Reconfigure by Epredator, Ian Hughes Read Free Book Online Page B

pencil or dry wipe marker. It was the same principle as a whiteboard but quicker and easier than standing up and going to her board, with its ghostly residual scrawls. If she had worked in one of those regular shared office cubes or hot desk environments, the strategy of jotting things down on ‘short term table memory’ wouldn’t have worked. The cleaners would have wiped it like a magnet on a hard drive. She was glad she worked in her own space and could do things her own way. She had a list of commands, plus the Linux that she knew and love-hated. She had already tried some of the higher level commands, many in the Marmite gathering.
    She added what she knew in the gaps between the list items.
    Attach
    x
    Detach
    x
    Examine
    Meta and compound data
    Load
    works
    Translate
    Relative or Absolute
    Transform
    x
    Join
    x
    Save
    works with slots
    Split
    x (Though used it indirectly?)
    Zone
    Range and context with coords
     
    She was going to need some test objects, things that she was not too worried about. Losing the mug was sad as it had reminded her of the lost weeks binge watching Breaking Bad. She had watched it streaming to her good old fashioned HD TV set. It wasn’t the only boxed set she had blasted through. It was very much the thing to do. Some people even managed to schedule remotely, with friends, to watch the same boxed set at the same time. Roisin wondered about the youth of today. Not that she was very old herself! She wondered if these terms borrowed from a bygone age would stick forever. Boxed sets of physical media made sense, ‘own the entire series’ was proudly stamped on old VHS video tapes, then on DVD and Blu-Ray sets in the shops. Now most people just used online streaming. Either paying corporate providers or torrenting entire series, usually before they had been released officially. There was a lot wrong with the media publishing model as the middle men and producers tried to find their cut. She was drifting into an internal rant at the disparity in the World. She snapped herself back to the RC task at hand. She wondered if any of the commands she had available could be chained together just to make the World a better place? Roisin thought she best concentrate on a smaller task. She realised she probably could actually boil the ocean, and even Translate an elephant into the room. She was going to have fun with her analogies and similes with this new plaything.
    Test subjects one and two were in easy reach of her desk. T1 was a small orange plastic cover that had been on top of an ink cartridge. It was mostly a flat plastic rectangle, a few centimetres long, it lay horizontal. In that position it looked like an abstract version of a dog playing dead with its legs in the air. The thinner plastic spindles and panels reached up where they had previously held the ink port shut on the cartridge. It was a small enough object to test with, of no value now, but a complex shape. It would be useful in understanding what went right or wrong with anything she tried. T2 was another simple shape but with different properties. It was a ten pence coin, made of metal. She now had plastic and metal, orange and silver, square and round objects. She had some building blocks to play with. Primitives, like any game development system or virtual world.
    “Right let’s see how RC does with this.” She mumbled. She placed the widget cap and the coin next to one another on a clear space on the desk, about where the mug had originally been yesterday. The stained circles helped frame the positions of the test subjects. She turned to her keyboard, made sure the Twitter DM had focus, and typed.
    “ls”
    The description came back.
     
    @rayKonfigure
    Bookshelf
    Cap
    Ceiling
    Chair
    Coin
    ComputerDevice1
    ComputerDevice2
    Door
    Doorway
    Floor
    Human
    Phone
    Power
    Printer
    Table
    Wall1
    Wall2
    Wall3
    Wall4
    Window
     
    She narrowed the range
    “Zone -S Range=<1.0,1.0,0.3>”
    It was confirmed.
     
    @rayKonfigure
    Zone set