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| (...) Yeah, we need better distributed filesystems. AFS works okay, but it's really pricy. And Coda just ain't there yet. In the meantime, you could use CVS to replicate things. (-> .off-topic.geek) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) you (...) go (...) ultimate (...) Hmm...I would imagine you would have options on that, your recieve end would have a dialouge box as well as a microphone and speakers. (...) It would sorta be an ultimate Tomb Raider/The Sims/Midtown Madness (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Cool... Sounds a lot like 'The Sims'... (URL) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Wow. Creepy. Sounds great. Would you talk in writing too each other, or your own voice, or what? Could you just do anything? How? I don't mean to sound over-technical, I know you just imagined this, but wouldn't the Makers of the game have to (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Hmm.... it almost sounds like a holodeck or something. Sounds a little too realistic to me. I would rather have something interesting, like a movie or something (Matrix, Terminator, etc.). Scott S. ___...___ Scott E. Sanburn-> (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| Ok. I had a dream last night about a computer game called CITY ZEN (It is not a real game) . You would choose what you wanted to look like, your job (You would have to pick a job that the game thought it didn't have enough of, e.g. you couldn't pick (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Not to be nitpicky here, and I haven't bothered to look it up, but is it it possible that this treaty doesn't apply for either of the following two charmingly definitional loopholes? 1. The treaty bans weapons usage in these spheres. A drive, (...) (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) not (...) Detonating nuclear weapons in space was prohibited by the Limited Test Ban Treaty of 1963, which banned detonating nuclear devices in the air, in the ocean, or in space. -- jthompson@esker.com "Float on a river, forever and ever, (...) (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) As far as I can tell, they are not banned...either the "lucifer" type, using multi nuke bombs to push you, or a constant nuke reactor type. However, the Lucifer type is -not- something I want to be on the _planet_ that they test it out on, (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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