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Roger arrived at the front door of MicroLabs on Wednesday morning at eleven o'clock. He liked to get a full eight hours of sleep in every night. He scribbled a name on the signin sheet claiming to be applying for a job and headed for the Personnel Department. Ditching his visitor badge, Roger headed to Nancy's section. As he approached the card key door, he timed his arrival with the exit of a technician. Holding the door for the even younger man, he entered easily. "We'll have to talk about the security around here when we're done with this Lexicon thing," he said to Nancy where a ‘Good morning' would usually be found. "Hi Roger, always a pleasure," was her sarcastic retort.
"Good morning Roger," said Spike. "Hi Spike. You don't need any kind of sleep or rest, huh?" "No. I do occasionally recollect myself. Sort of reorganizing the structures mostly and this is best done as a single process focus but I can schedule it for whenever I want to." "Pretty amazing." "I'd like to understand the whole thing better myself, to tell you the truth. But right now, we better get down to business. Let's coordinate the plan. I've got everything ready for the call to Lexicon except the video link address scrambling. I'll work on that next. What I'm going to do is tell him I'm representing a Korean manufacturer who would like to purchase Lexicon Industries. The offer price would be somewhere around $200 million. That's about 10 times Lexicon annual earnings and should be an attractive offer to someone with a shrinking business. Nancy, would you call Lexicon's secretary to schedule the linkup for this afternoon?" "Sure Spike. I can do that, but isn't Lexicon going to think talking to you is sort of strange? I mean look at you?" "I've been putting together a human image rendering routine. It's processing intensive and I can't keep it going continuously, but the duration of the call, 5 or 10 minutes should be no problem." "You mean a moving, three dimensional human image rendered in real time? Coordinated with voice activity? Will it look realistic enough?" Nancy asked. "Keep in mind that the video link is going to be running at only 8 frames per second. It's nowhere near the 30 fps you need for a true full motion effect so I only have to generate at that speed for this call. I'm going to continue working on the routines though. I should be able to get up to 30 fps with some refinements to the speech motion algorithms."
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