Reborn Tech Maniac

Chapter 763 Sitting on the high-speed train to attend the Oscars

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The main responsibility of the World Wide Web Consortium is to maintain WWW standards, and the task of helping it expand its territory on the Internet is handed over to another standardization organization, namely Internet_Society-Internet Society, referred to as ISOC.

The most well-known organization related to standardization may be the International_Organization_for_Standardization-the International Organization for Standardization, which is ISO.

This almost all-encompassing non-governmental organization, the participants include the national standards bodies and major companies of various member countries, with a bit of official meaning, like China and Baodao, there is a conflict of membership due to politics The phenomenon.

In fact, although ISO is powerful, there are still other standardization organizations with the same high weight in the world.

For example, under the management of the International Telecommunication Union, International_Telegraph_and_Telephone_Consultative_Committee, the International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee or CCITT, specializes in formulating international standards related to telecommunication.

For another example, Tang Huan has reached the highest membership level fellow in it—the Institute_of_Electrical_andElectronics_Engineers of the fellows—the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, namely IEEE.

Not surprisingly, these standardization organizations have dabbled in standards within the IT field.

For example, ISO attempts to define the Open_System_Interconnection_Reference_Model of the standard architecture for the worldwide Internet, the Open System Interconnection Communication Reference Model, that is, OSI; CCITT launched V.32 for the modem to perform full-duplex communication on fixed lines; IEEE IEEE802 for LAN and so on.

Around the standard, all kinds of disputes naturally arise.Sometimes, these standardization organizations have to face and admit some de facto standards.

Take the recent example, the MPEG standard in VCD was adopted by CCITT, and the Fangyuan personal computer standard was adopted by IEEE.The reason is nothing more than that, in the face of fait accompli, these standardization organizations have to compromise.

As for ISO, there are also times when you bow your head-the OSI model can basically be concluded that it has lost to TCP/IP.

The main competitor of the World Wide Web Consortium and the Internet Society is the Internet_Engineering_Task_Force - Internet Engineering Task Force, or IETF.

Compared with the bureaucratic style of the bloated ISO and CCITT, the IETF, established in early 1986, has a humble attitude and quick response, and is favored by the computer media.

However, Tang Huan is not worried that the fledgling World Wide Web Association and Internet Society will not be able to withstand the triumphant Internet Engineering Task Force.Gein has recently attracted a large number of professionals who are trying to leave their own strong mark in the history of the development of the Internet.After people talk too much, the service efficiency will soon be "comparable" with ISO and CCITT, which it disdains, and thus cannot keep up with the rapid development of the Internet.

In the final analysis, this kind of competition relies on strength and wrangling, and Tang Huan has already found an agent, that is Tim Berners-Lee who left CERN not long ago.

At this stage, CERN has developed into the largest Internet node in Europe, which has a lot to do with Tang Huan taking a fancy to the environment here and launching a number of network project cooperations.

Tim Berners-Lee, as the representative of CERN in the WWW cooperation project, naturally can best appreciate its unlimited prospects, so he left CERN again to seek a broader career development space.

It has to be said that Tim Berners-Lee's performance is very representative—the elites attracted by the Internet, in addition to those who seek money, there are also those who seek to leave history.How else can we say that this kind of standardization organization is a test of wrangling skills-everyone has their own views on how to innovate and meet the future, and after arguing and arguing, it is difficult to make a difference.

Tang Huan just took a fancy to Tim Berners-Lee's book business spirit-you go and debate with them, I will support you behind, anyway, the actions of these standardization organizations cannot keep up with the rapid changes in the development of the Internet, so help me first hole, and then fill it with fait accompli.

Of course, Mr. Richest Man can’t say such a philistine, but he has to use noble packaging to encourage: "The World Wide Web, which is completely free and can be easily used by everyone in the world, is definitely a major innovation in the development of human civilization. Yes! But it cannot be ignored that there are also some people who come purely for the business opportunities contained in it. While ensuring the quality of WWW, we must also prevent the wave of commercialization from taking it off the right track—I hope that no matter how it develops and changes , the World Wide Web can maintain the original intention of sharing technological civilization.”

The smug Tim Berners-Lee came up with the solution Tang Huan wanted without being rushed by others, "I will definitely devote myself to improving and maintaining the leadership of the World Wide Web Consortium and the Internet Society to ensure the correctness of the World Wide Web." Direction of development."

Tang Huan nodded slightly in satisfaction, and calmly reminded: "After the World Wide Web has the 'free' feature we give, the 'free_freedom' feature will inevitably be what people want, but this thing is often used by some commercial companies. The company uses it as a cover. Therefore, in the process of maintaining 'leadership', we must have some skills, and the premise is to bring the largest range of participants together for debate."

"This first requires Tang to exert his influence in the industry and let more companies adopt the WWW standard." Tim Berners-Lee laughed.

"Indeed." Tang Huan replied deeply: "Based on the popular Turbo_Pascal, Zheru will soon launch a rapid application development tool called Delphi, which uses PASCAL with object-oriented functions. Programming language, to fully support the development of WWW applications, I believe that developers will flock to it."

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While providing technical solutions for the Internet and arousing user needs, Tang Huan also campaigns for more proprietary networks to be open to the public.

In terms of hardware construction, Pacific Telecom, which Tang Huan can influence, has always been active, but its business scope is limited to the west coast of the United States, which makes him set his sights on MCI, which is constantly getting closer to him.

