New Requirement

[Gary Wheeler]

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

Software Zen: delete this;

[Marc Clifton]

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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[Nelek]

Like in Minority Report?

Regards. -------- M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpfull answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

[Mycroft Holmes]

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

[Sander Rossel]

Tell the client that supercomputers nowadays can look into the future, but that such a computer is some billions over budget. That way you never said you can't do it, but the customer doesn't want to go on with it either :)

It's an OO world.

public class Naerling : Lazy<Person>{
public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
}

[Clumpco]

Quantum Entanglement is your answer... I you are not sure which thing it is, this might help http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJOcvQpMu2A[^]

[agolddog]

Assuming you're in a shop that uses a variant of agile methods, seems as if your first task is pretty well defined: 1) Implement a time machine. After that, the rest of the requirement becomes trivial.

[Fabio Franco]

Create a black hole. Time is not relevant there.

To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson ---- Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia

[RafagaX]

Well, as going back in time will create a parallel universe, and this will be done every time you do the second thing, you must be sure not to run on a multiverse overflow. :laugh:

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[Fenshaw]

Oh, it's Government. Why didn't you say so in the beginning. I thought there was a logical solution.

"To do is to be." [Descartes] "To be is to do." [Voltaire] "Do be do be do..."[Frank Sinatra]

[Member_5893260]

All things continue until they finish.

[DerekT P]

Chris, let me know when you've got that coded up; I've a use for it. if (!mynumbers_come_up_next_week()) { do_not_buy_lottery_ticket(); } Cheers...