American Entertainment 1982

  Chapter 104 Only by witnessing with your own eyes can you feel at ease

  In the garage, Jason was biting a straw, staring at the computer screen, following Tommy's prompts, taking over from Tommy to do some software adjustments.

Tommy was holding a piece of spaghetti. At this time, he wolfed it down and said to Jason vaguely: "Professor Simmons said that there will be an exam next week, you'd better hurry up, Jason, we There is still a lot of homework to review when I go back."

Jason spat out the straw, tapped the keyboard in his hands, and cursed bitterly: "What a warm reminder from my roommate, this caring tone almost made me forget who made me look like this, buddy, I was almost tricked into making a small movie by a fool just to help you, you know, the kind of one-day movies that are rougher and more violent than the small movies on the adult pay channel, and even low-level whores won’t participate in it, An art job that only drug bugs and stowaways would be photographed, yes, an art job."

A day movie is a kind of small adult movie. The paid small movie shown on TV only shows the upper body, and it is guaranteed that the male protagonist is strong and handsome, and the female protagonist is graceful and delicate. There will be a complete plot and beauty framing.

And the kind of one-day movie that Mark recruited Jason to shoot is a pure AV product that directly releases video tapes. The actor does not change the scene, or the scene does not change the actor. Those small TV movies are much lower.

It is for this reason that when Jason White learned that Mark was going to fool him into making this kind of movie, he couldn't help it anymore and punched him. He was a cowboy once by chance, yes, he He took that woman’s money, but he didn’t plan to keep doing it. This has become a joke in the fraternity. Fortunately, this **** named Mark actually thinks that he is not well-known enough, and he is going to give his image to him. Enter thousands of households?

   "Think about it, Jason, at least we know that besides the cowherd, you have the potential to become an actor now." Tommy swallowed the food in his mouth and said.

  At this time, Holly walked in from the outside, dropped her handbag, walked over and picked up the black pepper beef cubes on Tommy's dinner plate with her fingers and put them into her mouth, then looked at Tommy:

   "Registration is done, so when are Cosmopolitan California Edition and Kids & Parents magazine ads considered? You can't just recruit a bunch of cheap hookers for training, can you? Other unemployed women don't even think about it."

   "Why are you asking this question all of a sudden." Tommy looked at Holly.

Holly poured a glass of water by herself and held it in her hand: "Why? Tommy, you asked me to register and set up a human resources company, and then prepare to attract a large number of prostitutes. It is normal for me to have such concerns and questions now. I It's about getting into computer software, not about opening a cheap brothel in Silicon Valley."

"I told you, don't worry, take your time, why you choose to advertise in the "Happy Seeker" magazine first, because cheap prostitutes are more tolerant than ordinary housewives, they have more unbearable **** than ordinary women Experience, dealing with all kinds of men, seeing all kinds of harsh environments, compared with ordinary women, they are more adaptable to the new environment." Tommy ate the food in his mouth and looked at Holly:

"If you look at this as a software development process, you'll find that cheap hookers are actually our first version of software, and putting them in Silicon Valley is installing software into MS-DOS systems, and their main Work is to determine one thing, that is compatibility, Silicon Valley can be compatible with these cheap prostitutes, this is the most important thing, get the previous data, and then consider other functional issues, that is, adjust and guide other women according to the feedback from the previous data .”

  Jason and Holly both stopped and looked at Tommy Hawk.

  Tommy saw the expressions of the two, and asked uncertainly: "What? Your expressions are very strange."

   "Stanford Women's Equality Promotion Association has a **** vision in picking partners. They chose someone who sums up the women's group in terms of them." Jason exhaled: "You really respect those poor women, Tommy."

  Tommy said calmly: "I only respect people who deserve respect, such as Mark and Susan, and I respect them a lot."

   "What do we do next?" Holly asked Tommy.

  Tommy put the last bite of food into his mouth: "Continue to polish the software, continue to train, and put products into Silicon Valley until Lotus really realizes our existence."

  …

After flipping through several professional computer magazines published this week, Jim Manz found that the advertising space was still occupied by himself and a few old rivals. There was no new software released, and there were no new faces in the interview. Then he licked his lips. He asked the secretary next to him, "Which one is our distributor in California?"

   "Kinneer chain software monopoly." The secretary thought for a while, and replied in a positive tone.

  Jim nodded: "That's right, it's Kinnear. I asked you to contact them before and asked them to help you find out about a software company in California called Actor. Did they call?"

