I’m in Hollywood

In an office upstairs at the Best Buy chain, the expensive Toshiba PDA has been dismantled into scattered parts.

Eric looked at the Toshiba small hard drive the size of a credit card in his hand, and said to Rhett Jackman doubtfully: 1.8 inches, it shouldn't be that big, I think this hard drive is at least about 4 inches.

Eric's identity was revealed, Rhett Jackman was more respectful, and patiently explained: Mr. Williams, the size of the hard disk does not refer to the external package, but the diameter of the internal disk platter.

Rhett Jackman said, took the small hard drive in Eric's hand, skillfully opened the back cover with a dismantling tool, and showed Eric the silver disk platter inside the hard drive that was slightly larger than a coin, saying: These aluminum Countless magnetic powder particles, which are difficult to discern with the naked eye, are attached to the alloy disc, which are arranged to represent 0 and 1 through the operation of the magnetic head to record data.

Linda Evangelinsta has been a very quiet listener, listening to Rhett Jackman's concise description, and said in surprise: It's amazing, I just heard you say about that CF card, the capacity of this card is its own. More than ten times, doesn’t it mean that it can store more than a thousand photos?”

Rhett Jackman's reaction to the beautiful Linda was very useful, and smiled: According to the current resolution rate of mainstream digital cameras, it can store about 1,600 photos.

Linda asked: Then why do digital cameras use cf cards with very small storage capacity instead of such hard drives?

Rhett Jackman said: This involves too many factors, such as technology, cost and market positioning, and even the company's strategic considerations. For example. If I were the CEO of Kodak. I It will limit the appearance of digital cameras using hard disk storage technology as much as possible. Although Kodak produces photographic equipment, more than 70% of their turnover comes from the film business. The emergence of large-capacity digital cameras is simply a It was a disaster.

Eric took back the small hard drive again, and was continuing to think about the mp3 matter. Hearing Rhett Jackman's words, he remembered the news of Kodak's collapse in his previous life, and nodded in appreciation. Some surprise that the other party has such a vision.

In fact, Eric's current status is more inclined to the guardian of the old order. According to the position of his major shareholder of Firefly Media Group, it is in his own interests to prevent the emergence of new media and new technology. But Eric knew better that if he did this, he would only be eliminated from the market in the end.

The ending of Sony in the previous life is the best example. At the beginning of the mp3 era, Sony's technical accumulation and music copyright resources far surpassed Apple's, but they were losing ground in the mp3 market. The fundamental reason is that Sony has been hesitant for a long time whether to give up Walkman completely and join the mp3 field. It even attempted to take advantage of Sony's strong position in the record industry to prevent the development of mp3 and Internet music sales models.

The result of this bucking the trend is that the once dominant player in the music player industry has been completely squeezed out of the market in just a few years.

Eric knows that if he comes up with the mp3 player plan, he will definitely be boycotted by several major record companies in the future, and even the record department within the Firefly Group will be criticized, but not doing so means that this market will be handed over. To outsiders, it will be more passive at that time.

After shopping at Best Buy for two hours, when he left, Eric brought two whole boxes of electronic products with the most advanced technology in the future.

Without returning to Cindy's apartment, Eric took Linda to his residence on Sixth Avenue.

After a simple lunch, Eric began to organize the results of the morning's sweeping.

Linda wandered around the luxury duplex apartment overlooking the entire Central Park, smack her lips greedily and go downstairs, seeing Eric fiddling with a brick in the living room full of electronics A similar ibm mobile phone, occasionally knocking a few times on the open laptop, leaned over and asked curiously, Eric, does anyone still use such a big mobile phone?

Eric was holding an ibm-simon mobile phone. When he first saw this machine, Eric was a little surprised. Although this machine is much larger than the mainstream mobile phone that has now been reduced to the size of a palm, it is completely It is a touch screen operation, in addition to making calls, it also provides functions such as notepad, memorandum, perpetual calendar, etc. It is basically a smartphone, and it is likely to be the first smartphone in the world.

It's 1995 now. This proves once again that technology is never the problem, strategy is the problem. If ibm in the past life can continue to invest in research and development according to this idea, it is estimated that Apple will not have too many things.

Shaking the ibm-simon in his hand, Eric asked Linda, If this phone is shrunk to the size of our palm, would you like to use it?

Linda took it and fiddled with it for a while, then shook her head and said, I'm not interested, it's just a cell phone, just make a phone call, these notepads and memos are useless at all, a notebook of tens of cents can handle things, who can do it? It's going to cost a thousand dollars.

Eric smiled and nodded. From Rhett Jackman in the morning, Eric learned that this bulky ibm mobile phone, as well as Apple's Newton tablet, Sony's electronic notepad, and Toshiba's PDA, Sales were very poor, and the root cause was the same as what Linda said. These seemingly high-end electronic products do not have many market prospects because of their very simple functions.

Then let's make another assumption, Eric picked up the Newton tablet next to him and said, If you can use this tablet as an e-reader that can hold hundreds of books, then you are willing to buy it. ?

