then? Because if you do then maybe you can create a useful product that's used by tens of thousands of businesses at no charge and you will be poor forever.
Yeah the hardest part was finding qualified people to work on the existing open Nessus. Nobody did... competitors got the product for free and used it for their own profit, now we are here. Kudos for Nessus for having the balls to put food on the table despite the rantings of inconsequential zealots.
Also known as karma martyrs. Though I'm not sure if the OP realizes by inserting that jab at himself he got funny mod points which don't increase your karma!
Yeah but they closed the source because competitors were getting all of the fruits of their development for absolutely nothing. Once you move out of the 'useful little app' phase and into something that people are seriously interested in for the large scale, it's time to reconsider giving your product away for free so somebody else can make money off of it. Most people would call this success though I guess the grumpy OSS zealots hate to see 'free' software developers actually get paid for their work.
Although other posters have already pointed out the practical reasons for having them a certain size, you do raise a point about some of these USB drives. They are a bit bigger than they need to be and take up so much space that you can't plug anything into a USB port next to them (especially an issue with laptops). When I was shopping for one my main requirements were that it would not block another port, that it would be usable in Linux (generic mass storage driver-compatible), and that it has reasonable speed. I ended up with the Mini Cruzer but there were some other choices out there too. Maybe I'm missing something but I don't get why they make some of them so large.
I'll be surprised if Sony doesn't sell at a loss too. They are putting technology into their console that hasn't even hit the consumer market yet. According to the article the expected price in Japan is equivalent to about US $450. They may have to shave that price even more and sell at a loss to be as competitive since their production costs will be high.
It is interesting to see how much people are against Microsoft for having some buggy software and patching issues (though mostly it's just because people are pro-Linux around here) and yet a company like Sony who intentionally installs malware on computers is still okay as long as MS is in the fray.
Nobody's trying to silence them, but people are sensationalizing something that appears for now to be isolated. Hey I got a 503 error on Slashdot the other day, it must be Very Unstable!!
Hype is exactly right, and lots of Slashdotters are just trying to make negative hype out of something that, thus far, is limited to 'several users'. The criticism will be well-deserved if it turns out that many of them have these issues but at this point I think hype is all we're getting, one way or another.
If he were to be resistant to this kind of thing then it would come off as supportive of piracy and whether or not he really condoned it he would probably get shut down in court. One of the 'joys' of getting big is you have to worry about things like due diligence.
You didn't think Slashdot would miss a chance to link to some guy's photo album of a crashed game and pretend that MS was going to go bankrupt because none of the Xbox 360s worked did you? This kind of Slashdot headline is the bread and butter!
What was it all those posters above were saying about checking things before pushing them out the door...
Things like toasters and other appliances do come defective once in a while. This is not news. If your toaster is defective then you take it back and they replace it. There is nothing (yet) to indicate this Xbox problem is widespread. Slashdot just wanted to post this 'story' because they wanted to be able to laugh at MS and pretend the evil giant was on its knees because all Xbox 360s are defective. MS has it coming once in a while and deserves to be bashed but in this instance it's the MS-haters who sound like drooling fanboys.
And for what it's worth another poster has already pointed out that Sony had some issues with the PS2 and there were lawsuits over it. These things do happen once in a while, get the replacement and get over it.
They did (at least with the first Xbox) make it easy to upgrade. I'm not sure how that will work with the Xbox 360s that don't have hard drives. When Halo 2 first came out it had a bug that caused it to stretch images on certain HDTV widescreens and you had to have Xbox Live to download the patch which fixed it. Lots of people were pretty mad there for a few weeks (including myself because true 16:9 was touted as a big new cool feature).
It sounds like you are having issues with your beliefs because you see the fallacies in them. The Christians have had to come up with all kinds of new theories to go against Darwinism because up until then they just strictly interpreted the Bible. Now we have the Bible and all the ad-libbing that goes along with it to try and explain the inconsistencies between reality and the history of the world as presented by the stories in the Bible.
The glaring problem that the record companies don't seem to grasp is that if a CD player can read it, then you can get the audio from it. There is no way around this really. Pirates have a lot of resources too, so even if these companies manage to stop casual ripping the groups will still put the music out there. The best the music companies can hope for in future formats is that pirates will have to resort to analog copying (which with good equipment is still high quality) but I don't think it will even come to that.
1) Well that's your opinion but it sounds like you're just an Apple fanboy.
2) Why were they duped? The fact that it used many parts exchangeable with PCs actually increased its popularity since it was easier to mod.
3) It may seem stupid to you and me but the advertisers know what they're doing and they're probably right as far as the bottom line is concerned.
4) Valid enough argument against any console, but then there was Halo.
5) Perhaps, though it's too early to compare to the other consoles.
6) Well companies do exist to make money. FWIW as a person who isn't much into gaming I haven't noticed any advertising on this and totally forgot it was coming out. Yet the droves of fanboys were lining up around stores across the country to get one. Seems like it has sold itself so far. I doubt things will be different with the other consoles.
Not all jobs in IT are pounding on a keyboard producing code. Many (if not most) telecommuting jobs require a lot of communication via phone and other methods and people in India for the most part are not up to snuff. There are some (probably the better paid) that speak English decently but the accents and the vocabulary are difficult to overcome in any job that requires a lot of interpesonal communication.
Not sure what you know about the real world but $35/hr goes a pretty long way outside of places like New York City and the state of California. Believe it or not, we don't have to pay $400,000 to get a box house with 1200sq ft. Things really are that much cheaper. It depends on personal preference of course, but I'd rather be sitting on 2 acres of land in a 3500sq ft beautiful house and telecommute than in a small New York apartment with a window looking out at another apartment. Also it's bigoted and naive to think that because somebody chooses not to live in a 'wonderful' place like New York City (uck) that they are just dumb hicks or incapable of doing an IT job.
