Actually mate, the Yen appreciating like that can be a bad thing for Sony. It makes exports more expensive - e.g. if it were 110 Yen to 1 dollar now and it appreciates to 100 yen to the dollar (if the yen is worth more you get less yen for a greenback) it will cost more dollars to be able to afford the PS3 (or any other Sony product) priced at 40000 Yen.
This gives Sony them two choices 1. reduce their margins, which are already tight compared to the competition, and hope that their reserves can allow them to ride the wave of the mighty yen 2. hope that people outside the land of the rising sun will cough up the extra $ to buy their little toys (and this won't just affect PS3).
The fact is that the rising Yen and falling $ will give Micro$oft an edge in pricing both at home and on exports.
Price will be a big thing in the coming months, and exchange rates will have a lot to do with who comes out on top. Niether Nintendo or Sony have finalized their pricing, and I expect that they are hoping the Yen will fall between now and release date so that they can price lower.
If Linux (and I was talking about Fedora Core 4/5) doesn't manage dependencies, why is it when I install through yum it finds all the dependencies for the package I am trying to install and downloads them (if necessary). If you also try to delete a package that is depended upon you will get an error (either with RPM or YUM)
To me, and I may be misguided, that is dependency management.
Of course windows can't do any of that. The best that it can do (when you're uninstalling something) is to tell you that a shared DLL "might be needed by another application", but it doesn't know for sure. So either you play it safe and don't delete it then end up with tons of crap on your file system and later use a clean-up tool to take care of unused files, or you delete it and take your chance. Great..... But then I "must be high".........
I'm sorry, but I stand my my argument that Fedora Core 5 was much easier to install and gave me the office productivity tools I needed with the system install. With Windows I had to install MS Orifice after the OS, which itself took longer than the whole Fedora OS did to install.
Obviously the writer of the article had used a pre-installed Windows/Office expensive system to then do a DIY install of linux on... Hardly an apples to apples comparison. But like I said, he's a reporter..... and we all know what to believe about the.... Plus he word for Dow Jones and is probably heavily invested in companies like Micro$hite
So he's probably never instlled Windoze as almost every brand computer comes pre-intalled with it. I have just installed both Windows XP SP2 and Fedora Core 5 on two PCs with the same specs.
Both installed easily. For Linux I chose KDE for my desktop environment, was immediately able to surf the web, read emails, OPEN & EDIT Micro$oft Orifice Docs using Open Office without a hitch.
Then I wanted to update to make sure I had all the latest security patches.
Windows : had to run the updated twice. Sat through waiting to be told what I needed, then had to select the patches, on some had to wait while I agreed to some EULA then let it run. Then bounce it wanted me to bounce the PC and if I didn't I kept getting an annoying window appears warning me to do it.
Fedora 5: Opened a shell (easy in KDE, just right click on the desktop and select the console) types "yum -y update" no bouncing, no questions, all automatic. Oh, and to make it better for those who need a GUI everything, I installed Yumex with a simple "yum -y install yumex", now I have a package installer that will not only let me install software, but will update it when necessary and it even has a GUI.
With windows there isn't much that will check to see if you have dependencies, what usually happens is an installer will have to come with the additional software it depends on and may evn make you reboot half way through so it can get the dependent software running before it installs.
Now onto videos... Windows couldn't play AVI's properly, had to find a DIVx download and install it. Linux, found the RPM repo used yum and installed in minutes.
The guy must have very little intelligence if he felt that Linux on the desktop was too difficult..... but then he is a reporter.... nuff said.
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This gives Sony them two choices
1. reduce their margins, which are already tight compared to the competition, and hope that their reserves can allow them to ride the wave of the mighty yen
2. hope that people outside the land of the rising sun will cough up the extra $ to buy their little toys (and this won't just affect PS3).
The fact is that the rising Yen and falling $ will give Micro$oft an edge in pricing both at home and on exports.
Price will be a big thing in the coming months, and exchange rates will have a lot to do with who comes out on top. Niether Nintendo or Sony have finalized their pricing, and I expect that they are hoping the Yen will fall between now and release date so that they can price lower.
Are you a normal user then?
If Linux (and I was talking about Fedora Core 4/5) doesn't manage dependencies, why is it when I install through yum it finds all the dependencies for the package I am trying to install and downloads them (if necessary). If you also try to delete a package that is depended upon you will get an error (either with RPM or YUM) To me, and I may be misguided, that is dependency management. Of course windows can't do any of that. The best that it can do (when you're uninstalling something) is to tell you that a shared DLL "might be needed by another application", but it doesn't know for sure. So either you play it safe and don't delete it then end up with tons of crap on your file system and later use a clean-up tool to take care of unused files, or you delete it and take your chance. Great..... But then I "must be high"......... I'm sorry, but I stand my my argument that Fedora Core 5 was much easier to install and gave me the office productivity tools I needed with the system install. With Windows I had to install MS Orifice after the OS, which itself took longer than the whole Fedora OS did to install. Obviously the writer of the article had used a pre-installed Windows/Office expensive system to then do a DIY install of linux on... Hardly an apples to apples comparison. But like I said, he's a reporter..... and we all know what to believe about the.... Plus he word for Dow Jones and is probably heavily invested in companies like Micro$hite
So he's probably never instlled Windoze as almost every brand computer comes pre-intalled with it. I have just installed both Windows XP SP2 and Fedora Core 5 on two PCs with the same specs. Both installed easily. For Linux I chose KDE for my desktop environment, was immediately able to surf the web, read emails, OPEN & EDIT Micro$oft Orifice Docs using Open Office without a hitch. Then I wanted to update to make sure I had all the latest security patches. Windows : had to run the updated twice. Sat through waiting to be told what I needed, then had to select the patches, on some had to wait while I agreed to some EULA then let it run. Then bounce it wanted me to bounce the PC and if I didn't I kept getting an annoying window appears warning me to do it. Fedora 5: Opened a shell (easy in KDE, just right click on the desktop and select the console) types "yum -y update" no bouncing, no questions, all automatic. Oh, and to make it better for those who need a GUI everything, I installed Yumex with a simple "yum -y install yumex", now I have a package installer that will not only let me install software, but will update it when necessary and it even has a GUI. With windows there isn't much that will check to see if you have dependencies, what usually happens is an installer will have to come with the additional software it depends on and may evn make you reboot half way through so it can get the dependent software running before it installs. Now onto videos... Windows couldn't play AVI's properly, had to find a DIVx download and install it. Linux, found the RPM repo used yum and installed in minutes. The guy must have very little intelligence if he felt that Linux on the desktop was too difficult..... but then he is a reporter.... nuff said.