The Goddess Shines on America

The architectural style of this place is almost the same as that of the headquarters. After passing through the plain and unpretentious corridors, Alice met her colleagues in an office area. That was an entire team of fifty-person programmers, and as Andrio said, everyone exploded with first love enthusiasm for the addition of Alice.

After all, for this group of authentic programmers, Alice, who developed windows alone and pioneered router products, is the most popular star in the circle!

"Welcome to you, Alice!"

A man whose ghost knew who it was took Alice's hand and said excitedly: "My name is Tom Henderson. I bought the windows installation disk for my son. Okay, you just bought it for me. You are nothing short of it. Genius! No, right, you are a genius..."

"Hey, Alice, you don't care about Tom."

At the bustling door, another young college guy pushed Tom away: "My name is John. Tom has been with Lockheed for seven years. I just joined the company half a year ago. Oh my god, I can actually be with Ellie. Silk works together, boss, are you kidding me?"

Andrio laughed and just wanted to answer, Alice shook hands with John: "Just joined half a year ago, you can join such a special R&D team. You must be amazing, right?"

"Okay, okay, guys, come one by one, one by one, don't crowd and don't mess!"

According to the routine personnel, one name after another and the endless handshake behavior, today's eight-hour working period is afraid that it will be seriously shrinking. Of course, of course, a pretty little girl like Alice came to the studio full of single programmers, and such a beautiful thing, let alone shrinking by an hour or eight, even if you let everyone post it upside down for a month. I believe that all bachelors are happy for this salary, right?

Then, when a doctoral student in theoretical physics who claimed to have graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology showed his computer screen to Alice, the hustle and bustle caused by this personnel change finally stopped.

The dos system interface is full of codes, enough to make any layman's scalp numb, but Alice really wants to see her relatives sitting at the table. Staring at the screen, the five fingers of her left hand quickly tapped on the keyboard, and countless codes scrolled quickly like wild bees.

"Ah, sensor gyroscope, this is a good thing."

Without waiting for the employee to explain, Alice saw everything in the picture that quickly swept across her eyes: "Then this one is, your balance control system based on a gyroscope? The code is a bit cumbersome..."

"Is there any room for modification?"

Seeing Alice carefully and quickly scanning the program she wrote, Hank was even a little nervous when she was in doubt.

At the same time, this desk was already full of colleagues, and Alice Wang focused on the system program written by Hank Micauer. This was not always an opportunity.

"At present, it is redundant, reducing the processing speed of the system."

Alice quickly took a screenshot of a string of code: "Look at this string, from this line to this line, the writing of this logic is somewhat repetitive."

With that said, without waiting for the young man to ask anything, Alice spoke directly with action.

Then I clicked on an interface and tapped the keyboard with my hands like enclaves, but within a few seconds, a string of codes that was only one-third of the length of that piece of code was successfully released.

"Look at me, then look at yours."

Alice's tone was rather calm, and her words did not show any sharp stance: "Can it produce the same effect?"

Of course, Hank knew better than anyone else, the function of the piece of code that Alice took a screenshot of himself, so he didn't need to go back to the previous page anymore. He stared at Alice's article directly.

Behind the two, seven or eight people's heads kept leaning towards the screen.

"Really... exactly the same!"

But for a moment, after reading the entire code, Hank cried out in amazement: "The length is only as long as mine... This is only one-third, but the function is exactly the same!"

"It's really like that, hey Hank, how did you write the code? Two-thirds of nonsense, hahaha~"

"Alice Alice, can you come and see my code?"

"The length has been reduced by two-thirds, that is, the development time has been shortened by two-thirds? Or, in the same time, the performance has increased by three times? My god..."

As a result, Alice was immediately invited to his computer by another employee, and Hank's computer immediately ushered in the inhumane onlookers of seven or eight colleagues. For a while, the whole office was full of people talking loudly, and when Andrio spoke, he had to work hard to raise his voice.

"Guys, folks, I'll give you half an hour in total. Alice is the chief designer and chief technical consultant invited by the company, not just for our avionics program. I will give you half an hour. , And then I will take her to visit the factory!"

