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...Hello?
Milo? Gary Boyd. I'm hoping you and your friend can come up here. We've made some amazing strides in digital convergence. I'd love to show them to you.
You would? Wow. When would we come? 'Think he hung up.
Cool!
Would you like a Coke or something?
Oh. No thanks.
You know a lot about art, I guess.
There's a rumor going around, maybe you've heard it.
I've only shown this to three other people. I bought 200, we've launched 12 so far. I keep the coordinates in this room. It's left over from SDI. Reagan's Star Wars technology? They orbit 426 miles up.
Low enough to relay internet traffic.
Among other things... We know convergence is the real superhighway: all the PC's, TV's, phones, etc. linked together. Why cram it into a cable if you can use the whole sky?
Skywire.
The content filer has t'be written into the media files so bits coming off the satellite can be read by multiplatforms. Really, omniplatforms. Including whatever new hardware emerges.
It needs a more objectoriented language. This doesn't scale, does it?
You'd have to start practically from scratch. But this is all you'd be working on. No marketing meetings, no product seminars. We can't waste the time. Half the Valley's working on convergence. So're media conglomerates, cable companies, phone companies. 'Can't finish second, Milo. There is no second... Now what would you like to ask me?
When you get to a certain age, you start wondering. About your legacy. I doubt you even remember Outpost 1.0
I do!
Yeah? I wanna feel like I did when I wrote that. But I'm 42, that's 100 in cyberyears. I look at you and see the things that got me here. But somehow got away.
No! Just waiting for my counselor to come by and introduce himself.
Okay. I'm Gary.
'Think I should buy some originals?
...Do I?
Somebody said I'm just another Philistine. With reproductions.
That's insane. You're ahead of your time.
That's what I told her. My wife.
Could work with a new switch. There may be a few more things hidden.
Don't spend too much time searching. You ever vetted somebody's old code before? It's a different skill. Stay close to the surface. The besthidden secrets are in plain sight. You know the best place to hide a leaf, right? In a tree.
How's it going?
Maybe I'm going too fast.
Too fast? At least four companies're on the verge of workable convergence systems, Milo, they
It's okay. Really.
Take a look at this. Slightly different approach.
You did this overnight?
You're making me young again.
Milo. What's up?
Well you sent for me.
Right... Right.
You really wrote this just today?
What're you implying.
Nothing!
Everything I do is under scrutiny. The questions they ask, trying to make anything strategic look sordid. I'm confused. Doesn't everybody in business try to get ahead?
I'm sure.
The purpose of this company isn't to destroy our competitors any more than the purpose of living is to breath. But the software business is binary: you're a zero or a one. Being obsessive isn't a crime. It's a character trait.
It scales, don't you think?
Definitely.
I heard what happened.
Were the flags for Teddy?
Had you talked to him much lately?
Just once. 'Guess I was worried we didn't have anything to talk about, since work was offlimits. Non disclosure.
Did you?
Talk about work? Never!
I meant did you find other stuff to
Oh. Yeah.
You've been coming in early.
It helps. Alice said it would help. To focus on something. 'Don't know what I'd do without her.
Wow. You must have 20,000 lines of code there...
34,000. But they're real short lines. 'Just came out that way.
Been thinking about the push mechanism in the handler. And it came over me: it's in the wrong place.
The wrong place?
The answer's not in the box. It's in the band.
Gary, hi.
You look a little tired.
I'm okay. It's going well!
'Have a look?
Sure.
Why did you move around so much? When you were a kid.
...My dad was a compulsive gambler. Only he didn't think he was. That applied to guys who didn't have a "system." "Losers," who played games of chance. He could "read" people, so chance had nothing to do with it. No matter how deep a hole he dug himself, he'd give you the whole speech. And you'd better not point out the obvious. His creditors would catch up to him. Loan sharks or whatever. He'd wake us in the middle of the night. Off we'd go, again.
What would you tell the kids? At your new school? You had to come up with a good story, right?
No. I just went deeper into the machine. Preferred being the geek to having to explain. Lying would've been worse.
...Worse?
Cause he was a liar. And I hated him. "Get your head out of that machine, wise up to the real world." The more he mocked me the deeper I went. Cause if being savvy meant being like him Guess that's why I'm kind of clueless, even now. Didn't cultivate my conniving side. 'Not sure I even have one.
Don't be so hard on yourself. With a brain like yours, you could connive with the best of 'em I bet.
That's great! Thanks.
'Sorry about the late notice...
"Dear Lisa. I've enjoyed working with you. I'd be lying if I didn't say I find you attractive. But in my heart I know that Alice..." You left my party to send Email?
I couldn't do it at work cause of security or at home for obvious reasons.
You could've handwritten it.
I'm not much good at handwriting. Or parties.
Oh, that's right. You're "clueless."
Gary, I
You see what's hanging on the wall?
I hope you know what you mean to me. Not just because of what you're doing. Because of who you are.
I do know, Gary. I feel the same way. I thought I was coming here for a job. But it's meant a lot more.
I'm pretty close. But when I wrote the last contact switches, it wiped out a piece of the content filer. You know what it's like, writing software.
I do know. You focus on the big problem. But somewhere down the chain, something breaks down. Something gets destroyed. At first it's upsetting. You feel you've lost control.
Milo? I'm Danny.
Oh hi.
'Couldn't convince Teddy to come?
He's pretty tight with his family.
We could move 'em up here.
He just likes to write code. He's bummed there's so much secrecy and competition, everybody trying to own everything.
Who's that?
I think they call him the "Houseman." 'Cause "guard" sounds too weird.
That's gotta kill him, right?
Outpost was his baby, sure. On the other hand, we just learned Gary Boyd owns the Skywire satellites. Personally.
Outpost doesn't own em.
Conglomerates're lined up to finance the launch of the remaining satellites. They'll pay him a huge premium to get online.
That'd change with a criminal indictment.
There's no hard evidence he knew about this. Anybody who could implicate him seems to've vanished.
Isn't there a stigma? Bankrolling this guy?

