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Re: Apple reports $13.6 billion profit for second quarter

Canucker — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 16:38:53 -0000

Doomed! :)

Re: Brain research at Toronto health centre gets $100M funding boost in federal budget

Canucker — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 14:05:23 -0000

Which riding is Baycrest situated in? Oh, right, that would be the Minister of Finance, Joe Oliver himself!

Re: Review: 12-inch MacBook

Canucker — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 17:48:54 -0000

Buy a Time Capsule? Also, there is a $99 USB-C dongle adaptor that has a standard USB3, USB-C replicator and VGA ports. Will be other dongles over time no doubt but Apple wants you to use wireless.

Re: Oh Samsung

Canucker — Fri, 03 Apr 2015 15:15:57 -0000

In other words, Apple didn't pander to squeaky wheels.

Re: Max Hastings reveals the contents of a Prince Charles letter about homeopathy

Canucker — Fri, 03 Apr 2015 14:25:01 -0000

Great for your son (really!). Homeopathy had nothing to do with the outcome. Homeopathy is like prayers in a pill.

Re: Max Hastings reveals the contents of a Prince Charles letter about homeopathy

Canucker — Fri, 03 Apr 2015 14:22:38 -0000

I think UKIP is the most worrying political development in Britain in the past 20 years but I also think homeopathy is complete and utter bunk. There again, I am a scientist and base my thinking on evidence, not ideology.

Re: Max Hastings reveals the contents of a Prince Charles letter about homeopathy

Canucker — Fri, 03 Apr 2015 14:17:07 -0000

The usual commentary response by a homeopath is to quote some bogus study in a bogus journal, then to quote some miraculous experience they personally saw, then to resort to ad hominum attacks. The entire, predictable approach could be termed Ad Homeopath. It''s likely what they teach in the Colleges of Homeopathy: deniability and how to defend yourself against rational thought.

Re: Max Hastings reveals the contents of a Prince Charles letter about homeopathy

Canucker — Fri, 03 Apr 2015 14:12:42 -0000

The Queen is an anachronism. That she believes in quackery actually makes some sense.

Re: Max Hastings reveals the contents of a Prince Charles letter about homeopathy

Canucker — Fri, 03 Apr 2015 14:09:34 -0000

Actually, homeopathic remedies are a $3 billion industry in the USA alone. Given these products contain no active ingredients (not counting sugar or water), the profit margins are humongous.

It is unbelievable that a parent would give a 3 month old a homeopathic remedy (what on earth was he cured of?).

Re: Max Hastings reveals the contents of a Prince Charles letter about homeopathy

Canucker — Fri, 03 Apr 2015 14:06:11 -0000

This is partly why India is a developing country. The sooner it discards these snake-oil practices, the better.

Re: Max Hastings reveals the contents of a Prince Charles letter about homeopathy

Canucker — Fri, 03 Apr 2015 14:03:39 -0000

What on earth do you do for 5.5 years? Surely learning how to infinitely dilute a substance doesn't take more than an afternoon? Or am I shaking it wrong?

Re: Max Hastings reveals the contents of a Prince Charles letter about homeopathy

Canucker — Fri, 03 Apr 2015 14:00:23 -0000

Fortunately, there is a cure or what ails you. Evolution. Good luck calling Nancy when you need actual medical care.

Re: Max Hastings reveals the contents of a Prince Charles letter about homeopathy

Canucker — Fri, 03 Apr 2015 13:58:14 -0000

" The British Royal Family has been under homeopathic care since 1820". Explains a lot....

Re: 1Password for iOS is now free with in-app purchase option

Canucker — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 17:01:09 -0000

If you've already bought it, the iOS8 update is free and you have all the "in-app" "Pro" features enabled. Best app out there for security.

Re: iOS 8 upgrade: Choosing the right iCloud Drive option

Canucker — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 11:59:42 -0000

Does iCloud Drive work with the current public Yosemite beta? Am running iOS8 and the latest Yosemite beta but have stayed away from iCloud Drive sharing of docs as wasn't clear (I did activate iCloud Drive when setting up Yosemite options).

Re: New study raises questions about global rankings of citations

Canucker — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 19:33:08 -0000

What's more interesting is what the scientists with secondary affiliations get out the relationship. A number clearly spend little or no substantial time there. This is the equivalent of a paid honorary authorship. They are presumably being paid for their name simply because they are on an artificial list (severely flawed given that its representation of serious prize winners and Nobel Laureates is sadly depleted).

