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Jeremy got home a little after 10:00 PM. Zeke had worked on the "D" language program upgrade since Jeremy left to meet Molly five hours earlier. Making use of the final command would require some changes to most of the other program sections that had already been completed. It was going to be a long night, and as Zeke found out, Jeremy's mood wouldn't help any.
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| Jeremy: |
Zeke, how's it going with the program? Are we going to make it for tomorrow?
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| Zeke: |
Come on over here, I'll show you what I've got.
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| Jeremy: |
Sounds like progress...
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| Zeke: |
Good news and bad news. The memory store command we were missing can be fit in, but most of the other commands have to be altered to be able to make use of it. It's going to be a long process to retro it in. It's getting too messy, too hard to keep track of in my head. What I'd like to do is start over and get a better structure to the overall program.
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| Jeremy: |
Start over? Zeke, I need it ready tomorrow afternoon. You got that? You can do your little cleanup exercise starting tomorrow night. At that point, I really don't care if it goes out of commission for a couple weeks. But tomorrow is not negotiable.
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| Zeke: |
All right Jeremy, I'll whack this in, but I'm warning you, if you use it on someone they may get hurt.
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| Jeremy: |
I guess I'm willing to take that risk. As my dad used to say, 'No guts, no glory.'
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| Zeke: |
As long as they're not my guts on the line. How are you going to demonstrate it?
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| Jeremy: |
I think the best way for Bob Jackson to understand what we can do is to have him feel it for himself.
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| Zeke: |
You're going to demo on the guy your demoing to? Should be quite a show. What do you want to do for the behavioral command?
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| Jeremy: |
I haven't decided yet. Can you build a little front-end program that would let me, I mean us, define the behavior and stimuli externally to the control program itself?
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| Zeke: |
You mean set it up so the instructions aren't hardcoded? Maybe pass them in as a parameters to a generator routine... yeah, that's a good idea. It should be pretty simple to do. In fact, I've got some...
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| Jeremy: |
Hold on, Houdini. Cut the details for now. You need to get to work and I've got some other stuff to get ready for tomorrow. I'll check with you in a couple hours, okay?
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It was 4:45 AM when Jeremy woke up to a pair of blood shot eyes. It seemed like only a moment ago he laid down on top of the bed to rest his eyes. Now it was six hours later and Zeke was ready to show him the finished product. As always, Jeremy sprung out of bed fully awake in a split second. It was clear from Zeke's grin that the results of a night's work would not be disappointing.
The two celebrated their achievement for a few minutes while Jeremy learned to use the new tool. But with his excitement behind him, Zeke soon dragged off to his bedroom and fell into a deep sleep. As the sun began to rise, Jeremy was alone with the "D" language technology for the first time. An hour later he had produced a set of seven control images and moved them to a diskette. It was just after 8:00 AM when he picked up the telephone and dialed.
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| Telephone: |
Yahoo!, Advertising Department, this is Darin. How can I help you?
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| Jeremy: |
Darin, I'd like to buy some banner space. How quickly could you get my message setup to go on-line?
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