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Comment Re:House, MD. (Score 1) 272

I suffer from recurring CH and I have found that the only thing that works for me is Zomig, but it is only used when a headache is coming, and can be used twice a day at most. People have reported some success with reducing the pain by using oxygen, but carrying an O2 bottle rarely a solution.
Marijuana doesn't actually do anything (I tried), it might even make the crisis worse because of its relaxing effect. And alcohol is a trigger for crisis so avoid it when you know you're in a period where you will get CHs (I hope you don't have the permanent kind, life is miserable with that).
Besides that, the only natural remedy I have found is endure it, and celebrate when it stops :( And not sleeping as sleep usually is what triggers mine.

Comment Re:Uhhh... (Score 1) 336

Yes, you can discover some features of your device. But it still doesn't solve the problem of the big differences between devices. Trying to accomodate low-ends smartphones takes way too much development time. But you somewhat have to, or as your OP said, you piss off users.
That's in my opinion the ONLY area where IPhone apps win. Devs know exactly on what it's going to run, there is 0 possibility for surprises. With Android, you need to be ready for anything...

Comment Re:sigh... (Score 2, Insightful) 239

It helps your government avoiding YOU spreading culture around, thus keeping people dumb and low so they can control them more easily. And keep their election campaign funds topped off with bribes from the RIAA and other "Copyright holders"?
I mean, a 12 year old girl singing the latest Lady Gaga song on her piano is very harmful to major companies, and could make you smile. Last thing your government want is you to be happy without them ordering you to be.
Or am I too much in conspiracy theories lately?

Comment Re:Your arrogance marks YOU as the real moron (Score 1) 195

I think you're jumping way too high in calling your OP Arrogant or anything.
I am sorry, but the last batch of apps that were removed from the Market contained applications with names such as "Screaming Japanese Girls". If you install those kind of apps on your phone, no one else than yourself can be blamed if you get a malware with it. And in all honesty, the category of people who would download those could fit in the "moron" category - nothing to do with being tech-savvy or not.
The aformentioned tech-savvy people spent YEARS trying to explain to the general public that there is a danger in downloading random crap from anywhere to any device. Some people will never learn. "Moron" is a good term for the later IMHO.

Comment Re:Inb4 "freedom of speech" comments (Score 1) 278

You cannot cite companies, brands or such advertising-like terms on a News show, be it Facebook or your Mum's Ice Cream Boot. And I think it's healthy for our societies to avoid this. That's all that piece is about. You read it wrong. It has nothing to do with freedom of speech, and in the case of many, everything to do with freedom of thinking.

Comment Re:Nice explanation (Score 1) 55

I am going to risk answering your question....

Camel is an implementation of Enterprise Integration Patterns in Java.
If you use a message-oriented architecture for your application(s) or systems in your company, it is a great API to easily use any kind of transport / filtering / interception mechanism and carry messages from one point to another with many possibilities. Camel supports Spring, which allows for very few code in an application and a LOT of possibilities in handling messages. And the cherry on top of the Camel cake is that "message" can be any object you want. So you can carry and massage any data coming in and spit it in various forms and ways to various destinations.

An example I can give is taken from RL experience: implementing a SMS router/proxy using Camel: a SMS comes in; a SMS count is sent (by Camel) to a customer DB to bill him later, while this SMS goes through a (Camel) filter that finds out which carrier it should go to. The SMS is then forwarded (by Camel) to its actual transport destination....etc.

The beauty of Camel is that, besides having a full-blown implementation of Enterprise Patterns, you can do other things than just handling messages. I actually wrote a Wikipedia Dictionnary parser with it...
Get a dictionnary entry from an URL ->Filter bad chars->XML-ise it -> Send into DB and record to log...

If your company is SOA oriented or your applications are workflow-based, Camel is a GREAT solution.

Comment Re:Cloud and Google (Score 1) 162

apple is evil, its true; but at least they ensure a reasonable experience on their tablet. it

This is just as wrong as the FA. How can you compare a 700$ tablet with a 100$ one? It's great that you allow yourself some Android bashing / Apple loving, but at least try to be a *little* fair.

I bough a XOOM (same price as the IPad) hoping it would not be too crappy. Well, guess what. It works like a CHARM, just as well as the IPad I tried before, maybe even better since it is way more flexible. And oh well, I knocked up an application on it in minutes without a 100$ SDK.

Your example is wrong and biased. If you buy a 100$ made-in-china-punkyards tablet, you get what you paid for. Let's see what you get from Apple for a 100$

Comment Can`t live without 2 (Score 1) 1002

Juggling with windows when you have to read specifications, code them, check the result, etc. while monitoring a server to see if your data goes through - I had enough of this. Most of developers at our company have 2 monitors but that`s only because we`re on laptops. I still find 2 monitors a bare minimum at home. Mostly because I run VMs, emulators or read Slashdot and listen to music while I have zillion of Eclipse windows opened. If one monitor is enough for you, then you`re not working hard enough! :-)

Comment Re:so much for being open (Score 1) 415

Or a cheating wife constantly texting her lover. Although one can responsibly deal with teenage kids without spying on their text messages, you can't do anything about a cheating wife. There are many valid reasons to want to use such an app besides this. However, if it is not legal, then the argument stops there.

Comment Noooo! (Score 1) 402

I usually work for large companies with QA/Staging processes. When someone suggest I poke the production servers, I REFUSE to even be given any password related to those. The argument being, we have 3 steps before an application goes live, if there is an issue, it's either a bug that hasn't been caught early enough or there's a support group who has the authorization to help in investigating.

If a developer must access production servers, something in the bug detection process failed and it's way too dangerous to have anyone probe them. Also, in many organisations, the data is sensitive enough to not have the common human being even have a glance at it.

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