John Smith
Last Known Survivor of the Microsoft Wars
Roland Hughes
Copyright ©2012 by Roland Hughes
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ISBN-13 978-1-939732-00-2
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To everyone who read and loved Infinite Exposure.
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ISBN-13: 9780977086696
The Minimum You Need to Know About Logic to Work in
IT
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The Minimum You Need to Know to Be an OpenVMS
Application Developer
ISBN-13: 9780977086603
The Minimum You Need to Know About Java on
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The Minimum You Need to Know About Service Oriented
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The Minimum You Need to Know About Java and xBaseJ
ISBN-13: 978-0-9823580-3-0
The Minimum You Need to Know About Qt and Databases
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The Minimum You Need to Know About Mono and Qt
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The Phallus of Agile and Other Ruminations
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Table of Contents
Prologue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Frame of Reference. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
The Brine of Life. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27
Nukes and Nots. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43
One of the Beginnings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53
Cost of Time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Price of Pride. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .85
10,000 Years and 20,000 Leagues. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .115
God, god and gods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .143
Time of Rules. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
The Flood of Proof. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
A Pharaoh, a Plan, and a Script. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .199
Compromise. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
The Fourth Book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .227
The Rejoining. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Our War on Terror. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Epilogue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273