Re: Apple compared to Rogers Communication size...

Rogers is a $24B company, Apple over $150B. Apple has over $19B of cash on hand. That's almost enough cash to buy Rogers outright.

Yes, Rogers is Canada-Big. But they're not particularly World-Big. Being a large fish in a small pond is what most Canadian companies are all about and they love it. Many of them went out of business loving it. Many more will fall off the map as the years pass.

AMD all but scuttled ATI. Definitely killed the last bit of spirit within the company. The place is a former shell of what it used to be and you can see it on the faces of many of the staff. Glad I left before the AMD acquisition. No one talked about the huge number of layoffs at ATI, the enormous profit taking by the few higher-ups (some of which have subsequently split), and of course the most obvious is the running of the brand into the ground.

AMD is complaining about having paid too much for ATI? Complete and utter tripe. Only their inflated goodwill figure and subsequent tarnishing of the brand are to blame. In fact they got ATI for a song and then drove their own combined stock price to a lower value than ATI was when they bought it!

I used to be an AMD fan and used a number of their processors in systems I built. Even as a fan, I could never say they were ever ahead of Intel across the board. Having one or two good processors here and there doesn't make them a leader. I'm not an Intel fan, but AD have pretty much their own mismanagement to blame for the dire predicament and outlook.

Why is the photograph backwards?

The customer ALWAYS pays what they want at retail.

It's the customer who decides whether or not to make the purchase at the price being asked. Yes, the first comment is loaded, because in most situations you only have the choice to buy or not to buy at an individual retail location. But the choice is an important one that determines in large part the pricing of goods in the first place.

With most products, there is always someone elsewhere selling at a price or with conditions that one will find more attractive. In the case of music there are quite a number of choices out there, including CD purchases from eBay, music clubs, etc... These bring down the per track costs significantly for anyone willing to rip their own.

What is going to be interesting is the bottom line. How much will artists see from self-publishing at low market rates versus what they're paid in sales royalties by labels.

Leopard is about as solid as Lava Rock. It's the most rushed and bug-infested OS Apple have ever released in the 10.x series.

Anyone who tests it professionally will tell you the same thing.

Try booting Leopard off a clean install to an external drive and let it see your Tiger volumes.

Now boot back to Tiger. Wow, notice Spotlight is reindexing? Not so bad, right? Let it finish.

Now try searching for something. Now something else. Go search in Mail and use the "Entire Message" option.

Have fun fixing Spotlight. Tip: you have to use mdimport in terminal to manually import your drives as no amount of deleting spotlight indexes nor disabling and re-enabling Spotlight will get it to work properly automatically.

Try the ACL features of the Get Info window. Crashes every time for me on a PPC machine when pressing the "+" button.

I wouldn't use TextEdit if I were paid to do so. If for no other reason than Apple's NSTextView (which it uses) contains the most ill-conceived and craptastic UI response ever implemented on any computer. No smooth scrolling means no text editing love.

Anyone know how to stop getting emails for every follow-up comment? I know how I could have done it in the first place, so I'm asking about now, after the fact.

Is it legal in the US to refuse cash as payment?

Someone wrote:

>A Cougar is the exact same thing as a Puma. So it can't be that.

You know there's no such species as Panther right? A panther can be a Cougar (North American big cat), Jaguar (Central & South America) or Leopard (Africa & Asia).

A "Panther" or rather "Black Panther" is just a black oddity of any of the big cat species above.

I could tell you what the next OS version will be called, but then I'd have to kill you.

There are definitely reported ATI driver issues with the new iMac machines. Can't say for sure if this screenshot is a product of any of the known issues. As it turns out, the issues are probably in Apple's driver framework rather than ATI drivers specifically anyway.

Google for it.