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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes: Lar, Aren't you supposed to be on a flight somewhere? Drag your armored suitcase over someone's toes and get some sleep! Dave! (25 years ago, 24-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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Just to add to the confussion, there was a Russian patent agent called Genrich Altshuller (not sure on that spelling) who came up with an engineering philosophy called TRIZ or TIPS (Theory of Inventive Problem Solving). Basically himself and many of (...) (25 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Or, perhaps the red-orange thing is a lobster and not a scorpion at all? That would make the most sense. (25 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Hmm, I enjoyed the book (I've read most of the novels and short stories that Clarke wrote), but I thought the movie was extremely slow (saw it on DVD on my computer w/ surround sound). --Bram Bram Lambrecht BXL34@po.cwru.edu (URL) (25 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Oh come on now. Don't you know that 2001:ASO was a fantasy film? SF my foot. <gr&r> --Todd (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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(...) 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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(...) 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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| | Re: My Space Theme Wish for 2001
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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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