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Yeah the hardest part was finding qualified people to work on the existing open Nessus. Nobody did... competitors got the product for free and used it for their own profit, now we are here. Kudos for Nessus for having the balls to put food on the table despite the rantings of inconsequential zealots.
Also known as karma martyrs. Though I'm not sure if the OP realizes by inserting that jab at himself he got funny mod points which don't increase your karma!
Yeah but they closed the source because competitors were getting all of the fruits of their development for absolutely nothing. Once you move out of the 'useful little app' phase and into something that people are seriously interested in for the large scale, it's time to reconsider giving your product away for free so somebody else can make money off of it. Most people would call this success though I guess the grumpy OSS zealots hate to see 'free' software developers actually get paid for their work.
Although other posters have already pointed out the practical reasons for having them a certain size, you do raise a point about some of these USB drives. They are a bit bigger than they need to be and take up so much space that you can't plug anything into a USB port next to them (especially an issue with laptops). When I was shopping for one my main requirements were that it would not block another port, that it would be usable in Linux (generic mass storage driver-compatible), and that it has reasonable speed. I ended up with the Mini Cruzer but there were some other choices out there too. Maybe I'm missing something but I don't get why they make some of them so large.
Well you woulnd't want her to pop would you?
I'm talking more about the fact that they are using Blu-Ray drives whereas Xbox uses cheap-to-manufacture DVD ROMs.
They also probably make a fair bit more profit on the games than MS does because Sony has been leading the market by a good margin for a while now.
I'll be surprised if Sony doesn't sell at a loss too. They are putting technology into their console that hasn't even hit the consumer market yet. According to the article the expected price in Japan is equivalent to about US $450. They may have to shave that price even more and sell at a loss to be as competitive since their production costs will be high.
The enemy of my enemy...
Nobody's trying to silence them, but people are sensationalizing something that appears for now to be isolated. Hey I got a 503 error on Slashdot the other day, it must be Very Unstable!!
No, as the article and you both point out it's for linking to illegal content on his own site.
Hype is exactly right, and lots of Slashdotters are just trying to make negative hype out of something that, thus far, is limited to 'several users'. The criticism will be well-deserved if it turns out that many of them have these issues but at this point I think hype is all we're getting, one way or another.
If he were to be resistant to this kind of thing then it would come off as supportive of piracy and whether or not he really condoned it he would probably get shut down in court. One of the 'joys' of getting big is you have to worry about things like due diligence.
What was it all those posters above were saying about checking things before pushing them out the door...
And for what it's worth another poster has already pointed out that Sony had some issues with the PS2 and there were lawsuits over it. These things do happen once in a while, get the replacement and get over it.
And if you play it and leave the room, does it still make any noise?
They did (at least with the first Xbox) make it easy to upgrade. I'm not sure how that will work with the Xbox 360s that don't have hard drives. When Halo 2 first came out it had a bug that caused it to stretch images on certain HDTV widescreens and you had to have Xbox Live to download the patch which fixed it. Lots of people were pretty mad there for a few weeks (including myself because true 16:9 was touted as a big new cool feature).
It sounds like you are having issues with your beliefs because you see the fallacies in them. The Christians have had to come up with all kinds of new theories to go against Darwinism because up until then they just strictly interpreted the Bible. Now we have the Bible and all the ad-libbing that goes along with it to try and explain the inconsistencies between reality and the history of the world as presented by the stories in the Bible.
The glaring problem that the record companies don't seem to grasp is that if a CD player can read it, then you can get the audio from it. There is no way around this really. Pirates have a lot of resources too, so even if these companies manage to stop casual ripping the groups will still put the music out there. The best the music companies can hope for in future formats is that pirates will have to resort to analog copying (which with good equipment is still high quality) but I don't think it will even come to that.
You haven't caught on that it was intentional?
1) Well that's your opinion but it sounds like you're just an Apple fanboy.
2) Why were they duped? The fact that it used many parts exchangeable with PCs actually increased its popularity since it was easier to mod.
3) It may seem stupid to you and me but the advertisers know what they're doing and they're probably right as far as the bottom line is concerned.
4) Valid enough argument against any console, but then there was Halo.
5) Perhaps, though it's too early to compare to the other consoles.
6) Well companies do exist to make money. FWIW as a person who isn't much into gaming I haven't noticed any advertising on this and totally forgot it was coming out. Yet the droves of fanboys were lining up around stores across the country to get one. Seems like it has sold itself so far. I doubt things will be different with the other consoles.
Is that you? Such insight...
Will DOS Firefox. Not as bad as an exploit but they have issues to fix as well.
Not all jobs in IT are pounding on a keyboard producing code. Many (if not most) telecommuting jobs require a lot of communication via phone and other methods and people in India for the most part are not up to snuff. There are some (probably the better paid) that speak English decently but the accents and the vocabulary are difficult to overcome in any job that requires a lot of interpesonal communication.
Not sure what you know about the real world but $35/hr goes a pretty long way outside of places like New York City and the state of California. Believe it or not, we don't have to pay $400,000 to get a box house with 1200sq ft. Things really are that much cheaper. It depends on personal preference of course, but I'd rather be sitting on 2 acres of land in a 3500sq ft beautiful house and telecommute than in a small New York apartment with a window looking out at another apartment. Also it's bigoted and naive to think that because somebody chooses not to live in a 'wonderful' place like New York City (uck) that they are just dumb hicks or incapable of doing an IT job.