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Comment Obligatory (Score -1, Offtopic) 117

by BabyDuckHat on Monday August 02, 2010 @03:27PM (#33114364) Attached to: Stanford's New Solar Tech Harnesses Heat, Light

One of the cartoons on this site may apply to this story in a humorous and eerily prescient manner.

Comment Re:MOD PARENT UP (Score 2, Insightful) 546

by BabyDuckHat on Tuesday June 29, 2010 @04:55PM (#32736588) Attached to: Daily Kos Pollster Made Up Numbers

How? Lots of hand-waving, misdirection, and questionable assumptions. The whole research industry is in total denial about it, because there aren't any good alternatives yet.

Comment Giant Enemy Crab 2 (Score 1) 145

by BabyDuckHat on Tuesday June 15, 2010 @06:08PM (#32584106) Attached to: PS Move Launch Date and Price Announced, <em>Portal 2</em> For the PS3

You attack its weak point for massive damage!

Comment Re:Personally... (Score 1) 385

by BabyDuckHat on Wednesday June 09, 2010 @11:04AM (#32510582) Attached to: Why Are Video Game Movies So Awful?

Or this.

Crash and burn Achilles!!!

Comment Everyone Will Move To This (Score 1) 514

by BabyDuckHat on Friday June 04, 2010 @06:38PM (#32464766) Attached to: Mixed Reception To AT&T's New Data Pricing Scheme

From a business perspective, this is the golden egg: 1) If you use less than your total minutes, you've overpaid = more money for the company 2) If you go over your minutes you pay an exorbitant overage charge = more money for the company Of course, it shanks the customer.

Comment Ptalarbvorm! (Score 2, Interesting) 312

by BabyDuckHat on Wednesday May 19, 2010 @03:38PM (#32268926) Attached to: Theora Development Continues Apace, VP8 Now Open Source

Bless you.

Comment Our Outcome (Score 1) 457

by BabyDuckHat on Tuesday May 11, 2010 @06:57PM (#32176214) Attached to: The Telcos' Secret Anti-Net Neutrality Strategy

Web Page Traffic: 200 visitors in 3 days.

Oh yeah, we're gaining some real traction here! Better get started installing that OC3... /snicker

Comment Re:Problem (Score 1) 256

by BabyDuckHat on Tuesday April 27, 2010 @04:00PM (#32003978) Attached to: Senators Tell Facebook To Quit Sharing Users' Info

But their terms say they can.

Comment Good Idea (Score 3, Insightful) 278

by BabyDuckHat on Monday April 19, 2010 @06:34PM (#31903428) Attached to: SEC Proposes Wall Street Transparency Via Python

If you want to confront the devil, a programming language is a good place to do it, since it's all about the details.

Comment Re:Before or After... (Score 1) 367

by BabyDuckHat on Friday April 16, 2010 @02:20PM (#31874784) Attached to: Lower Merion School District Update

In fact, don't do *anything* without first checking with a lawyer.

(This message brought to you by the Lawfirm of Sagman, Bennet, Robbins, Oppenheim and Taft)

Comment Re:You control your own destiny (Score 4, Informative) 332

by BabyDuckHat on Monday April 05, 2010 @03:12PM (#31738820) Attached to: 2010 Salary Survey Highlights IT Woes

The 1950's called. They want they're attitudes back.

Comment Re:More deaths (Score 1) 555

by BabyDuckHat on Friday April 02, 2010 @06:40PM (#31710724) Attached to: White House Issues New Gas Mileage Standards

A quick back-of-the-napkin calculation reveals that that is an acceptable level of death.

Comment Re:Can PJ take legal action against Maureen O'Gara (Score 2, Informative) 96

by BabyDuckHat on Saturday March 13, 2010 @03:33PM (#31465804) Attached to: SCO Asked O'Gara To Smear Groklaw

As a Mormon, I'm also appalled. Business and money seem to have gotten the best of these guys. "It's ok to lie", they must be thinking, "it's just business."

Comment Re:ha ha suckers!!! (Score 5, Funny) 658

by BabyDuckHat on Thursday February 11, 2010 @08:53PM (#31108054) Attached to: Windows Patch Leaves Many XP Users With Blue Screens

That's almost as user friendly as Linux right there.

Comment Re:Simply, no software required. (Score 1) 483

by BabyDuckHat on Tuesday February 09, 2010 @03:48PM (#31076716) Attached to: How Do You Accurately Estimate Programming Time?

But it doesn't matter, of course, since the boss will ask "Are you sure?" And we all know that that means "try to come up with an estimate that fits my predetermined schedule."

My other favorite manager question is, "How easy would it be to do such and such?".

My reply, "If it's not easy does that mean I don't have to do it?"

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