FrankBlack

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by FrankBlack 2y ago
Not to be a spoil-sport, but what good is a dictionary if you remove the word origins? It might just be me but that is the best part of a dictionary.
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by FrankBlack 3y ago
Per the EU, shutting down a plant can take 20 to 30 years (assuming it is planned and not due to a crisis a la Fukushima) https://energy.ec.europa.eu/topics/nuclear-energy/decommissi...
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by FrankBlack 4y ago
Back in the day we used to download files from certain FTP servers via an email with the correct terms. I never found it very interesting, but it was novel. It would have been much cooler had smartphones been around then.
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Cyber: The Tool the US Military Is Using to Monitor Emails and Web Traffic(vice.com)
4 points by FrankBlack 4y ago|2 comments
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by FrankBlack 5y ago
Oh, how shocking! Google is scrapping a project! Someone catch me, I'm going to faint!
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by FrankBlack 9y ago
I have no beef with 8K in a philosophical or technical sense, but I only worry about bandwidth. To me, 1080p alone is already taxing the infrastructure given the mass of humans incessantly streaming. While my old eyes can certainly grok t
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by FrankBlack 9y ago
My very first computer purchase was a ZX81 with 16K memory expansion and "high resolution" graphics expansion. Cost a bunch, everything was a tad confusing, crappy graphics looked crappier on a tiny black and white television, lo
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by FrankBlack 9y ago
I enjoyed the series produced by public television called "Irasshai". The lessons are available on the Georgia Public Broadcasting site and texts can be purchased from Amazon. For those who have fond memories of "French In
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by FrankBlack 10y ago
Perhaps I am just dense, but the article references, specifically, the "Pro" market. For most pros that I know (and I am among them), our OS choice is often based on our tools, not the other way around. If I need Photoshop, Light
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by FrankBlack 11y ago
I am sure it was a slow change that we hardly noticed. I think a couple things contributed to this mentality (there are plenty of others): 1) The tragic death of Adam Walsh became national news and spawned his father's advocacy for v
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by FrankBlack 12y ago
I had a conversation today at work that was on an unrelated topic, yet still dealt with the difficulty of operating in the vortex of left-leaning politics. The main issue that drove me away from being active after many years in the fray was
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by FrankBlack 12y ago
Simpsons did it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j73cxLiqc2U
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by FrankBlack 13y ago
I think most of the networks stream their shows for a short time on their web sites. At this point I just wonder, why not just cut out the middle-man and get on with it? I'll pay for subscriptions, but not for endless commercials and
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by FrankBlack 13y ago
I guess it won't be long until the Discovery Channel hosts "Meditating With The Stars" and "Ultimate Meditation Championship".
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by FrankBlack 13y ago
For a fleeting moment, my work-weary eyes thought the title was, "Alabama Is Said to Move Toward an I.P.O. in the U.S.". After recognizing my mistake, I decided my first reading was more reasonable.
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by FrankBlack 13y ago
He didn't stop eating. He stopped chewing.
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by FrankBlack 13y ago
I think that comment is Quickmeme-worthy. http://www.quickmeme.com/Captain-Hindsight/
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by FrankBlack 13y ago
Way back in the 90's, when this new-fangled web thing was just starting to take off (especially the .com side) I was teaching an "Introduction to the Internet" course at my college. I took meticulous care in trying to explai
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by FrankBlack 14y ago
I know this is all still proof-of-concept, but I think the only feature that was even remotely interesting in that demonstration was the ability to bridge your display to an adjacent tablet. The rest... it just seems like novelty for the s
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by FrankBlack 15y ago
In other news, scientists find that water appears to be wet.
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by FrankBlack 15y ago
While I agree with your points in the technical sense, I think there is a more overarching concept that is the "hard part": There are too many people who want to "make it" in the music business ("make it" means different things to different
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by FrankBlack 15y ago
I think this is broken. I entered, "Bite my shiny, metal ass!" and all I got was some weird, Barney-like purple robot. I'd suggest special sub-routines for certain phrases including, but not limited to: "Ex-Ter-Mi-NATE!", "Danger, Will R
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by FrankBlack 16y ago
Yikes! I can foresee potential pitfalls when one loses track of the cap and the Sharpie!
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by FrankBlack 16y ago
"This week, each one of you has a homework assignment. You're going to go out and start a fight with a total stranger... You're gonna start a fight...and you're gonna lose."
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by FrankBlack 16y ago
I'll get my mom on this right away. :)
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by FrankBlack 16y ago
Thank goodness some dumb-ass got a job at the web-hosting company where his blog resides. And thanks be to g-d someone got a job building the computer upon which he typed it. I am pleased that some poor fool is in servitude to a farm so h
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by FrankBlack 16y ago
AdBlock Plus, ColorfulTabs, Downthemall, FaviconizeTab, Favicon Picker 3, Greasemonkey, Greasefire, IdentFavicon (obviously, I am into icons), Quickpagezoom, TabRenamizer
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by FrankBlack 16y ago
And why aren't the dishes done? And who the hell ate all my Oreos... AGAIN!?
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by FrankBlack 16y ago
Bombs. Lots and lots of bombs. And, apparently, we love to use them. Prisons. We're good at those. Oh, and flags. We like to wave those a lot, too. Especially about the fact that we are "free" compared to those "socialist" menaces aro
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by FrankBlack 16y ago
I don't think most people have an issue with profit, it is just the "profit at the expense of others" (people, environment, justice, etc.) and the "never enough" mentalities that raises hackles.

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