The chaos of junk bonds in the U.S. financial market has finally reached the point where it has to pierce the abscess. The once-famous financing kings have been sued in court, but MCI has lost a traditional source of funds. So it seemed stretched, and I had to ask for help again.

In addition, the richest man has another worry, that is, his own Datang Mobile Company, although the number of users continues to grow, it is also suffering from phone piracy.

This is determined by the inherent defects of the existing technology, which can only be completely resolved through upgrading. However, the US economy is now in a down cycle, and think tanks and management have deep doubts about the spending power of such high-end communication products.

However, before dealing with these matters, Tang Huan first went to Los Angeles to attend the annual Oscars ceremony. In addition to fulfilling his obligation to support the Hollywood tycoon, he also thanked him for his so-called righteous words in the "Tang Tang" storm.

Getting to Los Angeles couldn't be easier, just hop on a small business jet from the San Francisco Bay Area and browse a few newspapers.But Tang Huan didn't plan to take such a conventional way of traveling this time, so he found Jerry Brown, chairman of the board of directors of the California High-Speed ​​Rail Authority, and asked, "I want to go to Los Angeles to attend the Oscars. Can the California High-Speed ​​Rail take me there?"

"It's no problem to open a special train for you, and it can be regarded as a promotion for the California high-speed rail." Jerry Brown happily agreed.

After nearly three and a half years, the California high-speed rail from San Francisco to Los Angeles has finally completed its construction and is currently busy with various commissioning before commercial operation.

Tang Huan, who knows how difficult it is to replicate the construction speed of the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway in the United States on a similar scale in the original time and space, sincerely praises the leadership of Jerry Brown, the former governor of California.

Jerry Brown, who was so excited that he couldn't sleep recently, flattered him from time to time: "It was Tang's courage and generous investment that made this miracle of construction possible; Variables that are clearly created by inflation.”

After bragging about each other, Tang Huan asked curiously: "What are you doing, your eyes are bloodshot from being busy?"

"Can I not be busy." Jerry Brown said with a wry smile: "Now there is a consensus in the political circles of California, that is, we hope that the California high-speed rail can be put into official operation before Independence Day."

"Is it for the mid-term elections again?" Tang Huan could only shake his head speechlessly for this kind of face project deliberately created for political purposes.After all, both the California state government and the federal government have allocated funds for the California high-speed rail project. It is reasonable for politicians to extend their hands within a reasonable range.

"The California High-Speed ​​Rail Authority is going to start trial operation of the California High-Speed ​​Rail around Memorial Day, and then officially start operations before Independence Day, just in time for the first week of July, the most frequent period for Americans to travel in a year." Jie Ray Brown said with confidence: "So, you want to take the California high-speed rail to Los Angeles this time, it's just the right time. Originally, the locomotives are being tested every day on the track."

Speaking of this, Jerry Brown still didn't forget to suggest: "It's better, you can let the wind out for a while, so that you can make headlines for the California High Speed ​​Rail and make a publicity across the United States."

Tang Huan raised his eyebrows, "Aren't you afraid that under the attention of all the people, you will be overwhelmed and something will go wrong?"

"I regard the California high-speed rail as my eyeball, and I can control every bit of it, so you can relax." Jerry Brown promised.

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The richest man fulfilled this request and immediately called out to his friends: Who would like to try it out with me and take the California high-speed rail to attend the Oscar ceremony.

Almost in a blink of an eye, 15 places were full—Michael Moritz, editor-in-chief of the San Francisco branch of Time Magazine, Spielberg and George Lucas in Hollywood, Jerry Jerry, president of AMD in Silicon Valley People from various fields, including Sanders, became the guests of the small party in the carriage.

Since Intel blatantly tore up the agreement and withdrew the authorization of the second supplier of Intel80386 and subsequent microprocessors, AMD has been in the same situation as it, accusing each other of infringement lawsuits for several years, until now there is no result.

Those companies represented by AMD that had been granted loose authorization by Intel in the era of microprocessors were not polite at all, that is, they launched compatible products of the same grade a year later than Intel, and they also sold them with Named in the form of x86, it made it hard for consumers to tell the truth from the fake, and Intel was even more troubled, vowing that the next generation of microprocessor products would definitely not be called Intel80586, unless a digital format trademark could be registered, which was obviously impossible.

Jerry Sanders, who has always longed for the life of a Hollywood star and bought a mansion in Beverly Hills, likes this kind of occasion to mingle with Hollywood celebrities, but he has not forgotten his old profession, and mentioned With the competition in the field of microprocessors at this stage, it is inevitable to complain about Intel's back-and-forth.

Tang Huan frowned slightly and said, "It's not because I have a 20.00% investment in Intel that I stand on its side, but that AMD is no longer an unknown person today. The sales revenue of global semiconductor factories ranks first." There are names and surnames on the list, and you must always have your own products with an intellectual property system."

Jerry Sanders scratched his head, "Now the development direction of microprocessors makes people doubtful. RISC is in the limelight. It is not an exaggeration to say that the future of traditional CISC is uncertain."

Tang Huan was too lazy to talk nonsense, and directly pointed out: "Nowadays, the entertainment function of personal computers is more and more popular in the market. I think AMD's microprocessors can work harder on multimedia and video game support, and they can be regarded as comparable to Intel's. The products have a distinctive distinction."

"I will make an evaluation when I go back." Jerry Sanders replied in a taught manner, and then broke the news solemnly: "When I went to IBM, I accidentally saw the RISC microprocessor they secretly developed. And server, although the specific name and model are still unknown, but the scoring data of the test software is quite amazing."

(End of this chapter)