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  • C Chris Meech

    Isn't this what parallel processing was invented for? When the first event happens, you now must start two paths of execution. At some point in the future, you abort one of these paths depending upon whether event two has occurred. Sounds pretty simple to me and I'm sure there's already a pattern that's been developed to handle this. :)

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    lewax00
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    I think he's going to need a non-deterministic CPU for this.

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    • L Lost User

      I have just been asked to stop something happening, if something else does not happen after it. If the second thing does happen (actually it's a third thing) then the first thing does need to have happened. The times between the first and the third thing could be as long as several days. Gonna have to think about this one.

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      ZurdoDev
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      Sweet, I can finally use that time travel module I wrote next year.

      There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

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        I have just been asked to stop something happening, if something else does not happen after it. If the second thing does happen (actually it's a third thing) then the first thing does need to have happened. The times between the first and the third thing could be as long as several days. Gonna have to think about this one.

        Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. Shed Petition[^]

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        Lost User
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        Please, leave time travel to the professionals.

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        • L Lost User

          Well that's the first question. Should I create a process to check the future, or one to undo the past. I think it'll have to be the future, because the other I don't know at which point I can guarantee the third thing isn't going to happen, so I don't know at which point to undo the past.

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          Chris Quinn
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          Checking is much easier than undoing. If you are not careful you could end up shooting your own grandad (or screwing your own grandma if you use the Robert Heinlein paradigm) - it is very difficult to unshoot or unscrew something (unless it's a lightbulb)

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            I have just been asked to stop something happening, if something else does not happen after it. If the second thing does happen (actually it's a third thing) then the first thing does need to have happened. The times between the first and the third thing could be as long as several days. Gonna have to think about this one.

            Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. Shed Petition[^]

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            realJSOP
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            • Z ZurdoDev

              Sweet, I can finally use that time travel module I wrote next year.

              There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

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              Manfred Rudolf Bihy
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              ryanb31 wrote:

              Sweet, I can finally use that time travel module I wrote willan on-write next year.

              FTFY! You might want to brush up on The Grammar of Time Travel[^]. Cheers! :laugh:

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              • N Nagy Vilmos

                Going from experience, validation is always easier than reversal. So I'd suggest validating step 3 before performing step 1. Alternatively, follow the BA who came up with this idea [it's always a BA] and give him a huge bitch slap back into the real world.


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                Colin Mullikin
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                Nagy Vilmos wrote:

                follow the BA who came up with this idea ... and give him a huge bitch slap back into the real world.

                This made me laugh quite hard. :laugh: :laugh:

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                • C Chris Quinn

                  Checking is much easier than undoing. If you are not careful you could end up shooting your own grandad (or screwing your own grandma if you use the Robert Heinlein paradigm) - it is very difficult to unshoot or unscrew something (unless it's a lightbulb)

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                  Colin Mullikin
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                  Chris Quinn wrote:

                  it is very difficult to unshoot or unscrew something (unless it's a lightbulb)

                  How do you unshoot a lightbulb...? :-\

                  The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin

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                  • D dan sh

                    Seems like life of married men. Third thing is related to cuddling. Second might just never happen and in several days they get first and third. If you know what I mean.

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                    Joe Woodbury
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                    Isn't it more like, "you need to do A and B to get C. I'll tell you what A is, but not B. Moreover, once you figure out B, I'll change it."

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                    • L Lost User

                      I have just been asked to stop something happening, if something else does not happen after it. If the second thing does happen (actually it's a third thing) then the first thing does need to have happened. The times between the first and the third thing could be as long as several days. Gonna have to think about this one.

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                      Michael Bergman
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                      ma brane jus splode.

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                      • L Lost User

                        I have just been asked to stop something happening, if something else does not happen after it. If the second thing does happen (actually it's a third thing) then the first thing does need to have happened. The times between the first and the third thing could be as long as several days. Gonna have to think about this one.

                        Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. Shed Petition[^]

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                        Dave Kreskowiak
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                        Wow! Did you tell the guy requesting this that you'll have to buy a real working Crystal Ball and a Flux Capacitor? Oh, and the computer will nee to be doing 88MPH too!

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                        • J Joe Woodbury

                          Isn't it more like, "you need to do A and B to get C. I'll tell you what A is, but not B. Moreover, once you figure out B, I'll change it."

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                          dan sh
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                          For a change, I, have a headache now.

                          "Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[^]

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                          • L Lost User

                            I have just been asked to stop something happening, if something else does not happen after it. If the second thing does happen (actually it's a third thing) then the first thing does need to have happened. The times between the first and the third thing could be as long as several days. Gonna have to think about this one.

                            Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. Shed Petition[^]

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                            Ennis Ray Lynch Jr
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                            Let me guess, this if for the EPA You must run a calibration every 23 hours unless, after 36 hours you have not run but if you do run on the 30th hour you must have done a calibration after the 28th hour but no sooner.

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                            • L Lost User

                              I have just been asked to stop something happening, if something else does not happen after it. If the second thing does happen (actually it's a third thing) then the first thing does need to have happened. The times between the first and the third thing could be as long as several days. Gonna have to think about this one.

                              Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. Shed Petition[^]

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                              Brisingr Aerowing
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                              My brain just encountered a StackOverflowException while trying to comprehend that one. Was the one who came up with that stricken with hypocaffenia?

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                              • L Lost User

                                I have just been asked to stop something happening, if something else does not happen after it. If the second thing does happen (actually it's a third thing) then the first thing does need to have happened. The times between the first and the third thing could be as long as several days. Gonna have to think about this one.

                                Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. Shed Petition[^]

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                                AspDotNetDev
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                                I always wondered how they implemented a double click.

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                                • N Nagy Vilmos

                                  Going from experience, validation is always easier than reversal. So I'd suggest validating step 3 before performing step 1. Alternatively, follow the BA who came up with this idea [it's always a BA] and give him a huge bitch slap back into the real world.


                                  Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett

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                                  Gary Wheeler
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                                  If the BA is like the one's I've worked with, you're going to have to budget a workmen's comp claim for the slap.

                                  Software Zen: delete this;

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                                  • Z ZurdoDev

                                    Sweet, I can finally use that time travel module I wrote next year.

                                    There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

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                                    Gary Wheeler
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                                    Don't you mean you can finally use that time travel module you're going to write last year?

                                    Software Zen: delete this;

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                                      I have just been asked to stop something happening, if something else does not happen after it. If the second thing does happen (actually it's a third thing) then the first thing does need to have happened. The times between the first and the third thing could be as long as several days. Gonna have to think about this one.

                                      Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. Shed Petition[^]

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                                      Marc Clifton
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                                      ChrisElston wrote:

                                      I have just been asked to stop something happening, if something else does not happen after it.

                                      yeah, that's what she said. :-O Marc

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                                      • J Jacquers

                                        Start working on that flux capacitor / future event prediction circuit...

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                                        Nelek
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                                        Like in Minority Report?

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                                        • L Lost User

                                          I have just been asked to stop something happening, if something else does not happen after it. If the second thing does happen (actually it's a third thing) then the first thing does need to have happened. The times between the first and the third thing could be as long as several days. Gonna have to think about this one.

                                          Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. Shed Petition[^]

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                                          Mycroft Holmes
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                                          I currently have a standing order for a telepathic module, would you like me to add a precognitive module to that request. We have up on the time travel module are being sued by a bunch of morlocks for invading their privacy!

                                          Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

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