...Hello?

Milo? Gary Boyd. I'm hoping you and your friend can come up here. We've made some amazing strides in digital convergence. I'd love to show them to you.

You would? Wow. When would we come? 'Think he hung up.

Cool!

Would you like a Coke or something?

Oh. No thanks.

You know a lot about art, I guess.

There's a rumor going around, maybe you've heard it.

I've only shown this to three other people. I bought 200, we've launched 12 so far. I keep the coordinates in this room. It's left over from SDI. Reagan's Star Wars technology? They orbit 426 miles up.

Low enough to relay internet traffic.

Among other things... We know convergence is the real superhighway: all the PC's, TV's, phones, etc. linked together. Why cram it into a cable if you can use the whole sky?

Skywire.

The content filer has t'be written into the media files so bits coming off the satellite can be read by multiplatforms. Really, omniplatforms. Including whatever new hardware emerges.

It needs a more objectoriented language. This doesn't scale, does it?

You'd have to start practically from scratch. But this is all you'd be working on. No marketing meetings, no product seminars. We can't waste the time. Half the Valley's working on convergence. So're media conglomerates, cable companies, phone companies. 'Can't finish second, Milo. There is no second... Now what would you like to ask me?

When you get to a certain age, you start wondering. About your legacy. I doubt you even remember Outpost 1.0

I do!

Yeah? I wanna feel like I did when I wrote that. But I'm 42, that's 100 in cyberyears. I look at you and see the things that got me here. But somehow got away.

No! Just waiting for my counselor to come by and introduce himself.

Okay. I'm Gary.

'Think I should buy some originals?

...Do I?

Somebody said I'm just another Philistine. With reproductions.

That's insane. You're ahead of your time.

That's what I told her. My wife.

Could work with a new switch. There may be a few more things hidden.

Don't spend too much time searching. You ever vetted somebody's old code before? It's a different skill. Stay close to the surface. The besthidden secrets are in plain sight. You know the best place to hide a leaf, right? In a tree.

How's it going?

Maybe I'm going too fast.

