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(...) Well I think you probably knew what I meant in that I leave final documentation to someone else, i.e. the copy the customer sees, I have to document my code for internal purposes of course. (...) Well I am not sure but I think it was the (...) (25 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: My Space Theme Wish for 2001
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(...) That's really cool! I knew about the screenplay, but not the book's byline. (...) Is that a book or video or both? I'd love to see it. It's amazing, but even decades later it still remains a standard by which the realism of other scifi (...) (25 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Social Engineering (was: Re: The Friendliest Site On The Internet. (Was Re: A little self examination?))
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(...) I meant that in the nicest way, of course. (...) I think you left a comma out of that sentence fragment, big fella. :-) All (1) kidding aside (I should have set followups to .fun on the last post but they're set there now), I think if you (...) (25 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) He's sort of like "Rudolph, the Trans-neon-orange Scorpion." I think you should consider the marketing potential of this, seeing as how Christmas is coming up and all. At the very least, perhaps someone can make a short stop-motion feature. We (...) (25 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Quite. In _The Making of 2001_ by Clarke, he relates how the book and the movie were written essentially at the same time by both of them, with Kubrick focusing more on script and Clarke more on prose. The book is by "Arthur C Clarke and (...) (25 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) sort (...) Er, sorry about that. ++Lar (25 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Hey! Stay on topic for the group! (25 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Wow, Todd really went all the way on this one...
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(...) At least one person has been confused by the set number above. I have verified that it is possible to construct a fairly simple search in Altavista to find the significance of that set number... Frank (25 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Isn't that *twice* daily incarceration? Later this week I will be back to riding the London Underground Jubilee line two or more times a day, which was deliberately made smaller than older(?) tube trains. Ostensibly so that the tubes would be (...) (25 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Everything has been invented... (was Re: single motor pneumatic pump and switch)
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(...) such (...) In 1875 the Director of the United States Patent Office sent in his resignation, and advised the administration that his department be eliminated, because he was convinced there was nothing left to invent. --from (URL) is an (...) (25 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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