Reborn Tech Maniac

Chapter 868 Wall Street is unhappy

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Just at noon, Mr. Richest Man’s metaphor at the Zheru Spring Developers Conference - "If you want to pee in the pool, please don't do it on the diving board", it appeared on the news program of the national television network, and even There are also those who are quick-witted, impromptu comics with images.

In the evening, reporters with great miraculous skills obtained this live video again.It was quickly sent to TV stations and became the most important source of jokes.

Not surprisingly, most of the media viewed this from an entertainment point of view.

Silicon Valley is a place full of myths and people's desire - the US economy has experienced two severe recessions from the early 1980s to the present, but Silicon Valley has been in a state of rapid growth, and a dazzling number of successful entrepreneurs have emerged. They are all enviable young rich men.

Contrary to what people take for granted, although Silicon Valley relies on technology for a living, it does not lack a dull sense of humor, literary styles, and bloody conflicts.

Look, how ruthless the richest man really wants to hurt people!
It is said that Larry Ellison was so angry that he broke a valuable golf club.

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Tang Huancai didn't have time to pay attention to the media's gossip - the content of this year's Zheru Spring Developers Conference was indeed rich and important, and he also put all his energy in the next few days on it.

First of all, in the face of NC using the concept to stir up trouble, Tang Huan wants to guide the PC represented by the Fangyuan personal computer to demonstrate stronger functions and stimulate greater demand. It has become a fake product that does not feel good to users.

This kind of guidance from a high position is not as simple as relying on one's personal strength to rush forward without hesitation. Instead, it requires mobilizing many links in the entire industry and coordinating with each other in order to achieve results. The time interval between Fangyuan personal computer upgrades, in Gradually elongating it reflects the complexity.

In the original time and space, Apple Computer, a branch that cannot be ignored among personal computers, has always been firmly suppressed by IBM-PC compatible machines. One of the important reasons is that its products are either very advanced in the design stage. But when it lags behind the market; or the product is too big, it is difficult to get enough application software to support the new platform.

As a result, hardware and software are always in a state where one leg is long and the other is short, and they cannot enter into a state of mutual tacit cooperation-it is not surprising that the Apple computer can never run!

Now, Tang Huan intends to use entertainment applications, more precisely, the 3D acceleration function, to give the general public a deep impression that PC development is getting better.

With the in-depth application of 3D acceleration, the data throughput of graphics card components is increasing.

现阶段的五代方圆个人电脑，所使用的总线为传输通道32位、时钟频率33.33MHz的成熟规格，进而能够达到的数据吞吐量是33.33MHz×32bits÷8=133MB/s。

This "water pipe" is not enough for a 3D accelerator graphics card at first glance.

For this reason, Zheru and Fangyuan jointly launched a new standard Accelerated_Graphics_Port for 3D accelerated graphics cards—Accelerated Graphics Port, or AGP.

其被推出的第一批版本为AGP_1x和AGP_2x，数据吞吐能力各自翻了2倍和4倍，即达到了266MB/s和533MB/s；按计划将来还会推出比前一代数据吞吐能力翻倍的AGP_4x和AGP_8x——足够让3D加速显卡撒欢地跑上几年了。

This is a new specification introduced by the hardware, and the software also needs to be supported by the driver of the operating system.In addition, the most important thing is that the multimedia programming interface - OpenML has also been updated.

For so many years, Tang's IT kingdom has been enjoying a high reputation in the industry, being respected and admired, not relying on one-sided commercial methods, but solid and complete technological innovation - once a new When things come, followers can immediately see clearly, and submit their trust obediently.

The IT circle is so fiercely competitive that mutual attacks are not uncommon, but apart from IBM, which had been in trouble for a while, no one dares to accuse Tang's IT Kingdom of plagiarism—they themselves are followers.

The introduction of AGP this time is also not simply to put out a few photos for comparison, but to dare to take out a prototype for an intuitive demonstration.

Tang Huan ran the racing game "Need for Speed" and the real-time strategy game "Fengshen" successively on two Fangyuan PC prototypes to illustrate the improvement in data throughput brought about by AGP.

The talk got aroused, and the richest man couldn't help but fingered half a plate of "Feng Shen" with all the special effects turned on.

In recent years, Tang Huan has rarely been involved in a specific project in person, but "Fengshen" is an exception, so that it compares "Dune 2" and "Warcraft: Humans and Orcs" of the same type. It's almost clumsy.

The richest man chose the teaching camp, the computer randomly selected the teaching camp, and then the AI ​​only used a wave of attacks to hit his headquarters.

Looking at the gorgeous spells released by the opponents on the screen, Tang Huan shrugged annoyedly, "This really puts me in a terrible mood - let other colleagues introduce the rest of the technical topics."

So amidst the lively yelling, Tang IT ended the schedule of the Zheru Spring Developers Conference that day.

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Of course, under the background of Internet elements in full swing, the browser battle is a key point.

Netscape's flagship product, Netscape_Navigator, is a suite that includes a browser, email client, website server, and website development tools.

In the promotion of browsers, Netscape has adopted the free form of shareware, but other components of the suite have to be charged from thousands of dollars to tens of thousands of dollars according to different versions—otherwise, it will attract investors. Where does the profit point come from!