I don't like reading books, Linda shook her head and added, However, as long as the price is not so expensive, people who like to read books should be willing to buy them.

Well, the sales failed, Eric smiled, put down the Newton tablet, and picked up Toshiba's small hard drive, According to the mp3 audio format developed by Yahoo. This hard drive can hold more than 50 songs. Technology will develop for a few more years. It is not a problem to hold one or two hundred songs. Then, if there is such a music player the size of a cigarette case, you can put hundreds of songs in your pocket at one time and listen to it anytime, anywhere. , are you willing to buy it?

Of course I would, Linda nodded, pointing to the electronics scattered throughout the room. Said: Eric, when you bought these things, did you intend to develop the kind of music player you mentioned?

yes.

Eric nodded. He bought these expensive and practical electronic products mainly because he wanted to understand the current technological development level of the main components in the electronic field such as liquid crystal displays, flash memory, hard disks, and lithium-ion batteries. Intuitive feeling, confirm whether some ideas in your heart are feasible.

Although the development of flash memory capacity has not yet reached the level of manufacturing practical mp3, and the micro-hard disk technology that was once the main storage carrier of mp3 in the previous life has not appeared, but relying on the small hard disk and lithium-ion battery technology that has appeared, developed a cigarette case-sized mp3 Not a problem. Although there is no mini body that is not much bigger than chewing gum in the previous life, it is definitely more avant-garde than Sony's walkman. Moreover, Eric's main purpose is to hold the complete patented mp3 player technology in his hands. In this way, in the western society with strict patent protection, at least there will be no more confusion in the past due to the vagueness of patent ownership and authorization, which has caused many manufacturers to swarm. Production of mp3 players is the case.

After spending an afternoon tearing apart most of the electronics he bought into a bunch of expensive parts, Eric put together a detailed memo for developing e-book readers, mp3 players, and even smartphones.

Breaking away from work, and it was already dark outside the window, Eric was going to send the memo to several Yahoo executives and to Nokia's Yoma Ollila, but considering the fact that Chris told him the other day Regarding the matter that Microsoft wants to poach people from Yahoo, he thinks that he should give up temporarily. He plans to wait until the dust settles in July, and he can take the opportunity to do some preliminary preparations.

Eric found the two cardboard boxes that were used to hold some electronic equipment in the morning, picked out some equipment and parts related to the contents of the memo and put them in one box, and threw all the other messy things into another box. After clapping my hands, I remembered that Linda should still be here.

The sound of the TV came from the living room next to the living room. Eric walked in. MTV was playing a fashion show on the TV, but Linda curled up on the sofa and fell asleep, hugging the pillow. It looks like a lazy cat, his body rises and falls slightly with his breathing, his blond hair covers his cheeks, and his red lips are slightly open, a little less heroic and a little more charming.

Silently looking at the perfect baby that the Creator brought to the world for a while, Eric couldn't bear to wake her up. Linda sat down gently on the corner of the sofa at Linda's feet, sniffing the faint scent of women in the room, and leaned on the back of the sofa. Watching TV quietly.

After a lazy afternoon of sleep, Linda had already woken up when Eric walked into the living room.

Curious about how Eric would react when he saw that he was asleep, Linda didn't open her eyes immediately and waited patiently for a while, but felt that Eric sat down at her feet and watched TV quietly. She was very satisfied that Eric didn't hold her down a hundred times with animalistic hair, but she felt that the man's reaction was too abnormal.

So she continued to sleep, but she secretly opened her eyes. The light in the living room was getting dim, and she could only see his angular profile with the light of the TV. The makeup she put on in the morning had been washed off, showing her true colors. , She thinks, this man's profile is quite attractive.

After a while, the program on the TV suddenly changed, and the host Bara played a mv.

*she-packed-my-bags-last-night-pre-flight

*zero-

*and-i\\m-gonna-be-high-as-a-kite-by-then

*i-miss-the-earth-so-much, i-miss-my-wife

*it\\s-lonely-out-in-space

*on-such-a-timeless-flight

*and-i-think-it\\s-gonna-be-a-long-long-time

*…

*…

But it is rocket-man by the famous British singer Elton John. She likes this song very much. Elton John's voice is full of sadness. Three points of frustration. Three points of helplessness. And last minute hysteria.

The lyrics tell the story of a rocket man who has been floating in space for a long time and misses his hometown and his wife, but she thinks it is a fable, a fable about the prodigal son who wants to be safe but can't. This kind of story usually happens in movies, Those retiring bodyguards, agents, soldiers, are always sent on one last mission involuntarily, and then die of course, of course. These people must be supporting roles, and the protagonist has to continue traversing the world of flowers and games, pulling and pulling a film series until the sixteenth film is not finished.

Before falling asleep, mtv TV station also broadcast the trailer, what is the name of the sixteenth 007, oh, Golden Eye, it seems to be released in July.

Her thoughts wandered for a while, and her eyes were aimed at the man sitting on the other side. She didn't know that it was cold in high places, and she didn't know that no one listened to Xian Duan. Just instinctively, maybe. He's also a rocket man.

