Chapter 250 Onsite Competition
In Joseph’s vision, Jacob should have been very flustered upon seeing Wilson like every other
programmer did, but surprisingly, he did not show any form of distress at all. Jacob was calm and
managed to keep his poise.
''Maybe he’s just pretending. Did he think he could get away like this?’
Joseph scoffed inwardly and then said, offering them a grin, "You said your system, the SL system,
has surpassed the DC system in every possible aspect. I''m very confident that Mr. Wilson does not
agree with you. Results speak louder than words. Since both you and Mr. Wilson are the core
programmers for the SL system and the DC system respectively, why don''t you two have a match to
find out which system is the best? What do you say?"
Jacob frowned. He turned to Seth and asked, "What do you think?"
Truth be told, it did not matter to him at all whether or not to ept the challenge. It was just that he
and Seth had made a pact. He would only handle the development of the system and Seth would
be in charge of external affairs.
Seth looked in askance at Wilson.
Wilson was looking contemptuously at them right now. The DC system had been dominating the
market for a decade, and no one ever affected its supremacy since its introduction. He was
confident that there was no other system in this world that could surpass the DC system aside from
the DC system itself. Therefore, he felt their action of trying to challenge the DC system with a
fledgling system was no different from hitting a stone with an egg.
"Now what? Are you not up to the challenge?" Joseph smiled as he pressed on, "So does it mean
that everything you said earlier on is nothing but empty words?"
Seth looked at Joseph and he knew he was provoking them. Hemanded himself to stay calm
and twisted his face into a smile.
"Yes, we''re going to ept the challenge, but we have t o know how Mr. Wilson wants the
competition to be first."
"Simple," Wilson said. After that, he fished out a phone from his pocket and continued, "This is the
latest mobile phone from our corporation, and it is carrying the improved version of the DC system. I
suppose you should have your system installed on your phone as well, right?"
"Yes," Seth answered as he took out a phone.
Wilson grinned, "It''s simple. Since Mr. Shelby is also a programmer, I assume that you are familiar
with the KOP program, right?"
Jacob squinted his eyes. "Yes." "Very well. The KOP program is a popr program that is widely
used by us programmers to test the performance of a mobile phone, so let’s see who can finish the
program first and make it work on the phone,” Wilson tly exined.
Thepetition had two parts. The first part was toplete the program on the phone, and the
second part was to get the program running. It tested the capability of the programmer as well as
the performance of the mobile phone.
Wilson was a renowned old head in programming, while Jacob... Nobody knew about him before
today.
As such, the oue of thepetition was as clear a s the sky. Everyone turned their head and
looked at Jacob.
All of them wondered what he would do. Would he ept the challenge, or would he back down
from it?
Susan was a bundle of nerves. She was oblivious to her brother''s capabilities, but she knew that
Wilson was one of the top programmers in the world.
Could her brother go up against someone like this? No, it was impossible. Her brother was not in a
good condition to begin with. What if he got too anxious that it triggered his illness?
Susan looked nervously at Jacob. She hoped that he would turn down the challenge. To her,
nothing
mattered more than her brother’s health.
Joseph shot a sidelong nce at Susan, and when he saw her worried expression, his grin grew
deeper.
Right now, he was certain that Jacob was just faking his calmness to appear strong. His sister
should be the one who knew him the most. Since she appeared t o be nervous now, it was apparent
that Jacob was just blowing his own horn.
Joseph turned his head back and he was relieved.
"Sure, that''s no problem for me,” Jacob said calmly.
"ording to international rules, we have to check each other’s phones before thepetition
starts,” Wilson said.
Jacob nodded and both of them exchanged their phones. After a simple bout of examination, they
returned the phones to each other.
"Then, let’s have thepetition..."
Just when Wilson was about to say something, Seth suddenly interrupted, "Hold on, Mr. Wilson. I
have one request. If you don’t mind, can I put the whole process of thepetition on the screen?"
An idea had just popped up in his mind. Wilson and Joseph''s appearance at their conference might
be a crisis, but it was an opportunity as well.
If their system could not beat the DC system, then naturally their reputation would be destroyed.
However, what if it was the other way round? What if the SL system was able to triumph over the
DC system? If that happened, then they could use the DC system as their stepping stone and make
themselves known to the world overnight.
Seth had full faith in Jacob, and he was confident that he would win thepetition. As such, he
wanted to let as many people know about thepetition as possible.
"Just go ahead," Wilson said, looking at Seth as if he was looking at a clown. He could not fathom
why Seth was so eager to make his humiliation public. Did he have no shame at all?
That being said, Wilson would not give up any chances to humiliate Seth.
"It’s decided, then. Jacob," Seth smiled, "Godspeed to you. Don''t hold back like you usually do to
me, and give it your all."
"Alright, alright." Jacob looked disdainfully at him.
''Don''t hold back? Give it your all? What a cocky little brat.''
Wilson sneered and said, "Can we start now?”
"Sure, let''s thepetition begin then," Jacob announced, still as calm as ever.
Both of them then put their fingers concurrently on their phone screens. The projector was zeroing
in on the screens as it cast whatever was happening on their phones on the projector screen.
They both opened the hidden program code interface a t the same time.
After seeing that both of them were ready, Seth then said, "I''ll count to three, and then you can start
right away."
"One, two, three! Start!”
As soon as the word "start" spilled out from Seth''s lips, an array ofplicated codes soon
appeared on their screens as their fingers began to dance nimbly on the screens.
"Julian." Susan tightly gripped Julian''s arm. "Do you think Jacob will win?”
"Don''t worry. Jacob is..." Before Julian could say anything tofort Susan, Joseph chimed in with
a question. "Mrs. Shaw, do you know what a KOP program is?”
Susan frowned at Joseph''s interruption, but she did not say anything and just nodded.
"The KOP program is an enormous program that heavily relies on the performance of the mobile
device. If the performance of the mobile device is not strong enough, it will be overwhelmed by the
program''srge amount of data, and eventually, the mobile device will blow up," Joseph said.
"That''s serious!" Susan shouted in an undertone, her voiceced with surprise.
Nodding, Joseph then continued, "Up until now, there are only three mobile operating systems that
can run the KOP program. Amongst the three, two of them could barely run the program, and only
the DC system can run it smoothly. As such, many of us use the KOP program as the benchmark to
test the capability of an operating system."
Susan''s heart was in her throat. If the program was really that difficult like Joseph said, would it
trigger Jacob’s illness if he lost?
Susan became even more fidgety.
The smile on Joseph''s face broadened. "Besides, toplete the program, it requires the
programmer to have a strong capability of data calction, so the length of time used toplete
the KOP program is also an important criterion to measure the level of the programmer. As you
know, the fastest time Mr. Wilson takes toplete the entire KOP program is 33 minutes and 45
seconds. He is ranked as the top three in the world!"This material belongs to N?velDrama.Org.