If it is said that Oren Lockheed's idea was just to let Alice try to program the avionics program long before he had a good conversation with Joseph. So when she raised countless creative rhetorical questions about the overall design of the aircraft, the girl who originally carried the title of "technical consultant" would naturally expand her powers...

After talking for half an hour, not even a minute was spared, and when the time was up, Andrio immediately pulled Alice out of the office. At the same time, more department heads have also emerged from the various rooms of the office building. Aren’t they all the people Alice had seen during the meeting?

"Alice, hey, Alice!"

I saw in the corridor crowd, Susan waved to a figure in the distance: "I'll introduce you, this is another Alice!"

Then, Alice had already heard about it, and another "Alice" appeared.

She walked out of the crowd shyly and nervously. A very ordinary woman, in her early thirties, had brilliant blond hair and was wearing a white lab coat for the laboratory.

"Hi, hello, uh... Alice. My name is Alice, Alice Thompson."

Alice smiled bitterly and shook hands with "Alice" and said, "It's all because our names are too common. It seems I will call you Thompson in the future, otherwise I have to go crazy."

Alice Thompson was obviously relaxed. When everyone was walking towards the elevator, she followed Alice, speaking at a faster rate than before: "But I am thirty-three years old this year. Oh, it's hemp. I graduated from the provincial polytechnic, and I took the test of the principle of computer hardware. That... Alice, when I have time, can you teach me the idea of ​​designing windows?"

The compilation of computer operating systems requires programmers to have an excellent grasp of the basic structure and operating principles of computer hardware. After all, this at least involves the driver of various hardware. Since Thompson was admitted to this type of major, she must have paid more attention to the development of an entire operating system on her own than anyone else.

"No problem, it's a piece of cake, uh, big guy, the elevator doors are open."

The Lockheed Military Aircraft R&D Center, which occupies most of the land in the town, of course cannot be just an office building. Just behind this building, a large area of ​​land is occupied by the factory.

It was here that Alice witnessed the yf-22 body.

Of course, the semi-finished product is already out. It is not difficult to build a metal shell. The large airplane with a captain of nearly 20 meters and a wingspan of nearly 14 meters stands magnificently on the open ground. Not far away, there are many factory employees wearing work clothes and a whole military aircraft production line full of heavy industrial feeling.

"Good guy, it's exactly the same..."

Looking at the actual body of this military aircraft that will be spread across the Internet throughout the 21st century, Alice whispered: "Yf-22, um... Joseph, is this the place where the machine gun is installed?"

Alice pointed her finger at the nose of the machine. There was obviously a place for attachments. Joseph stood beside her and immediately replied: "Yes, we plan to install a 20mm Vulcan cannon, but There must not be too many orders. But here, here, there are four plug-in points and a built-in magazine that can hold nearly 2,500 pounds of ammunition. This is the big one!"

In fact, it is not necessary for Joseph to explain much. Regarding the famous f-22 of the future generations, how can Alice not know the truth about its performance?

And the fundamental reason why she came here is only she herself knows best.

Lockheed Martin...

Well, it has not acquired and merged with Martin Marietta at this time, but its position in the industry has not been affected at all. Established as early as 1912 ~www.readwn.com~The world's largest defense contractor. What is this concept?

Although there are countless rich people born in the United States, the companies that can truly influence the country, or the companies that have the greatest influence on the country, will always be financial oligarchs and military-industrial complexes, which exist at this level.

As for companies such as Microsoft, which face bankruptcy every 18 months, although the amount of wealth is much higher than that of this type of company, it is easy to give birth to billionaires, but when it comes to real influence, Bill Gates is well-known in the world. , Really may not be better than the little-known arms dealers.

The so-called military-industrial complex refers to a huge interest group composed of military departments, military-industrial enterprises, some members of Congress, and defense research institutions. And the financial oligarchs with Wall Street as the core can directly affect the existence of basic commodity prices in the country and the world as long as they move their fingers and easily manipulate the stock prices. In contrast, although people in Silicon Valley talk about changing the world every day, it is this group of people that really affects everyone.

After all, one does not need to be on Twitter, or Facebook, or even Google or Baidu, and the computer will not even be able to turn it on. But can he not satisfy his own food, clothing, housing and transportation and live in a country surrounded by the army?

This is Alice's real goal. (To be continued.)