Re: John S. Chen, BlackBerry, and Steve Jobs

Canucker — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 12:26:06 -0000

Blackberry should give up on mobile hardware - Chen is trying to position it as a software company. It is what he knows and where there is potential. Competing with Apple and Google is masochism right now. Even Microsoft, a company with deep pockets, is struggling. What rescued Apple from the dark days of 1997 was keeping it's shrunken, dispirited base. But the majority of the Blackberry base is comprised of consumers. I assume Chen is referring to the corporate base which dictates what employees can use. That's a very different scenario. Good luck to him, but it would be a mistake to count on well-funded competitors to fail. Chen is basically going back to RIMs roots which means consumers are short-term cows (as Jobs famously said, before re-joining Apple, about milking the Macintosh).

Re: Steve Jobs monument in Chinese ghost city

Canucker — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 17:23:41 -0000

Actually, that monument park looks cool: Apples and people. Jobs, Newton and another couple of silhouettes I can't make out.

Re: Manning Networking Conference: The government on vacation

Canucker — Sun, 02 Mar 2014 17:04:48 -0000

That's the inertial effect of 12 years of "discipline" from the control centre for you. The only contenders for replacing the PM are weaker clones who, over time, have acted as the PMO's talking heads. They are, in a way, contractually tied to the central themes and so cannot meander far from it without appearing hypocritical.

Hopefully, the person who ultimately deposes Harper will not be from the inner circle. But the likelihood of that is low. Harper will wish to ensure his legacy by personally endorsing his successor.

Only when parties are reduced to stubs is there true dislocation of the natural succession (see Campbell and Martin).

Re: Apple's Tim Cook picks a fight with climate change deniers

Canucker — Sat, 01 Mar 2014 17:07:03 -0000

Cook didn't pick the fight, the NCPPR representative did. It was a set up by the NCPPR that Cook (and most of the others art the meeting) recognized and he squashed the ill-disguised troll.

Re: Apple’s stuff continues to just work

Canucker — Sat, 01 Mar 2014 14:02:44 -0000

Go Habs...

Re: Democracy in Ukraine

Canucker — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 09:47:22 -0000

Sorry, who needs friends? The 50% of Ukrainians who support closer ties to the EU or the 50% of Ukrainians who support closer ties with Russia? We naturally align with the wishes of the westward looking 50% but lets be clear that this is not the clear majority.

Might also help that Chrystia Freeland's mother helped draft the Ukrainian constitution? Nah, irrelevant.

A little ironic that you defend the Conservatives "unpartisan mission" by using your own partisan rhetoric. True blue.

Re: Democracy in Ukraine

Canucker — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 09:25:58 -0000

Great advice :( I am sure the Ukrainian people are begging to be lectured to by a single political party (of any stripe) to help them resolve their enormous internal turmoil. A political party that has already chosen sides and has admonished the NDP for not doing so. This powder keg does not need the injection of more single-minded, patronizing tunnel vision. And it's a bit rich for the party that is pushing for suppression of electoral freedoms in this country (the oxymoronic Fair Elections Act) to think it represents a model of democratic pluralism in a country as complicated as Ukraine.

Re: Democracy in Ukraine

Canucker — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 23:03:36 -0000

If you've ever played Risk, you'll know that Ukraine's geo-political position is its curse. It's neighbours can't leave it be and its internal history smoulders ready to flare up at a moments notice. If only more people like Arseniy Yatsenyuk would stand up at these times. If he's being honest, he has no political ambition except to see others run his country effectively and fairly for all. The blue touch paper has been lit again - let's hope the CPC delegation doesn't fan it with their fiery rhetoric.

BTW, partisan politics is something we live with in North America. It's not something to be proud of and is certainly not something to be exported beyond our shores.

Re: The Samsung fingerprint scanner at work

Canucker — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 09:22:07 -0000

You're right that they can ride on Apple's coattails to a degree in terms of user awareness but implementation is key. The iPhone 5S scanner just works (in my experience). If the S5 scanner is as good, it'll be as popular. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if Samsung loosened the security accuracy (i.e. made the scanner a bit less discriminatory) in order to increase the frequency of times it OK's the read. These scanners are quickly abandoned by users if they become unpredictable as the alternative password input isn't *that* inconvenient.