"They not only called, but even faxed the relevant texts they learned." The secretary quickly searched through the documents, and handed the found information to Jim: "It's just that the information shows that the company is not a threat, so I'm going to Please take a look at it before you get off work, after all, you are busy dealing with problems with Moses software."

According to the information that Kinnear helped to understand, this company called Actor was established by three Stanford University students who received the venture capital provided by Stanford University. The company is located in a garage on Liberty Avenue in Stanford, and it has not been launched for sale in the near future. Arrangement of software.

  The reason why he is so sure is because Kinnear has asked various computer-related magazines and media near Silicon Valley, and Actor does not seem to have contacted any professional media.

According to the normal idea of ​​a startup software company, if the other party plans to launch the software to the market in the near future, no matter how short of funds, the startup company will find a way to appear in these professional magazines to attract the attention of peers and investors, at least it will get The money came out and some journalists from computer magazines were asked to help write an article on usage evaluation and the like.

In the secretary's view, a small start-up company with no sales plan for this quarter is not worth Jim's wasting any time. After all, Lotus's biggest rival is Wicresoft. Wicre recently acquired a small company named Moses, and Moses The company previously developed a spreadsheet software called DeskCalc, because it was compatible with Lotus 1-2-3 files without authorization, and was blocked by Lotus at the legal level as soon as it was launched.

Just when the court was about to declare Moses an infringement and hand over the software code and all the data, MicroPort acquired Moses at this time, and supported Moses’ countersuit against Lotus’s monopoly at the computer application programming interface API level in an attempt to build a software ecosystem isolated island.

  Moses Company originally had no money to file a lawsuit, but with MicroPort behind it, its combat effectiveness has soared. MicroPort’s legal team has assembled and is ready to defeat Lotus’ legal team for Moses Company.

"Moses Software is now acquired by MicroPort, and this kind of lawsuit that was supposed to win has become a time-consuming drag. There will be no clear situation in two or three years. It is a waste of any time in the short term. Don't pay attention to it. Let the lawyer team Go and study computer-related laws and regulations." Jim held the thin fax paper and said in his mouth:

"However, this Actor company makes me feel very strange. If they have no plan to announce this quarter, how did Lotus get this software? Listen to Mitch and the others, this software is already a full version, a fully developed software , there is no plan for release in the near future, but Lotus got it first, which is not normal, Mickey said before that it was sent by a Lotus user, but now I think it is probably sent by Actor himself.”

   "Maybe they received the lawyer's letter from us, so they canceled the sales plan?" The secretary reminded cautiously.

Jim Manzi stretched out his finger, signaling to the other party not to interrupt his train of thought. He got up from his seat, walked to the French window, and looked at the scenery outside the window: "How about a different way of thinking? They are not engineers like Mickey, It’s the businessman who deliberately leaked it to us before, just hoping that we can help them promote it for free?”

   "But they don't have a sale plan." The secretary said doubtfully.

"That's because Jonathan didn't make the trip under my persuasion. They once spun a net, hoping that Mickey or Jonathan would fall into it, and then launched their software, but in the end no one went. Their plan failed." Jim Mann Zi turned his head to look at the secretary, his eyes lit up:

   "If my conjecture is true, it means that the other party is not a nerdy programmer like Mitch and Jonathan. They know how to use methods other than software. Mitch and Jonathan will not do this."

  The secretary shook his head puzzled: "But that company has confirmed that there is no sale plan for this quarter..."

"Don't keep reminding me of the **** release plan! Who told you that the only way to sell software is to entrust software dealers to help you sell it. If you want to be a call girl, you have to advertise in magazines or hang on to How else would you do it outside of an entertainment company?" Jim looked at the secretary and asked, "By the way, as long as you have received a letter from a lawyer."

   "I don't want to and don't know how to be a call girl, sir." The secretary was startled at first, then said nervously.

  Jim turned his head and looked out of the window, and said, "You can still dress yourself up poorly, stand on the street with a lawyer's letter, and trick those stupid men into paying to queue up for you in the name of asking for help."

The secretary couldn't bear Jim's vulgar conversation at every turn, and was about to withdraw quietly, but Jim said again: "See if there is any Silicon Valley exhibition I can attend recently, and then book two tickets in the name of the company. He eliminates all possible threats to Lotus, so I will not be relieved until I see with my own eyes that they are not standing in the street to attract customers."

   The first update, let’s roll down and code the second update~

  (end of this chapter)