life has been kinda weird for me lately, what with the band and everything, and the coursework in the university is not getting any easier..maybe thats why they call this a masters course.
In my head I have this picture, where two schools of software engineers are meeting, there has been placed a challenge between the two schools..and now the students face each other, snarling at the enemy over their laptops
and then there is a sudden silence as the masters step forth, one has been schooled in the misty mountains of ohio, in ohio state university, he is a master of computer science and is reputed to have killed over a million viruses with a single line of code...deadly indeed..
the other, has been trained in the killing heat of california..he is reputed to have created a software package so notorious that it spawns horrors of its own..he named it windoom 99..
and to this day no one has found a way to rid the world of its plague..
the masters clash..
algorithms called out with the force of incantations..data structures lashing at each other, chaos itself...finally just as the students are about to think that there is no end to the battle, one of the masters calls out an algorithm at O(n) time, however, the other master invokes the same algorithm in O(log n) time...thereby making it a little faster..
just as the algorithm is about to strike down the master who was slightly slower, the Pcs in the room running windoom 99, overheat, thereby causing a chain reaction which triggers a nuclear meltdown...there is nothing in the aftermath except silence,
and then in the apocalyptic darkness, a screen flares to life,
it is a blue screen and it reports..
"mankind had to be terminated since it performed an illegal operation, do you want to send a report to whoever gives a crap? oh sorry, they had to be terminated too since they suddenly decided not to give a crap.."
when did we become the tools and the computers, our masters?..
magus.
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