Zheru Software Company naturally cannot lag behind in terms of technology.At this conference, it grandly launched the Three Musketeers of website development tools-Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and Flash.

Among them, Fireworks is an editing software for bitmap and vector graphics. Its function is similar to that of Adobe's Photoshop.

Dreamweaver is a comprehensive website development software, users can easily edit HTML through its "what you see is what you get" interface, add scripting language functions like PascalScript, and use the built-in Polestar browser engine at any time , to render the web page for real-time preview.

Like Zheru's programming tool Zerone_Develeopment_Studio, Dreamweaver can use color, highlighting, etc. to mark the syntax of HTML and PascalScript, so as to remind developers of errors at any time.

In the process of introducing Dreamweaver, Tang Huan harshly criticized some browser developers without naming names. In more than a year, it broke through 70, which severely damaged the simplicity and beauty of the HTML specification, and made it impossible for the same web page to display the same effect on different browsers.

Finally, Tang Huan said sternly: "The atmosphere of the Internet is free, but it must also follow the accepted code of conduct - if a certain company goes further and further down the wrong path, Zheru Software will consider using more direct legal means."

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This year's Confucianism Developer Conference is really full of swords and swords every day-although the criticism of the richest man is not named, everyone knows who he is talking about.

The reason why he is so reserved is not because he is afraid of anything, but because he doesn't want to give him the opportunity to increase his popularity.

Just like the e-commerce era in the original time and space, media people often use "Xubao" and "Xudong" to refer to the most famous e-commerce companies to avoid suspicion of advertising.

Now, the criticism of Mr. Richest Man does not name him, which actually reflects his distasteful attitude.

After an all-round analysis by the media, which is already extremely exaggerated, the complex entanglement of interests in Silicon Valley can be described as vividly displayed in front of the general public.

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When demonstrating Flash, a multimedia creation tool including vector animation, Tang Huan directly brought up two typical application examples - the advertisement and card game of "iStrategy" of Zheru Software Company.

The two undoubtedly gave a beautiful answer to the Internet business model that is still in the exploratory stage, and the latter shows a point in terms of interactivity-it is not so easy for Java to come to the browser platform to grab territory!

If it is said that these means of countering competitors are all the existing technologies of Zheru Software, then the programming language introduced by Tang Huan - C# is undoubtedly a newcomer.

This programming language, which was originally only rumored to exist in the laboratory, has various features such as automatic memory allocation and recovery, source code compiled into intermediate code for execution in a virtual machine, and it is immediately interpreted by people as directly targeting Java.

In the process of introducing C#, Tang Huan concluded proudly: "It is not difficult to see from the real results we showed on the spot that we have already carried out the exploration of a more advanced cross-platform programming language than C language." many years."

"Write_once, run_anywhere - write once, run anywhere, must be the wish of all programmers."

"But the reality is that the differences brought about by different hardware platforms and software systems are beyond our imagination - it is extremely difficult to cover up all the differences with a small intermediate code execution virtual machine, which leads to There is a joke among us that is Write_Once, Debug_Everywhere - compile once, debug everywhere."

"I think that no one should question Zheru Software's experience and feelings too much. After all, we have well-known outstanding achievements in virtual machines-in the server field, Zheru Software's virtual machine products perfectly solve a large number of problems. Compatibility issues."

"But we still feel that it is very necessary to launch C# at this time."

"Everyone should have experienced how difficult it is to communicate between processes on the same computer; then the complexity factor is self-evident for process calls across the Internet that cross computer boundaries."

"The reason why C# is called the Internet programming language is because it natively supports the distributed application architecture of the Internet."

"And in this, we had to introduce Extensible_Markup_Language - Extensible Markup Language, that is, XML, to support serial data flow between Internet-wide processes."

"I think that the introduction of C# can make all developers notice how different the distributed application architecture on the Internet is, and at the same time work together to solve some difficult problems encountered."

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The Zheru Spring Developers Conference with unprecedented content was not only linked by the entertainment media to the smoke of gunpowder in Silicon Valley, but also interpreted by the professional media as a technology mobilization event that embraces the Internet in an all-round way.

It is not an exaggeration at all. Microsoft, which has to wait two months for the launch of the IE browser, has been reduced to a marginal role. Great contrast.

Gates was anxious about this, and to make matters worse, Steve Ballmer rushed to bring a piece of news-because Microsoft was too focused on operating systems and office software, which led to a slow response to the Internet boom, Goldman Sachs will Microsoft The stock evaluation was lowered from "buy" to "hold", and Microsoft's stock price fell accordingly.

"This group of greedy guys, if they are not happy, they will do this." Gates slapped the table heavily angrily.

It can be said that Microsoft has been favored by Wall Street since its listing.

One of the main reasons is that Microsoft's financial statements are very skillfully done and are always a few cents higher than expected earnings, making them suitable for speculation.

But Wall Street was merciless when it came to changing its face. It made a casual assessment and upgrade and beat Microsoft into fear.

After Gates got angry, he was unable to resist. He could only rush to the development department and yell at his engineers.

(End of this chapter)