Feeling that my body was slumbering stiffly, and I was still a little hungry, I didn't want to pretend to fall asleep anymore, so I opened my eyes, stretched my body subconsciously, and the small jade feet just pressed against his legs.

You're awake, Eric turned his head and smiled, holding her slender ankle on his lap for her to stretch.

Throwing away the pillow in her arms, she nodded, feeling that the ankle held by Eric was slightly itchy, her face was slightly red, she rubbed it embarrassedly, and said in a coquettish tone: Dream that you put this gave me a house and woke up laughing.

Oh, just wake up, or I will definitely cry in your dream.

Although she was very envious, she did not imagine that Eric could give her this mansion worth tens of millions. If it really happened, she did not dare to accept it rashly. Although she was not too smart, she knew that any Everything has a price. In the afternoon, she really dreamed of such a situation. The dark environment created by the last touch of twilight made her say it calmly without any scheming.

Eric's words made her somewhat disappointed, kicked her feet, and said, In this case, even if a playboy doesn't want to give a girl something, he should usually be perfunctory. You are really lazy.

Eric pretended to be helpless and said, Okay, let me brew up the lines.

Linda stared at Eric with great interest with her bright eyes against the fluorescent background of the TV, with a savage look that you can't finish without thinking about it.

After a while, Eric slapped his forehead and said suddenly, Oh, I remembered, this house is not mine.

Ha, it's really not creative, and it's a Hollywood gold screenwriter!

You can make do with it, Eric laughed and asked again, Are you hungry, let's go out to eat.

Okay, Linda nodded. She was far more familiar with Manhattan than Eric. Just as she was about to make her own suggestion, she heard the phone ring in the living room outside.

I'll go take a call, wait a moment, Eric said, getting up and walking out.

Her eyes followed him away from the living room, she was too lazy to get up, twisted her body, poked her little hands on the armrest of the sofa and probed her head out, and saw the man picked up his mobile phone and sat down on the sofa in the living room. He was vaguely heard talking about Jurassic Park 2, as if it was a premiere arrangement.

After chatting on the opposite side for nearly ten minutes, Eric hung up the phone. She was about to retract her body and get up when she heard the phone in Eric's hand ringing again.

Hey... oh, Cindy, it's you, Eric agreed, feeling her probe and waving her hand towards him.

She smiled, and could roughly guess the intention of Cindy's phone call. She retracted her head and was too lazy to listen. She suddenly remembered the tone he used to talk about work with others, serious, serious, and meticulous.

myself.

She came from a good background and had no life pressure. She was too lazy to study when she was an adult, and became a model with the good qualifications given by God.

Started at the age of sixteen.

Fourteen years.

Step by step to the present.

Days also seem to be simple.

Work.

Have fun.

Not getting up without ten thousand dollars a day.

Getting married too early.

Treat people badly.

Divorce if you don't want to make do with it.

If you can't stand your boyfriend anymore, break up.

Do whatever you want.

Boundless.

Suddenly, he realized that he was the Rocket Man.

No wonder I like that song by Elton John.

He listened to the sounds outside, and he still chatted with Cindy in a gentle tone, showing great patience.

Perhaps, although he is also floating in space, he controls everything, just like the pilot of the space shuttle.

No, he didn't control everything, at least, he didn't know what her ambitious pseudo-girlfriend was thinking.

She suddenly felt that it was her responsibility to do something, and after buzzing for a while, she jumped off the sofa and walked towards the living room.

Oh, George Jean's restaurant, roughly where is it? Eric didn't mind when he saw Linda coming over. He was talking to Cindy Crawford when he saw Linda come to him. Queen Fan Er threw off the blond hair in front of her forehead, bullied her body, rode on Eric's thigh, and reached out to push him towards the back of the sofa.

Eric was listening to Cindy introduce the address of a certain restaurant, and was suddenly pushed by Linda to the backrest, so he could only ask Linda which one was this with his eyes.

On the other end of the phone, Cindy had finished speaking the address, Eric watched Linda unzip the back of the dress with her hands behind her back, picked up the shoulder straps and skillfully took off the dress, leaned her head over, and nibbled lightly on his neck .

Cindy, I, oh, I remember, Linda and I, um, will be over in fifteen minutes.

No, dear Cindy, wait for us for another hour, Linda shouted unabashedly into the microphone, reaching for the phone and hanging up.

Eric helplessly stretched out his hand to support Linda's soft waist, and said with a smile, Okay, what state of mind are you in now, have you been bitten by some bug?

Of course not, Linda reached out to hold Eric's face, leaned in and kissed her wildly, and said in a hoarse voice, I'm going to squeeze you dry.

Humph, baby Cindy, see what you do tonight.

She thought smugly.

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ps1: I recommend the song rocket-man, it's very nice.

ps2: I posted some pictures of Linda Evangelinsta in the bar. It's very tasty. Let's go and see for yourself.

ps3: Occasionally, some characters will feel more and more as they are written, and this chapter feels like coming.

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