Too fast? At least four companies're on the verge of workable convergence systems, Milo, they

It's okay. Really.

Take a look at this. Slightly different approach.

You did this overnight?

You're making me young again.

Milo. What's up?

Well you sent for me.

Right... Right.

You really wrote this just today?

What're you implying.

Nothing!

Everything I do is under scrutiny. The questions they ask, trying to make anything strategic look sordid. I'm confused. Doesn't everybody in business try to get ahead?

I'm sure.

The purpose of this company isn't to destroy our competitors any more than the purpose of living is to breath. But the software business is binary: you're a zero or a one. Being obsessive isn't a crime. It's a character trait.

It scales, don't you think?

Definitely.

I heard what happened.

Were the flags for Teddy?

Had you talked to him much lately?

Just once. 'Guess I was worried we didn't have anything to talk about, since work was offlimits. Non disclosure.

Did you?

Talk about work? Never!

I meant did you find other stuff to

Oh. Yeah.

You've been coming in early.

It helps. Alice said it would help. To focus on something. 'Don't know what I'd do without her.

Wow. You must have 20,000 lines of code there...

34,000. But they're real short lines. 'Just came out that way.

Been thinking about the push mechanism in the handler. And it came over me: it's in the wrong place.

The wrong place?

The answer's not in the box. It's in the band.

Gary, hi.

You look a little tired.

I'm okay. It's going well!

'Have a look?

Sure.

Why did you move around so much? When you were a kid.

...My dad was a compulsive gambler. Only he didn't think he was. That applied to guys who didn't have a "system." "Losers," who played games of chance. He could "read" people, so chance had nothing to do with it. No matter how deep a hole he dug himself, he'd give you the whole speech. And you'd better not point out the obvious. His creditors would catch up to him. Loan sharks or whatever. He'd wake us in the middle of the night. Off we'd go, again.

What would you tell the kids? At your new school? You had to come up with a good story, right?

No. I just went deeper into the machine. Preferred being the geek to having to explain. Lying would've been worse.

...Worse?

Cause he was a liar. And I hated him. "Get your head out of that machine, wise up to the real world." The more he mocked me the deeper I went. Cause if being savvy meant being like him Guess that's why I'm kind of clueless, even now. Didn't cultivate my conniving side. 'Not sure I even have one.

Don't be so hard on yourself. With a brain like yours, you could connive with the best of 'em I bet.

That's great! Thanks.

'Sorry about the late notice...

"Dear Lisa. I've enjoyed working with you. I'd be lying if I didn't say I find you attractive. But in my heart I know that Alice..." You left my party to send Email?

I couldn't do it at work cause of security or at home for obvious reasons.

You could've handwritten it.

I'm not much good at handwriting. Or parties.

Oh, that's right. You're "clueless."

Gary, I

You see what's hanging on the wall?

I hope you know what you mean to me. Not just because of what you're doing. Because of who you are.

I do know, Gary. I feel the same way. I thought I was coming here for a job. But it's meant a lot more.

I'm pretty close. But when I wrote the last contact switches, it wiped out a piece of the content filer. You know what it's like, writing software.

I do know. You focus on the big problem. But somewhere down the chain, something breaks down. Something gets destroyed. At first it's upsetting. You feel you've lost control.

Milo? I'm Danny.

Oh hi.

'Couldn't convince Teddy to come?

He's pretty tight with his family.

We could move 'em up here.

He just likes to write code. He's bummed there's so much secrecy and competition, everybody trying to own everything.

Who's that?

I think they call him the "Houseman." 'Cause "guard" sounds too weird.

That's gotta kill him, right?

Outpost was his baby, sure. On the other hand, we just learned Gary Boyd owns the Skywire satellites. Personally.

Outpost doesn't own em.

Conglomerates're lined up to finance the launch of the remaining satellites. They'll pay him a huge premium to get online.

That'd change with a criminal indictment.

There's no hard evidence he knew about this. Anybody who could implicate him seems to've vanished.

Isn't there a stigma? Bankrolling this guy?