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Comment Re:The old connector isn't just for pins... (Score 1) 427

I was thinking along those lines. You may hate the Apple connector all you want, but it provides 1 thing that no other USB connectors can : a docking capability. You can PLUG any Android device in a standard micro or mini-usb cable, put you can't dock it easily. On the other hand, the 30 pin connector in a cradle is elegant, convenient and you have the advantage of never having to use a cable, just dock and forget.

Will this new 19 pin connector allow for the same ease of use? No idea. But it'd be stupid to use a connector that, as parent said, isn't a structural element.

Comment Re:So from here on out ... (Score 1) 2416

Let me get this straight. In your mind, being healthy is a choice?

What kind of stupid reasoning is that. As a Canadian, I'm really having a hard time with people who think healthcare should be a choice. You don't get to choose your ailments and so does your neighbour. The only thing you want when you are sick is to get cared for buy a good physician without stressing about how much it's going to cost you, there is no "choice" there.

You can exercise as much as you want, the lymphoma doesn't really care about that...

Comment Re:250GB (Score 1) 348

Depends on who you're with. If you go with the big guys (Videotron, Bell) you're going to pay a lot of money for a slow connection and a crappy data cap. Go with a reseller (I'm with Electronic Box) and the price goes down and the caps go up. (Or even get unlimited)

Example : 30mbps down, 2mbps up / 250GB month = 50$, no contract

Comment Canadian Content (Score 4, Informative) 215

“These actions further distances the corporation from its mandate, while placing it directly on a collision course with private broadcasters who can only rely on advertising and subscription revenues to sustain their services,”

Isn't one of the mandate of the CBC to promote Canadian art and culture? The CBC does a lot more to promote quality Canadian content then any other broadcaster on that list.

"The only music that you can hear for free is when the birds sing." That guy has probably never been on the internet before... You know, the place where a bunch of bands are releasing their music for free because they love what they do?

NASA

Submission + - VIDEO - Lighting the sky: NASA's ATREX mission launches (patexia.com)

ericjones12398 writes: "NASA successfully launched five suborbital sounding rockets this morning from its Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia as part of a study of the upper level jet stream. The first rocket was launched at 4:58 a.m. EDT and each subsequent rocket was launched 80 seconds apart. Each rocket released a chemical tracer that created milky, white clouds at the edge of space.

To see the attached video and full report please click on the "Link to Original Source" below"

Comment Re:USA! USA! (Score 1) 253

That, and because the Harper governement lowered sales taxes and bailed out the auto industry. Had it not been for those two things, we wouldn't be crying about the deficit right now.

But, hey, they're the "party of fiscal responsibility".

Comment Apple TV (Score 2) 217

An Apple TV by itself is almost useless. It's a good Netflix box but other then that : meh. Where is shines is AirPlay, you can stream your stuff from pretty much any website or App on the iPad (or iPhone) and most of the time the quality is pretty great.

If you want to transform it into an amazing machine : jailbreak it and put XBMC on it, you'll have the best of both Apple and the Open Source world. The only remaining issue is that it doesn't do 1080p, but then what kind of streaming content can you get in 1080p?

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